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https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMzBlNzUzOGMtMDc4Yy00ZWM0LWJkYjQtMTYzYjJiMzI1NjY5XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyOTc5MDI5NjE@._V1_.jpg Michael Winterbottom - I Want You (1998) Ha, I watched this this morning and couldn't agree with you more. But was the kid Polish? Wasn't there some sort of Yugoslav connect...

https://popandfilms.fr/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Capture-d%E2%80%99e%CC%81cran-2020-04-04-a%CC%80-00.57.47.png Nagisa Oshima, Max mon amour , 1986 Wiki: "Billed on the DVD cover as "the greatest ape romance since King Kong", Max, My Love is the story of a British diplomat in France, Peter Jones (A...

http://www.filmsinfilms.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Pennies-from-Heaven-1.jpg Herbert Ross - Pennies From Heaven (1981) Wow, your monster write-up not only makes me want to return to the original series ('"horny, brutal and innocent at the same time" great line) but calls into question my own ra...

Nice to see you back, Ben :) https://cdn.simplesite.com/i/c4/e0/282319407309119684/i282319414669293580.jpg Luchino Visconti, Vaghe stelle dell'Orsa (aka Sandra) , 1965 Visconti goes all Gothic in his recrafting of the Elektra / Orestes tale, building up an incestuous head of steam between Claudia C...

And speaking of television: http://www.filmsinfilms.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Pennies-from-Heaven-1.jpg Herbert Ross - Pennies From Heaven (1981) Quite possibly not at all the fair or right thing to do to Ross’s film, but I just finished watching Potter’s Pennies From Heaven and wanted to have ...

https://i.ibb.co/9ssCYqx/vlcsnap-2020-12-07-22h14m36s592.png Face , Antonia Bird, 1997 Wanted to see some British thriller after reading the first of the Factory series by Derek Raymond. Starts off rather promisingly, with a heist chock-a-block with tension. It already has that 90s look though that...

I'm slowly but surely ploughing through the complete Ballard short stories - an enormous book - but none of them is a particularly pleasant read. Not a criticism, that - it's just his style, that dry, unforgiving prose, with characters who are rarely sympathetic, and often downright glacial. I thou...

https://filmmakermagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/pgLK46_HIGH-RISE_02_o3_8725307_1439475010.jpg Ben Wheatley - High Rise (2015) I must say, to begin, that I was very pleasantly surprised by this. Read some snarky stuff online, saw clips of what looked like hideous CGI and decided a little bi...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C-CoLLQXkAQw6vu?format=jpg&name=large Ken Loach - Hidden Agenda (1990) Let’s get the good bits out of the way, because they certainly are good and I don’t have much else nice to say about this. The story is about the American widow of an human rights lawyer assassinated ...

https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/images/reviews/290/full/1475871503_2.png Bille August, The Best Intentions , 1991 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Best_Intentions Just watched the four-part miniseries here, will try the condensed (but still three-hour) cinema version next time. And there will be a...

https://editorial01.shutterstock.com/wm-preview-1500/5869836b/1236e782/madame-white-snake-1956-shutterstock-editorial-5869836b.jpg Shirô Toyoda - Madame White Snake (1956) Fun story - in my Discogs wantlist I have added, for some reason (my suspicions run toward David Toop), the Ikuma Dan OST CD fo...

https://64.media.tumblr.com/5e102a5dc441a836af8c24d3f5fa5721/tumblr_p9s824THnp1suhljbo3_r1_500.png https://64.media.tumblr.com/9e60b9683ba040933721415032922fdd/1c322008831c1896-b1/s500x750/34c80ab559430e72af3455b3cd135f5e88b0414b.jpg Ken Russell - The Devils (1971) Ok, so my forty(one) years old se...

Can't wait to read what you think of Tommy or Lisztomania or The Devils ! Oh, I just LOVE Peter Maxwell Davies' music in The Devils ! I remember, pre-Discogs days, going on the hunt for that recording, coming up with nothing. Still true, I fear. That really is a soundtrack begging to be issued, alo...

https://dcairns.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/vlcsnap-2011-12-19-23h06m24s37.png?w=662&h=372 https://dcairns.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/vlcsnap-90384.png?w=662&h=372 https://dcairns.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/vlcsnap-2011-12-19-23h02m30s13.png?w=662&h=372 Ken Russell, Altered States , 1980 "No one ...

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BOGY2NTdlMTktNGM4Ny00YmU3LWI4OTItZmYwYzI4NWJjYzYzXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMjUyNDk2ODc@._V1_.jpg Amos Poe - Alphabet City (1984) An intriguing fuck-up, this. Vincent Spano stars as Johnny, a mob operative in the titular area of Manhattan. Wearying of the life he leads, ...

https://cinemaderien.fr/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Dead-Mans-Shoes-2004.jpeg Shane Meadows, Dead Man's Shoes , 2004 Considine is excellent, but the rest of the cast aren't all that brilliant, and the editing is uneven (OK, so it was a low-budget affair and cast and crew went everywhere together in ...

https://www.kviff.com/en/image/fancybox/photo-web/46/161/6d66-i-never-promised-you-a-rose-garden-aportrait-ofdavid-toop-throug.jpg Guy-Marc Hinant & Dominique Lohlé, I Never Promised You A Rose Garden , 2009 It is, as it says, a portrait of David Toop through his record collection - but even Toop h...

Splendid write-up - funny, I remember enjoying The Tenant last time we saw it (which was a loooong time ago). I should try again. Meanwhile, it's a shame that Walt doesn't post here anymore, as I recall he's a big fan of this. We've been around these bushes before, though - unlike you, I like Cul d...

https://mraybould.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/psycho-tootsie.jpg Roman Polanski - The Tenant (1976) Hello there, strike whatever by this count against Polanski. The director plays a hapless man moving into a cramped Paris apartment, driven mad by the histrionics of the building and its inhabitants....

http://rarefilm.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/The-Other-Robert-Mulligan-1972-1.jpg Robert Mulligan - The Other (1972) Wow. I did not expect this coming into it, but this is one fine film. Two twins, one naughty, one nice, stalking and haunting the family home in 1930s Connecticut. Spoiler alert: t...