Posted: Tue Jul 14, 2009 4:11 am Post subject: In The Loop
Anyone know when the new Iannucci film "In The Loop" comes out in the US, or on DVD?
Never mind, I found it . it comes out on dvd August 24th in the UK. I really want to see it. Have you guys seen it?
Way to go with the link, pants friend. You should dl and watch it too it's really funny.
This movie made me pee myself over and over.
If Armando Iannucci’s political farce about the road to war through the corridors of power weren’t so funny, it would be utterly terrifying.When a British cabinet minister, Simon Foster, comments publicly that he thinks war is “unforeseeable,” the result is an immediate bollocking from Malcolm Tucker, the prime minister’s testy bulldog pushing for war. Unable to clarify his position, Simon is sent to Washington, where, trying desperately to be important, he meets Karen Clark, a U.S. State Department official, and General Miller, who see him as a transatlantic partner in building a consensus against war. They search for a secret war committee, led by Karen’s hawkish colleague, Linton Barwick. And as farce demands, all parties eventually converge for a climactic shuffle between rooms, in this case at the United Nations. Wickedly sardonic and filled with secrets, lies, leaks, plugs, and faulty intelligence and walls, In the Loop leads us behind closed doors to reveal bungling bureaucrats entangled in petty rivalries, obsequious aides jockeying for favor, and the Keystone Cops of government, including a minister who hopes there’s no war because it’s bad enough coping with the Olympics, and an unscrupulous bureaucrat who doctors intelligence because he believes that “in the land of truth, the man with one fact is king.”But don’t worry. None of this actually happened! It’s just British comedy.
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Peter Capaldi, James Gandolfini, Tom Hollander, David Rashe, Gina McKee, Chris Addison, Anna Chulmsky, Mimi Kennedy
The Thick of It: top 10 Malcolm Tucker moments The Thick of It returns next week. And it's for outbursts like this that we love it
Peter Capaldi as Malcolm Tucker in The Thick Of It
Armando Iannucci's part-improvised political comedy about the inner workings of new(ish) Labour, The Thick of It, returns to TV next week – this time with a proper run of eight episodes and a prime-time Saturday night slot on BBC2.
The new series begins on the day of a cabinet reshuffle and a new minister for the Department of Social Affairs and Citizenship in the form of Nicola Murray (played by queen of twisted middle-class women Rebecca Front) a back-bencher so low down the pecking order her appointment is likened to a dinner lady presenting the 10th series of The Big Breakfast.
The best reason to tune in though is to witness the further adventures of Malcolm Tucker, Peter Capaldi's lethal Scottish enforcer of number 10's wishes, or as Murray describes him "the PM's all-swearing eye". With Tucker, The Thick of It has taken profanity, the liberal use of the word cock and the fine art of the soul-puncturing put-down to a new high.
So here are our 10 favourite Tucker quotes from the first series and the two spin-off specials (both of which are being repeated next week). Did we miss any pearls of Tucker wisdom? Feel free to share them below.
WARNING: Obvious really, but just in case … ridiculously sweary language follows below:
Our ten favourite Tucker quotes
• Responding to knock at his door: "Come the fuck in or fuck the fuck off."
• Tucker's Law (out-take from the Spinners & Losers special): "If some cunt can fuck something up, that cunt will pick the worst possible time to fucking fuck it up cause that cunt's a cunt."
• Moaning about minister on the phone: "He's about as much use as a marzipan dildo."
• To a pair of rival advisors: "Laurel and fucking Hardy! Glad you could join us. Did you manage to get that piano up the stairs OK?"
• Dressing down MP, Geoff Holhurst: "You're so back-bench, you've actually fucking fallen off. You're out by the fucking bins where I put you."
• Commenting on Ben Swain's disastrous Newsnight appearance: "All these hands all over the place! You were like a sweaty octopus trying to unhook a bra."
• Bollocking a communications department employee: "How much fucking shit is there on the menu and what fucking flavour is it?"
• Advising minister Hugh Abbot to keep up with the zeitgeist: "You've got 24 hours to sort out your policy on EastEnders, right? Or you're for the halal butchers."
• Note passed to assistant Jamie during meeting with blue-sky thinker Julius Nicholson: "Please could you take this note, ram it up his hairy inbox and pin it to his fucking prostate."
• Admonishing junior adviser Ollie Reeder to respect government property: "Feet off the furniture you Oxbridge twat, you're not on a punt now."
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