Del Walker and Anne Gooding in Barney Platts-Mills’ ‘Bronco Bullfrog.’ Seventy-Seven “We both loved the Italian neo-realists, Barney and me,” cinematographer Adam Barker-Mill told me. “Joan and the ...
British director Barney Platt-Mills‘ 1970 film Bronco Bullfrog is a protopunk cult classic that’s set in the mod-related “Suedehead” subculture. (If you’ve ever wondered about Morrissey’s debut solo ...
Barney Platts-Mills’s 1969 feature about aimless East End teenagers in love comes to Film Forum after a cinematic rediscovery. By J. Hoberman An auspicious first feature, Barney Platts-Mills’s “Bronco ...
Seventeen year old Del, with no money and nowhere to go, breaks into train cars with his cool, fresh-out-of-Borstal (reform school) pal Bronco Bullfrog. But one day he meets the lovely Irene, and ...