Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2007 3:55 am
This Sporting Life is in a very different vein from these two films (you should probably avoid Britannia Hospital as well), as are his early Free Cinema shorts, so those are worth a crack. In Celebration is a straight play adaptation, so it's got little in common with his more phantasmagoric work, and The Whales of August is different again ( e. none of the above). But bear in mind that this is coming from someone who thinks the films you hate are his best work.