#221

That Claire Denis one isn’t very well reviewed?

#222

I quite liked Fedora as a sort of spiritual follow-up to Sunset Boulevard. I think I mentioned it in this thread but it is very strangely out of time in many ways – it’s from the late seventies but feels very much like it could have been made in the forties in many ways.

#223

Water Lilies is so lovely and has a cracking soundtrack, def my 2nd favourite Sciamma film

#224

Grand Illusion is meant to be very good

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#225

literally everything on there is going to be better than ema!

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#226

peter jackson king kong is on c5 just now

so so shit

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#227

I think I remember watching this as a student, and we marvelled at how cool that bloke is eating bread and cheese like an absolute g

#228

Fucking insanely long as well

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#229

I think there’s a great two hour film in there, unfortunately it’s bogged down by so much padding (they take a bloody hour just to get to Skull Island!).

#230

Genuinely thought I was in the Corona thread and you were commenting on Boris’ speech there

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#231

a great one? really?

#232

The Assistant - Perhaps would have worked better as a short, felt overlong even at 90 minutes but it rang very true to some horrible jobs I’ve had as a PA in the past so certainly struck a nerve in that regard.

Never Rarely Sometimes Always Really great turn from the lead actress and manages to be powerful without being preachy. Really wish I could have seen this in the cinema as the atmosphere of it is really something.

#233

Rewatched What We Do In The Shadows which was as enjoyable as I remembered it being though I definitely reckon the series is better.

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#234

The Thomas Crown Affair (the remake) is on iPlayer for the next six days - it’s good!

#235

Divines is good

#236

watched Extraction last night. Hmmmm i guess for switch your brain off big dumb action it’s fairly enjoyable.

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#237

Near Dark has atmosphere to spare, enjoyed it a lot - and killer score too

#238

I described to my mates as a gateway to Michael Bay Bay films.

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#239

Any BFI Player subscribers here?

I might start a subscription. There’s inevitably loads of films that I haven’t heard of looking at their collection.

Anyone here seen any hidden gems from there recently?

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#240

dunno about hidden gems but there’s shitloads of films i’ve never seen. finished my rewatch of the vengeance trilogy on there yesterday. think Lady Vengeance might actually be the best of the 3.

they’re putting all the kurosawa back on which they took off a couple of months ago which really irked me, so that’s good. it’s well worth the £5 a month imo.

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