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Don’t make me take off my sunglasses…
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Watched on Tuesday June 3, 2025.
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Watched on Sunday June 1, 2025.
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Watched on Sunday June 1, 2025.
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Watched on Wednesday May 28, 2025.
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Isn't that what being young is about? Believing secretly that you would be the one person in the history of man that would live forever?
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“I don’t drink coffee.” Magic (madness) is infectious
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Watched on Saturday May 10, 2025.
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Watched on Monday May 5, 2025.
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Watched on Thursday May 1, 2025.
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I watched this last night and I still feel queasy.
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Post-franchise Ryan Coogler is dangerous. Such a strong use of genre. How many lives are behind us, lost to time like those old blues recordings? Vampire lore is so fun, I love to see people make their own version of the rules. The vampires that have to be let in are maybe my favourite. I could talk about this movie for hours. MBJ. Delroy Lindo. Ludwig fucking Goransson. The “music from the past and future” scene. MBJ “I just gotta take care of something” at the end. Man… 🤯
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Can’t believe I paid money for this shit
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Watched on Thursday April 10, 2025.
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Watched on Tuesday April 8, 2025.
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Watched on Tuesday April 8, 2025.
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Watched on Saturday April 5, 2025.
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Watched on Wednesday April 2, 2025.
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Film is for the kids 🦋 🐵
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Was lucky enough to attend a masterclass with JO at the Regent Street cinema after this and to speak to him as well. Very much of a piece with Oppenheimer’s mission statement, to interrogate the uniquely human ability to lie to ourselves and believe it. I found a lot to think about here. “We all live in bunkers that determine the limits of our comion.”
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Love!
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Watched on Thursday March 27, 2025.
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Watched on Wednesday March 26, 2025.
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Watched on Tuesday March 25, 2025.
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Watched on Sunday March 23, 2025.
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Watched on Friday March 21, 2025.
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Watched on Sunday March 16, 2025.
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Watched on Friday February 28, 2025.
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Watched on Saturday February 22, 2025.
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Watched on Thursday February 20, 2025.
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Watched on Tuesday February 18, 2025.
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Watched on Tuesday February 18, 2025.
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"I am letting you into the secret of all secrets, mirrors are gates through which death comes and goes. Moreover if you see your whole life in a mirror you will see death at work as you see bees behind the glass in a hive."
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Watched on Thursday February 6, 2025.
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Stunning.
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Watched on Friday January 31, 2025.
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A deeply empathetic, historic and operatic masterpiece about life in post-war America for an immigrant and holocaust survivor, The Brutalist captured my heart with its INTERVAL. I left all my things in the cinema and got a coffee and half-price blueberry muffin. Long movies have never felt this good. Also if your only takeaway from this film was to ask whether or not it’s zionist, touch some grass
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This review may contain spoilers.
There are very few times in my life that I can recall having cried like I did watching Nickel Boys. Even the second time, with full knowledge of every trick it was going to pull, every card it was going to play, I cried just as hard - if not harder. It's one of those moments that transcends rationalisation. I can't fully explain why Elwood's death affected me more than any other of cinema's many tragic demises. It's not a particularly surprising one, and we've doubtless seen similar tragedies of the victims of racism play out on our screens before. It's true that in no other film can I recall seeing so vividly through the main character's eyes, and never have I seen the life literally drain out of someone from their perspective, as is so heartbreakingly captured in Nickel Boys. This surely played a significant part in evoking the emotions that I felt, that I still feel, whenever I picture Elwood, or Curtis, or that field, bikes strewn on the ground. But I think the most heart-wrenching part of Nickel Boys' somber denouement is it's treatment of time. When the bullet is fired time is simultaneously shattered and pieced back together. Like the freight train Turner rode out of Florida, we shuttle through history, Elwood vanishing into a speck on the tracks behind us. The weight I felt in those final moments was not rooted purely in Elwood's death, but in all of ours, in the fragility of life and the ease with which it can be taken away. Cinema may be the most apt medium at capturing reality, but the reality it presents is far from real. Imposed upon it are sets of rules, morals, beliefs, that make the world it presents easier to digest - not unlike the belief firmly held by Elwood that he can make a change. The real world is cold and unforgiving, and time is cruel. Watching the future unfurl from the carriage of that freight train, spurred on by Mulatu Astatke's mournful vibraphone and powerless to stop it, I saw and believed the world, not as it is in the movies, but the world that we live in. And I cried. I don't think that will ever be an easier pill to swallow.
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Watched on Tuesday January 28, 2025.
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Watched on Monday January 27, 2025.
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Watched on Sunday January 26, 2025.
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Took what Hardcore Henry did to a whole new level! (I think this could be the best film I’ve ever seen)
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Where to start… Spike is a master. Would call it one of the greatest American films but that feels inappropriate. “We didn’t land on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock landed on us.” Just so masterfully constructed, so epic. Denzel is uncanny, and Terence Blanchard’s score is dramatic and mournful. When Sam Cooke’s “A Change is Gonna Come” played, oh my god. Everything was done so well, but what stood out to me the most was the crazy dramatic lighting. Amongst everything else the opening and closing sequences were masterclasses. I was crying when the credits hit.
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“A child's intelligent heart can fathom the depth of many dark places, but can it fathom the delicate moment of its own detachment?”
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Watched on Thursday January 23, 2025.
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Good but sure they would have separated again a month later
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Seeing this in my “David Lynch died”-induced existential crisis nearly made me drive to Portsmouth
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Rest easy David. One of my true heroes. ☕️🌲
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Watched on Thursday January 16, 2025.
]]>- My Life as a Dog
- The Elephant Man
- Dìdi (弟弟)
- We're All Going to the World's Fair
- I Saw the TV Glow
- The Killer
- The Beast
- The Rescue
- Starship Troopers
- Happiness
...plus 86 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>- Life Itself
- Hoop Dreams
- O.J.: Made in America
- No Other Land
- Streetwise
- Senna
- Dominion
- All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
- Crumb
- Nostalgia for the Light
...plus 1 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Sweaty films
]]>including anime, coproductions, documentaries and shorts
- Late Spring
- Rashomon
- Early Summer
- Ikiru
- Tokyo Story
- Seven Samurai
- Good Morning
- Harakiri
- The Face of Another
- Emotion
...plus 103 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Good uplifting films - truly a rarity.
- Moonstruck
- Chungking Express
- True Stories
- Whisper of the Heart
- PlayTime
- Mon Oncle
- Paddington 2
- The Straight Story
- Police Story
- Night Is Short, Walk On Girl
...plus 4 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>- Amores Perros
- Force Majeure
- When Father Was Away on Business
- Talk to Her
- Beauty and the Beast
- Demons
- The Elephant Man
- Angel Dust
- The Piano
- Peeping Tom
...plus 60 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Films that either explore the realm of dreams or are reminiscent of them in texture and tone.
- Céline and Julie Go Boating
- Long Day's Journey into Night
- Waking Life
- House
- Wild Strawberries
- Dreams
- TÁR
- Eraserhead
- Blue Velvet
- Mulholland Drive
...plus 4 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>- Taxi Driver
- Videodrome
- Fight Club
- Se7en
- Memento
- Snatch
- Apocalypse Now
- Fury
- Tropic Thunder
- Inglourious Basterds
...plus 305 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>- Inside Llewyn Davis
- Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion
- Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
- Long Day's Journey into Night
- Still Walking
- Koyaanisqatsi
- The Conversation
- Collateral
- Trainspotting
- The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
...plus 2 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>- Amarcord
- Amores Perros
- Blow Out
- Badlands
- Casablanca
- Carol
- Barton Fink
- Army of Darkness
- The Birds
- Crimson Gold
...plus 110 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>- The Exterminating Angel
- Italian for Beginners
- Elephant
- Killer of Sheep
- Lilya 4-ever
- The Look of Silence
- Ida
- The Eel
- Frenzy
- Gloria
...plus 58 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>From memory these all fit the description, open to suggestions
- Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
- Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
- Beau Travail
- Point Break
- Rope
- Rebels of the Neon God
- The River
- The Lighthouse
- Mikey and Nicky
- Berlin Alexanderplatz
...plus 2 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>- Pulse
- Night of the Living Dead
- Demons
- The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
- Suspiria
- Inland Empire
- Saw
- Thirst
- Scanners
- The Babadook
...plus 73 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>- Memories of Murder
- The Conversation
- Under the Skin
- King of New York
- Sexy Beast
- The Night of the Hunter
- Don't Look Now
- Koyaanisqatsi
- The Deer Hunter
- PlayTime
...plus 13 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>surreal dreamy adventures into the night
- After Hours
- Fallen Angels
- Blue Velvet
- Taxi Driver
- Chungking Express
- The Long Goodbye
- Naked
- Mikey and Nicky
- Nights of Cabiria
- The Night of the Hunter
...plus 4 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>- In the Darkness of Time
- Attack on a Bakery
- The House Is Black
- Walker
- Lily Chan & The Doom Girls
- The Dante Quartet
- Wind
- Spacy
- 13
- Hedgehog in the Fog
...plus 94 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>From David Ehrlich’s Nashville review
- Yi Yi
- Spirited Away
- Nashville
- Chungking Express
- The Godfather
- Love Exposure
- 8½
- Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
- Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
...plus 1 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Loved all of them apart from C’mon C’mon and the top two are basically neck and neck
]]>Films that I think hold important ideas to do with life, that have some capital T Truth in there.
- Ikiru
- La Notte
- The Human Condition
- Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
- The Deer Hunter
- Mirror
- Tropical Malady
- Fallen Angels
- Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
- Chungking Express
...plus 27 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>- Badlands
- The Conversation
- The French Connection
- Midnight Cowboy
- Bonnie and Clyde
- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
- Paper Moon
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- Sorcerer
- M*A*S*H
...plus 14 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>- Videodrome
- Eyes Wide Shut
- The Lighthouse
- Requiem for a Dream
- After Hours
- Eraserhead
- Blue Velvet
- Possession
- Rosemary's Baby
- House
...plus 4 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>- Antiporno
- s Ha
- Repo Man
- Tetsuo: The Iron Man
- School in the Crosshairs
- Branded to Kill
- Ghost in the Shell
- Pi
- Airplane!
- Sexy Beast
...plus 62 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
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- Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
- Burning
- Funeral Parade of Roses
- In the Realm of the Senses
- 8½
- Syndromes and a Century
- The Player
- Love Exposure
- The Souvenir
- Drive My Car
...plus 2 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
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