#41

First film of the year watched

The Long Goodbye from 1973. Good start to the year - a gumshoe with a moral conscience of sorts out of his depth in a world making less sense by the day, ain’t it just what we’re all experiencing. Does the sort of slacker-noir thing that Big Lebowski and Inherent Vice do, but it leans more toward traditional noir with the slackerisms more subtly snuggled in there.

Particularly like what I read as an updating of the hardboiled monologue - no first person narration from our grizzled hero, just a half-cut private eye muttering to himself like a weirdo

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#42

Love Jack Gellar

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#43

WW84 is absolute garbage, feel like I just watched and two and half hour Hallmark film with godawful CGI.

really annoyed at myself for not using Letterboxd last year so I’m back on in it in 2021, at least it can only get better from here!

#44

Did you see it in a cinema? I can’t see it on the high seas

#45

On Netflix now I think

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#46

Dredd has popped up on Netflix :sunglasses:

#47

Oh Christ, I need to learn how to read. I thought @BMS1 was talking about Saint Maude! I have seen Saint Frances and thought it was wonderful. The little kid was an absolute delight :man_facepalming:

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#48

I have done this several times in the last few weeks since someone posted about it on here, not to worry.

(Have seen Maud, missed Frances because cinemas reopened later here)

#49

Netflix in the last few days have released Saint Frances, Les Miserables and Babyteeth. All are on my to watch list. I’ll get the others watched over the weekend.

#50

A great film that one. Think that and psycho are the only ones I’ve seen (and vertigo now obvs), which next?

#51

Mubi video quality is really bad when you’re using a vpn

#52

Rear Window is the only Hitchcock that I’ve loved more than admired

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#53

To Catch A Thief and North By Northwest are on iPlayer atm with The 39 Steps on Film 4 on the 13th.

@Scott_Chegg

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#54

I don’t know when you were last a member of mubi, but they now have the Library, as well as the 30 films thing on there, so there are actually hundreds of films available to watch.

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#55

Rope is worth a watch.

That was the first Hitchcock I saw probably in the late 80s not realising it’s a Hitchcock at the time because I was too young to notice or care back then.

It’s another one with James Stewart.

It’s sort of done in real time and with 10 or 15 minute single shots. It was the physical length of the film that limited the time length of the single shot.

Anyway, it’s a very underrated and slightly lesser known of Hitchcock’s.

#56

You can’t go wrong with @littleforts’s choices (I’ve not seen TCAT so will be putting that on myself). I’m an unabashed fan of North by Northwest, though - probably my favourite caper with a superb script.

#57

It’s been a while since I was with Mubi. I think I subscribed via an app on my DVD player. It was a bit clunky and some films didn’t play for some reason.

It kind of put me off Mubi after my subscription ended. Might go back now I have a smart TV.

#58

We’ve had no issues with the mubi app, or going via a desktop browser for the past couple of years.

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#59

Probably my DVD player’s fault. That’s not exactly new.

#60

Cheers I was Googling what they’ve got.

I see they’ve got A Portrait Of A Lady On Fire. I kicked myself for not going to the cinema to see it.

I guess Mubi will be getting my money now.