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Lindsay Anderson's epic-scale satire of wealth, ambition, and class in Great Britain is so dry and played with such subtlety that some viewers may wonder at times if it's really intended to be a comedy, which of course is one of its great strengths. For a film whose messages and observations are dagger sharp, O Lucky Man! never overplays its hand, no matter how bizarre the circumstances Malcolm McDowell's Mick Travis is forced to confront; and from the torture session interrupted by the tea lady to casual suicides by lower-level office functionaries, O Lucky Man! keeps one foot in reality at all times, which makes its brutal absurdities all the more telling (and hilarious). McDowell's performance is one of his very best, managing to blend Mick's sometimes cartoonish get-up-and-go with a credible sense of puzzlement and anger at the surreal events which follow him, and Anderson's stock company -- including Ralph Richardson, Arthur Lowe, Rachel Roberts and Helen Mirren -- are equally engaging in their multiple roles. Alan Price's songs offer a perfect running commentary on the narrative, and Anderson's audacious device of periodically returning to Price and his band in the studio still stands as one of the most intelligent uses of pop music in film scoring. Engaging and compelling for every moment of its three-hour running time, O Lucky Man! is a bellowing cry of bitterness and a call for cultural revolution lurking just beneath the surface of a low-key comedy of errors; and it's all but impossible to imagine any director/actor team besides Anderson and McDowell making this work nearly so well. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

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Commentary by Malcolm McDowell, Alan Price and screenwriter David Sherwin
New feature-length career profile O Lucky Malcolm! produced/directed by Jan Harlan, edited by Katia de Vidas
Vintage featurette O Lucky Man! Innovations in Entertainment
Theatrical trailer

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Most helpful customer reviews   3 of 3 people found the following review helpful: O Lucky Us!, Oct 30 2007 By  Rational Dude (Montreal, Canada) - See all my reviews It was long overdue and an injustice to humankind that it took this long to finally be released, but we are all very lucky that "O Lucky Man!" is finally out on DVD, thanks to Malcolm McDowell himself. There are many reviews that go into the plot, so I'm going to skip this and just tell you my overall impressions of the DVD release itself: The overall picture/sound is about an 8-9 / 10. The original film reels don't seem to have been restored or remastered, but it is still very crisp and colourful nonetheless. The extras are actually better than expected, considering that they probably rushed it. To be honest, I expected nothing except a voice commentary. - The "O Lucky Malcolm!" documentary is very well done, running almost an hour and a half. This documentary is not about "O Lucky Man" per se, but about Malcolm; it is also available on the new "Clockwork Orange" DVD release. My guess is that it was probably produced for the "Clockwork Orange" DVD release, only to be added to this release after Malcolm insisted that they produce it. Malcolm's current wife, ex-wife, and two elder kids make appearances, along with a host of others, and you really get to know Malcolm (and his family) through this documentary. - "O Lucky Man! Innovations in Entertainment" starts off well but only runs for less than 5 minutes. It contains a brief interview with a young Malcolm though, and shows a few glimpses of beind-the-scenes action. - The voice commentary is shared between Malcolm, Alan Price, and some historian. Malcolm does most of the talking. There are several periods of silence during the voice commentary, where it appears that Malcolm has forgotten he's doing a commentary. But this is actually quite enjoyable because you get the feeling that you're watching the film alongside him and getting caught up in it with Malcolm himself. And besides, who wants to hear someone talk on and on for a solid 3 hours? The only real cons regarding the extras are that there's no 'making-of' documentaries or featurettes. Apart from that I was pleasantly surprised, mainly because of "O Lucky Malcolm!" and the star actor's predominance in the voice commentary. Of course, the film is what really matters, and the film is outstanding. Thanks Bog, the 'Mick Travis trilogy' is complete! One more thing, I was going to buy my copy through Amazon.ca but found it cheaper in a retail store. Was this review helpful to you? (Report this)   2 of 2 people found the following review helpful: lucky to say the least, May 2 2004 By  Benjamin Wiebe (winnipeg, manitoba Canada) - See all my reviews    This review is from: O Lucky Man! (VHS Tape) I recently watched O Lucky Man again with a friend who was watching it for the first time, and I became accutely aware of the feelings I had when I first watched it. It was an exhilarating and inspirational experience. I envied my friend for a moment and then I got back to the picture...and I realized how much better this movie gets after repeated viewings. Wow! But as so many have said here in these reviews, a DVD release (Criterion are YOU listening??) packed with extras is sooooo overdue. I've only ever seen this film on vhs and I'm salivating at the thought of seeing it on DVD... It'll be like watching it for the first time... Was this review helpful to you? (Report this)   2 of 2 people found the following review helpful: O Lucky Viewers, April 17 2004 By  Brian Tepper "Brian" (PA) - See all my reviews    This review is from: O Lucky Man! (VHS Tape) Everytime I see pictures of the flemish painter Heironymous Bosch and then see Lindsey Anderson in this movie I think, gee he looks just like Bosch; kinda makes movies like Bosch paints as well. His loosely connected Mick Travis trilogy: if.., O' Lucky Man and Britannia Hospital often look like the typical Bosch tryptich, in which the left panel shows man's expulsion from a distorted forboding man's view of "heaven"; in if..'s case a British authoritarian boarding school, while the right side of Bosch's tryptichs show the twisted tortuous hell that man merits from his sins on earth; in Britannia Hospital's case, an insane asylum diguised as a government run hospital where death is certain from the most disgustingly violent experiments and sponsered by bureaucratic sadists. In the middle of these moralty paintings is the incendiary display of sins man commits. And it is here that we often find the most engaging bits of Bosch's work where so much happens in an instant as viewing a painting, which, actually takes years to see it all. O' Lucky Man is very much designed in this fashion even if it wasn't intentional. We get elements from this movie that may never be fully realized again in film; a dismal prospect indeed. Innovations actually abound with this rev