England's "Northern Soul" music scene of the 1970s is re-created in Elaine Constantine's long-aborning first feature. The working-class “Northern Soul” milieu of England’s 1970s, which seeded much of ...

“Northern Soul” drops a standard, rowdy, coming-of-age story into a very specific time and cultural movement that most Americans are unaware of, even though it was fueled by American music. In the ...

This is a reprint of our review from the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival. “Northern Soul” bursts into life when John and Matt start DJing together and ponder their own club space. Soon, ...

Pop culture can be as forbidding as it is inviting, particularly in areas that invite geeky obsession: The more devotion a genre or series or subculture inspires, the easier it is for the uninitiated ...

Inside a two-story venue in central Bristol, England, the early May air was warm and humid as dozens of people grooved on a dance floor, nary a phone in sight. Onstage, a DJ spun vinyl records as a ...

The electrifying “Northern Soul” captures the 1970s British club scene of the same name with ethnographic detail and ebullient style. Writer-director Elaine Constantine lived this experience herself, ...

LONDON - It's 1964. No, wait. It's 2023. The music blasting through the speakers at this dark and sticky club in East London is 1964's "Tainted Love" by American artist Gloria Jones. You may have ...

This audio is no longer available. It's been 40 years since the first all-night R&B party at the Wigan Casino nightclub outside Manchester, England. The doors didn't open until 2 a.m., and its ...

The working-class “Northern Soul” milieu of England’s 1970s, which seeded much of U.K. music and culture, is recreated in Elaine Constantine’s long-aborning first feature. Her slender story about a ...

Steve Coogan makes a comic cameo in writer-director Elaine Constantine's low-budget love letter to a feverish musical subculture that flourished in 1970s Britain By Stephen Dalton Northern Soul Still ...