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Peter Cook - The Rise And Rise Of Michael Rimmer [2006]
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A classic Peter Cook film.
Review date: 2007-07-27 Rating: 10 out of 10
Great to see this film have a DVD release.I too remember seeing it maybe three times in the seventies on TV at some godforsaken hour before it disappeared for nearly thirty years.
Its more relevant today than it was then. This is a must-see.
Oh, and its pretty funny too!
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Reviews
"I'm Shocked And Bewildered, Gerald!"
Review date: 2007-07-02 Rating: 10 out of 10
A sorely overlooked film, the link between the Ealing comedies (Man In The White Suit and The Lady Killers especially) and Lindsay Anderson's monumental O Lucky Man! This is a staggeringly prescient film on the machinations of spin politics. Peter Cook plays the title role absolutely straight, like Peter Sellers did in Heavens Above, leaving it to comic stalwarts like Arthur Lowe, Dennis Price, John Cleese, Harold Pinter and the like to amuse. For an incredible insight into The Rise And Rise Of Michael Rimmer, there's a fascinating chapter about it in the book How Very Interesting: Peter Cook's Universe And All That Surrounds It. Happily, this is the full length cut of the film and not the trimmed version that was very occasionally shown on TV at around 3 in the morning. Rimmer is the satirical forefather of The Thick Of It.
The great lost Peter Cook movie
Review date: 2007-06-22 Rating: 10 out of 10
This was the film that was supposed to make PC a proper bona-fide film star. All the elements were in place - a script from John Cleese and Graham Chapman, a stellar cast of British acting talent, major studio support from Warners, and even David Frost as Exec Producer.
Cook himself looks great - really rather handsome, and although his acting style was on the arch side, he got away with with because the character he was playing was such a smoke-and-mirrors PR fraud (Alastair Campbell must've seen it...).
However, it all went wrong. It was such an audacious, accurate satire of the machinations behind a political party scheming its way to power, that it was deemed politically too sensitive to release in the midst of the 1970 general election. It eventually got a modest release, but the moment had passed, and so had Cook's stab at movie fame. Dudley did slightly better a few years later...
That said, it's great. Chillingly predicting the annexing of party politics by spin, image and grasping PR chancers, "Rimmer" is a joy, and even an education.
Product Details/Specifications
Actor(s):
Ronnie Corbett
Arthur Lowe
John Cleese
Graham Chapman
Peter Cook
Creators:
Peter Cook (Primary Contributor)
John Cleese (Primary Contributor)
Director(s):
Recording label: Digital Classics DVD
Manufacturer: Digital Classics DVD
EAN: 5051083007412
Binding: DVD
Number of items: 1
Format: PAL,
Release date: 2007-06-25
Aspect ratio: 1.77:1
Audience rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
Region code: 2
Running time: 98 minutes
Theatrical release date: 2006
Language: English (Unknown)
Language: English (Original Language)