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Something of a coup for the festival this year: two "new" Peter Sellers films. Freshly restored, having been discovered in a skip, 1950s shorts Dearth Of A Salesman and Insomnia Is Good For You screen at the opening gala, along with another rare Sellers short Cold Comfort. It's the first time they've screened in 60 years. There are plenty more retro treats in the mixed selection, including Sellers and Ringo Starr in groovy 1960s comedy The Magic Christian; Barbara Stanwyck in Lady Of Burlesque, a tale of strippers strangled by their G-strings; and Bette Davis in the Busby Berkeley-enhanced Fashions Of 1934; not to mention punk casualties John Otway and Bruno Wizard, both accompanying their comical biodocs.
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Something of a coup for the festival this year: two "new" Peter Sellers films. Freshly restored, having been discovered in a skip, 1950s shorts Dearth Of A Salesman and Insomnia Is Good For You screen at the opening gala, along with another rare Sellers short Cold Comfort. It's the first time they've screened in 60 years. There are plenty more retro treats in the mixed selection, including Sellers and Ringo Starr in groovy 1960s comedy The Magic Christian; Barbara Stanwyck in Lady Of Burlesque, a tale of strippers strangled by their G-strings; and Bette Davis in the Busby Berkeley-enhanced Fashions Of 1934; not to mention punk casualties John Otway and Bruno Wizard, both accompanying their comical biodocs.
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- 4/26/2014
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Monster Weekend | Future Cinema Presents Dirty Dancing | Otway: The Movie & Q&A | Open Air Screenings |
Monster Weekend, London
The BFI's ambitious season Gothic: The Dark Heart Of Film casts a celebratory shadow of gloom over the next four months. Proceedings begin this weekend, as the forecourt of the British Museum hosts screenings of such monstrous classics as Jacques Tourneur's occult mystery Night Of The Demon, and Terence Fisher's definitive Hammer reworkings of Dracula and The Mummy. There's horror-themed music beforehand, and fancy dress is encouraged, though using the Ancient Egypt galleries as a prop store is forbidden.
British Museum, WC2, Thu to 31 Aug, bfi.org.uk
Future Cinema Presents Dirty Dancing, London
Somehow, Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey's star-cross'd, 1960s-by-way-of-the-1980s fairytale has become the definitive summer outdoor movie, to the extent you'd have thought everyone in the country had seen it outside the comfort of a cinema by now.
Monster Weekend, London
The BFI's ambitious season Gothic: The Dark Heart Of Film casts a celebratory shadow of gloom over the next four months. Proceedings begin this weekend, as the forecourt of the British Museum hosts screenings of such monstrous classics as Jacques Tourneur's occult mystery Night Of The Demon, and Terence Fisher's definitive Hammer reworkings of Dracula and The Mummy. There's horror-themed music beforehand, and fancy dress is encouraged, though using the Ancient Egypt galleries as a prop store is forbidden.
British Museum, WC2, Thu to 31 Aug, bfi.org.uk
Future Cinema Presents Dirty Dancing, London
Somehow, Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey's star-cross'd, 1960s-by-way-of-the-1980s fairytale has become the definitive summer outdoor movie, to the extent you'd have thought everyone in the country had seen it outside the comfort of a cinema by now.
- 8/24/2013
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
John Otway's fans are famous for their devotion, and now they've helped him make a movie. The results are rather wonderful
Without the slightest pretence of objectivity, still less critical detachment, this documentary chronicling the ups and downs of never-say-die musician John Otway is fantastically engaging, the very definition of feelgood film-making. Otway, of course, is the colourful singer-songwriter who has been lurking chaotically on the fringes of the music business since his 1977 hit Really Free; the anarchic, shambolic spirit that endeared him to the original punk audience effectively prevented him from having any kind of follow-up.
But as becomes abundantly clear, Otway was also lucky enough to secure a fanatically devoted audience – to whom he affectionately refers to as "the fans", like parents talk about "the kids" – who kept him in business as a live act even as one career decision after another proved abortive. This hardcore following...
Without the slightest pretence of objectivity, still less critical detachment, this documentary chronicling the ups and downs of never-say-die musician John Otway is fantastically engaging, the very definition of feelgood film-making. Otway, of course, is the colourful singer-songwriter who has been lurking chaotically on the fringes of the music business since his 1977 hit Really Free; the anarchic, shambolic spirit that endeared him to the original punk audience effectively prevented him from having any kind of follow-up.
But as becomes abundantly clear, Otway was also lucky enough to secure a fanatically devoted audience – to whom he affectionately refers to as "the fans", like parents talk about "the kids" – who kept him in business as a live act even as one career decision after another proved abortive. This hardcore following...
- 6/28/2013
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
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