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The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956 edition)
(Note: I’m trying to remember all the things I’ve seen this year. I will write down as many as I can remember. I apologise in advance to any films I forget about.) Mystery, suspense, Jimmy Stewart, and Doris Day – what’s not to love? Currently available on BBC iPlayer, Hitchcock’s Hollywood remake of his own Read more
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Return to Seoul
I went to the cinema on a whim. I noticed it cycling by, and it was too perfect to ignore. I passed at 4:29, and there was a film showing at 4:30: Return to Seoul, a film I had heard about without learning anything about, in my usual, hyper-obsessive, hyper-avoidant, spoiler-avoiding way. Sat a few Read more
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Film Review: Dune, directed by Denis Villeneuve
“Today’s mega-Audience is way better trained, and TV has discarded what is not needed. A dog, if you point at something, will look only at your finger.” David Foster Wallace I’m currently reading “Everything, everywhere, all the time”, Stuart Jeffries’s fun pop-culture polemic about how post-modernism has taken over both the world and our souls. Read more
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Arnie all-nighter at the Prince Charles Cinema: Morning Star column 08/09/2015
THE Prince Charles in London’s West End isn’t the only repertory cinema in Britain. There’s the magnificent BFI, for instance, with its lovingly curated seasons and its carefully calibrated programme that balances beautifully between pretension and popularity. But the BFI wouldn’t show Mothra, an infamous Japanese monster film from the 1960s. It’d never arrange a Read more
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