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Abigails Party
Film Description A by-word for death by embarrassment. When Beverly invites a few friends and neighbours round for drinks and nibbles, the scene is set for the best of British mayhem. Dare you decline?
Film Information
DVD Extras Photo Gallery; Producer and director commentary; BBC Two?s Abigail?s Party night welcome, intro and goodbye
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Review by anonymous on 30th October 1999 A masterpiece in every sense of the world, the inspiration behind the now famous, The Royal Family, except with a more comic edge. The characters, the situation and the music will make you roar with laughter, time and time again. Often overlooked, this masterpiece becomes a favourite of all who see it.
Review by atk4 on 18th November 2004 A disaster from the start with petty fights over olives and music, Abigail's Party is one catastrophe after another! It's a film not to be missed but watch out for flaring tempers and flying arguments because it's just like a family night in. Trashy outfits and headache wallpapers just add to the claustrophobic effect. Well worth seeing!
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Video Tape! Glorious Video Tape! by Clinton Morgan With the exception of our soap operas most television that involves some kind of writing, acting and direction appears to be shot on film. Today's digital technology makes it possible for programme makers to create the illusion that their drama or comedy show was shot on film whilst avoiding the difficulties involved with shooting on actual film (not knowing what the finished result would look like until the rushes were printed for example). Some might find this aspect of digital technology exciting. In fact a lot of cinema has been shot digitally as opposed to the old fashioned (and soon sadly probably defunct) method of celluloid with sprocket holes. Consider films like 'Hidden', 'Sin City' and 'Collateral'. All were shot digitally. None the less there is nothing like real film. For example a series like 'GBH' would not look right if it was shot digitally and given a 'film' look. You might think that this is a personal gripe and that I should get over it. Well, yes it is and perhaps I should. However the film look on television today is ten-a-penny that there is a recieved opinion that anything that looks like it is shot on video has low production values. Interestingly enough a lot of television dramas today that would have been merely praised with terms such as 'good' are being praised with pointless superlatives as "The production values are good." Digital philm (a term coined by a friend being a combination of 'phoney' and 'film') may look as glossy as The Sunday Times' 'Style' section but it looks nowhere as good as the colour episodes of 'The Avengers' or even 'The Monkees'. Nobody said "The production values are good" because nobody needed too. Good production values were seen as par for the course. What the discerning television viewer wanted was something more. There is an art to shooting on video-tape and shooting in a multi-camera studio set-up just as there is an art to shooting on film. Perhaps the next generation of programme makers should think carefully before flicking the switch on their high definition digital cameras to create the illusion of film. Maybe the head honchos of television should encourage writers to write intimate studio set based plays for the old fashioned multi-camera set up. Video can look beautiful and television should not be ashamed to look different from the cinema. Here are a few favourite examples of how the video look can be a good look. You may think of some other examples (for example 'Brimstone and Treacle', 'The Flipside of Dominick Hyde' and 'The Stone Tape'). For me the fading out of video-look dramas began with the second series of 'Cardiac Arrest'. When it looked more like your average hour long 9pm drama as opposed to an episode of 'Casualty' then it had lost its bite.
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