Rita, Sue and Bob, Too was probably his biggest commercial success, and although not his finest hour, it was pretty enjoyable. As far as the review goes, I think it downplays the importance of Scum and of Clarke as a director a little. Clarke's use of Steadicam, diegetic soundtracks and narratives, and film as polemic…

It wasn't a pop at the organisers of the conference, rather it was directed at the WSJ journalist who seemed incredulous that academics would consider such a thing as art.

On one hand they sneer at our subcultures through a mask of academia; on the other they stultify them in galleries and try and pass them off as art - their art - as happened in London recently: kinggenerator.blogspot.com/…