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  The Beatles: Get Back 2021

  Watched 16 Mar 2025

  FINALLY got around to this and its both utterly bizarre and totally beautiful that such a thing even exists: That we can sit down with the most gifted pop songsmiths that have yet walked the earth for almost eight irresistibly intimate hours and watch them work. Watch them have fun and fall apart and search for the spark that keeps them together- sometimes faint, other times full and miraculous. Watch them be human beings, like everyone else in the room.…

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  A Hard Day's Night 1964

  Watched 14 Mar 2025

  Loved this, can't believe I'd never seen it before. Takes a few minutes to adjust to its scrappy, low-budget energy but once you're on its wavelength its a total blast almost the whole way through. The humour is wonderful throughout and Lester charges this thing with a French new wave inspired cinéma vérité electricity I did not remotely expect: While the fabs are having their fun, everyone behind the camera is trying every trick in the book just for the hell of it- and the result is a disarming delight.

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  La Notte 1961

  ★★★★★ Watched 26 Sep 2021 5

  The rarest of pure cinema, in which a filmmaker falls so completely in tune with the art that they become invisible. La Notte disappears into life itself so seamlessley that the result would be wasted on words.

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  The Brutalist 2024

  Watched 26 Jan 2025 2

  Am I the only one who really preferred the second half of this? Part One is a very engaging, well done setup- but everything pays off (or more accurately: crashes down) in Part Two. There are certainly some bold narrative choices that (intentionally) fuck with the film’s flow- but I ultimately respected it for daring to try strange things when so many pictures of this style are stilted by their safety. Fittingly, the ugliness is a factor of the design.…

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