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Watched on Wednesday May 21, 2025.

Watched on Wednesday May 21, 2025.

Watched on Thursday May 15, 2025.

Watched on Thursday May 8, 2025.

Watched on Wednesday May 7, 2025.

Watched on Tuesday May 6, 2025.

Watched on Sunday May 4, 2025.

Watched on Saturday May 3, 2025.

A quiet, patient film, where tiny details matter, and where their accumulation becomes overwhelming. A seriously impressive debut.

I so wanted to love this, but it just kept getting the tone wrong and not quite landing the jokes.

Watched on Monday April 21, 2025.

Watched on Thursday April 17, 2025.

Good interviews with the band. Nice to include the recording of Bonham's interview.

I like that some whole numbers were allowed to play out, so you could really hear just how good this band were.

Such a disappointment

Watched on Tuesday April 1, 2025.

Watched on Monday March 31, 2025.

That last scene is so perfect, I need to watch the film again to fully appreciate it's subtleties.

There a quiet scepticism running through this film, which is made explicit at the end, but is mostly drowned out by the sensationalist stylistic flourishes.

Watched on Thursday March 27, 2025.

Watched on Wednesday March 26, 2025.

Watched on Tuesday March 25, 2025.

Watched on Tuesday March 25, 2025.

Wow

Quietly devastating. A story told so much via the details.

A magnificent, highly cinematic, and beautifully realised film.

Watched on Friday March 21, 2025.

The disturbing collage of Stockhausen's soundtrack is a perfect match to the jagged, disconcerting, surreal imagery of the Quay bothers.

Watched on Monday March 17, 2025.

Watched on Monday March 17, 2025.

Watched on Sunday March 16, 2025.

Moses Ingram was the saving grace. Oh, and the tap dancing. Otherwise insipid, ponderous, with a very uneven script

Watched on Friday March 14, 2025.

An astonishing achievement. A series that tries to understand the experience of enduring The Troubles through personal stories.

A deeply affecting act of remembrance, with a magnificently nuanced performance from Fernanda Torres.

Walter Salles never overplays the drama, always gets the right tone, so that the moments of menace and dread are all the more devastating.

There is a sense of dread in watching the portrayal of a society where institutions are no longer effective, where truth is malleable, and where dissent is stamped on. The distance between a healthy democracy and the sickness of fascism is frighteningly small.

Watched on Saturday March 8, 2025.

One of the great experimental silent films

Watched on Thursday March 6, 2025.

Watched on Wednesday March 5, 2025.

A slippery, intriguing film. Painfully funny in places. Overwhelmingly moving in others. Fascinating.

Watched on Monday March 3, 2025.

This review may contain spoilers.

The director has said that the "concept [of the film] came from music. I wanted to make a musical without music. I wanted to create my music with only natural voices, noises, and sounds."

[https://www.indiewire.com/features/general/gyrgy-plfis-hukkle-the-hungarian-hiccup-heard-around-the-world-79309/]

In this delightfully strange and funny film, the sound design is exquisite. The cinematography too.

Interesting that the murderous plotline is similar to the real story of the Angel Makers of Nagyrév, a "group of women who lived in villages in the Tiszántúl region of Hungary and poisoned about 300 people between 1911 and 1929.

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_Makers_of_Nagyr%C3%A9v]

Despite the scale of ambition, the powerful performances, and the importance of the themes, it left me underwhelmed. In some ways, a film about the wife and the almost mute niece would have been a more interesting perspective on the story

Not a great film, but still kind of enjoyed it. Even though De Nero's acting is surprisingly patchy. Comically so at times. But Anne Hathaway is always good and she is the best thing here.

Sometimes you just need to switch off and enjoy the show.

Underwhelming

Watched on Saturday February 22, 2025.

This is not a Pulk Fiction, Tarantino's masterpiece, but it's more mature and emotionally satisfying than that film.

Brash and ballsy, crashing headlong into all things cultural identity, this irreverent film gives the finger to propriety, and "wraps" it all up in music that is abrasive and great fun.

Watched again after many years, and it stands up really well. Funny, great characters, quite broad but with moments of subtlety, and emotional.

I love it.

Watched on Saturday February 15, 2025.

Stunning short film. Disturbing, nightmarish, and abstract with brilliant animation.

The music and sound design also superb.

A truly talented filmmaker.

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1. The Souvenir: Part II
2. Petite Maman
3. Drive My Car
4. Memoria
5. Titane
6. The Power of the Dog
7. What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?
8. Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
9. Annette
10. Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy

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1. Black Girl
2. Cairo Station
3. Ayanda

1. The Guns of Loos
2. Splinters
3. Dark Red Roses
4. The W Plan
5. High Treason

1. Zurich
2. Closely Watched Trains
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4. Atomic: Living in Dread and Promise
5. Dance Iranian Style
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8. A Syrian Love Story
9. Wildlike
10. 16 Years till Summer

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• The Man From Home
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• Three Live Ghosts

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2. Suspense.
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7. Death Is a Caress
8. A Portrait of Ga
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2. Citizen Kane
3. Tokyo Story
4. The Rules of the Game
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7. The Searchers
8. Man with a Movie Camera
9. The ion of Joan of Arc
10. 8½

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2. Gravity
3. Blue Is the Warmest Color
4. The Great Beauty
5. s Ha
6. A Touch of Sin
7. Upstream Color
8. The Selfish Giant
9. Norte, The End of History
10. Stranger by the Lake

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• Beyond the Hills
• Caesar Must Die
• Stories We Tell

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2. The Turin Horse
3. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
4. Two Years at Sea
5. Tabu
6. Le Havre
7. Michael
8. A Cube of Sugar
9. Five Broken Cameras
10. About Elly

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