Was always interested in Juggernaut because of Kael: "Fast, crackerjack entertainment..." I liked it, but for completely opposite reasons: next to Airport and The Poseidon Adventure--I think the second Airport is the only other '70s disaster film I've seen, so my sample's kind of limited--it seemed unusually austere and methodical. Good throwaway Titanic joke.
― clemenza, Sunday, 3 July 2016 14:53 (seven years ago) link
Seems likely Roy Andersson saw THE BED SITTING ROOM at some point, if not he was thinking along very similar lines. That was special.— Vadim Rizov (@vrizov) July 23, 2017
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 26 July 2017 21:42 (six years ago) link
^^Yeah.
Bed-Sitting Room is currently free for Prime members. Screened last night. A film for these times? Perhaps.
From the overview I linked to upthread:
Needless to say, when the studio heads at United Artists took a look at it, they were appalled at what they saw (to be fair, it seems that the famously hands-off organization was still under the impression that Lester was doing a musical version of Joe Orton's "Up Against It" starring Mick Jagger, the project he had been working on before shifting his focus after that one fell through) and shelved it for more than a year.
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 30 April 2020 20:09 (four years ago) link