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  A Complete Unknown 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 01 Feb 2025

  I have a lot of good things to say about this film. As a former Dylan-head I found a lot to be impressed by and grateful for. Chalamet is superb. 

  But I’ve gotta say, the times we’re living through make it hard to empathise with the cynicism and nihilism of his electric phase.

  Currently we are very much in need of the earnestness and relentless activism of Pete Seeger. I was drawn to his character throughout, he is the comfort figure I needed.

  And unrelated to that, the real electric moment in the film is Chalamet and Barbaro singing It Ain’t Me Babe. Oof 🔥

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  The Dig 2021

  ★★★★ Watched 06 Feb 2021

  Imperfect, but so nice to look at and get lost in, its faults don’t really matter. Late summer in Suffolk countryside with its low overcast skies, gorgeous architecture, the clothes, the hair... I’ll definitely be rewatching it.

Popular reviews

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  The Firemen's Ball 1967

  ★★★★ Watched 09 Mar 2015 4

  I want to praise The Firemen’s Ball for things it’s not often praised for. All too often it gets trapped in its historical context, which is understandable. It was the first colour production of the prominent member of the Czech New Wave and already well established director Miloš Forman. A few months after the film’s completion, Soviet troops marched in, cracked down on the remaining bits of freedom, and the film was not just banned but “banned forever”. It would…

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  George Harrison: Living in the Material World 2011

  ★★★ Watched 11 Jun 2014 2

  Obviously, Scorsese can put a film together with aplomb, and some of the footage and music juxtapositions here are spectacular, but mostly this is a very conservative affair and hagiographic to the bone. It's a shame that it completely brushes over some of the most significant aspects of Harrison's life (his marriages, his drug addiction) so as not to complicate the flawless image Scorsese is trying to paint. I enjoyed the film while it lasted, but I am left with very little to dwell or to chew on.