With a poll on ICM coming up for the best films of 1969 I started searching for titles to view. Whilst looking around online, I found film reviewer Kim Newman praise a BFI "Flipside" edition of a rarely mentioned Richard Lester creation,which led to me viewing from the bed sitting room.
View on the film:
Dusting down the film,the BFI present an excellent transfer, with a real attention to detail in keeping the various tints with the various grains they were each given during production.
Adapting Spike Milligan and John Antrobus's stage play, the adaptation by Antrobus and Charles Wood throws Goon Show word-play curve-balls at the end of the world,with hilarious mutters in an attempt to avoid saying the word "nuke" and the survivors desperately trying to give a normality to their dire situation.
Breaking from the stage origins, the writers smartly use the dark humor to bring a real sense of danger to the main family travelling across the destroyed landscape-facing a mad nurse handing out death certificates,and The Tube continuing to rumble along the silent stations.
Offered the chance to do any project he wanted after the smash hit Beatles movies, director Richard Lester reunites with The Knack and Help! Cinematographer David Watkin to end the flower power decade with a doomsday. Incredibly filmed completely at real locations, Lester & Watkin's give their post-apocalypse a proto- Steam Punk twist,via the mountains of twisted metal covering the screen.
Dipping into surreal fantasy, Lester splinters the film with melting tints that colorfully create an otherworldly atmosphere that knocks down the walls of the bed sitting room.
View on the film:
Dusting down the film,the BFI present an excellent transfer, with a real attention to detail in keeping the various tints with the various grains they were each given during production.
Adapting Spike Milligan and John Antrobus's stage play, the adaptation by Antrobus and Charles Wood throws Goon Show word-play curve-balls at the end of the world,with hilarious mutters in an attempt to avoid saying the word "nuke" and the survivors desperately trying to give a normality to their dire situation.
Breaking from the stage origins, the writers smartly use the dark humor to bring a real sense of danger to the main family travelling across the destroyed landscape-facing a mad nurse handing out death certificates,and The Tube continuing to rumble along the silent stations.
Offered the chance to do any project he wanted after the smash hit Beatles movies, director Richard Lester reunites with The Knack and Help! Cinematographer David Watkin to end the flower power decade with a doomsday. Incredibly filmed completely at real locations, Lester & Watkin's give their post-apocalypse a proto- Steam Punk twist,via the mountains of twisted metal covering the screen.
Dipping into surreal fantasy, Lester splinters the film with melting tints that colorfully create an otherworldly atmosphere that knocks down the walls of the bed sitting room.