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British Academy of Film and Television Arts/Los Angeles Presents an Evening With Michael Sheen: Michael Sheen has played both a werewolf in the UNDERWORLD films and a vampire in the TWILIGHT saga but is best known for his brilliant portrayals of real-life figures like Tony Blair and David Frost. Tonight, U.S. audiences have their first chance to see his fabulous performance as British comedy legend Kenneth Williams in “Fantabulosa,” followed by the 1969 Williams sidesplitter CARRY ON CAMPING.

Double Feature: “Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa," 2006, BBC, 79 min. Michael Sheen excels as Kenneth Williams, the wildly popular British comic and star of the much-loved CARRY ON films. A consummate entertainer loved by everyone but himself, Williams could create a thousand voices and characters and yet was unable to live comfortably within his own skin. Sheen garnered a well-deserved BAFTA nomination for his performance.

Discussion between films with actor Michael Sheen.

CARRY ON CAMPING, 1969, MGM Repertory, 88 min. Dir. Gerald Thomas. The 17th film in the classic long-running British comedy series finds Sid and Bernie (Sid James and Bernard Bresslaw) a little frustrated by their prudish girlfriends; they decide that a camping holiday to a nudist colony will be just the trick. Things get a little jumbled on the way to all the naked people, and the foursome instead end up encountering some of the strangest (and most hilarious) characters ever, including Kenneth Williams as the hysterically unforgettable Dr. Soaper, headmaster of the Chayste Place Finishing School.
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Added by AmericanCinematheque on August 2, 2010