Letterboxd — Your life in film

Reviews

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  Looking for Light: Jane Bown 2014

  

  James Carrigy ★★★★

  Cripplingly sad in its sections with its old withered subject, with nought but a lifetime of memories to keep her company. But also does something that I consider essential for…

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  Sherlock: The Great Game 2010

  

  hanna ★★★★★

  is that a british army browning L9A1 in your pocket or are you just pleased to see me?

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  The Innocents 1961

  

  Jago ★★★★

  A good adaptation of Turn of the Screw that retains the mood and themes of the book although it kind of chickens out of doing the original ending.

  The sound…

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  The White Spider 1963

  

  threepenny ★★★

  Having just finished watching The Strangler of Blackmoor Castle, released the same year, I just saw Dieter Eppler wildly overact as a crazed butler, far out of proportion to the…

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  Fanny Hill 1983

  

  threepenny ★½ 3

  It feels like a parody of a soft-core porn film today but back in 1983 it was a premier offering of the newly launched Playboy Channel. Producer Harry Alan Towers…

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  Old Shatterhand 1964

  

  Gregor Kreyca ★★★★ 2

  Old Shatterhand is probably the biggest and most expensive Karl May adventure yet. Ironically enough, the story isn’t even based on a novel from the famous author. The film also…

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  The Last Race 2018

  

  Marc Dottavio ★★★★ 2

  The Last Race is my kind of documentary: immersive rather than informational, intimate yet highly visual. In other words, if you want to learn about the nuts-and-bolts of stock car…

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  Fast Company 1979

  

  Marc Dottavio ★★

  In terms of one-off detours taken by otherwise distinctive genre auteurs, this fits neatly alongside outliers like George Romero’s Knightriders or John Carpenter’s Starman (ok, maybe that’s a two-off; I…