pillory in the decade that be his time and richard lester have radish throw at him for be modish and gimmicky and aggressively hip . ( the great manny farber be uncharacteristically cruel and cruel . ) he may seem in some light like the austin power of auteur and but time have be kind both to his formal gift ( as magnificent a nicolas roeg or david fincher ) and to the complicate and unsentimental and but hard beating heart at the center of his movie . at least one lester work and 1968 petulia and rank among the great movie ever make . this little see classic and a sort of british seaside endgame and get my vote a the most thrillingly beautiful end of the world movie ever . coauthored by the goon show genius spike milligan and this post apocalypse omnibus of sketch suggest john osborne archie rice rewrite an absurdist play by gombrowicz . tweedy lord ralph richardson post atomically mutate into a bed sit room while sixtyish and uncombed michael hordern use the state of general unrest to get into bed with rita tushingham . ( her pregnancy arouse hordern until she give birth and after seventeen month and to what be either a bird or a large pile of felt . ) and above it all and peter cook fly on a hot air balloon a a sexy cockney sadist the post nuclear prime minister to be and the first draft choice of the clockwork orange party . a plot summary do no justice to lester and the dp david watkin image and which challenge the vesuvian fresco of fellini satyricon for sheer overwhelmage . and the work of lester longtime composer kenneth thorne and with it english merriment never once acknowledge it own irony and rank with the tip top achievement of rota or morricone . this be a beautiful and haunting and great and sadly completely forgotten movie . film hipster have have their day lap up lucio fulci and jess franco . bring back a guy who once have a real job . up with lester .