Mike Townsend

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Favorite films

  • Almost Famous
  • Cinema Paradiso
  • Perfect Days
  • It's a Wonderful Life

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  • Black Bag

    ★★★★

  • Le Samouraï

    ★★★★½

  • Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

    ★★★★★

  • On Falling

    ★★★★½

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  • Black Bag

    Black Bag

    ★★★★

    This was seriously so much fun. Like a properly good time at the movies. 90 minutes of total entertainment with two of the best actors in the world. I want to watch this again!

  • Le Samouraï

    Le Samouraï

    ★★★★½

    Watched this for the first time at the Prince Charles Cinema. Such a lean film, procedural in so many ways but somehow completely captivating. I know almost nothing about Costello apart from his profession, but I still desperately want him to make it out of all this alive. The chase through Paris is one of the best action sequences I have ever seen, I can see why it's so influential. There is so much empty space in this film, my mind is racing trying to fill them. That's brilliant filmmaking I think. I'll be thinking about this movie for a long time.

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  • How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies

    How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies

    ★★★★½

    I have a terminally ill dad at the moment. I worry that I am not giving him enough to be proud of during these final years of his life. But I realise that I do give him my time, unconditionally. And the time we have spent together since his diagnosis has been more meaningful and precious to me than anything I have experienced with him before. This beautiful film really made me reflect on that, it moved me so much.…

  • A Real Pain

    A Real Pain

    ★★★★½

    Loved this. Felt a lot. Cried loads. Laughed even more. That's money. Final shot is one of the most devastating I have seen all year.

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