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#NowWatching "The Long Good Friday"
"The Long Good Friday" remains one of the best gangster films ever made. Even just in terms of pure filmmaking, it's a ruthlessly efficient piece of work with a powerhouse central performance from Bob Hoskins.
"The Long Good Friday" remains one of the best gangster films ever made. Even just in terms of pure filmmaking, it's a ruthlessly efficient piece of work with a powerhouse central performance from Bob Hoskins.
"The Long Good Friday" is also one of the great snapshots of the early Thatcher era, a vision of Britain on the cusp of the eighties, caught between its past and future.
Enchanted by visions of bringing American capitalism in Europe, but haunted by the legacy of its empire.
Enchanted by visions of bringing American capitalism in Europe, but haunted by the legacy of its empire.
As played by Hoskins, Harold is the perfect avatar of the moment.
Harold is a gangster wearing a mask of legitimacy and aspiration, but with only a white suit jacket and a glass of prosecco separating him from his more violent impulses.
Literal gangster capitalism.
Harold is a gangster wearing a mask of legitimacy and aspiration, but with only a white suit jacket and a glass of prosecco separating him from his more violent impulses.
Literal gangster capitalism.
#NowWatching MR. DEEDS GOES TO TOWN (1936, directed by Frank Capra, written by Robert Riskin & Clarence Budington Kelland)
I LOVE THIS HIMBO 
literal glint in his eye ๐ฅน
Heaven Can Wait (1942, directed by Ernst Lubitsch & written by Samson Raphaelson)
Just watched it and Iโm obsessed with the grandpa. One of my all time favorite movie grandpas! Just a cheery, cheeky, loving enabler.
Sheโs so โจ
#NowWatching THE PRESTIGE
Wow Scarlettโs accent sucks in this. But BOWIE TESLA!!!
ITโS ELECTRIFYINGGG
#NowWatching THE PALE BLUE EYE
Gillian Anderson PLATE SMASH!
This movie is strange and I saw the reveal coming a mile away and usually I am not good at solving mysteries early. (Great at guessing plot points and twists in any other genre but not solving crimes!)
#NowWatching AUSTENLAND
This woman could read me the phone book and Iโd be doubled over laughing
Genuinely motivational
Oh shit Corporal McBurney dug the Neon Demon grave??
I mean Elle Fanning is in both so I believe in this cinematic universe!!
#NowWatching The Beguiled (2017), clearly. Wow, every single girl in this damb house wants to fuck Colin Farrell, and I get it!!!!
#NowWatching Scooby Doo and the Witchโs Ghost
I love that thereโs a Stephen King character in this movie.
Ugh the restaurant scene always makes me hungry.
#NowWatching โStar Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.โ
โThe Wrath of Khanโ is one of those great movies that has somewhat been flattened in the memory of it. Itโs brilliant, and epic, and propulsive.
But it is also elegiac and mournful, the story of old men who lead the young to slaughter while chasing phantoms of glories long past.
But it is also elegiac and mournful, the story of old men who lead the young to slaughter while chasing phantoms of glories long past.
Itโs no small irony that โThe Wrath of Khanโ became a past glory that the โStar Trekโ franchise would spend decades pursuing.
Like Kirk chases the memory of command, and like Khan chases his vendetta against Kirk.
โThe Wrath of Khanโ understands the futility of this.
Like Kirk chases the memory of command, and like Khan chases his vendetta against Kirk.
โThe Wrath of Khanโ understands the futility of this.
IL DIVO (Paolo Sorrentino, 2008). I thought Iโd seen this before, but now Iโm not so sure. Either way, it felt like something of a companion piece to THE CONSEQUENCES OF LOVE. A strangely compelling film.
Another film that hits harder second (or third?) time around:
Andrea Arnoldโs RED ROAD (2006) featuring the always excellent Kate Dickie.
Andrea Arnoldโs RED ROAD (2006) featuring the always excellent Kate Dickie.
THE NEST (Sean Durkin, 2020). Why arenโt more people talking about Carrie Coon as a potential awards contender or have I completely missed that conversation? One of the best performances Iโve seen over the past year.
Think Iโve just seen my favourite film of #TIFF21 so far. Ali & Ava is just fucking beautiful, the kind of film that notices the infinitesimal gestures and moments that make people - with all the messiness of their lives and weight of their pasts - fall in love.
Hereโs a love story that starts with a lift home because itโs been pissing down, whose first kiss comes from chancing an arm on staying the night and getting lumped in a spare room, and which grows against all the baggage that makes us wonder whether we deserve happiness at all.
@caatdolanโs You Are Not My Mother, a Samhain chiller nestled within the framework of a sympathetically crafted story about mothers, daughters, and the monstrousness of mental illnessโ ravaging effect on both the afflicted and their loved ones really got under my skin.
Unlike some other recent genre fare, the film impressively never loses sight of the seriousness of its themes as it builds on its supernatural elements, meaning the horror and the harrowing nature of what we are witnessing builds with remarkable poise and conviction.
Sunkissed, serene, surreal, and shot through with an unnerving dosage of sociopathy, Francoโs Sundown is the sort of film you imagine Haneke would daydream on a beach someplace nice. More about us as viewers than any of the characters, this provokes with scant provocation.
Tim Roth is so unphased by everything happening around him itโs as if the camera doesnโt exist at all, and Francoโs scoreless, fuss-free method of filmmaking here has a surgical precision that - when juxtaposed with the warmly captured Acapulco clime - expertly unsettles.
A classic case of โstarts out as one thing, becomes anotherโ, but whilst I was initially disappointed when I realised the film Encounter started as wouldnโt continue that way, I was gradually bowled over by the depths of the other thing it strove for. Riz Ahmed is typically class
and I was a big fan of the two child stars, old head on young shoulders Lucian-River Chauhan and energetic youngster Aditya Geddada. There was maybe a needledrop too many for my liking, especially given the cosmically tinted, haunting incidental music, and I still would like to
