nick-pett664

Top work Mr Marr. Endearingly eccentric, enthusiastic, exhilarating overview of Britain. Of course there are gaps and highly debatable views, but he got all the top stories on the screen and reminded (hopefully) hundreds of thousands of people how we got to where we are. This is the sort of thing that makes history shimmer and excite - whetting the appetite for more in-depth explorations of each of the powerful stories that made up this wonderful series. I particularly enjoyed the episode that covered Harold Wilson - a time that i know little about but this programme made me want to dive into it and explore. And fragments of childhood memory came back to me during the episode on the 80s - my father's hulking mobile phone and the disappearance of my village bobby to go to the miners' strikes. Very evocative. Running over all of this was Marr's rich and engaging language - his presenting was the icing on the cake. Overall, Bonkers but brilliant.

Just saw this at RESFEST 10 at the NFT in London and I thoroughly enjoyed it. A man bites off his tongue and, once it has been revived by nuclear waste. it proceeds to bring mayhem and destruction to town. And then ? I'll say no more. My only criticism is that it was perhaps a little too long and could have been more ruthlessly edited. There were sections where the film lost a little impetus. But the animation was good quality, the story original and the visual gags were brilliant. Particular highlights were the cat fishing for squirrels - tremendous playing around with perception and great cunning from the cat - and the taxi journey - winningly peculiar and nonsensical. It was a pleasure to be able to see a film like this, alongside other innovative and/or quirky shorts. I would really like to see some more by this director.

I enjoyed this film in many ways, and it would be hard not to enjoy something so carefully and thoughtfully put together. The camera-work reflects the ramshackle but cheerful nature of the journey, the leads play with good humour and understatement. The characters they meet are deep enough, even though their relationships are fleeting, and i think we are able to believe that this journey changed che. But the whole film suffered terribly from the subtitling (although i concede that the screenplay may also have its faults). I didn't believe in the dialogue, the expressions used and the tenor of their conversations sounded too modern, and the clunkiness of some of the dialogue was gobsmacking: "sometimes you just gotta tell death to go to hell" ? sweet me...