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Film round-up
Reviews of Cleanin' Up The Town: Remembering Ghostbusters; Hamilton; Inheritance; Burden, and Family Romance, LLC
STIRRING: Hamilton
JULIA TOPPIN recommends Patti Smith’s eloquent memoir that wrestles with the beauty and sorrow of a lifetime
MARJORIE MAYO welcomes an account of family life after Oscar Wilde, a cathartic exercise, written by his grandson
KEN COCKBURN guides us through a survey of Chekov’s early short fiction, and the groundwork it laid for his later masterpieces
ANDY HEDGECOCK revels in a hugely enjoyable but deadly serious examination of the 1930s, that is an indictment of our own era
The bard distills our hellish times into fiery words
Cleanin' Up The Town: Remembering Ghostbusters (12A)
Directed by Anthony Bueno
4*
TWELVE years in the making, this labour of love celebrates how and why the original Ghostbusters has become a much-loved classic.
Film-makers and siblings Anthony and Claire Bueno interviewed people involved in the film, from cast to crew, to get an insider's view on how this ground-breaking comedy sci-fi, written by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis and directed by Ivan Reitman, came to be made.
It is gripping and eye-opening to see and hear the cast and special-effects crew reminiscing, particularly accounts of how they had to deliver in record time as post-production was cut short by six months.
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