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Alabama's Ghost 1973
I’m much better prepared for this weirdness this time around - once you sort of ready yourself to throw logic or plot a out of the window, you can appreciate it for what it is, a series of brilliant and bonkers ideas being thrown at the screen. Does all of it work? Not really, but you have to admire the dogged pursuit of weirdness at every opportunity
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The French Lieutenant's Woman 1981
It’s impressive but also incredibly emotionally cold and empty. There’s almost nothing to engage with here
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Gregory's Girl 1980
there are reasons why this is my favourite film of all time. it has all the strange, unalloyed creative joy of "that sinking feeling" but this time it's all been pulled together to create, as far as i'm concerned, the single best cinematic tale of growing up as a teenager ever: in literature, in television, in cinema. all of it. it's all here, which is kind of my definition of a masterpiece - it sets out to say everything possible…
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David Brent: Life on the Road 2016
There’s a moment towards the end of this where Dawn substitute Karen spells out that underneath the bluster and bravado, David Brent is an admirable man and an optimist and we should all love him accordingly despite his human faults. The Office got to this conclusion carefully by taking Brent to the brink of self destruction and loathing and then delivering one of the sweetest and most surprisingly effective emotional moments of redemption in comedy history. This film however has…
