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  Whistle and I'll Come to You 1968

  ★★★½ Watched by desdemoor 04 Nov 2010

  Upgraded a little after rewatching 12/07/2022

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  The Filthy Five 1968

  ★★½ Watched by desdemoor 02 Jun 2022

  Hard to judge on the single reel currently known to survive, and that only as a German dub, but it looks like an intriguing melodrama, in contrast to the schlock horrors Andy Milligan later became known for.

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  25th Hour 2002

  ★★★★ Watched by desdemoor 10 Jan 2018 2

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  What kicks this up a notch from being a good film to a great film for me is the scene where Monty pressurises his best friend Frank into beating him up so he'll be less attractive to sexual predators in prison, while their close friend Jake looks on. What could have been an opportunity to indulge in sensationalist violence under cover of a superficial 'examination' of machismo and masculinity becomes a wrenching and emotional scene, extremely hard to watch not…

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  Lichtspiel: Opus I 1921

  ★★★★½ Watched by desdemoor 08 Jul 2012 2

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  1001 films that will reward your time boxd.it/1FRRk (9th edition 2021).

  At the birth of cinema, all films were experimental films, yet for a medium emerging in an era of rapid technological change and modernist thinking, the content of mainstream film-making rapidly succumbed to melodramatic Victorian moralising. While there were early examples of artists using the medium deliberately to challenge conventional ideas of representation and reality (Émile Cohl is an example: see Fantasmagorie (1908)), it wasn’t until the ‘rules’ of…