Film of the week is the languorous La Dolce Vita. Night of the Demon (English version) is one of the best horror films ever made. Au Grand Balcon (1949), a rare foreign film on UK TV, thanks to TPTV. Jean Rollin's Lips fails to impress again.
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I don't know how it is that I've never seen Our Man in Havana. Alec Guinness was a genius and Graham Greene's script captures the subtle nuances of Britain's imperial decline. A satire on the decline of imperial pretensions and what is next.
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Eephus is a perfect elegy for US baseball - where it got late early. The Secret Agent should have won Best I.P. hands down. It led me to I'm Still Here - that won last year. Fernanda Torres is just wonderful. Catch both films if you can.
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Takes a while to get on topic but definitely worth the wait..
David Thewlis gives an unforgettable performance as the vituperative anti-hero, Johnny, in Mike Leigh's darker-than-midnight, sub-bohemian, mouldy slice of 1990s London life, Naked. Misogynistic, misanthropic, relentless film of the week. #letterboxdFriday #lastfourwatched #letterboxd #filmsky
Mihály Biró is best known for his posters depicting male workers as socialist heroes. In this poster for International Women's Day he emphasises women's role in the socialist movement. A strong, confident woman is shown striding out and holding the red flag of socialism, supported by columns of marching women. poster for Women day 8 march from 1925
In this poster for International Women's Day Biro emphasises women's role in the socialist movement. A strong, confident woman is shown striding out and holding the red flag of socialism, supported by columns of marching women.
Anne Bancroft was at the top of her game in The Pumpkin Eater, with a cryptic screenplay by Harold Pinter. Finally caught up with Unsane, starring Clare Foy who is locked up in a paranoid nightmare of perfect edgy horror - my film of the week.
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I was so angry with BAFTA for ignoring Palestine 36, a political decision to cover up British complicity in the Gaza Genocide. They live in a bubble. But my FOTW is Evil Does Not Exist, an enigmatic, poetic and haunting work. It will linger.
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Shame Starmer's going to blow it on pointless nukes.
I saw Man on the Tracks from 1956 from Sands Films Cinema Club (online), a film about railway workers and dangerous productivity squeezes. The film echoes the Polish October of 1956, a thwarted revolution against Stalinism. My FOTW. #letterboxdFriday #lastfourwatched #letterboxd #filmsky
My FOTW is The Wrong Man by Alfred Hitchcock, starring a stoical Henry Fonda in a bleak true story of injustice with a downbeat ending. It bombed at the box office. Rob Roy is pure Walter Scott Highland romanticism - forget noisome Braveheart. #letterboxdFriday #lastfourwatched #letterboxd #filmsky
Peter Hall's cinematic poem Akenfield is also a trip back to the 1970s heyday of left wing British political film-making. FOTW. Union City was a neo-noir before the genre got going - a great film almost ruined by studio vandalism.
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One life tells the story Nicholas Winterton who helped to save 662 Jewish children from Prague under threat of Nazi occupation. Anthony Hopkins knows how to deliver a moving understated performance. But FOTW for me is Good Bye Lenin.
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View of Toledo by El Greco
El Greco's dramatic and mesmerising View of Toledo. ~1600. I love the threatening clouds, the hills seem about to swallow the town or perhaps slide into the Tajo below. This is one of the earliest examples of a landscape painting though not a true topographical representation.
Revisited The Field after a long time. A bravura performance from Richard Harris losing his grip on the land, his family and finally, his mind in conflict with Tom Berenger. John Hurt steals every scene he is in. A forgotten classic.
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CHAGALL'S BLUE...
Most of the blue mixtures in Chagall's painting are predominantly made with cobalt blue. But he also used a lot ultramarine, and sometimes prussian blue.
Marc Chagall (1887-1985) Saint Jean Cap Ferrat, 1952
Color Lithograph, 68.5 cm x 49.8 cm.
Catching up with two Moviedrome cult classics. Rob Reiner's perfect New York movie never gets old. Yet Fanny Lye Deliver'd is arguably the best film about the English Civil War ever made, for my dirt and mud - so film of the week.
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Anyone looking for Tom Hiddleston in a non-action role, could do worse than Terence Davies' adaptation of The Deep Blue Sea. Yallah Gaza is a heart-breaking French documentary about pre-war Gaza made shortly before its destruction. #letterboxdFriday #lastfourwatched #letterboxd #filmsky #moviesky
Thomas Paine rejected the authoritarian ruler of his day as “nothing better than the principal ruffian of some restless gang, whose savage manners or pre-eminence in subtlety obtained him the title of chief among plunderers.”
No King in 1776
No King in 2026.
Chronicle of the Years of fire is my film of the week in a strong field. #letterboxdFriday #lastfourwatched #letterboxd #filmsky #moviesky
The Return is my film of the week #letterboxdFriday #lastfourwatched #letterboxd #filmsky #moviesky
Death of a Poet painting
Walter Rheiner (1895–1925) was a German Expressionist poet and writer who died of a morphine overdose on June 12, 1925, at the age of 30.
This painting depicts the cocaine addicted Rheiner jumping out of a window.
A curate's egg of films. Eclipse is a creepy Christmas chiller that just gets colder. It breaks a major British movie taboo which probably helped to next to nobody here ever seeing it. Tom Conti does a rare turn. Death Watch, ennui. #letterboxdFriday #lastfourwatched #letterboxd #filmsky #moviesky
The French documentary, The Tank and the Olive Tree (2019) was my film of the week for its forensic analysis the colonial oppression of Palestine by European settlers. It would make a great double bill with Palestine 36 (2025). #letterboxdFriday #lastfourwatched #letterboxd #filmsky #moviesky
Since it’s #Noirvember, an aptly named novel for this Friday by David Goodis from 1954. Goodis is a well known noir writer whose works have been made into films like DARK PASSAGE with Bogart and Bacall, THE BURGLAR with Duryea and Jayne Mansfield, and even Truffaut’s French masterpiece SHOOT THE PIANO PLAYER. #BlackFriday #filmnoir
Since it’s #Noirvember, an aptly named novel for this Friday by David Goodis from 1954. Goodis made into films like DARK PASSAGE with Bogart and Bacall, THE BURGLAR with Duryea and Jayne Mansfield, and even Truffaut’s French masterpiece SHOOT THE PIANO PLAYER. #BlackFriday #filmnoir
Extraordinary vintage colour cinematography from Jack Cardiff in Western Approaches from 1944. A delicious dark comedy with Danny Glover in To Sleep With Anger. The White Disease is a forgotten masterpiece from 1938. #letterboxdFriday #lastfourwatched #letterboxd #filmsky #moviesky
The Outcasts and The Reflecting Skin are two forgotten folk horror gems. Wild at Heart is a tepid watch for me. #letterboxdFriday #lastfourwatched #letterboxd #filmsky #moviesky
When it comes to unforgettable movies that can stand the test of time, this one is hard to beat. IMO. #OneFlewOverTheCuckoosNest
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