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Tonie Marshall, Vénus Beauté (Institut) , 1999 Here's James: http://www.frenchfilms.org/review/venus-beaute-institut-1999.html The only thing I knew about Tonie Marshall before watching this engaging and quirky comedy (stellar cast! including Ms Marshall's real life mum, Micheline Presle) was that ...

Dan Warburton wrote: ↑

Mon Feb 07, 2022 11:09 am

Too late to wish you a Happy New Year, Alastair (I believe you're supposed to do that in January?) though I will anyway.

Happy New Year to you too Dan. Keep up the good work.

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/cWAFpW6QavM/maxresdefault.jpg Hirokazu Koreeda, After Life , 1988 I saw this at the NFT at some point in the late 90s and absolutely loved it. Spent ages trying to track down a DVD copy, eventually managing to get a region 1 version in the days when this was quite a thing. Mu...

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Thu Feb 04, 2021 1:29 pm

I decided there and then that, as KRS One said later, " all sport is bullshit"

You like long films with complex narratives but extended periods where nothing happens? You'd love test cricket.

You can't beat a game that can be played for 30 hours over five days and still no-one wins.

Did you actually see this in a real cinema, Alastair (you are still down under, aren't you? I see cinemas reopened in Australia a couple of weeks ago)? Jealous! New name for me - the only Francis Lee I've ever heard of used to play for Manchester City (showing my age here) :D Anyway, nice write-up,...

https://storage.googleapis.com/afs-prod/media/470376c016b243019b69d003266777a2/3000.jpeg Francis Lee, Ammonite , 2020 I enjoyed this. Of course the romantic aspect was completely fictionalised but was none the worse for it (although the ending was perhaps a bit predictable). Kate Winslet spends the...

Dan Warburton wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 13, 2021 5:12 pm

While scrolling I wasn't paying full attention and thought this was Boris Johnson for one glorious moment.

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Tue Aug 18, 2020 12:07 pm

Woody Allen, Match Point, 2005

This film made me very angry. If I hadn't been with friends at the Clapham cinema where I saw it, I'd have walked out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6U8WCHiYeLM Red Sovine - Here It Is, Christmas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DLvmKP85ac DJ John - The Christmas Massacre Of Charlie Brown

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBbYqUOTLLk Margo Guryan - I Don’t Intend To Spend Christmas Without You

The train trip into Paris from home every day is just over an hour long, the perfect opportunity to watch the entire Dekalog in a week - which I'm delighted to say I've done, at last. I"m just thinking of what your fellow commuters make of your morning viewing. http://euforia.tiff.gr/wp-content/upl...

walto wrote:
I'd add Brideshead Revisited

Oh jeez no. sloooooooooooow adaptation of a merely ok book. I nearly topped myself during the last episode. GET ON WITH IT.

(there's slow and there's slow - I like Satantango)

henriq wrote:
Luchino Visconti - Vaghe stella dell'Orsa (1965)

If you can't get it from your usual sources, it's on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izaJ3QSZjNI

walto wrote: Alone in Berlin (Perez, 2016)

I enjoyed the book (bit of a Fallada freak). Pity to hear the film is not great.

That last post was very unclear. I've seen the original Rat Pack version (on TV years ago) but until a few weeks ago, none of the remakes/reboots.

(as if anyone cares)

Certainly is. I can remember being amazed that they remade it - and the success of it and its spinoffs, none of which I've seen, except... Through circumstances too tedious to go into here I ended up seeing "Ocean's 8" a few weeks ago - the all-female spinoff. A fun way to switch your mind off for a...

surfer wrote: Last time I picked against Croatia at Euro 08 Alastair told me I didn't give my team my full backing and I've not forgotten it since.

I was a dick in 2008.

Only three points separate third from eighth in the kicktipp table - surfer looks nailed on to win but otherwise it's all to play for.

Don't forget The New Rutland Silence.

walto wrote:Seems like somebody ought to be giving this bottom-dweller some advice!

You top scored in the last "matchday", so I'd say keep doing what you're doing...

. Only one in a final, by a Brit. His second goal bounced into the goal and back out again, and the Germans claimed it wasn't a goal. The third one was in the closing seconds, he tried to kick it into the crowd to run out the clock, but hit it wrong and it went into the goal. Geoff Hurst played for...