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1. www.starburstmagazine.com › reviews › friendshipsFRIENDSHIP’S DEATH (1987) - STARBURST Magazine

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   FRIENDSHIP’S DEATH (1987) Written By: Martin Unsworth. This obscure British production marked the final directorial outing for celebrated film theorist Peter Wollen. Bleak and cerebral, it boasts a tour de force of acting, some still-relevant politics, and even forward-thinking technologically.

2. www.cineoutsider.com › reviews › blurayFriendship's Death Blu-ray review | Cine Outsider

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   Friendship’s Death is ideas-driven science fiction, which catches several people at the start of distinguished careers, not least Tilda Swinton in the title role. The film is well presented and contextualised in this BFI Blu-ray release.

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4. louderthanwar.com › friendships-death-film-reviewFriendship’s Death - film review - Louder Than War

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   Jun 21, 2021 · David Bowie starred in Roeg’s film, where an alien crash lands in New Mexico hoping to find a way to save his drought ridden home planet, while here Bowie’s friend Tilda Swinton plays Friendship, an extra-terrestrial android sent on a mission to help save Earth from itself.

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5. www.counterfire.org › article › friendship-s-deathFriendship’s Death – film review | Counterfire

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   Jun 20, 2021 · The narrative concerns Friendship (Tilda Swinton), an android diplomat and Sullivan (Bill Paterson), an archetypal whisky-drinking, dishevelled and world-weary war correspondent, who spend a number of days holed up in a hotel during the fighting discussing life, love, war, sex, sacrifice and death.

6. www.rottentomatoes.com › m › friendships_deathFriendship's Death | Rotten Tomatoes

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   Reviews 78% Audience Score 50+ Ratings True to her name, Friendship (Tilda Swinton) wants all humans to get along. She's a robot from a distant world planning to exhort mankind to reform its...

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   What is friendship's death about?

   • Friendship’s Death is an attempt to represent some of the conceptual frameworks that Wollen describes in that book. Wollen was one of the very first theorists to bring a structuralist approach to the study of film and the desire to set up and interrogate binary oppositions can be seen in the 75-minute feature.

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   Will friendship's death be re-released in 4K?

   • Friendship’s Death, Peter Wollen’s 1987 feature about an alien landing in Amman, Jordan during the Black September conflict between the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) and Jordan in 1970, is being re-released in 4K by the British Film Institute on 21 June as a dual format Blu-ray/DVD and via various streaming services.

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   Who is friendship based on?

   • True to her name, Friendship (Tilda Swinton) wants all humans to get along. She's a robot from a distant world planning to exhort mankind to reform its violent ways. But, when she lands in Amman, Jordan, in 1970, she finds Palestinians waging deadly battles with Jordanians.

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   Did Peter Wollen make friendship's death?

   • Friendship’s Death. Photograph: BFI I n 1987, the late English critic, theorist and film-maker Peter Wollen directed his only solo feature film: an insouciantly baffling two-hander called Friendship’s Death, now rereleased. It was a cinema of ideas, rare then, rarer now, high-mindedly produced by the British Film Institute and Channel 4.

   Friendship’s Death review - The Guardian

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8. www.eyeforfilm.co.uk › review › friendships-deathFriendship's Death (1987) Movie Review from Eye for Film

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   The mere combination of the Black September setting and a space traveller's puzzled presence is enough to suggest a fresh perspective on our human affairs, or even to open up an asymptotic association between Swinton's homeless alien and the Palestinians in exile.