Practice Of Criticism Podcast 2022: Episode - 1 Lock Stock, And Two Smoking Barrels, withJack Brazil

Almost a quarter century after its first release, LOCK, TOCK & TWO SMOKING BARRELS remains immensely stylish and entertaining, a landmark film that drew on the tradition of the British Gangster film and succeeded in changing the genre's direction. In this podcast we discuss, the film's style, the cadence, pace and editing with which movement and action are constructed and conveyed. We talk about its playful experimental tone; how it succeeds as comedy, and how Ritchie's eye for casting launched one of the most important careers in the action genre for decades to come: that of Jason Statham, whose first film this is.... and much more