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Films you have seen at the cinema 2024

Hmmm. TBH I'm not impressed that the QR gave something extra.

Not that it would have made everything make sense, mind you. The clairvoyant bit, linked to the something something Buddhism something something science in the future section, was one of the very sketchy areas.
 
littlebabyjesus said:
Hmmm. TBH I'm not impressed that the QR gave something extra.

Not that it would have made everything make sense, mind you.
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I agree, I don't think it should have either. Mind you I'll be surprised if that's the last time I see a QR code at the end of a film now.

And you're right, it doesn't make everything make sense.
 
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Copa 71. Documentary about the first ever women's football World Cup in Mexico. Some of the women who were there talk about their experiences before, during and afterwards and there's lots of contemporary footage. Unsurprisingly, FIFA and the national football associations don't come out of it well. I'm absolutely not a football fan but I thought this was excellent, completely gripping with a hugely frustrating and depressing aftermath. (I was speaking to the youngish woman sitting next to me afterwards and she wasn't into football either but also rated it.)

I saw it in a small screen and there were maybe 25 people there, all women (apart from a solitary man who was with a woman). It's had very good reviews and the last football documentary I saw -- the Maradona in Naples one -- had a pretty gender balanced audience. It feels kind of depressing that the men (in the screening I was at anyway) just didn't turn up for this?
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This is now on iplayer if anyone missed it at the cinema (as I did)
 
Furiosa. Like all Mad Max films, it was entertaining hokum. Anya Taylor-Joy is fantastic, likewise her younger incarnation.
 
The Dead Don't Hurt. Viggo Mortenson (who also wrote and directed) plays a strong silent Danish man who gets together with independent French Vicky Krieps in American Civil War times. Not quite a Western or a romance or a war film or a revenge thriller and not seeming quite sure what it is (and the slow pacing) is a problem. I mean it's fine, just a bit too long and too slow.

Sasquatch Sunset. I knew nothing about this going in (except I like Sasquatches) and turns out this is pretty rum. It follows a group of Sasquatches over a year as they wander through beautiful landscapes doing Sasquatch things. No dialogue, lots of grunting and people in Sasquatch suits rather than animation or CGI. It's surprisingly entertaining and both sad and funny in places but yeah, bit of a weird concept.
 
Just booked a bunch of tickets to see some films and am already worried I won’t feel up to it on the occasion. One of them starts in about half an hour (The Beast), but I’m exhausted and already lying on my bed.
 
Orang Utan said:
Just booked a bunch of tickets to see some films and am already worried I won’t feel up to it on the occasion. One of them starts in about half an hour (The Beast), but I’m exhausted and already lying on my bed.
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Make every effort. It’s a fantastic film.
 
nottsgirl said:
Make every effort. It’s a fantastic film.
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I did and I’m glad I did. It was even worth dragging myself through crowds of drunks to get there (football fans I imagine, this soccergeddon lark is going to be tough to get through).
I didn’t really understand some of it, but its Lynchian vibe suggested I might not need to. Good value film though, cos I’ll be thinking about it for a while.
Here is were the QR code sends you BTW:
It’s just the credits, with one brief scene, which is sort of intriguing but superfluous all the same.
Great use of music and some amazing frocks on Seydoux.
Seydoux and McKay can do wrong it seems.
 
Another Man's Poison

Lurid potboiler featuring Bette Davis. Mystery writer Jane Frobisher lives mostly alone on the Yorkshire moors. She has her eye on her secretary's boyfriend but otherwise she doesn't see many people. One night, she finds a strange man in her house. And that's just the beginning.

Riding crops are wielded menacingly in this one. That's all I can tell you.
 
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Green Border - latest from Agnieszka Holland covering the refugees who were trapped in the forests between Poland and Belarus around the winter of 2021. Thematically similar to her earlier work Europa Europa I suppose. Like in that film there are moments of levity and humour amongst the horror and grimness. Shooting in black and white (we fade from the green of the forest in the first shot).

It’s the acts of ordinary people helping others in need that stand out, offset against the performative cruelty and actual brutality of nation states and soldiers. At the end the film reminds us how Ukrainians were welcomed with open arms in stark contrast to how the subjects of the film have been treated.

Highly recommended but not an easy watch
 
Sue said:
Actually, further to the P&P doc. They mentioned the 'quota quickies' that Powell made pre-Pressburger. I actually caught a couple during the BFI's P&P season last year. Given they were B movies, thought they were surprisingly good.

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Red Ensign (film) - Wikipedia

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The Night of the Party - Wikipedia

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A quick note that BFI are releasing a set of 5 early MP movies shortly, including both of the above. Two of the others are of similar quality and there’s a fifth (The Man in the Mask) I actually haven’t seen!

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Pre-Order: Michael Powell: Early Works (Blu-ray)

Discover five early films by acclaimed British director Michael Powell (The Red Shoes, A Matter of Life and Death, Peeping Tom).
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Elpenor said:
Green Border - latest from Agnieszka Holland covering the refugees who were trapped in the forests between Poland and Belarus around the winter of 2021. Thematically similar to her earlier work Europa Europa I suppose. Like in that film there are moments of levity and humour amongst the horror and grimness. Shooting in black and white (we fade from the green of the forest in the first shot).

It’s the acts of ordinary people helping others in need that stand out, offset against the performative cruelty and actual brutality of nation states and soldiers. At the end the film reminds us how Ukrainians were welcomed with open arms in stark contrast to how the subjects of the film have been treated.

Highly recommended but not an easy watch
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Saw this tonight - completely agree with your analysis.

IMHO all the 'send them back' brigade should be strapped into cinema seats and forced to watch it.
 
Elpenor said:
Green Border - latest from Agnieszka Holland covering the refugees who were trapped in the forests between Poland and Belarus around the winter of 2021. Thematically similar to her earlier work Europa Europa I suppose. Like in that film there are moments of levity and humour amongst the horror and grimness. Shooting in black and white (we fade from the green of the forest in the first shot).

It’s the acts of ordinary people helping others in need that stand out, offset against the performative cruelty and actual brutality of nation states and soldiers. At the end the film reminds us how Ukrainians were welcomed with open arms in stark contrast to how the subjects of the film have been treated.

Highly recommended but not an easy watch
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Before seeing this earlier today, my film of the year (just about) was Io Capitano, which is also about the plight of refugees - but this one tops that. Brutal, harrowing, believable and moving - long but worth every minute. The first film I've seen this year that I'd give an unequivocal 5 stars to.
 
Green Border.
Have just seen it. An important film, based on real life. Quite long, very moving. Makes me feel so helpless and insignificant.
 
Kinds of Kindness. Very odd study of control and I guess the concept of surrendering yourself to someone else. Not sure the second part worked as well as the other two parts, the final chapter of the anthology is probably the best. Jarring music.

Horizon: an American saga chapter 1. Costner’s grand western project is 3 hours long and this is only part 1 of 4. Part 2 follows next month. This is a huge sprawling film, as massive as the landscapes we enjoy. Costner does good western; he wears a moustache and a hat well, and he doesn’t even appear till around half way. There are lots of characters and several storylines which are yet to interweave so this first film is quite hard to judge on its own. I think I liked it. Seeing with subtitles would have been a great help. Cant fault the ambition but not sure if the execution is really there but I will certainly check out the other parts
 
Party Girl. Parker Posey in mid-90s NY. Reasonably funny but not sure I would've gone to see this if I hadn't had a free ticket.

The Bikeriders. Jodie Comer and Tom Hardy go all out American as two of the leads in a biker gang flick. Okay, though felt like it should've been better than it was.

Paris Belongs to Us. Jacques Rivette's first feature and one of the first French New Wave films. A bit too long and not sure how much sense it made but an interesting depiction of late 50's Paris.
 
Kinds of Kindness - meh, there is a definite style there and it's clearly got a lot of talent in it. But for what? There is no emotional investment either in the characters or even the story. You have a series of events with a slightly black comic touch happening but that's it. It is very well made, quite clever, delivered with some panache, and I certainly didn't hate the two and three quarter hours (though it is too long), but it is just rather empty. I suspect Lanthimos might be a director whose best work is when he's directing/adapting other peoples plot/script/book.
 
Sue said:
The Bikeriders. Jodie Comer and Tom Hardy go all out American as two of the leads in a biker gang flick. Okay, though felt like it should've been better than it was.
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I agree. Perhaps it was telling a story as it actually happened but felt the rise of the kid didn’t really work. Austin Butler character was a bit of a headbanger then suddenly got cold feet. Tom Hardy doing a Brando accent?

On reflection this is kind of an American version of the football factory / green street really; but with some nice shots of cornfields
 
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The Quiet Place Day One - I'd gone straight to the polling station to vote after work and didn't want to go home as I knew that once I'd sat on the sofa I wouldn't venture back out to meet friends in pub. So I went to the cinema to kill some time.

I loved the first two films, and this was good too, albeit a prequel set in New York. Lupita Nyong'o is excellent and there's a less well-known actor whose character starts out a bit annoying but then becomes less so, more sympathetic. The cat is good. By which I mean I wondered how many takes each shot took before they got the cat to stick to the script.
 
Kanal. In the final days of the Warsaw Uprising, a hemmed-in group of Resistance fighters is ordered to abandon its position and escape though the sewers. Beautifully shot, gripping, claustrophobic and despairing, the sewers really are a vision of hell.

Notice this and the other two films in Wajda's war trilogy -- A Generation and Ashes and Diamonds -- are all showing at the Prince Charles over the next couple of months.
 
50th anniversary rerelease of The Conversation.

Absolutely brilliant. There aren’t many better films than this, or many better performances than Gene Hackman’s Harry Caul, the paranoid and shy surveillance expert, slowly losing his mind as his Catholic guilt about what he knows or thinks he knows about a recent job consumes him. And the last few shots. Where is the bug? It doesn’t matter in the end, we know for sure it’s in Harry’s head.

Also a strong contender for one of the best Christmas films
 
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