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Margin Call on TV At 10.30pm tomorrow, Saturday September 27th, BBC2 TV is showing Margin Call, a movie about the beginnings of the financial meltdown we now all live in the becalmed and depressed and resentful aftermath of.
I wrote admiringly about this movie when it was first being shown in British cinemas, to near-zero audiences if my experience was anything to go by. Maybe this time around more people will pay attention to it, what with the BBC’s Radio Times giving it four stars.
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That’s 27 September.
Never forget.
Numeracy: thanks. To avoid any muddle I have simply corrected this, rather than left any trace of October.
Just as well I included the word “tomorrow”, or the error would not have been nearly so obvious.
Brian, I watched it on your recommendation at the time, and it was time and money very well spent.
I missed this one at the time it came out and have been waiting for another opportunity to see it. Hopefully it will find its way to TV in the US sometime soon. Thanks for the reminder.
Laird, it should appear on iPlayer, and you can use something like Hola to overcome the regional restrictions.
That’s Sunday at 12.05am for those of us in Scotland. Because… I have absolutely no idea.
(I never bought the SNP’s claim that the BBC was biased during the referendum campaign – which seemed like deliberate misdirection to me – but I think the Corporation is a large part of why I opposed separation. When I was growing up, the only experience I had of Scottish autonomy was the soul-destroying phrase, heard only on the BBC, “That’s except for viewers in Scotland, who have their own programmes at that time”. Gee, thanks.)
Amen
Sam:
Somebody had to watch the White Heather Club, and it certainly wasn’t going to be me.
Turns out that my local public library has this movie on DVD! I have requested it.
Just watched it. Not a car chase in it, thank god. The Glengarry Glen Ross of the credit crunch. Toxic packages of debt passed around until the music stops.
It is indeed an excellent film and Spacey is, as usual, terrific. Jeremy Irons is also very good.
I watched it on dvd a couple of years ago, and it was indeed reminiscent of Glengarry Glen Ross. I invite you to read my Amazon review of it here.