Only Two Can Play/Austin Film Society

Last night was the end to our Welsh Essential Cinema Series and an end to Tuesday nights at Alamo South Lamar.  We're being sent up to the Alamo Village for 10 months (bet it's a year) while Tim League builds his empire.  (I'm smiling.)  This was a great B/W film starring Peter Sellers as a loathsome character who you really quite like!  A philanderer, theater critic and librarian.  Who treats his wife shabbily (she's really quite cute) and lives a pretty difficult life in a flat with his wife and two kids and a parade of Welsh characters.  Jim Kolmar's notes as always provided enormous background information and I will never look at THE PINK PANTHER in the same light.  Peter Sellers I learned was a magnificent talent who dealt with his tormentors of self loathing as so many artists do, with drugs and alcohol.  What a shame!  Thank-you Jim and AFS for this wonderful series.