9/10
AN on-screen caption early in The Clock Comes Down The Stairs starkly adumbrates the film’s essential narrative. “Microdisney,” it reads, “made some of the finest music of the ’80s. That nobody ever bought.” That both of these statements are accurate remains a damning indictment of everyone alive at the time.
Julie Perkins’ tremendous documentary tells Microdisney’s story, from the initial meeting, circa 1980, of Corkonian misfits Cathal Coughlan and Sean O’Hagan. Their apparently contradictory sensibilitiesGo-Betweens obsessives would be near enough to a circle.
