Being There
Mar. 25th, 2006 11:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphiloMy fascination with Peter Sellers has a lot to do with him looking like my father.
It's something to do with the forehead. And- harder to pin down- with the way he carries himself.
There are shots in Being There where it's definitely my father up there on screen.
Being There is one of my favourite movies. I watched it again last night. Sellers made a lot of cruddy films- many of them cruddier than they need have been because of his appalling behaviour on and off the set (Blake Edwards reckons he was certifiably insane)- but Being There is immaculate.
It's something to do with the forehead. And- harder to pin down- with the way he carries himself.
There are shots in Being There where it's definitely my father up there on screen.
Being There is one of my favourite movies. I watched it again last night. Sellers made a lot of cruddy films- many of them cruddier than they need have been because of his appalling behaviour on and off the set (Blake Edwards reckons he was certifiably insane)- but Being There is immaculate.
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Date: 2006-03-26 05:53 am (UTC)"Lolita" and "Strangelove", I think, must be counted as American films despite being filmed in the UK. "The Matrix" and "Star Wars", episodes 1 & 2 were filmed in Sydney, but I dont see them as Australian films.
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Date: 2006-03-26 06:11 am (UTC)(DVD is wonderful, innit? Suddenly all these rarities are available!)
You're probably right about Strangelove and Lolita; they're both American subjects. Though it has to count for something that the two stars of Lolita were British.