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Films I've Watched
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1 I saw this film on 11/12/2010 at City Screen, York with Fiona. Description: Nearly there, only one more to go!! Comment: Meh. Should have made the last book into just one film. |
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Cinema Paradiso I saw this film on 4/12/2010 at South Bank Community Cinema Club with Fiona. Description: A boy grows up in Sicily with a love of cinema, is friends with the projectionist at the local cinema, and goes on to become a film director. He only goes home when the projectionist dies. Comment: Fantastic film, very moving. Fay came and said hello. |
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The Wildest Dream I saw this film on 17/11/2010 at City Screen, York with Fiona. Description: An account of George Mallory's climb (or attempted climb) up Everest in 1923. A mixture of modern climbers, archive film and reconstruction. The modern climbers included the man who had discovered Mallory's body. They managed to climb the Second Step - the final obstacle on Mallory's route - without using a ladder and bolts, showing that it was possible. Comment: The music and the reconstructed footage was annoying. Otherwise it was very interesting. |
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Another Year I saw this film on 10/11/2010 at City Screen, York with Fiona. Description: A Mike Leigh film - naturalistic acting, interesting characters, gentle development. A lovely couple look after several rather more difficult single characters they know. Their son finds a girlfriend, which disappoints the older friend of his parents. Comment: I couldn't remember what the film was called, and we ended up with tickets for the wrong one. We watched the credits of Jackboots On Whitehall before deciding it really wasn't the film we'd come to see (and it looked awful). Fortunately, the other film hadn't started and had loads of seats, so we just popped into the correct screen. A really fun evening! |
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Burke and Hare I saw this film on 29/10/2010 at City Screen, York with Fiona. Description: Jolly comedy about grave robbers. Comment: We got in for free because I got student tickets. Very thrilling. |
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The First Movie I saw this film on 22/10/2010 at City Screen, York with Fiona. Description: Mark Cousins, the director, takes children's films and tiny Flip HD cameras to a small Iraqi village. Comment: Great visuals, wonderful real people. Some very moving stories and reactions to the Anfal - the killings of the Kurdish people by Saddam Hussain. |
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A Disappearing Number - Complicite on NTLive I saw this film on 15/10/2010 at City Screen, York with Fiona. Description: A play filmed and shown live - from a theatre in Plymouth. Comment: I've wanted to see this play since I first read about it. Music by Nitin Sawney, about Ramanujan and Hardy, by Complicite. Lots of things I'm interested in. And it was fantastic. Really involving staging. Lots of repetition and sequences. Clever time jumps and different times on stage at once. And great use of music. |
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Made in Dagenham I saw this film on 6/10/2010 at City Screen, York with Fiona Crowe. Description: Women go on strike at Ford's factory in Dagenham in 1968. Equal pay for women! Comment: Great characters and really interesting background. Up the workers! |
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The Other Guys I saw this film on 23/9/2010 at Reel, York with Sharon. Description: A cop, buddy movie. Comment: Fun and funny. |
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Metropolis I saw this film on 21/9/2010 at City Screen, York with Sharon. Description: Classic silent film about a robot and a overground paradise and an underground dystopia. Comment: Great robot dancing. Amazing to see the film, but it didn't need to be extended. I do like short films! It was obviously very influential as it reminded me of lots of things. |
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Five Easy Pieces I saw this film on 6/9/2010 at City Screen, York with Fiona Crowe. Description: From 1970. Jack Nicholson plays a middle class man, who comes from a very musical family and plays the piano, who moves around a lot, and can't stick to anything. Comment: Loved it - really slow and interesting character study. Jack Nicholson acted terrifically, not just playing a caricature of himself. |
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Scott Pilgrim vs the World I saw this film on 1/9/2010 at City Screen, York with Fiona Crowe. Description: Another comic book adaption - Scott Pilgrim has to battle against his new girl friends 7 evil exes! A mixture of normal filming and cgi comic book fights. Comment: Fun, but not as good as Kick Ass! Yet again too long. He could have battled 4 or 5 evil exes and it would still have worked. |
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Inception I saw this film on 6/7/2010 at City Screen, York with Sharon. Description: Leonardo DiCaprio goes into peoples dreams and to steal ideas. But this time he has to go in and plant an idea... Comment: Good, complicated, multi-level plot, which left you uncertain about how it finished (of course). Too long and not as good as its hype. |
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Letters to Juliet I saw this film on 22/6/2010 at City Screen, York with Sharon. Description: An American woman goes to Verona with her boyfriend. He's very busy looking at food and wine for his restaurant, so she finds Juliet's secretaries who answer the letters to Juliet that are shoved into the cracks in a wall. She finds and answers an ancient letter from an English woman who is leaving her Italian love behind. Comment: Meh. |
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Greenberg I saw this film on 16/6/2010 at City Screen, York with Fiona. Description: Ben Stiller is recovering from a nervous breakdown and goes to Los Angeles to housesit for his brother. He has a bizarre non relationship with the brother's PA. Rhys Ifans plays the best friend. Comment: I just couldn't work out why she gave him a chance at all - he was so inept and rude, as well as 15 years older than her. Rhys Ifans was very good. |
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Four Lions I saw this film on 12/5/2010 at City Screen, York with Sharon Little. Description: Chris Morris's comedy about suicide bombers Comment: Not as funny as I thought it would be. The characters were just too stupid |
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I am Love I saw this film on 5/5/2010 at City Screen, York with Fiona Crowe. Description: Tilda Swinton speaks Italian! Very posh family, complicated love story. Comment: An old school art film - beautifully shot, quite slow! |
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Cemetary Junction I saw this film on 3/5/2010 at Sharon Little with Tricycle Cinema, Kilburn, London. Description: A coming of age movie set in the 70s. Snogging, fights, being grumpy with your dad and running away to see the world. Comment: I enjoyed this film. It all seems quite realistic, and the love affair is well portrayed. Ricky Gervais is surprisingly restrained as the dad. The 70s look so long ago! Racist, sexist, homophobic... |
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Kick Ass I saw this film on 14/4/2010 at City Screen York with Sharon. Description: Extremely violent, but entertaining, superhero film. Comment: Second time round, I knew what I was letting myself in for. And knew that once I'd got used to the violence it was actually a very funny film. So I loved it from the start. Really exciting, fast-paced film. Full cinema again, which always makes a difference. Still thought provoking. But funny!! |
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Whip It I saw this film on 12/4/2010 at Reel, York with Sharon Little. Description: A coming of age drama focused around roller derby racing in small town Texas. Comment: I'd been looking forward to watching this film for a few months since I heard it talked about on an American podcast. It wasn't as exciting or as good as I'd expected following that discussion. Good, but not as good as I'd hoped. |
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