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  • Thief
  • The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
  • Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
  • The Stunt Man

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  • Moonshine

    ★★★½

  • The Cook

    ★★★½

  • The Ghost of Yotsuya

    ★★★★

  • The Suns of Easter Island

    ★★★★½

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  • Moonshine

    Moonshine

    ★★★½

    "Great stunt. His paycheck is well-earned."

    Arbuckle and Keaton are revenuers on the trail of moonshiners. Revenuers. What a lovely archaic term. Can't remember when I last saw that in the wild.

    Anyway. This is a hoot. Structurally it's a bunch of random gags glued together with fourth wall-breaking meta hijinks. Plot? What plot. Who needs one.

    Features one of the finest iterations of the clown car gag I've ever seen and a surreal bit involving an explosion that gave me a flashback to Lost Highway, I'm not kidding.

  • The Cook

    The Cook

    ★★★½

    Pure anarchy!

    I'd never actually seen anything starring Fatty Arbuckle before. He moves with an odd grace – Mack Sennett described him being as light on his feet as Fred Astaire.

    Among other things, this features BUSTER walking like an Egyptian decades before Steve Martin sang about his favourite honky (who was born in Arizona and moved to Babylonia).

    It's fairly shapeless – the gags are strung together in almost random order and it ends at an arbitrary point – but they're really damn good gags.

    Loads of fun.

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  • Scenes with Beans

    Scenes with Beans

    ★★★½

    Beans.

    Beans in the countryside, beans in the city.

    Beans driving cars. Beans playing football. Beans protesting.

    Beans, stop-motion beans.

    It’s cute, it's fun, it stars 3,000 allegorical beans.

    No jokes about musical fruit.

    Beans.

  • The Suns of Easter Island

    The Suns of Easter Island

    ★★★★½

    "The right to dream is as important as the right to bread."

    A truly original piece of cosmic sci-fi in which six people are drawn to Easter Island to witness a mysterious event. Formally eccentric, with a semi-docudrama feel, and absolutely stuffed with '70s-style occultism. The movie really commits to the bit – its tone is quite accurately captured by the tagline on the poster: "A tale filmed by Pierre Kast for the most childish of children – adults."

    Shot all…