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The Important Cinema Club

#58 - I Prefer British Comedies

The Important Cinema Club

Justin Decloux and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.7577 Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2017

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Will and Justin are joined by the Alexandra West (co-host of the FACULTY OF HORROR) to discuss British Comedies - specifically, A FISH CALLED WANDA and WITHNAIL & I. Check out Alexandra's podcast at: www.facultyofhorror.com/ Buy her book "Films of New French Extremity: Visceral Horror and National Identity" here: www.mcfarlandbooks.com/book-2.php?id…1-4766-6348-7

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, my name's Justin the Klu, and I'm here today with Will Sloan.

0:09.6

And today, we're going to be talking about British comedies, but we have a very special guest with us today.

0:15.2

It's Alex West.

0:17.1

We offered you a choice to pick what you wanted to talk about, and why did you pick British comedies?

0:22.5

My father's British, and there was a saying that I heard a while ago that there's nothing more British than a British man outside of his home country.

0:30.3

And that very much applies to my father.

0:32.9

So the films we're going to talk about today are films that I was, like, raised on.

0:37.4

Like, I was so

0:38.5

little and I would just like watch them again and again and again. And they mean a lot to me.

0:45.1

And I think they come out of a really interesting era of England's history. I think they come out

0:50.4

of a kind of weird indie filmmaking thing. I think handmade films, which is George Harrison's company, had done a lot of really

0:57.8

interesting work.

0:58.7

And they exist in this kind of beautiful little vacuum.

1:02.2

And I have a great fondness for them.

1:05.4

So the first question I have to ask to everyone is, how obsessed were you with Monty Python?

1:10.6

I was obsessed with Monty Python growing up.

1:14.2

It's the perfect sort of thing for a kid because it seems very intellectual, but it's also got

1:19.3

guys in dresses and like Terry Gilliam's animation and that sort of thing. I was definitely the sort of

1:24.4

kid who like had all, had the book of the scripts and had all

1:28.3

the sketches memorized.

1:30.0

I saw Monty Python's Holy Graeme.

1:31.7

Actually, the first one I saw was Meaning of Life, which is a bad first Monty Python film

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