4K Restoration Revives Madness's 1981 Film 'Take It or Leave It'
The band's semi-fictional account of its early years, once largely forgotten, is returning to screens after a new restoration, according to The Guardian.
A new 4K restoration of Madness's 1981 film "Take It or Leave It" is bringing renewed attention to the band's semi-fictional retelling of its origin story, The Guardian reports.
According to the Guardian, the film blended the band's trademark energy with a kitchen-sink realism reflecting its working-class roots, and was shot with the band revisiting the London haunts of their youth. The outlet noted the film sank into relative obscurity after its original release.
The Guardian described the restoration as an opportunity for the film to be reassessed as a time capsule of 1970s London and a candid depiction of the difficulties of forming a band.
Sources
- ‘Being in Madness kept some of them out of jail’: how the baggy-trousered nutty boys made a guerrilla cinema classic — The Guardian — Culture
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