Carol Morley - The Alcohol Years - DVD

Carol Morley

The Alcohol Years

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Commentary

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Shorts

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DVD

in like-new condition (used just once)

UK import (PAL Europe Zone 2) DVD

English audio

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The Alcohol Years is a poetic retrieval of the years Carol Morley spent in Manchester in a blur of inebriation. 'Compelling... uproarious... heartbreaking...' UNCUT ****, 'Of all the memoirs and mythmaps that have been generated by Manchester s music scene, few could be as raw as Carol Morley s wretchedly poignant film documentary' Dazed and Confused. Nominated for a Bafta, The Alcohol Years won the award for the Best Documentary at the Melbourne International Film Festival.

The DVD special features include the director’s commentary and the short films Everyday Something and Stalin My Neighbour

Compelling...uproarious...heartbraking - **** -- UNCUT

Morley's wonderfully frank and intimate film study of the person she once was... -- THE GUARDIAN

This is a compelling, intimate film that would seem uncomfortably intrusive if the person on whose private life we're intruding weren't the film-maker herself. Carol Morley placed an ad in a local newspaper asking for anyone who remembered what she'd got up to during her booze-soaked years of the mid-1980s to come forward. The result was a series of interviews, conducted by Morley herself off-camera, which make up this film and reveal her hedonistic, promiscuous lifestyle.

• Rated : Exempt
• Language : English
• Director : Carol Morley
• Media Format : PAL
• Run time : 1 hour and 19 minutes
• Release date : 18 Feb. 2008
• Studio : Vital
• Number of discs : 1

The Alcohol Years: Almost 20 years after leaving it behind Carol Morley - winner of the City Of Melbourne Award for Best Short Documentary at the 2000 Melbourne International Film Festival - returned to Manchester where she had spent several years lost in an alcoholic haze at the centre of the city's burgeoning musical and cultural scene. From booze fuelled nights at the city's legendary Hacienda club to inebriated revelries at New Order's expense 'The Alcohol Years' is a poetic retrieval of that time in which Carol's rediscovered friends and acquaintances recount tales of her drunken and promiscuous behaviour. Carol Morley's search for her lost self and the conflicting memories and viewpoints of those around her weave in and out revealing a poignant portrayal of the city its pop culture the people who lived it and of a young woman who found herself at the centre of a defining moment in Manchester's cultural history. Among those contributing to Carol's story are many of the most notable and significant figures from the era including broadcaster record company executive and entrepreneur Tony Wilson author and DJ Dave Haslam Buzzcocks singer Pete Shelley Vini Reilly of The Durutti Column musician journalist and TV presenter Dick Witts Jesus And Mary Chain bassist Douglas Hart and Nico's former manager Alan Wise. 'The Alcohol Years' features music by New Order The Durutti Column Pete Shelley Vini Reilly ToT Stella Grundy and Fall drummer Spencer Birtwistle. Everyday Something: Based on Carol Morley's collection of newspaper cuttings and narrated by the late John Peel 'Everyday Something' presents private moments that give strange glimpses into everyday life.

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Carol Morley returns to Manchester, where in the early 1980s, five years of her life were lost in an alcoholic blur. The Alcohol Years is a poetic retrieval of that time, in which rediscovered friends and acquaintances recount tales of her drunken and promiscuous behavior. In Morley’s search for her lost self, conflicting memories and viewpoints weave in and out, revealing a portrait of the city, its pop culture, and the people who lived it.

Credits
Directed and Filmed by Carol Morley
Produced by Cairo Cannon
Editor Maggie Choyce
Composer Russell Churney
Lighting Camera Peter Bathurst
Featuring Songs by Stella Grundy and Spencer Birtwistle
Featuring Tony Wilson, Dave Haslam, Pete Shelley, Vini Reilly and Stella Grundy

Funded by Channel 4, National Lottery through the Arts Council of England, ACE Visual Arts and the London Production Fund

Prizes
Winner Best Documentary Melbourne International Film Festival
Special Grierson Award
Best Director BAFTA nomination

Selected screenings
Channel 4 and Film 4
Male , a group show of international artists curated by Irena Cercnik and Nevenka Sivavec, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Celje, Slovenia
Home Stories , Filmcasino, Vienna, Austria
British Airways UK Film Series, New Zealand – Aukland, Wellington, Denedin, Christchurch, Nelson, Palmerston North, Hamilton, New Plymouth and Mt Maunganui
AFI (American Film Institute) Int’l film festival, Los Angeles, US
45th Cork International Film Festival, Ireland
24th Sao Paulo Intl Film Festival, Brazil
DNET Festival of Electronic & Digital Art, curated by Lauren Cornell and Gary Thomas, London, UK
Regional UK cinema tour organised by the British Film Institute: London, Inverness, Cardiff, Canterbury, Nottingham and Manchester

Running time: 50 minutes, Format: 35mm, Year: 2000

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When artist, musician, writer and filmmaker Carol Morley was twenty-one she left her hometown of Manchester and did not return for twelve years. Growing up in the 80s, she began drinking heavily at sixteen and frequented clubs such as the Hacienda whilst also fronting her own girl punk outfit.

With her memories of the period fuzzy, she returns to the city to find out what happened, resulting in an engrossing and evocative study of the period and the British pop culture legends who made it.

Text taken from the website of GFT (Glasgow film theatre)