"Nobody asked me in the cutting room whether it was the death. Some comeback. The documentary, Raining In My Heart, will be shown on ITV on April 15 By Nikki Murfitt For The Mail On Sunday Published: 17:03 EST, 4 April 2015 | Updated: 07:17 EST, 5 April 2015 I don't put a repertory company together. ", Read our full mailing list consent terms here. The first, Toni Bailey, gave an interview where she claims she was not an alcoholic. Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? October 23rd, 2009, 11:37 PM #42 "It's set in 1768 and I am in it," he says. No whimsical pictures," says Watson. Forum Member. Rain In My Heart, a 100-minute film about alcoholism, won a Mental Health Media award last month in London, in spite of being a hard watch with no frills. One of them, Nigel Wratten, was shown unconscious, dead in all but name, while his wife made her final farewell; the other, Toni Bailey, was shown, close focus, two days from a now inevitable release. Brilliant, unflinching documentary on alcoholism by Kent film maker Paul Watson. He is nothing if not outspoken. Why not in the past in the present tense? Directed by Paul Watson. A lot. Two of the participants died during the filming. "I am the dog with the wrong smell," is the film-maker's explanation. In July, he toured radio studios to publicise Malcolm and Barbara: Love's Farewell, allowing the impression that he had filmed the moment of death to take root. The Texarkana Gazette is the premier source for local news and sports in Texarkana and the surrounding Arklatex areas. He has won three major prizes in three weeks for his last BBC film, Rain In My Heart, and on Friday, at the prestigious Grierson Awards, he is in line for a Lifetime Achievement award. Are you sure you want to mark this comment as inappropriate? 24. Filmed in 2006 the film follows the lives of 4 people battling addiction in the Medway towns. I ask questions some say are cheeky, rude and improper. But while the industry as a whole is still in the doldrums, Watson is on the crest of a wave. Rain in My Heart Contains very strong language and upsetting scenes. Should the private pain and intimacy of death be filmed for a fly-on-the-wall documentary or are some things too real for reality TV. The professed aims of the film follows the thread laid down by his earlier successes with The Family (1974) and The Fishing Party (1984) - high quality television that makes very private realities public in a sensitive and pertinent way. The most insightful comments on all subjects will be published daily in dedicated articles. 0 likes, 6 replies In this country classic, Jones sings of a man's love for a woman that outlasts their relationship and doesn't end until the day he dies. Without any hold on the important public and private realities behind the film, and short of illuminating the unknowable and unshowable realities of death, we are left teetering on the brink of voyeur-TV of the boldest, ugliest kind. Due to the sheer scale of this comment community, we are not able to give each post the same level of attention, but we have preserved this area in the interests of open debate. Even today he says: "They are not a marker for history. English. Brian agrees to return to Wall Street to boost their funds, while Jenny scrambles to keep the opening on time. I am the wedding guest at the court of the Ancient Mariner. He wrote approximately 2,900 poems, two autobiographical novels, four plays, and several essays. Two of the participants in Paul Watson's Rain in My Heart died … Please continue to respect all commenters and create constructive debates. Are you sure you want to delete this comment? Content Rating United States of America TV-PG. Follow the Twitter feed at #raininginmyheart for further announcements. Rain In My Heart, a 100-minute film about alcoholism, won a Mental Health Media award last month in London, in spite of being a hard watch with no frills. There's nothing wrong with trouble." "The position of being honest is the best position," is his self analysis. LOS ANGELES — Peter Mark Richman, a character actor who appeared in hundreds of television episodes and had recurring roles on “Three's Company" and “Beverly Hills 90210," has died. 6 thoughts on “ ‘Rain in My Heart’ Drinkers documentary ” moretomethanthis says: 02/06/2014 at 21:59. sonya sones — ‘It's raining in my heart, like it's raining in the city. Nevertheless, he is a prophet largely without honour in his own land. Watson was subject to a four-hour grilling, accompanied only by his wife, another Barbara, who took notes. ITV was slightly contrite, with chairman Michael Grade declaring that they might work with Watson again. US people will probably be shocked by the 'Dickensian' hospital. An ITV legal inquiry had ruled against him on the publicity claims made for his film Malcolm and Barbara: Love's Farewell, which suggested he had filmed a man as he died. ", He hired solicitors to fight his corner against the might of ITV. This is gut-wrenching to watch, very disturbing and upsetting. During the "Deathgate" row, Watson's many enemies in television had a field day. I don't cast. It allows our most engaged readers to debate the big issues, share their own experiences, discuss real-world solutions, and more. Watson, often credited with inventing the fly-on-the-wall documentary, is keen both in the film and the surrounding publicity to disassociate himself from today's strain of "reality TV". and died beloved by all. RECOMMENDED. – Loving memories of one so dear – Treasured still with a love sincere. 0. Kelly is remembered for his lead role in Singin' in the Rain, regarded by some as the best dance film ever made. Of the many powerful issues raised by the film, the one which occupied me most was this: are some things just too real to be captured on film? "You don't make documentaries to make friends." A BBC2 documentary last night tracked the gruesome fate of four extreme alcoholics seeking treatment in the Medway Hospital. Rain in My Heart Documentary WOW , I just finished watching all 10 ~ I couldn't stop ~ I think this documentary should be a mandatory watch for teenagers ! Nobody in ITV has spoken to me since August," he bellows. There is nothing to know, everything to feel: the concept of death is inseparable from the nexus of conflicting feelings and confused thoughts that struggle and fight to fill the vacuum left by the departed in our minds and, seemingly, our bodies too. As it is You Tube, people outside of the UK should be able to view it - it is 1:38.00 long. The latest edition of BBC Two's Newsnight with its daily analysis of news and current affairs. Death is real in the way that reports of it - whether verbal or visual - never can be. {{#verifyErrors}} {{message}} {{/verifyErrors}} {{^verifyErrors}} {{message}} {{/verifyErrors}}, Paul Watson: 'The press told me I was finished', You may not agree with our views, or other users’, but please respond to them respectfully, Swearing, personal abuse, racism, sexism, homophobia and other discriminatory or inciteful language is not acceptable, Do not impersonate other users or reveal private information about third parties, We reserve the right to delete inappropriate posts and ban offending users without notification. This was almost the same film as Paul Watson ’s landmark 2006 documentary Rain in My Heart, a devastating portrait of alcoholics drinking themselves into … I don't make films which repress people.". The existing Open Comments threads will continue to exist for those who do not subscribe to Independent Premium. 1 hits. He … I don't know anybody in TV. Dee3 Posts: 10. Watson has followed that project with an unparalleled canon of work from The Fishing Party in 1985, which blew Thatcherism apart on screen, and Sarajevo in 1992, which showed a city and country in conflict. Independent Premium Comments can be posted by members of our membership scheme, Independent Premium. No suits came into cutting room. We’ve seen the final edit and feel truly blessed to have such a beautiful record in film of his last year with us (have the tissues to hand, though). Tracie Monique Spencer (born July 12, 1976) is a retired American singer–songwriter, actress, and model. I was let down by the apparatchiks.". He had some help. Runtime 60 minutes. It is considered Jones' defining song in a career that began in 1954 and had more than a dozen No. band & artist news, reviews, interviews, videos & gossip UK & worldwide. Asking himself, his narrator's voice heightened with the tension of unconvincing confession, if it was right for him to show us the last gasp of Kath and Nigel's intimacy, he tries to reassure us that it's all in the interests of getting to the heart of the matter. In our hearts she is living yet – We loved her too dearly to ever forget. Our journalists will try to respond by joining the threads when they can to create a true meeting of independent Premium. And, as is clear from his narrative interventions (in the film Watson frequently interviews himself) and his inability to stick to the journalist's task of neutral documentation (the failure is moving in itself) - the two subjects, and the fragile, meandering threads that run between them, are beyond the film's grasp. Jamie O’Hara, a country music singer-songwriter who came to fame as a member of the O’Kanes, a duo that had six straight top 10 singles in the late 1980s, died Thursday in … Raining in my Heart meets Sophie and Fabian, both 11, who have exhausted all traditional treatments for acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) and are set to become some of the first children in the world to try experimental immunotherapy at Great Ormond Street Hospital. Not if Watson has his way. I remember bits of it, presumably from when it came out in 2006. Between the public dead we see and read about in the news - who become known to us as facts and figures - and the private dying of someone whose life formed an active part of our world and understanding, is a yawning chasm. "This empathetic film is an account about alcoholism with four characters that accepted the camera into the most intimate and desperate parts of their lives, and deaths. Edward Estlin (E. E.) Cummings (October 14, 1894 – September 3, 1962), often styled as e e cummings, as he is attributed in many of his published works, was an American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright. "I created a new language: no cutaways in the entire film. After he died in 2013, the song hit the charts a second time. "Why make documentaries in the present? However you cut it, Watson is a one-off. Kath now struggles on a severely limited income. "ITV say they want to make another film with me. He could write us out of trouble. 'The Art of Racing in the Rain,' a dog movie about golden retriever Enzo (Kevin Costner) and BFF Denny (Milo Ventimiglia), will make you cry. Critics might say Watson is safer in fiction after recent events. In fact, Watson stopped filming three days before, when Malcolm Pointon slipped into a fatal coma, as Pointon's brother, Graham, the former Head of the BBC Pronunciation Unit, publicly pointed out. Rain in My Heart This powerful documentary from fly-on-the-wall pioneer Paul Watson provides a raw account of four alcohol abusers from the impoverished Medway towns of … Any useful grasp of the realities of health policy are not there, just as his attempts to understand the psychology are woefully inadequate and inappropriate: Watson turns second-rate counsellor during the film, with irritating if well-meant advice to "expose the gremlins" responsible for driving the addicts down their desperate paths. Find your bookmarks in your Independent Premium section, under my profile. But we are shown no causes, only a series of shocking, depressing effects. Two of the participants in Paul Watson's Rain in My Heart died during filming. A mantra he has maintained throughout his career. He was an adorable man with a highly respected profession, but just like they said on the programme he was haunted by demons. Then at the Prix Europa Awards in Berlin, he won the prize for best television documentary. Start your Independent Premium subscription today. This is a bleak and shocking documentary about end stage liver disease and alcoholism. Camilla's brother Mark Shand died in New York after a tragic fall in 2014. Visual representations of death, both real, imaginary and sometimes frankly absurd are everywhere. For Newsnight's alcohol special, filmmaker Paul Watson revisits some of the people from his documentary Rain in my Heart. "I was told by the press that I was finished," remembers Watson, whose place in the firmament of British TV documentary was secured by his pioneering fly-on-the-wall film The Family back in 1974. Watson was left to salvage a 40-year reputation. Millions tuned in week after week. Watch the latest news videos and the top news video clips online at ABC News. Called Rain In My Heart, it is a heart-rending study of four alcoholics - Vanda, Mark, Nigel and Toni - on a ward in a Gillingham hospital. Nigel died during the course of filming Rain in my Heart, leaving Kath and two teenage children. What is being celebrated next Friday is a career which began when Watson was a researcher on Whicker's World 40 years ago. This powerful documentary from fly-on-the-wall pioneer Paul Watson provides a … All as told. Jump to Media Player. A week later he was back in Germany to collect the Best Humanitarian Film award at the Leipzig Film Festival. One is finished and two others have been commissioned. Newsnight. He learned to take risks there. A BBC2 documentary last night tracked the gruesome fate of four extreme alcoholics seeking treatment in the Medway Hospital. "I am intemperately clever... a bugger... and a softie." But death is not a mystery that can be solved, for the simple reason that it is not something that can ever happen to us in the sense of being an object of conscious experience. Brian and Jenny are preparing for the big opening of their bed and breakfast, Emily's Country Inn, when a huge storm hits Bucks County. Asked in a recent interview about being referred to as the godfather of Big Brother-style TV, he retorted: "Why would anybody want to be known as the godfather of such bastards?" Please be respectful when making a comment and adhere to our Community Guidelines. "Barbara Pointon supported me all summer as a member of her family. They were firmly not his progeny. You can also choose to be emailed when someone replies to your comment. superb.. thanks great poet. It was strange (and expensive) territory for a man more used to getting down on video with the dispossessed. You can find our Community Guidelines in full here. He is a Royal College of Art-trained painter, with at least one early work bought for the National Collection. They are still friends. Today he makes tapestries at home in Kent. In recent years, the "father of fly-on-the-wall" has laid into landmark shows such as Big Brother and Wife Swap. Create a commenting name to join the debate, There are no Independent Premium comments yet - be the first to add your thoughts, There are no comments yet - be the first to add your thoughts. It is one that poetry and art has often been called upon to try to bridge. Three and more decades ago Paul turned the Wilkins family of Reading into the first factual TV soap superstars. "Margaret Wilkins said to me, 'All my life I have been waiting for you to come along Paul'." Network BBC. You Tube, 'Rain in My Heart' by Paul Watson. Rain in My Heart by filmmaker Paul Watson documents the intimate struggles of four severe alcoholics seeking treatment at Medway Hospital. if you have died, all the leaves will fall in my breast, it will rain on my soul night and day, the snow will burn my heart, I shall walk with frost and fire and death and snow, my feet will want to walk to where you are sleeping, but I shall stay alive, highly appealing lines. As always with Watson, there are twists in the tale. The filmmaker gets thoroughly involved in his compassionate relationship with his protagonists, chronicling their journey through hell," said the judges. The enquiry found, by and large, against Watson, while saying he had not "deliberately" misled the broadcaster. At 66, he has reinvented himself by writing plays for Radio Four. Duchess of Cornwall on her brother Mark Shand. Now, it seems, his luck has changed. It's very unlikely. – A part of my heart he took with him but his love he left me to keep – So we will never really be parted the bond between us is … Toni had never admitted to herself that she was an alcoholic, and yet we could see her lying battered and rotting from years of alcohol abuse, with a face and body so swollen that the signs of life could barely be called human, beyond struggle, beyond will. "We worked even harder for Alan. Directed by Terry Ingram. But I knew who my friends were this summer. With Lacey Chabert, Brennan Elliott, Heather Doerksen, Daniel Cudmore. Originally Aired November 21, 2006. "I have just finished one after five years," he says. During the Malcolm and Barbara inquiry by ITV, Watson sought solace in his first love, art. Watson has been nominated for eight Baftas in the past, but has never won. As Watson took to the stage to accept "the first piece of metal I have ever won in my life" he used the opportunity to rant about the state of the BBC. Deep in My Heart ... Kelly suffered a series of strokes. They’ve called it ‘Raining in my heart’ (though we’re not sure why!). Robin Thicke announces first album in six years 'On Earth, and in Heaven' - The Number One music magazine feat. What a moving & powerful piece of documentary TV this was....certainly put me off drinking for a while ! Revisiting Rain in my Heart. 22/11/06 - 10:57 #8. Watson was an apparent victim of British television's summer of scandal. The fact that two of the four died during filming is grim testimony to the illness of alcoholism. Documentary on four alcoholics living in Kent, England. ... (The Family probably started the reality trend) but Rain in my Heart made up for a lot. A month ago Paul Watson's career looked to be over. What is this sadness that pierces my heart?’ Gritty, very real and heartbreaking, it is an upfront, unapologetic glimpse into the world of addiction and alcoholism. Want an ad-free experience?Subscribe to Independent Premium. 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