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Privilege
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1hr 41min
Genres:
Drama,Sci-Fi
Release:
1967
Directors:
Peter Watkins, Peter Ware, Derek Ware
Distributor:
New Yorker Video
Starring:
Paul Jones, Jean Shrimpton, Mark London  ...more
Synopsis: After directing several extraordinary documentaries for the BBC, including the award-winning The War Game and Culloden, Peter Watkins made his first dramatic feature with this flawed but striking film about Steven Shorter (Paul Jones), a pop singer in a future society where entertainment is controlled by a totalitarian government. Shorter's music and image are used to channel the impulses of rebellious youth; in one concert sequence, the crowd watches him sing a plaintive plea for love and understanding ... Full Synopsis
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Mark Deming, AMG Review
Few major filmmakers of the 1960s and '70s are as underappreciated as Peter Watkins, though given the current availability of his body of work, that's not so difficult to understand. Only one of his films, The War Game, is widely available on video in the United States, and Privilege, which by all rights should be Watkins' most accessible film as his only project financed and distributed by a major ... Full Review
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Paul Jones
Steve Shorter
Jean Shrimpton
Vanessa Ritchie
Mark London
Alvin Kirsch
William Job
Andrew Butler
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Alexis Arquette at Paris Hilton's CD Release Party at Privilege
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