Angel

Saxophonist Danny (played by Stephen Rea in the first of eight appearances in Neil Jordan’s films) hunts down the loyalist murder gang who killed the young girl (Veronica Quilligan) he had befriended. 

With an unknown writer/director and set against the very real and contemporary backdrop of ‘the Troubles’ in Northern Ireland, Neil Jordan’s Angel was one of the first films commissioned by Channel 4 and encapsulates everything that was risk taking and innovative about this new broadcaster’s approach to filmmaking. Jordan’s cinematic influences from Nicholas Ray to Wim Wenders can be seen in the film’s revenge structure and elegant visual style.

The film’s disinterest in formal politics in favour of the director’s concern with a ‘metaphysics of violence’ would capture the attention of such luminaries as Stanley Kubrick.

Pre-recorded introduction

Before the screening enjoy a pre-recorded introduction by Hugh Odling-Smee.

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