The Shout (1978 Jerzy Skolimowski & coscr)

Extremely stylish and bonkers film based on 1929 Robert Graves novel, also written by Michael Austin. Filmed entirely in North Devon, and having a tangible feel for the English countryside, the way The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea also displays. A charismatic Alan Bates claims to have learned an Aboriginal scream of death, beguiles musician John Hurt and his wife Susannah York (and their dog). All told from a cricket match taking place at an asylum, run by Robert Stephens, and narrated to Tim Curry.

Didn't know Mike Molloy on camera, nor editor Barrie Vince. Score by Tony Banks and Mike Rutherford is fine.

Has a good way of dissolving into the next scene, feels quite Roegy, and the connection there (if one needs to be sought) is legendary producer Jeremy Thomas, The Man Who Saved the British Film Industry - most interesting credits.

Much use of wasps. And (I later learn) Francis Bacon...