Letterboxd — Your life in film

Recommended by someone at work. As charming as charming films get, and so 'of its time' it hurts. Mark Knopfler's main theme makes me cry with happiness.

Remember when they used to make big budget, 18 rated, action films with double meanings for adults? - If you were lucky enough to see them as a 12 year old, even better. Today, its a baron wasteland of regurgitated, 12A, watered down shandy.

The effects hold up remarkably well - even this must have been snuck through the studio system to some extent.

Went all in and watched the extended edition. Not so sure if it enhanced or took away based on my memory of seeing it last. definitely one to watch in two parts, no pun intended.

Seedy and mumbly and grainy and greasy. If the real 1970's, Leeds was anything like this I think we can all be glad that its firmly in the past and not coming back.

Heart-breaking familial drama that forces any sensitive viewer to look inwards. Perhaps a pre-curser for more modern films such as Blue Valentine or Before Midnight.

I have already logged this masterpiece seven times! There's not much more that I can say. Ahhh, the music - that's perfect too. Scored and then re-scored by Jerry Goldsmith. The Alien soundtrack has to be one of my all-time favourites. Tense, atmospheric, memorable and choc full of leitmotif.

Pure, unfettered, ugly documentary filmmaking. A film that serves a higher purpose, unconcerned with aesthetic norms.

"It's tricky to call an actor mesmerizing, for fear of making her power seem magical rather than the result of craft. But Coel here is magnetic."
- NPR

Not bad, but the alleged stand up comedian's stand up 'comedy' was atrocious. Its hard to come back from that. Better to have his occupation as a gardener or something.

(...He's a stand up comedian in real life. Really??)

It makes so much more sense with each subsequent rewatch.

What was once obtuse and abstract is now crystal clear.
The dawn of time sequence is 'unfilmable'. But they did it anyway!

Graduated to watching (and enjoying) the best part of 7 hours of Adam Curtis. I have changed a lot.

Watching for the first time having now read the book.
I was smug throughout with a fuller knowledge.
"That's not how it happens in the book" I would say...

(Again I watched it in two halves. I am Still old)