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	Singing Detective, The
		Two key incidents in The Singing Detective are based on real-life incidents in childhood--his mother, a pub pianist, being kissed by a man, and Potter's writing a four-letter word on the flboard when his precocious facility as a young writer made him unpopular with other schoolchildren.
		The Singing Detective is thus not only the serial that the TV viewer is watching, but the fiction that Marlow is rewriting in his head.
		In terms of narrative frequency, The Singing Detective is further marked by a high degree of repetition--of words, events, and visual images--as the same event, or part of it, is retold, re-worked, or recontextualised.
	www.museum.tv /archives/etv/S/htmlS/singingdetec/singingdetec.htm (1059 words)

	"The Singing Detective" - Salon
		"Singing Detective" could ever hold a candle to the 1986 BBC production directed by Jon Amiel that, for my money at least, is still the greatest thing ever presented on television.
		The pop culture of "The Singing Detective" -- hard-boiled detective novels and big-band pop -- was distinctly American in flavor.
		At the end of the original "Singing Detective," you felt as if you were looking back at a vast landscape so fully imagined you could enter it.
	dir.salon.com /story/ent/movies/review/2003/11/07/detective/index.html (1234 words)

	tvdvdreviews.com -- The Singing Detective DVD Review
		The 1986 BBC miniseries The Singing Detective is a brilliantly hypnotic masterpiece of human redemption presented as a pastiche of film noir, medical drama, and lush musical.
		Potter, who died of cancer in the mid 1990s, claimed in multiple interviews that The Singing Detective was not autobiographical, that any similarities between himself and his work were simply due to shear laziness.
		The Singing Detective is not dealt with in much detail here, but the program does give insight into Potter's personality and the relationship between his life and his work.
	www.tvdvdreviews.com /singing.html (1445 words)

	Latino Review
		This adaptation of "The Singing Detective" was taken from a script written by Potter two years before his passing.
		Unlike the BBC mini-series the locale has changed to Los Angeles, the main character was changed from Plillip Marlowe and the world of the singing detective was moved up to the fifties.
		Those hoping to find a noirish detective story in "The Singing Detective may be sorely dissapointed and find themselves distracted when the fantasy musical sequences and the slapstick begins.
	www.latinoreview.com /films_2003/paramountclassics/singingdetective/review.html (547 words)

	The Singing Detective ('03) - review - Stumped? - Stumped At the Video Store is a Magazine About Movies, DVD releases, ...
		I was in a state of sheer unadulterated bliss during my screening of writer/director Keith Gordon’s latest film, The Singing Detective.
		The direction of the plot is meandering at best and tends to jump around chronologically without much of a heads up to the viewer and the lack of information about the on-screen characters and their relationships with one another was, at times, particularly strained.
		Where 21 Grams is interested in being gritty and depressingly poignant, The Singing Detective works hard to be likable, enjoyable and artistic.
	stumpedmagazine.com /reviews/singing-detective.html (548 words)

	Singing Detective, The (2003): Reviews
		Admiring The Singing Detective is easy, and so is appreciating the originality of the story's conceit, the artistry of the actors and the directorial intelligence of Keith Gordon.
		The original six-part BBC ''Singing Detective'' remains one of the signal achievements in the history of television -- really -- and its release on DVD this past spring puts it easily within reach of the curious.
		What this Singing Detective really needed was to be reworked top to bottom, preferably by a writer fleeing some demons of his own.
	www.metacritic.com /video/titles/singingdetective (1278 words)

	The Singing Detective
		In its original incarnation, The Singing Detective was a six-part BBC series that was popular with both audiences and critics.
		In its new form, The Singing Detective, reworked and trimmed down to under two hours is a curiously bad movie.
		As the Singing Detective, he speaks with one of those annoying gumshoe accents and lip-syncs his way through some old standards.
	www.haro-online.com /movies/singing_detective.html (502 words)

	Dennis Potter & The Singing Detective: Detective Story
		The story of The Singing Detective unfolds in three time periods: a 1980's hospital ward; The Forest of Dean (and later London) in the 1930's; and a film-noir fantasy London of the 1940's.
		The film-noir fantasy is from a novel he wrote entitled 'The Singing Detective' in which the character, Mark Binney, hires the help of the detective, Philip Marlow, to help him escape being framed for a murder.
		First we have the 'fictional' detective uncovering the murderer of the body in the river, secondly there is the psychiatrist, Dr. Gibbon's, detective work of uncovering Marlow's childhood trauma.
	www.britishfilm.org.uk /potter/detective.html (276 words)

	Dennis Potter's The Singing Detective
		He is the author of several detective novels, all of which, he would be quick to remind us, are out of print.
		Potter wrote several dramas for television, but The Singing Detective (which he had to write with a pen strapped to his hand) was the pinnacle of his long career.
		The Singing Detective is a modern pilgrim’s progress in which three narratives – Marlow’s hospital experiences, the pulp fiction that he is half-composing and half-hallucinating, and the boyhood memories that percolate into both his reality and his fiction – are braided together.
	www.culturevulture.net /Television/SingingDetective.htm (954 words)

	DVDFILE.com
		The milieu of the detective story and the flashbacks has been moved up a decade from the 1940s to the 1950s, and accordingly the musical numbers are more rock and roll than big band jazz.
		The detective plot is styled like the minimalist noirs of the 50s, inky fls pierced by garish neon.
		The Singing Detective is a sore disappointment for fans of the original BBC miniseries, or for fans of director Keith Gordon (A Midnight Clear is really a terrific movie; why couldn't that one get a DVD edition half as nice as this one?).
	www.dvdfile.com /index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=530&Itemid=3 (1631 words)

	"The Singing Detective" \| Salon Arts & Entertainment
		It's unlikely that any version of Dennis Potter's "Singing Detective" could ever hold a candle to the 1986 BBC production directed by Jon Amiel that, for my money at least, is still the greatest thing ever presented on television.
		The pop culture of "The Singing Detective" -- hard-boiled detective novels and big-band pop -- was distinctly American in flavor.
		At the end of the original "Singing Detective," you felt as if you were looking back at a vast landscape so fully imagined you could enter it.
	archive.salon.com /ent/movies/review/2003/11/07/detective (1381 words)

	Robert Downey Jr: Singing Detective
		At the Sundance Film Festival for the world premiere of his latest film, The Singing Detective, most of us who saw it agreed on two things: One, a second Oscar nomination is a distinct possibility and Two, portraying a character with hallucinatory alter-egos could well be a case of art imitating life.
		Based on Dennis Potter's TV series, Downey stars as Daniel Dark, a bitter, misogynistic psoriasis-sufferer, covered in a collage of painful flaky skin and sores, whose symptoms and sentiments are a symptom of a painful past and childhood memories.
		Downey's participation in Singing Detective had as much to do with his close friendship with Mel Gibson as the quality of the material.
	www.girl.com.au /robert_downey_jr_singing_detective.htm (1523 words)

	Dennis Potter & The Singing Detective: Detective Story
		The story of The Singing Detective unfolds in three time periods: a 1980's hospital ward; The Forest of Dean (and later London) in the 1930's; and a film-noir fantasy London of the 1940's.
		The film-noir fantasy is from a novel he wrote entitled 'The Singing Detective' in which the character, Mark Binney, hires the help of the detective, Philip Marlow, to help him escape being framed for a murder.
		First we have the 'fictional' detective uncovering the murderer of the body in the river, secondly there is the psychiatrist, Dr. Gibbon's, detective work of uncovering Marlow's childhood trauma.
	www.zenbullets.com /britfilm/potter/detective.html (276 words)

	The Singing Detective - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Singing Detective was a critically acclaimed BBC television serial, written by Dennis Potter and starring Michael Gambon.
		Originally, the title of the series was "Smoke Rings," and the Singing Detective noir thriller was to be dropped after the first episode because Potter felt it would not hold the audience's attention.
		The Singing Detective ranked as number 20 on the British Film Institute's list of the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes, voted by industry professionals in 2000.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Singing_Detective (1281 words)

	The Singing Detective (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Singing Detective was a 2003 film based on the BBC miniseries of the same name, a work by Dennis Potter.
		Suffering from the skin disease psoriasis and a crippling arthritis, detective novelist Dan Dark is in such pain in a hospital that he begins to delve into fantasy, resulting in several story-lines at once, most :
		A film noir based on Dark's novel, The Singing Detective, in which a nightclub singer/private eye, hired by Mark Binney, takes on a strange case involving prostitutes and two mysterious men.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Singing_Detective_(movie) (421 words)

	THE SINGING DETECTIVE
		The Singing Detective is a film about a guy coming to terms with his past and his problems in a very painful, hostile way.
		Detective, which is based on a wildly popular six-hour British miniseries penned by the late Dennis Potter, swaps '40s London for Chicago in the '50s in terms of setting, while replacing BAFTA winner Michael Gambon's Phillip Marlowe with walking punchline Robert Downey Jr.
		The song-and-dance numbers are light, even though they're fully rooted in fanciful paranoia and bewildering delusion, unlike Dancer in the Dark or The Umbrellas of Cherbourg.
	www.sick-boy.com /singing.htm (442 words)

	Home Theater & Sound -- The Singing Detective - ***
		In fact, the author had psoriatic arthropathy that left him hospitalized and used the story as a forum to rail against the medical and literary communities that he felt had betrayed him.
		As the title implies, The Singing Detective is (at least partially) a musical, but the story is a lot less straightforward than most films of this type.
		At its heart, The Singing Detective is an odd trip through one man's psyche and the lingering remnants of childhood torment and adult betrayal.
	www.hometheatersound.com /dvd/singing_detective.htm (777 words)

	Dennis Potter & The Singing Detective
		It is often regarded as the epitome of Dennis Potter's writing, the peak of his creativity and the culmination of all his previous themes, but at the same time it stands out as a very atypical work, with its use of genre and the absence of many Dennis Potter themes.
		Stephen Gilbert, in Fight and Kick and Bite says "The Singing Detective is a summation of Potterana.
		I think it is more reasonable to regard The Singing Detective as a turning point, an accumulation of many old themes and an introduction of new ones for further exploration.
	www.zenbullets.com /britfilm/potter (225 words)

	2003 Sundance Fest: Boxoffice Magazine Coverage (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Part detective story, part rock-and-roll musical, part character study, the surreal "Singing Detective" doesn't so much blend the boundaries of genre as shatter them.
		Cinematically, "The Singing Detective" is highly stylized, utilizing expressionist noir lighting for the sexually charged fantasy sequences and crafting a bright, sterile environment in the hospital.
		Director Keith Gordon and production designer Patricia Norris play gleefully with color: The hospital is white, white, white; the femme fatale wears a red dress, red lipstick and red heels and has red towels and tiles in the bathroom where she is killed; the desert is sepia-toned.
	www.boxoffice.com /sundance/2003/singing_detective.html (566 words)

	"The Singing Detective" (1986)
		Tormented and bedridden by a debilitating disease, a mystery writer relives his detective stories through his imagination and hallucinations.
		from Saffron Walden, UK About to watch the 'The Singing Detective' in its entirity for the first time in 18 years, one is filled with anticipation but also anxiety.
		For those who don't know, 'The Singing Detective' is an offbeat musical about a writer in hospital, that weaves effortlessly his present experiences, his past fictions, his paranoid imaginings and, above all else, the memories of a childhood that to this day still dominates his life.
	us.imdb.com /title/tt0090521 (829 words)

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	Movie Review - The Singing Detective - www.ericdsnider.com - The Official Website of Eric D. Snider
		By the time Keith Gordon's odd, extremely stylized remake of "The Singing Detective" gets around to its point, the audience is liable to be angry at it for dragging its feet so long, and for being so weird in the process.
		"The Singing Detective," based on a beloved 1986 miniseries, is about an author named Dan Dark (Robert Downey Jr.) who suffers from a debilitating skin disease that has rendered him even more hateful and misogynistic than he used to be.
		It is a slow-moving, uneventful detective story, mixed with the only slightly more compelling story of Dan Dark and his gross skin.
	www.ericdsnider.com /movies/the-singing-detective (332 words)

	Keith Gordon's "The Singing Detective"; Haunting and Brilliant Bursts of Imagination
		Alongside Rainer Werner Fassbinder's "Berlin Alexanderplatz" and Krzysztof Kieslowski's "The Decalogue," writer Dennis Potter's extraordinary eight-hour 1986 BBC work, "The Singing Detective," superbly directed by Jon Amiel, extended the formal possibilities of television.
		Built on themes of duration and process, layering sharp tonal contrasts and frenzied bursts of imagination, it transformed the act of watching television into an avant-garde experience.
		Gordon's "Singing Detective" wants to float in a recognizable space, though from the beginning, this was a work wholly unto itself.
	www.indiewire.com /movies/movies_030122singing.html (847 words)

	DVD, Movie, Video: The Singing Detective, Robert Downey Jr., DVD
		And while it is not a transforming work in the manner of the original, the theatrical Singing Detective stands on its own as a fascinating piece of cinema.
		Downey is a marvel as Dark; his own life experience has perhaps given him special insight into a character whose all-consuming anger and constant suffering has forced him to abandon reality in favor of a dreamlike existence with which he feels more comfortable.
		The Singing Detective isn't an easily classifiable movie: it's not a musical, it's not a drama, it's not a crime story, and it's certainly not a comedy.
	video.barnesandnoble.com /DVD/The-Singing-Detective/Robert-Downey-Jr/e/097363409045 (951 words)

	The Singing Detective Movie Reviews, Pictures - Rotten Tomatoes
		Synopsis: In Keith Gordon’s The Singing Detective, re-imagined by Dennis Potter from his classic British miniseries, Dan Dark is a character who gives new meaning to the term “scars of childhood.” A hack writer of detective stories, he has suffered from psoriatic arthropathy, a crippling disease of...
		The Singing Detective smashes together fl comedy, pulp fiction, naturalistic drama, expressionist film noir and lip-synched 1950’s rock-n-roll musical numbers in a totally original and multi-leveled exploration of a wounded soul as he heals and reassembles the jumbled pieces of his life.
		The Singing Detective is like a dream that you are still a little confused by when you wake up.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/singing_detective (1093 words)

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