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Saturday, 2 June 2012

Film nite 23: Bryan's pick - Beyond the Fringe

Whistle and I’ll Come to You (1968) Dir: Jonathan Miller



A university professor, confident that everything which occurs in life has a rational explanation, finds his beliefs severely challenged when, during a vacation to a remote coastal village in Norfolk, he blows through an ancient whistle discovered on a beach, awakening horrors beyond human understanding.

Bedazzled (1967) Dir: Stanley Donnen



Stanley is a short order cook, infatuated with Margaret, the statuesque waitress who works at Wimpy Burger with him. Despondent, he prepares to end it all when he meets George Spiggott AKA the devil. Selling his soul for 7 wishes, Stanley tries to make Margaret his own first as an intellectual, then as a rock star, then as a wealthy industrialist. As each fails, he becomes more aware of how empty his life had been and how much more he has to live for.