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Article: Shots in the dark: London's secret history exposed. (London, United Kingdom)(feature film called 'London')
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- Interview
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- September 1, 1994
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"Dirty old Blighty. Undereducated, economically backward, bizarre. A catalog of modern miseries, with its fake traditions, its Irish war, its militarism and secrecy, its silly old judges, its hatred of intellectuals, its ill health and bad food, its sexual repression, its hypocrisy and racism, and its indolence. It's so exotic, so . . . homemade." These are the words of the narrator (Paul Scofield) at the beginning of Patrick Keiller's film London. Things can only get better, you think, but they don't: Scofield goes on to chronicle John Major's 1992 electoral victory, royal scandals, homelessness, general decay. He concludes that what makes London London is the absence at ...