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The Knack... and How to Get It |
starring: Rita Tushingham, Ray Brooks (II), Michael Crawford, Donal Donnelly, William Dexter
directed by: Richard Lester
directed by: Richard Lester
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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780792853329
Format: Anamorphic, Black & White, Closed-captioned, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0792853326
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
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Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
MPN: 1003776
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 17, 2002
Running Time: 85 minutes
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: 1965
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Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
Fresh from the playfully exuberant A Hard Day's Night (1964), director Richard Lester applies the same acrobatic, tongue-in-cheek style to this delightfully frivolous take on swinging London and the sexual revolution. Gawky young Michael Crawford is a meek landlord who vies with his ladies-man lodger Ray Brooks for the attentions of spirited funny-face Rita Tushingham, whom he literally picks up while pushing his new brass bed through the streets of London. Lester floats his sweet nothing of a goofy romance with an offbeat sense of humor, a compendium of sight gags and non sequiturs stirred in with devil-may-care spirit, and a pair of winning leads. Crawford's underdog desperation and endearing naiveté makes for an appealingly nerdish hero, but it's Tushingham's kooky charm and deft comic delivery that steal the film. A lovely score by John Barry balances the energy and invention with a tender romanticism. --Sean Axmaker
Description:
You either have it or you don't. The knack, that is, of seduction! From the director of the Beatles movies A Hard Day's Night and Help! comes this inventive and hilarious (Time) romp through love and sex in 1960's London. Featuring Richard Lester's frenetic filmmaking stylecareening from slapstick to serious to avant-gardethis genuinely dazzling (Los Angeles Times) film is a mod masterpiece! Cool and sophisticated Tolen (Ray Brooks) has a monopoly on womanizingwith a long line of conquests to prove itwhile the naïve and awkward Colin (Michael Crawford) desperately wants a piece of it. But when Colin falls for an innocent country girl (Rita Tushingham), it's not long before the self-assured Tolen moves in for the kill. Is all fair in love and war, or can Colin get the knack and beat Tolen at his own game?
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- Not Bad For What It Is!This movie has ranked number 5 in my top ten favorite movie list! I really enjoy watching it! It nothing like "A Hard Day's Night" or "How I Won the War", but I think it special for what it is! I also enjoyed watching Michael Crawford ("Hello Dolly"/Original Phantom of the Opera) who has ranked number 3 on my top favorite actors list! This movie really is a joy to watch! I odd to know...I'v seen it!
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- Most of the fizz is flatForty years on the once scintillating British comedies of Richard Lester have lost a lot of their fizz. Even "A Hard Day's Night," though buoyed by the Beatles and their tunes, seems a little tired and old-fashioned. "The Knack," which Lester did a few years later, uses the same tricks: madcap antics, irreverent humor, verbal nonsense (that somewhat foreshadows Monty Python), quick-cut editing, cute locations and such. Though based on a play, the film is long on style and attitude and short on plot. ... Read More
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- The score is very goodThis movie is of its time and has not aged well. It's a not very vivid portrayal of the swinging sixties in London, with four uninvolving characters spewing bizarre non-sequiturs at one another. Watch it with the subtitles off and you'll think it doesn't make sense; watch it with the subtitles on and you'll realize it's not supposed to make sense. In neither case is it at all funny. The film also betrays its origins as a play; despite the best efforts of the director to open it up - he spends about ... Read More
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- Lest we forget...... just what it really was like in "The Swinging Sixties" watch this DVD and remember... what? How much fun it was to do really whacky things just for the sake of it. How boring, bigoted and irrelevant the older generation were. How vacuously pretty all the dolly birds looked. How they were simply there as male objects of desire. How chatting them up and getting them into bed as quickly as possible was what relationships were all about. How sexual promiscuity was revered. How rape was actually a bit of ... Read More
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- A Sixties "Arty-Fact"Forty years after its release, it's hard to imagine how new and fresh this film was. Borrowing heavily from the French New Wave in terms of look and feel, the film and its inseperable and sublime John Barry soundtrack are a fascinating snapshot of the so-called swinging sixties in London.
Whilst The Knack has some stunning elements all captured beautifully on the otherwise feature free DVD - the stark black and white photography, the white on white decor of the downstairs flat and the views ... Read More
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