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A remarkable film - lots of plot twists (helped by the fact that I hadn't read the book on which it is based, though I knew about it),...

A really good film - with quite a few laughs, though I wouldn't really call it a comedy. I was touched emotionally and personally by i...

Sad and beautiful film about two cowboys (well, shepherds really, though one of them does ride in rodeos) who discover that they love each...

A Spanish western, set in Bolivia in the 1920s, with a not-dead-after-all Butch Cassidy planning to return to the US to meet up with the s...

Haven't watched since the 1980s...I remember feeling rather uncomfortable watching it then, because drag queens didn't fit with my...

Not sure why this was Best Picture - a film about a gay black drug dealer's coming of age in Miami. Bits were very poignant and well d...

I was rather disappointed with this. The book was great - it explained complex things and unfamiliar institutions without being patronizin...

A thoughtful, moving film about adoption and lost children. A little Indian boy gets lost from his family, swept in to an orphanage, and t...

Surprisingly gentle film about the life and work of Ken Loach - lots of talking heads from actors and others, scenes of the director at wo...

  The Red Flag Kasatchok Down by the Riverside Power in a Union African Market Place     La Cucaracha   Solidarity Forever   Bandier...

Everybody has been so down on this that I was quite surprised by how much it touched me. I think sometimes how a film affects the viewer s...

I've been watching this on an off for a while, without quite getting round to finishing it. I finally watched the last half on a train...

Rewatched this, partly to get some interior decoration ideas for our new flat, which I'd like to Mexi-theme. I'd quite enjoyed it ...

In some ways this is a stereotypical jazz musician film. Like the recent Miles film, it's set during a period in which Chet Baker had ...

A disappointing, plodding, boring film about a subject that ought to have been disturbing and too-engaging. It wasn’t particularly long, ...

A sad film about bereavement, responsibility, masculinity, alcohol. A bloke  (well, an American bloke, so he's probably a guy...but a ...

Interesting poignant Japanese film about food, nature, loneliness...a young man operates a bean cake shop for someone else. An older woman...

When a friend told me about this film I confused it with ' The Commune ', another Scandinavian film about communal living. This ...

  Excellent critical account about key developments in cities - technology, development, governance - from a great author. There were a fe...

The first thing to say is that I am astonished that this film has a 12 rating. Although the subject matter (boy discovers hidden world wit...