Category: Last Of The Summer Wine
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The Spielbergian Quality Of Last Of The Summer Wine
Watch this video from Every Frame A Painting, talking about Spielberg’s invisible one shots, then we’ll talk after. Now watch this innocuous scene from an episode of Last Of The Summer Wine. As I say in that tweet, it’s remarkable in that Alan JW Bell was shooting these setups constantly in a TV sitcom. Watch…
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Rest Of The Summer Wine
At the risk of showing my knickers, here’s something I made last year called Rest Of The Summer Wine. So, here’s the background. As you may or may not know, I spent most of last summer watching Last Of The Summer Wine from start to finish. It strikes me that this is a body of…
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Last Of The Flubbing Wine
My brain is frazzled at the moment, so in lieu of a lengthier blog, here’s a rare outtake from Last Of The Summer Wine. I can’t be bothered to work out which episode it is, but I’d love someone else to tell me. Also, if you look very carefully, you can see Compo falling down…
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Angry Sitcom Characters
Let’s start with Rik again, this time playing Rick in The Young Ones. Here’s a character consumed by the impotent rage of youth, wanting to change the world, thwarted by his spots. Basil Fawlty is angry at everything, taking it out on everyone, but this anger is fueled by the reality of his failing business.…
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Thoughts Of The Summer Wine
It’s been a few weeks now since I completed my binge watch of all 295 episodes of Last Of The Summer Wine, and my mind is still percolating what I watched. If nothing else the show is a remarkable body of work, whose sheer ubiquity seems to have rendered it … overlooked. Or not even…
