[New post] Review: London – The Modern Babylon

Robin Catling posted: "British director Julien Temple (The Great Rock and Roll Swindle, Absolute Beginners) has released a new documentary called London: The Modern Babylon, to coincide with the cultural Olympiad. Temple, a veteran of pop videos, documentaries, comedies and sem" Respond to this post by replying above this line New post on Everything Express Review: London – The Modern Babylon by Robin Catling British director Julien Temple (The Great Rock and Roll Swindle, Absolute Beginners) has released a new documentary called London: The Modern Babylon, to coincide with the cultural Olympiad. Temple, a veteran of pop videos, documentaries, comedies and semi-serious dramas, remains a subversive. It is a film about a vibrant city continually renewing itself, mixing film archive material and popular music with the voices of Londoners past and present; musicians, writers, artists, political radicals and ordinary people. 'London Babylon' is a relentless, sprawling collage, starting with a raid on BFI archives, from the earliest moving picture footage of the late Victorian era through to present day. Read more of this post Robin Catling | August 20, 2012 at 12:12 am | Tags: movie, review | Categories: Culture, Film | URL: http://wp.me/p1uj0o-26S Comment    See all comments Unsubscribe or change your email settings at Manage Subscriptions. Trouble clicking? Copy and paste this URL into your browser: http://everythingexpress.wordpress.com/2012/08/20/review-london-the-modern-babylon/ Thanks for flying with WordPress.com