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It's Always Fair Weather 1955
Watched at the BFI Southbank as part of the Film on Film season in June 2023, on a beautiful 1955 release print that had survived nearly 70 years in the vault mostly intact.Β
What a picture. Itβs Always Fair Weather painfully observes how the naivety and optimism of young friendship collides, on roller skates, with the bitter realities of adulthood. Having personally fallen out of touch with a few old friends, Comden and Greenβs sharp script felt far too realβ¦
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No Ordinary Man 2020
A gorgeous, moving doc which tells a fascinating story (one I didn't know a single thing about beforehand) but is more interested in interrogating the role of heroes to marginalised communities. I learned a lot from this film.
Watched at BFI Flare 2021.
Full review: www.thedigitalfix.com/film/film-review/bfi-flare-2021-no-ordinary-man/
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Soul 2020
A spiritual sequel to 'Inside Out', insofar as it teaches a lesson which isn't just what we need to hear, but directly opposed to the usual aphorisms of popular media. Here, it's that pursuing your dreams with a single-minded zeal to the exclusion of everything else isn't the way life should be lived.
The Pixar team's hyper-real, lavish recreation of NYC isn't just a tech showcase, but submitted as evidence for the film's message, and juxtaposed with the literally two-dimensionalβ¦