#307 - Richard Lester's Complicated Romps

The Important Cinema Club

Justin Decloux and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.7 • 575 Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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We discuss the career of filmmaker Richard Lester and his features A HARD DAY'S NIGHT, PETULIA and more. Join the Patreon now for an exclusive episode every week, access to our entire Patreon Episode back catalogue, your name read out on the next episode, and the friendly Discord chat: patreon.com/theimportantcinemaclub Subscribe, Review and Rate Us on Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-…ub/id1067435576 Follow the Podcast: twitter.com/ImprtCinemaClub Follow Will: twitter.com/WillSloanESQ Follow Justin: twitter.com/DeclouxJ Check out Justin's other podcasts THE BAY STREET VIDEO PODCAST (@thebaystreetvideopodcast) and NO SUCH THING AS A BAD MOVIE (@nosuchthingasabadmovie) as well as Will's other podcast MICHAEL AND US (@michael-and-us)

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0:00.0	Hello, my name's Justin the Clue and I'm here today with Will Sloan.
0:08.6	And you're listening to the important cinema club.
0:10.5	And today we're talking Richard Lester.
0:13.3	Klingh!
0:14.4	A hip guy.
0:15.4	It's been a hard day's night.
0:17.8	No more, no more.
0:18.5	We don't want to get sued with it.
0:19.5	Okay, okay.
0:20.2	And can I just say,
0:21.4	the greatest filmmaker ever born in London, England. Hello, hello. That's my Richard Lester
0:27.3	impersonation, the most British filmmaker that there ever was. I have his birth certificate
0:31.4	right here. It says born London, England, so nobody tell me he's not. Okay, listen, we said last
0:37.1	week, we're talking about one of the defining British filmmakers. And we have said this before, and I had forgotten people had sent in letters before about that as well. Because he's actually born in Pennsylvania. But I just want to say, fuck that shit, okay, when you make a hard day's night, when you make the knack and how to get it, you are a British filmmaker.
0:56.2	I'm sorry, I'm not listening to anymore.
0:57.9	I believe that he only directed Petulia in America.
1:01.9	And he actually said he didn't like the cruise or anything like that.
1:03.9	So he's like, whoop, back to Mary Old London, I go.
1:06.6	The man made Robin and Marion, okay?
1:09.1	Like this man.
1:09.7	Royal Flash.
1:13.6	Come on. Come on, guys. Bob Hope, as Will mentioned before, started recording this, was actually born in London, England. Come on now. It's
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