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Frayed (2019)
Kudos for Kerry
Wonderful to see Kerry Armstrong and the rest of the cast back on our screens for a second season of the larger than life characters that make up the "Frayed" family. Uniquely Australian depiction of a suburban Bogan family. A wonderful companion to another ABC series on a similar theme the much missed Upper Middle Bogan. If I sound like I am removed or look down on this strata of society then not so. I've lived in the outer west suburbs of Sydney and beachside suburbs of Newcastle and identify wholeheartedly with the depictions in the show. Roll on Series 3. Bravo Sarah Kendall amazing work.
The Ruling Class (1972)
Classic British Black Comedy At It's Best......
From the first time I saw the film on it's initial cinema run it has remained one of my "desert island" films.O'Toole and Sim at their truly wackiest best.The great problem these days appears being able to view an intact version of the film.Contrary to various published version's running times I seem to be in possession of a 153mins videotape version lifted from a TV print in 1981.(This beggars the question just what was the original running time).The chequered path of Avco-Embassy product falling virtually into the public domain and the ready availability of the original negative hasn't helped anybody issuing a definitive print.But if ever a film cried out for the Criterion Collection treatment and a cinema re-release in a remastered print it is this.I hope somebody does something before O'Toole & director Peter Medak are not around to contribute.(Most of the remaining cast have unfortunately left us in the intervening years).