#101

Apologies if someones already mentioned it, but one film missing from @kiyonemakibi always excellent list of releases that’s worth shouting about is Oliver Laxe’s ‘Fire Will Come’. It opens on 20th March, and will be playing here: http://www.newwavefilms.co.uk/view-film-detail.html?viewListing=MjA2

I managed to see it at LFF last year and liked it a great deal, a beautiful textured and timely piece of slow cinema. If patient 16mm shots of nature with a real sense of place and an unhurried slow burn narrative are your bag then this might be for you. I won’t say much about the plot, but the title speaks for itself!

It deservedly won the Jury prize in the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes last year, and I highly recommend seeking it out. It also has a lovely poster…

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#102

done! nice one

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#103

Had to have a beer to decompress after Color Out Of Space. My word that is an intense film

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#104

what’s the biggest foreign language film atm

#105

Passion of the Christ

#106

Seeing this on Thursday, looking forward to it.

#107

Its properly great

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#108

The following Ghibli films are now on Netflix

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984), Princess Mononoke (1997), My Neighbors the Yamadas (1999), Spirited Away (2001), The Cat Returns (2002), Arrietty (2010), The Tale of The Princess Kaguya (2013)

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#109

It’s very low key and unlike any of the rest of their films but I really like Yamadas.

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#110

We just had a film called The Nightingale!

#111

Anyone think the hunt will be anything other than purge-esque tosh?

#112

Took my mum to see Military Wives. My review, contains spoilers:

It’s really not very good. Unsurprisingly patriotic twaddle.

My 62 year old mum loved it, if that counts for anything.

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#113

It’s gonna be like The Interview where the marketing is already done for it and it ends up being an underwhelming release

Hilary Swank is in it though

#114

watched The Big Sick on iPlayer.

Not seen before, thought it was lovely

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#115

watched Heaven Knows What tonight. very tough hang but compelling nonetheless. the main girl is amazing for someone who’s never acted and was on methadone the whole time.

#116

Really enjoyed after the storm. Sags in the middle act but he does kitchen sink subtle drama better than anyone, everything in the grandmother’s flat is superb (also the grandmother’s performance)

#117

Don’t know anything about Sharon Horgan’s background but it surprises me that she’s in this. Doesn’t tally up with her other output at all.

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#118

Blah blah the film moved her…to a bigger house etc

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#119

Watched true romance the other day, great fun but made me wonder about tarantino again. He loves to drop the n bomb doesn’t he.

The scene where clarence’s dad Dennis hopper is being tortured and he has a moment where he has to decide whether to give up or to be a badass. He goes on a rant (which presumably is meant to be a righteous up yours moment that the viewer is supposed to sympathise with) about sicilians descending from black people and how their grandmothers and great grandmothers all got boned by black people. (I’m paraphrasing because obviously a certain word and other more colourful language is used a lot here).

I lt made me wonder why of all the things tarantino could have written for his badass moment, why he chose that specific thing. Seems he always goes there.

#120

He’s a stain of a man

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