Lost for Words
1980, English. Directed by Anna Thew.
A parody on the post urban devastation wasteland film with a slant on 'rectangular' thought patterns in which a little girl recites from Marx's Communist Manifesto between two cardboard cut out trees and Alfa, the last man on earth to read and write (improvised by Yehuda Safran), is interviewed on TV (improvised by painter Jock McFadyen); with cameo performances by Alexe Sayle eating a Chelsea bun, David Medalla and Oriel de Quadras in non-sensical conversation and Giles Leaman consming reams of rectangular text.
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- 0h 25m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- English
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Lost for Words runs 25 minutes (0h 25m).
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Lost for Words isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 1 January 1980. (Checked 10 November 2026.)
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Who directed Lost for Words?
Lost for Words (1980) was directed by Anna Thew.