last night I watched a great documentary on bbc4 called paul merton's weird and wonderful world of early cinema. i must admit first of all that i think paul merton is very funny and so my thoughts on the doco are probably a bit biased, but the film short he had selected were fantastically funny and his piece on max linder has stayed with me all day.
i hadn't heard of max before but i had seen pictures of his 'gentleman about town' character with moustache and top hat. what i didn't know was that he was really witty and clever and had me laughing out loud like a hyena. i am now on a mission to not only seek out some of his films - max's hat and what must be a horror film, max and his mother in law.
if you get a chance look him up.
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