Road Dreams

Name: Road Dreams
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1990-04-24
Rating: 9.4

TV Series
1990–
30m

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9.4/10

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"In 1968 Elliott Bristow went to New York for a two week holiday. In 1980, after twelve years and 500,000 miles later he returned to England with three trunks containing 75 hours of silent S... Read all"In 1968 Elliott Bristow went to New York for a two week holiday. In 1980, after twelve years and 500,000 miles later he returned to England with three trunks containing 75 hours of silent Super 8 film - his diary of this 'holiday'!""In 1968 Elliott Bristow went to New York for a two week holiday. In 1980, after twelve years and 500,000 miles later he returned to England with three trunks containing 75 hours of silent Super 8 film - his diary of this 'holiday'!"

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- Elliott Bristow

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9.4/10

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- Elliott Bristow

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A subtle delight

Series of six 25-minute episodes originally broadcast on Channel 4 in UK in 1990, re-issued on DVD in 2007 and recently revised as an e-book through Elliott Bristow's own website. I stumbled across 4 of the 6 1990 episodes on youtube and enjoyed a wonderfully idiosyncratic journey across evocative and vast American landscapes. He had a good eye for interesting or quirky things (cars, trucks, trains, boats and ships, buildings etc) and seems to have captured whatever fascinated him. This in turn gives the viewer a delightfully varied selection of sequences to enjoy and gradually become drawn into that fascination today.. There is very little commentary or explanation, but an excellent music soundtrack instead (Leo Kottke, Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Rick Wakeman etc).

Thoroughly recommended despite the muddy quality of now 50 year old Super 8 film. So sit back and enjoy the ride.