MaryAnn’s quick take… A lovely, melancholy documentary about the planned community of Basildon in England… but really about squandering of postwar optimism with the rise of neoliberalism. I’m “biast” (pro): nothing
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto) women’s participation in this film
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Where did the future go? New Town Utopia, the lovely and melancholy documentary feature debut from Christopher Ian Smith, looks specifically at the development and the fate of Basildon, in Essex — just to the east of London — after World War II. But its story is applicable not only to the spate of other planned, experimental towns across the UK, but also to similar projects in the Us, such as the Levittown suburbs. Its story is the squandering of postwar optimism and massive investment in democratic socialism with the rise of the...
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto) women’s participation in this film
(learn more about this)
Where did the future go? New Town Utopia, the lovely and melancholy documentary feature debut from Christopher Ian Smith, looks specifically at the development and the fate of Basildon, in Essex — just to the east of London — after World War II. But its story is applicable not only to the spate of other planned, experimental towns across the UK, but also to similar projects in the Us, such as the Levittown suburbs. Its story is the squandering of postwar optimism and massive investment in democratic socialism with the rise of the...
- 5/4/2018
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
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