Joseph Losey's 1967 film, presented as part of the director's centenary retrospective at London's BFI Southbank, is one of a string of great rereleases this week.
It also helped to blaze a trail for a string of great historical miniseries on the channel including North and South and The Thorn Birds.
You would never have guessed that Michelle Williams, who played whiny Jen, would be the breakout film star (Katie Holmes and Jackson were the obvious choices), with a string of great movie performances: Wendy and Lucy, The Station Agent, Brokeback Mountain and Blue Valentine.
"Forty years," he says, in that deep, laconic tone that rumbled across a string of great films in the 60s and 70s, including The Great Escape, Charade and Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid.
The recluse turned out to be Negus, who had spent a lifetime helping, advising and understudying a string of great Wagnerian conductors in Germany and Britain, including Reginald Goodall, Charles Mackerras and, more recently, Vladimir Jurowski.
"Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll" and "Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick" are the best-known hits, but there were a string of great songs and strong albums until Dury's death, from cancer, in 2000.
More upbeat than Box Of Dub, it's the second in a series masterminded by long-running London pirate station, Rinse FM, and features a string of great tracks by Skream himself, including a blistering VIP mix of the febrile "Lightning", and Coki's bizarre "Road Rage" – a slow-motion reworking of Grace's trance anthem "Not Over Yet", as also covered by Klaxons.
At Stax, working behind the scenes with the likes of Redding and Booker T. & the M.G.'s, he wrote a string of great songs, including, with Booker T., "Born Under a Bad Sign," which was a smash for Albert King in 1967, and almost immediately became a concert staple for both Cream and Jimi Hendrix.
He enjoyed a string of great public successes, much to the disgust of avant-garde figures such as Karlheinz Stockhausen and Pierre Boulez, including the premieres of the comic opera Der Junge Lord (1965) and, at the Salzburg festival the following year, The Bassarids.
If Wagoner can somehow spin this cash into a string of great vehicles, the pain will have been worthwhile.
