There was a rather odd film on at Splodge tonight:
The Bed Sitting Room. Directed by Richard Lester (of Hard Day's Night fame) and starring various members of the Goon Show, it was set in Britain after a nuclear holocaust. in landscapes of rubble (some of the locations included a still-running London Underground, a mountain made entirely of crockery and various ramshackle buildings made of rubbish), and full of oddball characters, dressed in rags and yet carrying on with their lives in a peculiarly English way. Oh, and some of them started turning into houses and furniture.
The design was pretty doovy, in an improvised way (especially things like the
police balloon).
It could probably be described as being somewhere between
Eraserhead,
Delicatessen and Monty Python, with perhaps a touch of absurdist theatre.