tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2990582195041716871.post6253341066378297564..comments2024-02-05T20:42:52.149+00:00Comments on The Man Who Wrote Too Much: Radio On - Christopher Petit - 1979Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09405144459861374124noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2990582195041716871.post-47483756438927323962024-02-05T20:42:52.149+00:002024-02-05T20:42:52.149+00:00"These are the frozen years", indeed. An..."These are the frozen years", indeed. And it certainly is about as close to being a cinematic and visual evocation of Joy Division's lyrics and music as any late 70's independent film made in England could ever hope to be. And there is a grave mistake in the above description of any allusions to "Saturday Night Fever". The protagonist enters into a disco, not a new wave club, and appears to be turned away due to his "punk look" violating the disco's dress code, made clear by the admittance of a patron in a Travolta-like white suit and bellbottoms. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2990582195041716871.post-71911216223227785152019-03-26T15:46:06.540+00:002019-03-26T15:46:06.540+00:00If Ian Curtis had watched "Saturday Night Fev...If Ian Curtis had watched "Saturday Night Fever" during the recording sessions of 1979's "Unknown Pleasures" and had suddenly decided to turn away from his music and become a film director instead, the result most likely would of been something very much along the lines of this film.<br /><br />It is fascinating to note, as per "Fever", two significant details in "Radio On" that few people would ever recognize as a filmic connection: the disco-suited patron denied entry to the new-wave rock club, and the ending at the quarry, where the Rover hovers precariously at the edge of a dangerous precipice, akin to the now iconic concluding sequence of accidental/suicidal death in "Fever" from the monolithic heights of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com