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Last Tango in Paris

Bernado Bertolucci, France, 1972 I hadn’t ever got round to seeing this, famous as it is, so when I found … More

Filmin, FilmNibbles, Paris, Truffaut

Educate yourself

Last night I spent the evening at the theatre, courtesy of BBC Radio’s Lockdown Theatre Festival. I listened to Rockets … More

BBCLockdownTheatreFestival, BlackLivesMatter, EducateYourself, history, IAT, JMWTurner, LearnAForeignLanguage

Modesty Blaise

Joseph Losey, 1966, UK This was the right kind of easy movie to soothe my tired mind on a Friday … More

DirkBogarde, Filmin, FilmNibbles, MonicaVitti, TerrenceStamp

Docs Barcelona

The HypnotistArthur Franck, Finland, 2019 Did you know Finland had a president who was in power for a quarter of … More

DocsBarcelona2020, Filmin

Accident

Joseph Losey, UK, 1967 This is my kind of film. In many ways nothing really happens…on the surface. It’s hardly … More

Filmin, FilmNibbles, MLFC

The Square

Ruben Östlund, Sweden, 2017 This is a film about the idiocies and inequalities of modern society in Western Europe. It … More

Filmin, FilmNibbles, PalmeDor2017, YoMeQuedoEnCasa

Talking to strangers

Malcolm Gladwell, 2019>Audiobook< I was just thinking, there’s simply too much stuff! Good stuff! Too many books to read, movies … More

Audiobooks, AudioMorsel, Gladwell, TalkingToStrangers

Victoria

Sebastian Schipper, Germany, 2015 I wrote a little review of this film for my Catalan homework: Realitzat en un estil … More

Filmin, FilmNibbles, journeytobilingualism, Victoria2015

The Naked City

Jules Dassin, USA, 1948 “There are 8 million stories in the naked city. This has been one of them.” A … More

CelluloidSkyline, FilmNibbles, NewYorkCity, NYC

Beastie Boys Story

Spike Jonze, USA, 2020 I love them, I love them, I love them! So just to warn you, this particular … More

BeastieBoys, FilmNibbles

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