Capital Celluloid 2019 - Day 251: Sun Sep 8

A Fish Called Wanda (Crichton, 1988): BFI Southbank, NFT1, 8.15pm


This 35mm presentation, which is also being screened on September 18th, is part of the ‘It’s Monty Python at 50’ season. Full details here.

Chicago Reader review:
Charles Crichton, the veteran British director who made his biggest mark with The Lavender Hill Mob in 1950, teams up with actor, writer, and executive producer John Cleese in another madcap caper comedy (1988) that's every bit as funny as its predecessor. Like many of the best English comedies, much of the humor here is based on character, good-natured high spirits, and fairly uninhibited vulgarity (a speech impediment and dead dogs supply the basis for some of the gags). The superlative cast includes Americans Kevin Kline and Jamie Lee Curtis (at her sexiest), as well as Michael Palin and Cleese; Crichton keeps the laughs coming with infectious energy.
Jonathan Rosenbaum

Here (and above) is the trailer.

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