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The only sensible way to remake Casablanca.
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It is summer in the city, at the beach, and apparently in my house and on my TV.
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I really like his performance in No Name on the Bullet. That struck me as a really great turn.
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I hope they don't do to her like Marvel did to her for The Marvels.
But I imagine Garland and Boyle remain the guiding artistic voices.
It is a bold choice, to be fair.
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I haven't really liked her films, I really didn't like her Candyman, and I hope she has something effective in mind.
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DaCosta is an interesting pick for the second film. 28 Years Later feels like one of the most interesting and political British films in a decade and is drawing a variety of really British allegories. The set-up for the second film is Scottish. It doesn't feel like a natural fit.
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I am really interested in seeing what others think about it, and particularly the ending.
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I felt like it hurt this film and its poignant key theme, and it also upset the character arc for our protagonist since what it offers is essentially antithetical to the tone.
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I think they probably all think it is a great idea. A full 180 degree turn in tone. I imagine DaCosta is fully onboard and they all think they are being "punk".
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It felt like a deliberate troll to me from Boyle and Garland. I have no idea how Nia DaCosta is going to manage the sequel. A performative swing for cult status that now has to become another 2 hour film...
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There are a few nods to it in terms of story - but the tone really shifts, I compared it in a text to a friend earlier, like going from picaresque Come and See to the Krankies for 5 mins.
I might be overstating it, but it genuinely how I felt. Ha ha.
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It is maybe 5 minutes of a 2 hour film, and it is all I have talked, moaned, texted, and letterboxd'd about for the last 10 hours. So, you know, maybe it was effective.
God, I hated it. Ha ha.
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I'm now starting to worry that the rot set in much earlier than I originally thought.
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The fact that film survives a number of generic plot points in the second act is really a testament to how dynamite that first 45 mins to an hour is.
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It has superb performances. Aaron Taylor Johnson dominates the first act brilliantly; and Ralph Fiennes turns the mania up in the third act. It is a film structured by its actors, rather than characters, or plot.
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The Henry V scenes; Brexit means Brexit, Covid means Covid allegory makes this another Garland political film, but taken through Boyle's hyperactive sense of the world.
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Danny Boyle remains a really interesting director. 85% of 28 Years Later looks like an episode of Byker Grove recorded on longplay VHS, and 15% are the most striking and beautiful shots of the year. The film is structurally unsound, the plot is shaky and discarded, and it is absolutely thrilling.
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I'll not say anything...but let me know what you think when you see it.
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Yes, very much so. It felt really trolling to me. I expect some people are going to love it. I was properly fucking annoyed, but that's because the first hour and fifty minutes are very close to truly brilliant
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Ha ha - maybe I am overstating it. It doesn't break the world of the film, or minimise anything that went before. It just felt very trollish. It really annoyed me.
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I was really struck by the film. It is tense, emotional, and really quite effective. Then, well, I don't know what they were thinking - felt like I was being trolled. I guess Danny Boyle was making a sequel to both 28 Days Later and another of his films...
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I am so fucking irritated.
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He's called Tim at my work.
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Ha! Too kind. I have a fairly Catholic taste when it comes to film, and I find myself darting around genres and tones, but ultimately, I just like being entertained.
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I liked their French vigilante releases as well. They are decent films I hadn't heard of. I bought the Imprint version of Lifeguard, which is a great film. Bad Company is a really solid film, I quite like Robert Benton as a director.
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The only reliable section they have for my taste is Titles Expiring in the next 30 Days!
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I bought quite a lot they have released - Born to Win, Heavenly Bodies, Natural Enemies, Heartbreakers, Rancho Deluxe and a few more - the one that absolutely knocked me out was TR Baskin.
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There really isn't anything quite like A Cold Wind in August. A torrid and sensual exploitation film, which is mostly devastating when it isn't overwhelming. A film to be taken seriously, despite it low-budget and exploitation origins.
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Jeremy is a wonderful film. I imported the Fun City bluray a couple of years ago, and I was delighted by how good it was.
PrimeVideo is really great - if you like, like I do, 50s Westerns and musicals, 60s British crime films, and an odd mix of b-movies, 80s sex comedies, and neglected gems.
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Ha! Thanks. I might keep trying with Rohmer. His fans even found me here!
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Thanks! But far too kind. Particularly since my last review was an argument that Karate Kid Legends is as good as the Romanian New Wave anthology Tales from the Golden Age...even I don't know why I wrote that review.
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Matewan is a GREAT film. One of John Sayles' very best masterpieces.