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DVD : O Lucky Man! [1973]
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O Lucky Man! [1973] starring: Malcolm McDowell, Philip Stone, Arthur Lowe, Ralph Richardson, Rachel Roberts directed by: Lindsay Anderson List Price: £15.99 CD-Charts Price: £5.48 You Save: £10.51 (66%)Prices subject to change. |
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Audience Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over Binding: DVD EAN: 7321902200316 Format: PAL, Special Edition Label: Warner Home Video Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Warner Home Video Region Code: 2 Release Date: May 19, 2008 Running Time: 169 minutes Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: 1973 Sales Rank: 1926 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - Warning!If, like me, you think life is too short for the "extras" which are included in "special editions" - largely consisting of the people involved saying how marvellous it was to work with the other people involved - then you need to know that this 2-disc set is mislabelled. I habitually store movies without their cases in albums, and the first thing I do is to chuck out the extras. I did this with "O Lucky Man", on the strength of the label on Disc One which says "The Movie". In fact the movie is split over the two discs, and as a result I ended up with only the first 1hr 25 minutes! But the movie is good enough to be worth buying twice.... Rating: - An enduring classic now with added nostalgia Voltairian oddysey, road movie, surrealist fantasy, anti-capitalist satire, this world class British film is all of these and of course, more. Helped by 35 years of nostalgia for the way things were before the press decided to become public judges, much of what is lambasted by dir. Anderson here looks familiar because of what we know from the papers and the TV. The general themes here of ruthless ambition, class distinction, plutocracy v poverty, institutionalised corruption and greed, and obviously hypocrisy, are probably better known now to a wiser, more cynical public. Of course Anderson did his bit with this great film to try and make it better known. This bold critique on the wiley old ways of the world looks as relevant now as it did then. ... Read More: Rating: - Fantastic - but still missing scenesTowards the end of the excellent commentary on the second DVD, Alan Price mentions that people who see this film in their early adulthood often say it fundementally changed their outlook on life - I have to agree because, well, I was that soldier. This film is a truely remarkable piece of work and somehow manages to rise completly above it's seventies origins and seem even more relevant more than 30 years on. Disturbingly the film's exaggerated and satirically ruthless businessmen and government officials, complete with dirty arms deals etc, who use Travis throughout the film now seem entirely plausible. The only small disappointment is that despite the lengthy running time the film is still missing a few minutes halfway through, a scene where Travis ... Read More: Rating: - A most excellent sprawling epic of a filmThere is a fashion at present to make films that go on and on and on. There are example where this expanse is used to good effect, such as the Lord of the Rings films and the opposite, such as the latter Pirates of the Carrebean films. This is an early example of a long film and it pulls it off with a swagger. The second in a trilogy of films made by the late great Lindsey Anderson, O Lucky Man plots (albeit somewhat surrealistically) the progressions through life in the early 1970s (this was made in 1973, and boy, does it look it!); it is almost a kind of Pilgrim's Progress/ Road to Damascus tale, and is highly entertaining. Some have said they felt it flagged towards the end; I question whether the film flags or the viewer, as it is nearly ... Read More: Rating: - Finally released, O' Lucky Us!This blackly comic classic finally gets a release to DVD. And classic is not too strong a word. This film is the second in the loose Mick Travis trilogy and it is simply the most seminal film of 70s Britain. A weird and wonderful travelogue through the winter of discontent peopled with true greats of film and TV and with simply the best soundtrack ever care of Mr Alan Price. It's a must have if you're on the right wavelength. |
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