NEW FILM ONLINE: "Don't Just Lie There, Say Something!"
Year: 1973
Stars: Brian Rix, Leslie Phillips, Joan Sims, Joanna Lumley
Director: Bob Kellett
Locations: London
Plot: Any film that has a title that is more than two words, give or take a definite, or even indefinite article should be viewed with suspicion. This film is no exception. Brian Rix participates, and, as with all his other Whithall farces, this one concerns mistaken identity, people losing their trousers and other items of hysterically funny British humour that kept the audiences rolling in the isles. If only the whole cast had been shipped out to one of the outer Isles of the Hebrides we'd have all been spared.
However, we are not here to view the artistic merits, or otherwise, of the films that we add to the site but to investigate and identify the locations used, and here we have a considerable number diligently sleuthed by Adrian Grepnold and Simon James, two of our consistent and stalwart research assistant.
Number of Stills: 14
Number of 'Now' Shots: 9
posted by John Tunstill @ 4:29 PM
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Like the novel, the essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything, usually on a certain topic. By tradition, almost by definition, the essay is a short piece, and it is therefore impossible to give all things full play within the limits of a single essay. But a collection of essays can cover almost as much ground, and cover it almost as thoroughly, as can a long novel. Montaigne's Third Book is the equivalent, very nearly, of a good slice of the Comédie Humaine. essays Essays belong to a literary species whose extreme variability can be studied most effectively within a three-poled frame of reference. There is the pole of the personal and the autobiographical; there is the pole of the objective, the factual, the concrete-particular; and there is the pole of the abstract-universal. Most essayists are at home and at their best in the neighborhood of only one of the essay's three poles, or at the most only in the neighborhood of two of them. There are the predominantly personal essayists, who write fragments of reflective autobiography and who look at the world through the keyhole of anecdote and description. There are the predominantly objective essayists who do not speak directly of themselves, but turn their attention outward to some literary or scientific or political theme. … And how splendid, how truly oracular are the utterances of the great generalizers! … The most richly satisfying essays are those which make the best not of one, not of two, but of all the three worlds in which it is possible for the essay to exist.
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