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Article: Tilda brings Culloden classic home
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- Scotland on Sunday
- Article date:
- July 26, 2009
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Oscar winner to show celebrated docu-drama at the scene of the
battle to honour the dead
ITS visceral and graphic authenticity shocked millions of viewers
and brought home to them the brutal realities of the last military
battle fought on British soil.
Now Tilda Swinton is to bring added poignancy to Peter Watkins'
acclaimed film Culloden by screening it on the very ground where the
Jacobite rebellion was crushed.
The Oscar-winner is urging those who come to see the film to wear
black or tartan in memory of those killed.
The innovative 1964 docu-drama was filmed in the style of a
contemporary news report to draw parallels with America's
intervention in Vietnam.
Now Swinton and film-maker ...