#101

I feel like a lot of his early stuff is a really good document of a particular moment fed through his own particularly melodramatic lens.

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#102

120 BPM was very very good.

Made me think of The Class, which I haven’t seen in ages, in terms of pacing, dialogue, etc. and then I realised it was by the same person…

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#103

I also had no idea they were directed by the same person wtf :smiley: thought they were both great, especially the class

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#104

Ah, just noticed that the director of 120 BPM wrote the screenplay for The Class rather than directing it

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#105

Oh wow, I might have to check out 120bpm. The Class is a real blast from the past, think I watched it two or three times back at university and it really is one of the films that weirdly defines a certain time for me

#106

The Lunchbox is leaving Mubi tomorrow. People should watch that if they like films that are nice and good imo

#107

La Dolce Vita - as I’m very stupid I’d never realised this was more of a series of vignettes. Anyway it’s great, perfect depiction of how morally bankrupt the rich and powerful are

Animal Crackers - barely any plot to speak of, some dull musical interludes, but one of the funniest films I’ve ever seen

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#108

Don’t films stay on in the library now or have I misunderstood?

#109

They do, but i think that’s only on browsers atm? The app just does the 30 films thing still afaik

#110

Aah (didn’t know it had an app)

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#111

I pretty much exclusively use the app to watch, through PS4 or ipad. :nerd_face:

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#112

yeah that was the one I ended up watching, would recommend it

the other was corpus christi, not heard of it before but it’s on sky/now, looks decent

#113

I don’t think they have the rights for them all, a few of them say ‘leaving soon’ where the old ‘expiring in 10 days’ used to be

#114

Watched The Vast Of Night this morning. I liked it, I’m always a sucker for that 50’s B-movie / Twilight Zone vibe.

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#115

Yeah, good fun.

#116

Really enjoyed the Black Power mixtape on mubi.

Didn’t think it was amazingly put together but lots of the footage completely speaks for itself. The Angela Davis and Stokely Carmichael pieces are incredible. Obviously very timely and some of Carmichael’s speech about MLK had really stark parallels with current events.

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#117

Is it every film they put on as well?

#118

I readied Blind Chance by Kieslowski on the Mubi library to watch, as soon as I hit play it had disappeared

The Satayajit Ray film on Mubi is very good

#119

Army of Shadows: B+
The Red and the White: C+
Belle De Jour: A

#120

The term lunchbox always reminds me of when I told a Japanese friend that ‘lunchbox’ was slang for a gentlemen’s private area and she paused to consider for a few seconds before saying, “Is it because of the sausage?”

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