Hosted by Dennis Hopper in an entirely lucid and intense performance, this film brings up some very intriguing questions and avoids simple and easy answers, preferring to let the creators of some of our most influential movies and commercials speak for themselves about what they do and the connection between the two worlds of selling and entertaining. The documentary is divided...
Pleasure At Her Majesty's was the name given to the filmed release of A Poke In The Eye (With A Sharp Stick), the first of the Amnesty International comedy benefit galas. The title is a play on the phrase At Her Majesty's Pleasure (the show was performed at Her Majesty's Theatre, London). In America, the film was originally called Monty Python Meets Beyond the Fringe.
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最短的Britcom经典 —— Fawlty Towers
1971年,仍在Monty Python's Flying Circus剧组的Jonn Cleese和其他几位MP成员在英国著名滨海风景地Torquay拍戏时,碰到一位态度粗鲁、脾气恶劣的旅馆主人。Jone Cleese根据这一经历,创作了喜剧剧集Doctor at large中的一集No Ill Feeling!。该剧集的制作人当即认为该创意可以发展成一部情景喜剧,而John Cleese直到一段时间以后他已离开MPFC剧组,并受BBC邀请创作自己的剧集时,才将这一建议付诸行动。
Fawlty Towers由John Cleese和他当时的妻子Connie Booth共同创意并编剧,并且均出演主要角色。该剧集以Torquay一家小旅馆Fawlty Towers为背景,主要人物包括John ...
The final volume of Time Warp digs deep into what makes us laugh over and over again as we reveal the greatest cult comedies and campy classics of all-time. From "Fast Time at Ridgemont High" and "Office Space" to "Monty Python and the Holy Grail," and "Showgirls."
The grandchild of Professor James Moriarty had promised the world that it has only five days left to live. Moriarty is a master of disguise, a crack shot, and is very patient. Several government figures are shot to death, and it seems that it truly is the end of civilization as we know it- until the President learns that the grandson of Sherlock Holmes is living at 221B Baker S...