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Favorite films

  • Sans Soleil
  • The Green Ray
  • The Player
  • Andrei Rublev

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  • Cries and Whispers

  • Pumping Iron

  • Roland Barthes, 1915-1980: Le théâtre du langage

  • Roland Barthes: 21st Century Mythologies

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  • Cries and Whispers

    Cries and Whispers

    Shot beautifully, cool colours, well acted 

    Parts of the story I liked but it didn’t grab me as much as others

    The last 20 was great and the flashback / imagination stuff more generally, as well as the pain scenes, and I liked Anna as a character but I couldn’t really get into the sister beef

    ‘All my pain was gone. The people I’m most fond of were with me.’

  • Pumping Iron

    Pumping Iron

    Wanna watch more cult docus

    Thought this was good but kinda lost pace a bit and a bit boring in the middle and towards the end after initial intrigue

    Be me going for me walk on the treadmill in JD that screaming ‘Arnold Arnold’

    Conclusive evidence that crippling male insecurity and body consciousness was not cause by, but merely accelerated and democratised by, YouTube 

    Arne is actually incredibly charismatic and so has the X factor kinda made me appreciate his…

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  • His Girl Friday

    His Girl Friday

    Shirt collars are too short these days 

    I liked this well done HH 

    It pleases me how you know what you’re getting with these screwballs - reliable, mass produced Hollywood studio fast paced and irreverent dialogue in entirely improbable situations with a bit of male-female lead antagonism 

    Cary grant great 

    Ralph Bellamy joke was funny love the start of bit of self referential movie banter 

    Reporters narrating was funny

    Joe Pettit one character funny too

    End cute in a bizarre…

  • Roland Barthes: 21st Century Mythologies

    Roland Barthes: 21st Century Mythologies

    I thought most of this was so bad sorry

    All for making it accessible but the case studies were like the most infantilising gcse RS clips. Maybe you shouldn’t try and teach 12 year olds semiotics and aim it a bit higher

    The WiFi bit was Mitchell and Webb style parody - ‘… so what does the internet actually look like?’

    There needs to be more and better on one of the great critical theorists and mummy’s boys