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One of my favourite films of all time. In my opinion the rest of the trilogy is less and less good. When Robinson in Ruins came out I went to a triple bill at the Rio. Even with interval breaks to get snacks and drinks it was seriously challenging to stay in anyway focused for the new release. I may have dozed off...
I think London did change, and then circled back. I remember showing it to a group of youngsters in 2010 and it seemed very resonant then too.
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Just saw" London" (currently on Amazon Prime/ BFI Player).
https://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/interviews/patrick-keiller-london-robinson-trilogy
Was expecting to be amazed at how things have changed in the past 27 years. But the main sense was that the issues and problems we think of today (of London being carved up and exploited by big corporations, foreign interests etc) were exactly the same then. Really eerie feeling to get a sense that resistance to all this has been quietly suppressed for so long.
Visually, London appears emptier, quieter and, weirdly, cleaner (apart from some buildings/ monuments etc covered in black pollution). I had also forgotten that bombings were an almost daily occurrence.