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Mood:
- CleverWittyHumorousSentimental
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Plot:
- FilmmakingArtists and ShowbizMediaMedia Satire
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Genres:
- ComedyMockumentaryParody
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Time/Period:
- Contemporary21st Century
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Place:
- EnglandEuropeLondon
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Praise:
- Critically Acclaimed
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Humor:
- Dry Humor
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Style:
- Film in FilmVoice OverTalky
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Attitudes:
- Semi SeriousRealistic
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Look:
- Partly B&W
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Cricklewood Greats, 2012
English
UK
Profile of Cricklewood Greats
Cricklewood Greats can be described as clever, witty, and sentimental. The plot revolves around filmmaking, media, and artists and showbiz. Its comic aspect comes from dry humor. Cricklewood Greats's main genres are comedy and parody. In terms of style, it is a mockumentary, is a film in a film, and includes a voice over. In approach, it is realistic. Cricklewood Greats is located in London. It takes place in contemporary times. Visually, it is partly black and white. Cricklewood Greats has received attention for being critically acclaimed.
Summary of Cricklewood Greats
Cricklewood Greats will take viewers from the early silent movie experiments of Arthur Sim, through the 1930s comedies of Florrie Fontaine and the glory years of the "Thumbs Up" movies, to the 1970s exploitation horror movies starring Lionel Crisp, and the ultimate folie de grandeur of Terry Gilliam's "Professor Hypochondria's Magical Odyssey" which finally destroyed the studios in the early 1980s.
Note: Cricklewood Film Studios is fictional, and every frame of footage has been lovingly restored from the vaults of Capaldi's fertile imagination.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | UK |
| Release date: | 5 February 2012 |
| Runtime: | 90 min |
Cast and Crew
as Himself - presenter / Leslie Grangely
as Himself
as Herself - interviewee
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