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If... ! BBC2! Saturday!

  
 
_pin
10:15 / 20.09.02
Good news! If... in on BBC2 on Saturday at some time that I don't know. But anyway! Yes! Now that it's on, eveyrone can watch it and then we can discuss it and and then I can raise all the point you people made when we come to discuss it in my Film Studies class and and and I can pretend I'm very clever.

Oh yeh, and what were the other two films the people made, one of which was a sequel?
 
 
Rev. Orr
11:59 / 20.09.02
"Oh, Lucky Man!" reunites Lindsay Anderson and Malcolm McDowell and for extra bonus grooviness has Arthur Lowe. The only other similar film I know of is called something vaguely approximating "Britannia Hospital" and satirises early/mid-eighties Thatcherism and the consumer society. Don't remember it too well but I'm sure someone else can fill you in on it.
 
 
Bear
12:25 / 20.09.02
11.15 pm Saturday BBC 2 - just so everyone knows
 
 
Bear
12:25 / 20.09.02
But no Columbo on Satuday - bastards.
 
 
rizla mission
14:02 / 20.09.02
watch it, watch it, watch it etc.

I just wrote a vague sort of essay espousing the virtues of 'O Lucky Man' .. it's definitely worth seeing in any way by which you can possibly do so..
 
 
NotBlue
18:30 / 20.09.02
Isn't "Britannia Hospital" the third in the "trilogy" comprising the aforementined two?
 
 
NotBlue
18:34 / 20.09.02
http://us.imdb.com/Name?Anderson,+Lindsay

There ya go.
 
 
The Strobe
18:37 / 20.09.02
Right. I shall remember to tape it this time. It's part of my heritage, after all.
 
 
Old brown-eye is back
21:29 / 20.09.02
Yep, Britannia Hospital. Malcolm McDowell's in all of them reprising the character of Mick Travis, but with fewer balls in each successive film. You know, metaphorically speaking.
 
 
paw
22:43 / 20.09.02
can't wait can't wait can't wait
 
 
Rollo Kim, on location
08:59 / 21.09.02
Classic stuff. a Must See. Gotta say I prefer O Lucky Man, which up's the 'weirdness' factor a little, and also contains some kind of 'fiction suit'. "It's surprisingly warm..." Never heard of the third one though...
 
 
Eloi Tsabaoth
15:10 / 21.09.02
I remember being strangely transfixed by the Italian poster for Britannia Hospital that was up in one of the study rooms at University. For some reason it featured two robots having sex.
Of course, I haven't seen the film, and it might in fact be very relevant.
 
 
that
20:18 / 21.09.02
Ooey, If...! I'll be videoing this, methinks. Thank you pin. Last time I saw 'If...' was at the cinema, sitting next to this delightful woman who, halfway through the film, started having a go at me about rustling my chocolate wrapper (I was already trying to eat it very, very quietly, 'cause she'd given me a hugely disapproving look when she sat down, and I just knew there was going to be trouble). So it will be nice to see it without her input, appreciated though it was...
 
 
Jack Fear
01:45 / 22.09.02
I remember being strangely transfixed by the Italian poster for Britannia Hospital that ... [f]or some reason ... featured two robots having sex.

Nostalgia Factory won't allow an image linkout, but you can see the poster here.

Crikey.
 
 
The Strobe
08:33 / 22.09.02
Watched about half of it in a weird mood...

but it was SO odd. I knew it was shot in my school... I didn't realise quite how much it used. There are a few Inspector Morse moments ("that bit doesn't lead there!), but it's quite chilling at times. No idea how it compared to College back in the 60s... I'm worried it might be too similar. Strong stuff - I liked the thematic seperation, and also quite how impressionistic it was at times. But creepy to see. (Wonderful to see inside the chapel again, though).
 
 
Our Lady of The Two Towers
15:55 / 22.09.02
Right, it's been safely videod and I should get round to watching it before Christmas 2003.
 
 
Old brown-eye is back
22:13 / 22.09.02
Over and above the glory of If..., did anyone see Phantom of the Paradise that was on straight after? There's a fucked up movie for yo' ass....
 
 
illmatic
08:41 / 23.09.02
I love "If..." and "O Lucky Man", Britannia Hospital is a bit pants, tho'. One of the sheer joys of "O Lucky Man.." is the band, the Alan Price set. I've got the video somewhere if anyone wants to borrow it. I think "If.." is actually a lot darker, catches that whole english hypocrisy and hidden sadism thing. Does anyone thing the fantasy revenge thing at the end is a letdown? An escape into the imagination, when faced with grim reality, a bit like the end of "Brazil"? Whatcha reckon?
 
 
gozer the destructor
10:59 / 23.09.02
It was the first time i saw it and was not really what i expected but an ejoyable ride none the less. I enjoyed the ending, as i did with brazil, and i agree its a must see film.

I like the emphasis on the basurdity at the end of brazil which If... didn't have it was just pure wish fulfilment, but oh baby, what wish fulfilment; I'm with you all the way Mick!!!!
 
 
rizla mission
13:25 / 23.09.02
Over and above the glory of If..., did anyone see Phantom of the Paradise that was on straight after? There's a fucked up movie for yo' ass....

Winslow Leach is my new god.

That movie was .. beyond description..
 
  
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