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  The Fall 2006

  ★★★★½ Watched 02 Mar 2025

  Beautiful design, beautiful story about storytelling - and its power. Wonderful, one of the most gorgeous films I've seen in ages!

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  Macbeth 2025

  ★★★ Watched 23 Feb 2025

  Not sure this was well directed as a theatre recording

  A disappointing production that pretended to be radical and wasn’t - I feel the production seized the idea that there is something strange, radical and amazing in Macbeth’s structure and tried to turn the play into a film: with head mics and whispering. 

  I found that this disempowered the play - and while it was created as a kind of naturalistic whisper fest left the language and play cold. 

  Ultimately,…

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  Call Me by Your Name 2017

  ★★★★ Rewatched 31 Dec 2024 1

  Something has changed within me...

  I remember seeing this film when it came out (a couple times) and felt it just was not.

  Maybe I've grown but it is a kind of utopia where everyone knows what Elio is, or will become, except him - and they totally accept and love him for that.

  It is beautiful, well shot - and a dream of a hot euro summer!

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  Queer 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 16 Feb 2025

  I’m not queer … I’m disembodied 

  Beautiful film - and it’s journey to its imagistic end is wonderful; as is the Pina Bausch Ayahuasca dance. Also found the bedroom scene with the infinity snake and the gun wonderful.

   It’s a film of being out of place, of looking for love and of not finding it. A dream play with echoes of Querelle and Cocteau

  Watched at Palace Barracks Cinema, Brisbane

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