B. S. Johnson

B. S. Johnson

1933-01-01
40 (1973-01-01)

Bryan Stanley Johnson was an English experimental novelist, poet, literary critic, producer of television programmes and filmmaker.

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Bryan Stanley Johnson was an English experimental novelist, poet, literary critic, producer of television programmes and filmmaker.

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Fat Man on a Beach 1973 (5.9)

A poet of forty wanders about the beach, changes his clothes when he feels like it, reads his poetry, reminisces engagingly, and reflects on life. Looking rather like Max Bygraves gone to seed, he keeps up a patter full of original jokes, interspersed with powerful verse about life and death.
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You're Human Like the Rest of Them 1967 (5.5)

After treatment for a slipped disc in a London hospital, a teacher struggles to convey his thoughts on mortality to his class and fellow staff.
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March! 1971 (6)

Narrated by celebrated modernist author and filmmaker BS Johnson, March! documents the TUC-instigated protest, on 21 February 1971, against the Industrial Relations Bill, which was subsequently passed by parliament in August of that same year. The film records the assembly of protestors (in Hyde Park) and a march through the streets of Central London to Trafalgar Square.