Jack Bampfield

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Favorite films

  • The Illusionist
  • Cinema Paradiso
  • Rear Window
  • Memento

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  • Miss Julie

    ★★★

  • Full Moon in New York

    ★★★½

  • The Cranes Are Flying

    ★★★★½

  • The Trial

    ★★★

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  • The Joyless Street

    The Joyless Street

    ★★

    Supposedly saw the wrong version. Will rectify in the future.

  • Disenchanted

    Disenchanted

    ★★

    A missed opportunity to really critique the culturally outdated aspects of Disney.

    A plot you could partially credit Wandavision for but this time surface level; without challenging Disney's formula, and also failing to deliver on laughs or memorable songs.

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  • The Amnesia Fortnight Movie

    The Amnesia Fortnight Movie

    ★★★½

    Definitely a more rounded production when slotted into the series "PsychOdyssey" having spent 25 episodes with Double Fine.

  • Spencer

    Spencer

    ★★★★

    My first trip back to the cinema since Covid.

    As the opening titles say, Spencer truly is a fable.

    Even if you cut out everything related to Diana and the monarchy, the film Pablo Lorrain has put together would still read as a fable. He's not looking for an entirely faithful story (though the nods and knowing lines of dialogue to real events thereafter) stick out. It's a woman and mother haunted and oppressed by the past of a rich…

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