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Red Riding: Special Roadshow Edition

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"Dickens on bad acid" is a description that captures the unsparing, paranoiac nature of the Red Riding Quartet, David Peace's cult novels about the far-reaching tentacles of the corrupt West Yorkshire police force in the '70s and '80s. Recently, Tony Grisoni adapted three into feature-length telefilms for Channel 4 and, in brief, British TV giveth again: this inky triptych nears Bacon-like nightmarishness and ravishment even though each is helmed by a different talent shooting in a different format. Julian Jarrold (gritty 16mm), James Marsh (elegant 35mm), and Anand Tucker (digital widescreen) magnificently exhume a past mired in dark and grit, one where the cutthroat police toast "to the North, where we do what we want."

- Jason Jude Chan
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