Wondrous Oblivion

Starring: Delroy Lindo, Sam Smith Original UK Premiere: 2003 Dvd Release: 27th September, 2004 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: PAL, Region 2 Encoding

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Picture a young boy,David, from a Jewish immigrant family, who loves cricket. He dresses the part but he cant play it. Then imagine a Jamaican family moving in next door who pretty much live for cricket. This film is an explosive mix of passion both about the sport itself but also about the blossoming of domesticated Ruth Wiseman Wondrous Oblivion is also about the power of friendship & depicts Davids rite of passage.

The film manages to successfully blend the stark elements of racism of 60s London with the growing bond, that knows no boundaries, that is established between the Wisemans & the Samuels.

For me, the intoxicating music & dance scenes had me spellbound- Rudy, A Message To You, Sugar Dandy & I Want To Be Free to name but a few of the classics featured. The melodies bonded the film together to make it a moving masterpiece, all credit to Paul Morrison, the director. By the way, never had I realised just how sensuous mopping a floor up could be Wondrous Oblivion would suit all ages Just one last point. Why was this film never on general release in the UK? It deserves to take pride of place among the All Time Top Ten Greats.

Delroy Lindo is a British born, American actor. The son of Jamaican immigrant parents, Lindo was born & raised in Lewisham, England, where at age 5 on the strength of the nativity plays he appeared in became a stage actor. As a teenager he & his mother moved to Toronto, Canada & by the 1970s they had moved to the US where Lindo would graduate from the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. His movie debut came in 1976 with the British comedy Find the Lady followed by two other roles in films such as that of an Army sergeant in More American Graffitti when he quit acting for 10 years to concentrate on theatre production. In 1982, he debuted on Broadway in Master Harold & the Boys directed by the plays author Athol Fugard & by 1988, Lindo earned a Tony nomination for his portayal of Harald Loomis in Joe Turners Come & Gone. Posters Of The Core

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Sam Smith is an American journalist & political activist who was an early pioneer in alternative media. He was also instrumental in the establishment of the US Green Party. Several times a week, Smith publishes an email news digest, Undernews, which is widely read. Smith was born in Washington DC into a Episcopalian / Quaker family. He grew up in Philadelphia where he was educated in Quaker schools. Smith attended Harvard University, where he became news director of college radio station & was a drummer on the college dance circuit. He graduated in 1959 & went to work in radio news in Washington. In 1961, Smith joined the United States Coast Guard. After three years service as an officer, he returned to Washington & started an alternative monthly, The Idler. At the time there were only a handful of such journals being published. In 1965, Smith, then working again in radio, was offered a job as assistant to James Reston, Washington correspondent of The New York Times & later a position at the Washington Post, but he turned them down, preferring to pursue alternative journalism.

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