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Recent reviews

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  The Eternal Daughter 2022

  ★★★★ Watched 26 Nov 2023

  This had the texture of a Tarkovsky film and struck in exactly the right way. Joanna Hogg is clearly one of the best.

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  The Hunt 2012

  ★★★★ Watched 04 Sep 2023

  Pressure cooker filmmaking.

Popular reviews

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  Ronaldo 2015

  ★ Watched 04 Jun 2016

  "He's our protector and he always helped us and everything we have today we owe to him."

  This felt like a 90 minute pitch for a new religion.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  Cristianity.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  Thank you.

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  8½ 1963

  ★★★★ Watched 02 Feb 2017

  My Dad gave me a collection of DVDs of his all time favourite films, and he also wrote a little bit on each DVD. This is what he wrote about Frederico Fellini's '8 1/2'.

  The most 'personal' film I've seen - where the role of the director as an artist was central. A disjointed free-flow of ideas which, as Scorsese said, follows the process of creativity - focusing on film-making within a corporation. The struggle towards creation is right.
  
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