Ewan Read

Ewan Read

Nothing to see here. Just a man logging his films.

Favorite films

  • Barry Lyndon
  • The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
  • Raging Bull
  • The New World

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  • Heaven's Gate

  • Rumble Fish

  • Viridiana

  • The Conversation

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  • The Conversation

    The Conversation

    It’s unthinkable to me that this came out the same year as The Godfather Part II. I don’t think any American director has had a greater run than Coppola had in the seventies. Also, fun fact - this role was originally offered to Brando, can you imagine it? 

    R.I.P Gene Hackman

  • The Lost Weekend

    The Lost Weekend

    “You can't cut it short! You're on that merry-go-round, you got to ride it all the way. Round and round till that blasted music wears itself out and the thing dies down.“

    I saw this a few years ago when I was just getting into films, after some growing pains I’m back for a rewatch. This is a strikingly accurate portrayal of alcoholism and its progressive nature for the time. The obsessiveness, the self-centredness, the isolation, the insanity - it’s…

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  • The Other Guys

    The Other Guys

    One of the funniest films I’ve ever seen to be honest

  • Megalopolis

    Megalopolis

    I don’t care what the reception on this has been, whether it’s a failure or a success, whether it’s pretentious or not. The bottom line is it’s taking risks and I haven’t seen anything like it before, the closest thing I can think of is ‘Synecdoche, New York’. I can’t say I’m surprised the response has been so negative, it disregards so much of what we’ve been told makes a ‘quality’ film - the dialogue is unnatural, the tone is…