TBSR is must viewing for proto-Python black comedy. I laughed quite a bit. (Marty Feldman's first film too)
Third Musketeers movie way better than it had a right to be... Even with C Thomas Howell as Oliver Reed's son! Philippe Noiret is at least as good a scheming cardinal as Heston.
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 11 August 2015 17:29 (eight years ago) link
Quality rundown of Lester's films: http://www.rogerebert.com/balder-and-dash/keep-moving-the-films-of-richard-lester
― Love, Wilco (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 11 August 2015 19:53 (eight years ago) link
my reaction to Petulia is still complicated. could be Scott's best film performance though.
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 12 August 2015 16:54 (eight years ago) link
Three/Four Musketeers could be his second-greatest achievement after AHDN. It's 70% ambitious slapstick, and that's fine with me.
On the DVD supps, someone on the crew said you could get whatever resources you needed shooting in Franco's Spain, as long as you had the budget for bribes.
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 22 November 2015 17:20 (eight years ago) link
The Bed Sitting Room out now via Kino
http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/69977/bed-sitting-room-the/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pX03EbWiJP0
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 19 January 2016 20:58 (eight years ago) link
Was always interested in Juggernaut because of Kael: "Fast, crackerjack entertainment..." I liked it, but for completely opposite reasons: next to Airport and The Poseidon Adventure--I think the second Airport is the only other '70s disaster film I've seen, so my sample's kind of limited--it seemed unusually austere and methodical. Good throwaway Titanic joke.
― clemenza, Sunday, 3 July 2016 14:53 (seven years ago) link
Seems likely Roy Andersson saw THE BED SITTING ROOM at some point, if not he was thinking along very similar lines. That was special.— Vadim Rizov (@vrizov) July 23, 2017
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 26 July 2017 21:42 (six years ago) link
^^Yeah.
Bed-Sitting Room is currently free for Prime members. Screened last night. A film for these times? Perhaps.
From the overview I linked to upthread:
Needless to say, when the studio heads at United Artists took a look at it, they were appalled at what they saw (to be fair, it seems that the famously hands-off organization was still under the impression that Lester was doing a musical version of Joe Orton's "Up Against It" starring Mick Jagger, the project he had been working on before shifting his focus after that one fell through) and shelved it for more than a year.
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 30 April 2020 20:09 (three years ago) link