Sunday Bloody Sunday (film) Schlesinger's previous film "Midnight Cowboy" (1969), which portrayed its gay characters as alienated and self-loathing, as well as other gay-themed films of the era, including "Boys in the Band" (1970) and "Some of My Best Friends Are..." (1971). The film was released a year before the 1972 massacre of unarmed Northern Irish civilians by the British Army in Derry, Northern Ireland, an event dubbed "Bloody Sunday". Set in London, the film tells the story of a middle-aged Jewish doctor, Daniel Hirsh (Peter Finch), and a divorced woman in her mid-30s, Alex Greville (Glenda Jackson), who are both involved in an
Sunday Bloody Sunday (John Lennon and Yoko Ono song) the same title. Madinger and Easter similarly consider U2's song to be "superior". Lennon biographer Jon Wiener regarded the song as a "failure". According to Carr and fellow "NME" writer Tony Tyler, Lennon's prestige in England nosedived as a result of the song's accusations of genocide. Journalist Robin Denselow criticised the lyrics of both of Lennon's Irish-themed songs on "Some Time in New York City" in 1989, and summarised much of the criticism of "Sunday Bloody Sunday" in stating that: the suggestions at the end of "Sunday Bloody Sunday" that the problem be solved by shipping back to Britain the