Fat Man on a Beach (1974)

Review: Fat Man on a Beach (1974)

Director: Michael Bakewell

Cast: B. S. Johnson,

B. S. Johnson
B. S. Johnson

Plot: A poet of forty wanders about the beach, changes his clothes when he feels like it, reads his poetry, reminisces engagingly, and reflects on life. Looking rather like Max Bygraves gone to seed, he keeps up a patter full of original jokes, interspersed with powerful verse about life and death.

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More Recent Disks From England: The Return of Flipside

More Recent Disks From England: The Return of Flipside

After three years of steady releases, for some reason the BFI suspended their Flipside series last May. Now, after an eleven month break, they’ve released two new titles, as unexpected as anything which has come before. In John Krish, […]

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