Is that Malcolm McDowell? I never heard of that flick. Any good?
-----------------------------------------------
INTERVIEWER: Mr. L.F. Dibley's latest film 'If.'
(he turns to Dibley) Mr. Dibley, some people
have drawn comparisons between your film, 'if,'
which ends with a gun battle at a public school,
and Mr. Lindsay Anderson's film, if, which ends
with a gun battle at a public school.
DIBLEY: Oh yes, well, I mean, there were some people
who said my film 2001: A Space Odyssey, was similar
to Stanley Kubrick's. I mean, that's the sort of
petty critical niggling that's dogged my career.
It makes me sick. I mean, as soon as I'd made
Midnight Cowboy with the vicar as Ratso Rizzo,
John Schlesinger rushes out his version,
and gets it premiered while mine's still
at the chemist's. ...
------------------------------------------------
Yes and yes! Four years
before he did "Clockwork Orange."
This film was so good
the Pythons spoofed it
in their "School Prizes" routine.
It's NOT comedy,
it's weird "cinema"
that starts all serious then
builds to a bizarre
ending so surreal
viewers can't tell if it ends
as a fantasy
in the young man's mind
or as real life. (Scorsese
did something like it
for his ending of
"King Of Comedy.") Once seen,
you'll remember it.