Mike Hodges Interview Special: Talking Get Carter And More

The Empire Film Podcast

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Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2022

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

"Carter! That's my name!" And Hodges! That's his name! Get Carter, the 1971 film that marked Mike Hodges' directorial debut on the big screen and which launched a career that would take in the likes of Flash Gordon and Croupier, has been re-released and remastered (in glorious 4K) by the BFI. It looks and sounds better than ever, so now you can bask in the bleakness of this revenge thriller, which sees Michael Caine go to Newcastle and wreak havoc. Hodges is now 89, and retired from filmmaking, but he took time out to have a chat with Chris Hewitt in which they talk about the enduring appeal of Get Carter, and run through some of the more eclectic entries in Hodges' career. It's a candid and insightful chat with one of Britain's greatest filmmakers, and we hope you enjoy.

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0:00.0	Hello pod, I'm Chris Hewitt and welcome to another cracking empire podcast interview special.
0:20.8	Get Carter is one of the greatest British movies of all time.
0:24.1	It's a relentlessly bleak crime thriller in which Michael Keynes gangster goes back from
0:29.3	London to his old hometown of Newcastle, thankfully he doesn't even attempt the accent.
0:34.6	And well, he doesn't exactly write some wrongs, he... wrongs, some wrongs.
0:42.0	And along the way there are some of the most iconic images and lines of the last 51 years.
0:48.8	The movie came out in 1971, would you believe.
0:52.0	There's Kane at his coolest and most cold blooded, whether he's wielding a shotgun in the
0:56.8	nude, having phone sex with Brit Eklund or throwing alpharabets off of Carnation Street
1:02.4	off the top of a multi-story car park.
1:04.7	And there are lines of dialogue that you have almost certainly misquoted at some point
1:08.8	in your life.
1:09.9	It is an absolute belter made all the more impressive for being Mike Hodges' directorial
1:14.7	debut on the big screen, that is Hodges had written and directed two TV movies, Rumor
1:19.5	and Suspect, before making the step up by adapting Ted Lewis' hard-button crime novel,
1:24.9	Jack's Return Home.
1:26.4	It was a quick turnaround as well.
1:28.0	Get Carter came out almost exactly a year to the day after Jack's Return Home was first
1:33.0	published in 1970.
1:34.4	Yet the quality didn't suffer, as you can see in this brand new 4K restoration that the
1:39.2	BFI has just re-released in cinemas, which will hit home entertainment in July.
1:44.4	Hodges, like his star Michael Kane, is still going strong.
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