tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2017832040275963428.post6126828902837358876..comments2023-10-28T11:09:18.671+05:30Comments on Cinemascope: Sleeper [1973]Shubhajithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02040495040897333606noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2017832040275963428.post-91688645280475588262014-01-14T15:11:49.459+05:302014-01-14T15:11:49.459+05:30Thanks Sam. Anyone who'd seen this film when i...Thanks Sam. Anyone who'd seen this film when it had released would surely have got a premonition of things to come where Woody was concerned. His increadible talent was almost bloomed with this. And what followed, as they say, is history.Shubhajithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02040495040897333606noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2017832040275963428.post-68521888775454898032014-01-06T08:56:58.000+05:302014-01-06T08:56:58.000+05:30"Like all his early films, this too was a cam..."Like all his early films, this too was a campy film filled with slapstick, funny sight gags and thumbing of nose to the authorities; however, unlike them, this had minimum misfires, was uniformly hilarious, and combined sharp satirical observations into an otherwise light-hearted setting, thus displaying his fast increasing maturity as an artist and social commentator."<br /><br />Indeed Shubhajit. I can readily agree with this lock, stock and barrel. Some of the site gags had me rolling, like the billions served at McDonalds and the orgasmatron. Many great lines too. Definitely one of his flat out funniest and original films.<br /><br />Terrific review.Sam Julianonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2017832040275963428.post-79463045885472806822013-12-26T07:26:12.674+05:302013-12-26T07:26:12.674+05:30I want to bugger Diane Keaton (as the bird was in ...I want to bugger Diane Keaton (as the bird was in 1964 when the bird was 18, not as the bird is now obviously).jervaise brooke hamsternoreply@blogger.com