The Alcohol Years
WUTI Presents: Trailblazing Women of British Cinema
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Directed by Carol Morley | 50 mins | 2000
The opening of the Haçienda in 1982 begat a pop culture boom in Manchester, and Carol Morley, then just 16 years old, quickly became one of the club’s legendary party people. But Morley herself barely remembers those drink-drenched years: in this unflinching documentary, she attempts to reconstruct a portrait of her adolescence, and of the city, through interviews with former co-carousers including Factory Records luminaries Tony Wilson, Alan Wise, and Vini Reilly.
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