📽️ #filmsky The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968) Big picture about the ‘heroic’ blunder during the Crimean War 1854. Prefaced by the self-aggrandisements of the military hierarchy laying the groundwork for the coming disaster. Beautifully rendered with attention to detail. 1/ 🧵

📽️ #filmsky The Ipcress File (1965) Michael Caine as Len Deighton’s Harry Palmer is enrolled in a task force to investigate the kidnapping and brainwashing of British scientists. But this is the “intelligence service" so who can be trusted? 1/ 🧵

🚨BREAKING🚨 Robert Jenrick has defected from Reform to the Greens.

📽️ #filmsky Hell Drivers (1957) “Tom” (Stanley Baker) secures a trucker job with Hawlett Trucking Company. Speed is everything i.e. money. But as he begins to compete he learns of the ugly truths about the work. 1/ 🧵

📽️ #filmsky Chato’s Land (1972) Chato, Charles Bronson, a half-bred Apache is pursued by a posse after he kills a racist sheriff in all whites bar. And like Crocodile Dundee, he leads them into “his” land. 1/ 🧵

📽️ #filmsky This is England (2006) Shane Meadows draws from his life the story of a young lad warmly welcomed into a gang of skinheads. To them their style is an ethos. But then ‘Combo’ arrives, psychotic racist and militant. 1/🧵

📽️ #filmsky Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960) Arthur (Albert Finney) slaves mindlessly in a tedious job. He is hard drinking and caught between a lover, married but carrying his child and a current girlfriend. Despite the serious matters there is humour and grit. 1/ 🧵

📽️ #filmsky Still Crazy (1998) A 70’s rock band, Strange Fruit, reunites for a European tour. Great UK cast enacting the true tensions that come with rock bands. 1/🧵

📽️ #filmsky East is East (1999) A Pakistani father and fish & chip owner is married to an English wife. He finds himself conflicted with his children born and brought up with British values. A crisis in the making. The excellent Om Puri stars. 1/🧵

📽️ #filmsky L’Age d”Or (1930) The writing credits read Luis Bunuel, Salvador Dali and The Marquis de Sade. A hugely influential film about two lovers striving for consummation and being continuously thwarted. We’ve all been there. 1/🧵

📽️ #filmsky O Lucky Man (1973) Two stories run side by side. The first is Malcolm McDowell’s from coffee salesman to leading role in a film. The other of a young man destined to bad luck. A stellar cast and a fantastical story. 1/ 🧵

📽️ #filmsky Mr Turner (2014) Timothy Spall takes the role of the genius artist at the time of his romantic tryst with a seaside landlady at Margate. He is from humble origins and but his own man, warts and all. 1/🧵

📽️ #filmsky The Guard. (2011) Brendan Gleason is local Irish police sergeant. He is laud back, enjoys weed and the attention of prostitutes. But a death on his patch involves him and an FBI agent in an International cocaine smuggling ring. 1/ 🧵

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📽️ #filmsky My Dinner with Andre (1981) Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory talk to each other over an evening meal at a restaurant. You’d think that was probably unwatchable but after a while you are drawn in. Their conversation is wide ranging and questioning. 1/ 🧵

📽️ #filmsky Assault on Precinct 13 (1976) John Carpenter writes, directs and composes the whole project. A thrilling siege by a criminal gang intent on killing all in the building. Influenced by “The Night of the Living Dead” 1/ 🧵

📽️ #filmsky Dr Jekyll and MR Hyde (1941) The version with Spencer Tracy and Ingrid Bergman. Hyde here is not heavily made up but recognisable. Tracy imbues him with a kind of psychotic mania, but controlled. 1/ 🧵

📽️ #filmsky Burning (2018) A young unemployed indolent Korean lad, Jong- soo through circumstance meets Ben. They both are ‘joined’ by Hae-mi, the to be object of Jong’s desire. But Ben has a dangerous hobby. 1/ 🧵

📽️ #filmsky Peterloo (2018) Mike Leigh second historical film (Topsy-Turvy). Here he recounts the infamous massacre of peaceful land-workers asking enough money to pay for their daily bread. Do we learn from history? 1/ 🧵

📽️ #filmsky Wild Rose (2018) Gritty uplifting story of a young Glaswegian mother whose dream is to make it as a country singer in Nashville. Real people with real life’s problems but still having their dreams. 1/ 🧵

📽️ #filmsky A Taste of Honey (1961) A Tony Richardson film from the time of “kitchen sink” dramas. You have a pregnant teenage girl though a one night stand with a black sailor and a gay supportive friend. This is 1961 remember. 1/ 🧵

📽️ #filmsky Little Big Man (1970) A 100 year old man (Dustin Hoffman) recalls his youth as an adopted native American at the time of the nation wars. It was seemingly an alternate history to the one presented by most westerns. 1/ 🧵

📽️ #filmsky S.O.B. (1981) Julie Andrews takes her kit off!. Her husband, Blake Edwards, writes and directs this wickedly funny satire. It seems to be a reflection of itself. A director realises that his film is becoming an expensive flop. He has a plan, a really desperate one. 1/ 🧵

📽️ #filmsky Four Mothers (2024) A gay Irish writer is due to tour the US promoting his new novel. He is hindered by the need to care for his stroke ridden mother. But then 3 gay friends saddle him with theirs so as to enjoy a gay festival in Spain. 1/🧵

📽️ #filmsky Minari (2020) A Korean family move to Arkansa. There they try to develop their land to grow traditional Korean food to market and escape their depressing jobs. Can they prove the American dream? 1/🧵

📽️ #filmsky Sunrise (1927) Murnau goes to Hollywood. But it doesn’t ruin him. From the pen of Carl Mayer we have a classic story of a farmer being seduced by the big city and a femme fatale. So much so that he considers murdering his wife. 1/ 🧵

📽️ #filmsky Alex in Wonderland (1970) The difficult second album. Director Alex needs a second project after his critically acclaimed first feature. He is in awe of Fellini, whom he meets, but also of all film matters. 1/🧵

📽️ #filmsky Dr. Mabuse, Der Spieler (1922) Mabuse, a Morriarty type mastermind, is spinnig a criminal web of fraud and exploitation in Berlin. The Police commissioner Wenk must deal with the crime spree with little to go on. Fritz Lang’s first of series of films to feature Mabuse. 1/ 🧵

📽️ #filmsky Sister Midnight (2024) India Not your usual Indian fare. No dance numbers. Lots of sharp dialog. Some nudity. And a storyline that is totally unpredictable. Ignore the IMDB rating. Our audience loved it. Reminiscent of early surreal films. 1/ 🧵

📽️ #filmsky Amelie (2001) Amelie, a lonely child from distant parents, moves to Paris and works as a waitress. She works to bring people happiness. But can she commit herself to true love? 1/🧵

📽️ #filmsky The Cat and the Canary (1939) Bob Hope and Paulette Godard reprise the 1927 horror film about an heiress, a spooky mansion and a 20 year old will gifting the heiress wealth if she is sane. Events occur that begin to suggest otherwise. 1/ 🧵

📽️ #filmsky Life and Nothing But (1989) It’s 1920 and 350,000 French soldiers are still missing in action. Major Delaplane has the unenviable job of matching the dead and wounded to their relatives. One such is a connected lady, Madame Irene de Curtail. 1/🧵

📽️ #filmsky Angel-A (2005) Andre (Jamel Debbouze) ,an ex-convict, is in debt to a crime boss and can find no sanctuary in Paris. On planning to drown himself in the Seine he finds himself joined by a beautiful woman intent on the same. 1/🧵

📽️ #filmsky The Motorcycle Diaries (2004) Gael Bernal as Che Guevara (medical student) and Rodrigo de la Serna as his friend Alberto (biochemist) travel on his Norton, La Ponderosa through South America in 1952., Drawn from Che’s diary. 1/🧵

📽️ #filmsky Shine (1996) A childhood piano prodigy is pushed hard by his father eventually wins a scholarship to London only to be brought down by a severe mental breakdown. Years later he emerges from obscurity. 1/ 🧵

📽️ #filmsky The Kite Runner (2007) Two boys, Amir,( a son) and Hassan,(a servant’s son) are brought up together in Amir’s household in Kabul. They play and fly kites. There is tension and betrayal. Amir relocate to California to succeed as a famous novelist. But the past can’t be buried. 1/ 🧵

📽️ #filmsky Here We go round the Mulberry Bush (1966) UK A 17 year old lad is determined to lose his virginity. This struck home for the teenage me making a special place in my heart for this film. Set in Stevenage, a typical middle England town. The final goal of his desires is Judy Geeson. 1/ 🧵

📽️ #filmsky The Gospel according Matthew (1964) Pasolini’s film draws from the text and portrays Jesus as a kind of Che Guevara figure attracting disciples with his inspirational ideas and a committed personality. 1/ 🧵

📽️ #filmsky Leningrad Cowboys go America (1989) They supposedly herald from Russia and their goal is fame and fortune in the land of opportunity. The humour is deadpan and typical, to me, quirky Finnish (see earlier post of Fallen Leaves by the same director Aki Kaurismaki). 1/🧵

📽️ #filmsky Osama (2003) A girl has to masquerade as a boy when the Taliban take over in Afghanistan. In the theocracy women are chattel. She must pretend to be a he so as to earn to support her mother and grandmother. Her name becomes Osama. 1/ 🧵

📽️ #filmsky Manon des Sources (1986) The ‘conclusion' film to Jean de Florette. A beautiful young woman working as a shepherdess is the surviving daughter of her much loved father. She plots her revenge on Cesar and his son, the neighbours whose actions destroyed her father. 1/ 🧵

📽️ #filmsky Jean de Florette (1986) Our hero inherits a plot of land neighbouring a now successful development growing flowers. He is a former civil servant intent on developing the property. But the father and son next door scupper his work by blocking up the spring that waters his land. Epic. 1/🧵

📽️ #filmsky Tucker and Dale vs Evil (2010) Two hillbilly friends just want too have a few beers and do some fishing from their cabin. They are mistaken for murderers by a group of students taking a camping holiday influenced by their “horror movie” world view. 1/🧵

📽️ #filmsky No One Knows about The Persian Cats (2009) Iran Two young Iranian musicians want to form an underground band but are hindered by the cultural police. They attempt to get visas to Europe u=in the hope of getting their music played. 1/🧵

📽️ #filmsky A Prophet (2009)France A young delinquent ‘Muslim’ is in prison alone and vulnerable. A fellow inmate is a seasoned Corsican mob boss and offers protection. He rises to the challenge. 1/🧵

📽️ #filmsky Sexy Beast (2000) Gal (Ray Winstone)just wants to live in easy retirement from his criminal safecracking past. But an enforcer (Ben Kingsley) to persuade him to do one more job. 1/ 🧵

📽️ #filmsky A Separation (2011) Iran A couple are torn between achieving a better life abroad from Iran and the need to care for a father with Alzheimer’s. The only solution appears to be an amicable divorce. 1/🧵

Does Trump meet the definition of a ‘Dirty old man’?

📽️ #filmsky Bedazzled (1967) Stanley (Dudley Moore) wants to woo Margaret (Eleanor Bron). Trouble is he is shy and withdrawn. He makes a pact with the Devil (Peter Cook) in exchange for seven scenarios that will net him his goal. 1/🧵

📽️ #filmsky Bowfinger (1999) A movie producer (Steve Martin) plans a zombie film and to use an Eddie Murphy lookalike (Eddie Murphy) and neophyte camera team along side ambitious unknown actors to cut costs. 1/ 🧵