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George Melly

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Royal Family (1969) 90% EDIT “Royal Family does give the impression of a lavish back-stage musical. Richard Cawston's brilliant film is perfectly attuned to its age; Antony Jay's commentary a very subtle piece of work.” – Observer (UK) Dec 28, 2023 Full Review Little Big Man (1970) 91% EDIT “The film is very funny, quite sexy, and yet finally is much more effective than more solemn attempts to show man's inhumanity to man. ” – Observer (UK) Nov 10, 2023 Full Review The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight (1971) 20% EDIT “I laughed a lot at The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight, a Runyon-esque Mafia comedy dominated by Jo Van Fleet's arthritic, gravel-voiced Big Momma. ” – Observer (UK) Oct 24, 2023 Full Review They Might Be Giants (1971) 61% EDIT “George Scott and Joanne Woodward are excellent as the Baker Street duo and there are many genuinely funny moments but, alas, the symbolism and the attendant whimsy get them in the end. ” – Observer (UK) Oct 24, 2023 Full Review The Red Circle (1970) 96% EDIT “There's a lot of happenstance, but it's tautly directed, and the individual crooks and cops, while fond of Gallic platitudes, are well observed. ” – Observer (UK) Oct 24, 2023 Full Review The Last Picture Show (1971) 98% EDIT “Its failings are largely concealed, its virtues emphasized by a brilliant yet simple device of its director: the decision to shoot in black and white, and furthermore, to give it the slightly muzzy, faded look of an old film print.” – Observer (UK) Oct 24, 2023 Full Review The Boy Friend (1971) 88% EDIT “A lavish, affectionately caricatured pastiche of the backstage thirties film musical, but being Russell he has felt it necessary to aim at several other targets at the same time. The surprising thing is that on almost every level he has succeeded.” – Observer (UK) Jul 25, 2023 Full Review Macbeth (1971) 78% EDIT “A film which, despite all the come-on sex-and-violence pre-publicity turns out to be sober, intelligently adapted for the screen, beautiful look at and genuinely exciting. ” – Observer (UK) Jul 21, 2023 Full Review Fiddler on the Roof (1971) 81% EDIT “A solid and likable film with some moments of genuine pathos. Whether it could have succeeded without Topol's extraordinary performance as Tevye the milkman is another matter. ” – Observer (UK) May 16, 2023 Full Review The Sting (1973) 93% EDIT “It's an old-fashioned, full-blooded entertainment, with a plot fast enough to conceal any inconsistencies, some cunningly placed coups de cinema ingenious enough to provoke spectators Into releasing sighs of delight at being thoroughly taken in.” – Observer (UK) Mar 7, 2022 Full Review Andy Warhol's Trash (1970) 80% EDIT “For all its superficial air of improvisation, this is a carefully considered, totally responsible film.” – Observer (UK) Jan 17, 2018 Full Review
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