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  Altered States 1980

  ★★½ Watched 13 Dec 2016

  Rather dated, i must say.

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  La La Land 2016

  Watched 13 Dec 2016

  Don't remember the last time I felt like this watching a movie. It truly felt like being transported to another world.

  The opening sequence was breathtaking and the film never relented. It is a beautiful film with wit, charm, style and love. And it is simply gorgeous.

  And Gosling is damn hot!

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  History Lessons 1972

  ★★★★½ Watched 02 Dec 2016

  Spellbinding!

  "History Lessons derives from sections of Brecht's incomplete novel The Business Affairs of Mr Julius Caesar. It comprises four interviews with contemporaries of Caesar's (every word on the soundtrack is Brecht's): a banker, a former soldier, a lawyer and a writer, all of whom place Caesar's exploits in direct political perspectives. Typically, though, the film-makers insist on doing more than merely re-examining historical fact. They inscribe the dissection of Rome's imperialist past within three detailed studies of Rome today,…

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  London 1994

  ★★★★½ Watched 06 Dec 2016 1

  A great city travelogue that manages to be more than how it first appears on the surface. Patrick Keiller simultaneously weave an intriguing social and political history that makes the shots resonant all the more.

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