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2024 and a new 2 hour “Ultimate Cut” is being released. Just read an article in The Independent about it. I hope Kermode can do a renewed review

Point of order - Randal said Jedi was better. Dante was the one who preferred Empire.

Mark Kermode is obviously as big a Rutles obsessive as I am. He cites a couple of great gags like Che Stadium and Stig sued himself accidentally but another great gag he didn't mention was 'The Rutles were bigger than God' controversy. The story spread like wildfire in America where many people burned their albums, many people burned their fingers attempting to burn their albums. Album sales skyrocketed. People were buying them JUST to burn them.

Ffs come back…even a bit

Terrible

Don't forget anita pallenberg, she and James fox are the stars.

6:46 he had no idea how right he was.

I loved and still love this movie. Pardon my French but Breeders will never understand the symbolism/spirituality of the film in the Bisexual/Gay/Sexuality liberated people of the sexual freedom movement. I live in the land of "everything is permitted" and it was where I was living when this film.debuted. You could say I lived down the street from the characters in this movie...with another cast of men and women.

An alternative version... "The sexy black ones?". "No, the pee-pants ones actually." 😉

It’s complete and utter tosh. But I love it. Fox is sex on legs and I love the gender and personality mergers.

Massive thanks!

Just landed myself a ticket for Mark & Lard live on march 24th feat: the sexy as hell Puckster! HOW LUCKY is dat?

Kermode nearly giving the game away there… “do you know Gra- uh….do you know John?”

GET TO BED

TRES Heavy

What’s so good about the film is that it bears up to repeated viewings - Roeg’s editing technique (which he first developed together with Donald Cammell in Performance and then took it somewhere else) starts to take shape. I’ve always thought that this film and Roeg’s films in general influenced Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction in a more populist manner. Anyone agree?

What a Masterpiece it is

I once worked on a film starring McDowell. One day when he was late coming out of his trailer, the AD got on the bullhorn and announced: "Ladies and gentlemen, now presenting the star of Bob Guccione's 'Caligula', Mr. Malcom McDowell!" I could not hear the actual words McDowell spew as he stormed to the set, but he was absolutely not happy about it!

Check out Bill’s accent 😅

This is where Mark started cheating with Maconie…Right under Lard’s nose. 😢

Just a lovely entertainment. So there!

Best film ever.

Go on son.... drink up..... drink it!!

TRES Cool

Beautiful

She's lovely had a serious crush on her in my youth 😍

Absolutely bonkers!

The sex in the film didn't offend me at all. What offends me is how horribly edited the film is. Guccione's zeal to intrude into the middle of the story at wholly inappropriate times is annoying. Sort of like "We'll return to Caligula's grief about his dead sister in just a moment... but first, here are two hot, naked Penthouse pets licking each other for five minutes." By the time we returned to the story, I stopped caring about what Caligula was upset about, or who did what to whom, or anything else. There was no effort to tie any of the sex scenes into the story line... so they end up simply invading the film at weird points along the way, with little or no justification at all. It's nearly incoherent.

Yeah that was awrigh'

Honor Blackman left the advengers to do James Bond, Diana Rigg also left to James Bond. Diana Rigg had that certain comanation of class, wit charm intelligence and looks that made her best of all John Steady partners.

What’s he on about

Only heard of 'the fall' through Mark and Lard. Says it all on who won in the end. Afternoons on Radio 1 and a Sony Gold.

Woke issue, there is racism=bad so can't be liked.

Hi Mr. Kermode hope you are good sir ✊🐯✌ Something that fascinates me is Roeg filmed some of TMWFTE on location in Roswell, New Mexico. Bear in mind this was 1975 and the attention around 'UFO's crashing in Roswell which was documented in 1947 (then dismissed) did not begin in interest again until 1980, when first hand witness Jesse Marcel (Army Intelligence Roswell base) made claims about encountering UFO saucer. Another film reference to Roswell appears in John Frankenheimer's Seven Days in may, (1963/64) in which Roswell can clearly be seen written as part of map behind Burt Lancaster. Both these are interesting, as I have already stated, interest in the 'Roswell' phenomenon was not sparked again until the 1980's by Jesse Marcel.

rarely mentioned it

That's the same Mark Kermode who went on record saying he thought Prometheus, "wasn't a bad film". That's a guy who really can't tell his ass from a hot rock.

That's entertainment! 😄

The film’s well acted, well characterised, very stylish & is an incredibly heart warming musical biography. (91%) (4.5/5 stars) (positive)

Director Rob Reiner delivers A funny, realistic, accurate, very well crafted & intriguing comedy documentary. (97%) (5/5 stars) (positive)

Director Rob Reiner delivers A funny, realistic, accurate, very well crafted & intriguing comedy documentary. (97%) (5/5 stars) (positive)

This is brilliant. Just brilliant.

I taped this off the radio when I was in college. Through a pair of headphones used as a mic and another to play the sound I recorded it onto the macs in the computer room. Even better for me, they were crudely networked so I was able to set Rudolph as the switch on sound so when the cleaner came in the following morning and turned on all the plugs she was greeted with a festive parpy chorus from a dozen computers. The speakers were deactivated the same day.

The bollocks

Off to see Moonage Daydream this evening, just thought I'd better gen up on some facts with the definitive bio.

Lost the dynamo? What was he driving…? Did Kermode really come up from Southampton?

One of my favourite movies of all time. I stood on the beach at Blackhall Rock last weekend and found where the epic ending was shot. It’s changed massively today but it was amazing to stand there!

Amazingly, Kermode says "Nobody kicks British films like the British do" without any hint of irony, whilst cunting almost every single film ever made- and yes including British films.

They talk about getting together from different bands but also that they lived next door to each other as children and wrote a pop song. That doesn't gel to me.

I thought Weller's muzzie was 1991 or so?

I think it does help to be infinitely familiar with the Beatles and their associates. A bit of Beatle expertise helps in terms of fully getting the meaning behind things like....A Thousand Feet Of Film, the "hello? can you hear us?", the fact they go to Bognor of all places, the tea and biscuits interview, Decline talking to the mirror and/or himself, the visual gags in the Rutles film clips, "they're gonna be here talking about their trousers", and indeed the what-if interviews ("two hairdressers"/"what Ron and I will do..."), the glimpse of Nasty in a wheelchair, or the fact that Dirk eventually joins everyone else in calling `Ron' by his surname.