Yeah this was pretty good, a few silly moments, including the very end
Likemaybe don’t go back to your home after a heist
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- Seven Samurai (BFI Player)
7/10 - Mulholland Drive (studio canal)
- Carol (Studio Canal, can buy for £4 on Amazon)
- The Apartment (MGM/Mubi)
- The VVitch (nowhere) 7.5/10
- Woman in the Dunes (Bfi player) 7/10
- Jeanne Dielman (bfi player)
- In the Mood for Love (Nowhere)
- Moonlight (Nowhere)
- All that Jazz (Nowhere) 8.5/10
- Dogtooth (BFI/itv) 3/10
- Come and See (Nowhere)
- The Taking of Pelham 123 (Prime) 8/10
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All right, finally got one! Not surprising this would be a good one:
No. 4 - Rear Window… first time of course, and first Hitchcock I’ve really loved (Vertigo was pretty great, but didn’t quite make it to ‘heart on letterboxd’ level for reasons I haven’t quite put my finger on). The main thing I didn’t expect was quite how funny Rear Window would be. And, as with Vertigo, I can see why the psychoanalysts like it. I did expect that though. No star rating because I’m a coward, but a definite heart on letterboxd.
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Very beautifully shot, not 100% sure had quite enough substance/story for me. 8/10
Update
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Whiplash I was told is a “fun Saturday night film”
it gave me an upset tummy because I was so anxious watching the students getting harassed 
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Watched Les 400 Coups
Brilliant film. The teachers are dickheads. The parents are dickheads. The authority figures are dickheads. Even our child protagonist is a bit of a dickhead on occasion although I fully sympathised with him throughout. Paris in black and white looks amazing. Loved it.
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Greatest final shot in cinema imo
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The rest of the series are sillier but also great. Antoine Doinel is such a good character
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Didn’t realise there were more! I’m in.
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Jeanne Dieleman - obviously well shot and nice mise-en-scene, but ultimately ‘not for me’
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Only watched my ‘January film’ over the weekend so playing catch up. Super impressed with 12 Angry Men which is no big surprise. Feel obliged to watch the 1997 made for TV version now. It’s due another remake in about 10 years.
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Carol - yeah was fine, sort of feels like one of those really well put together films that I can’t knock any aspect of that much but didn’t really do that much for me.
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So I ended up bonus watching the 1997 version of 12 Angry Men, primarily because I incorrectly interpreted a review of the original as saying that the remake had an entirely different ending. Turns out it’s extremely similar apart from some casting choices. At the same time, I’m pleasantly surprised with how solid a remake it is given I hadn’t even heard of it until yesterday.
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Watched this as a double-header with “The Secret Agent” (2025), and as part of my “Roy Scheider in the '70s” trilogy (gonna do “Sorceror” (1977) next, if I can track it down).
I’d seen bits and pieces of it but never all the way through, and was hooked - much like the titular fish - from start to finish. Fully expected to find it pretty tame and dated by today’s standards, but I absolutely get why it shat everyone up so much when it came out. And the dastardly mayor character obviously still resonates today.
Love how un-rebootable it is too. No expanded universe bollocks or slow death by legacy sequel like Jurassic Park, just a one-and-done tale of a bunch of dudes blowing up a massive shark. Yes I know there were some sequels, but that was ages ago.
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Mulholland Drive. Yeah that was a David Lynch film.