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SCREENING WITH JOHNNY CASH—THE LAST GREAT AMERICAN

Tuesday, April 12, 2005 at 9:00pm at Regal Winter Park Village
Friday, April 15, 2005 at 9:00pm at Regal Winter Park Village
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UK, 2004, 59 MIN
DIRECTED BY PAUL KERR
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE
Loveable crooner or eccentric loon? As lead singer of late-1960s British cult sensations The Bonzo Dog Do Dah Band, Vivian Stanshall emitted noises that were sure to surprise. One of the first British art school bands, the Bonzos infused a DaDa-esque absurdity into the otherwise common 1960s act of strumming a guitar. They were like The Beatles comprised entirely of John Lennon at his most trippy and bent. The Bonzos managed only one minor hit (“I'm The Urban Spaceman,” sung by guitarist and future Rutle Neil Innes), but their impact on bizarro intellectual art rock was profound and secured Stanshall a small but shady spot in the pantheon of creative British oddballs. This BBC documentary is, in Stanshall’s own terms, “a sur-Ealing comedy” that draws on an amazing collection of archived performance footage, as well as interviews with Bonzo collaborators, late Brit radio icon John Peel, and life-long fan Stephen Fry. In a world in which VH1 immortalizes every two-bit musical hack with a shag haircut, Viv Stanshall remains pure, awaiting your undivided attention.