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BRITISH FILM INSTITUTE • Bronco Bullfrog: how the locations from the suedehead classic look today
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BRITISH FILM INSTITUTE • Bronco Bullfrog: how the locations from the suedehead classic look today

With the cult British youth film Bronco Bullfrog on re-release in the US, we went looking for the film’s east London locations. Would Del recognise the Stratford of today?

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SCREEN SLATE • ‘Bronco Bullfrog’
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SCREEN SLATE • ‘Bronco Bullfrog’

An unsentimental and achingly observant kitchen sink drama restored by the British Film Institute and Platts-Mills before his death last October.

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AIR MAIL • That 70s Movie
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AIR MAIL • That 70s Movie

Largely improvised by an unruly teenage cast, the 1970 black-and-white film Bronco Bullfrog gets a shiny new restoration

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OBSERVER • Before ‘Quadrophenia,’ The Jam, Or The Sex Pistols There Was ‘Bronco Bullfrog’
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OBSERVER • Before ‘Quadrophenia,’ The Jam, Or The Sex Pistols There Was ‘Bronco Bullfrog’

The British 1970 film — a black and white neorealist look at kids in the streets — echoed through music and the movies of Jim Jarmusch and Quentin Tarantino

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THE NEW YORKER • Goings On About Town—Movies ‘Bronco Bullfrog’
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THE NEW YORKER • Goings On About Town—Movies ‘Bronco Bullfrog’

The British filmmaker Barney Platts-Mills’s recently rediscovered first feature, from 1970, is a raw and sensitive drama about working-class London teens facing formidable walls of social exclusion.

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THE NEW YORK TIMES • ‘Bronco Bullfrog’: Hello Young Lovers
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THE NEW YORK TIMES • ‘Bronco Bullfrog’: Hello Young Lovers

Barney Platts-Mills’s 1969 feature about aimless East End teenagers in love comes to Film Forum after a cinematic rediscovery.

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BROOKLYN VEGAN • UK “suedehead” subculture film ‘Bronco Bullfrog’ gets new 2K restoration, in theaters this spring
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BROOKLYN VEGAN • UK “suedehead” subculture film ‘Bronco Bullfrog’ gets new 2K restoration, in theaters this spring

British director Barney Platt-Mills' 1970 film Bronco Bullfrog is a protopunk cult classic that's set in the mod-related "Suedehead" subculture.

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THE FILM STAGE • Exclusive Restoration Trailer for Bronco Bullfrog Brings to a Light a Long-Unseen British Landmark
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THE FILM STAGE • Exclusive Restoration Trailer for Bronco Bullfrog Brings to a Light a Long-Unseen British Landmark

A long-unseen landmark of British cinema has undergone a new 2K restoration and is ready to be embraced by audiences once more.

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BROOKLYN VEGAN • ‘The Harder They Come,’ Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry doc & more streaming on Criterion Channel reggae film series
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BROOKLYN VEGAN • ‘The Harder They Come,’ Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry doc & more streaming on Criterion Channel reggae film series

The Criterion Channel will be celebrating reggae culture in February with Roots & Revolution: Reggae on Film, featuring 11 features and documentaries.

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THE TIMES • Barney Platts-Mills obituary
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THE TIMES • Barney Platts-Mills obituary

Film director with egalitarian instincts whose best work Bronco Bullfrog was a cult chronicle of Sixties working-class life

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