
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?

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

THE GUARDIAN • Barney Platts-Mills obituary
British film director whose overlooked classic Bronco Bullfrog was part of a lifelong effort to make his industry more accessible