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Running time: 113 mins
Rated by Roger CO, Streamed proj @ home on 22 Apr 2021
Running time: 70 mins
Reviewed by Roger CO, DVD proj @ home on 21 Apr 2021
Like the first episode, The Mangrove, it felt a bit overlong at times - here particularly in some of the extended party scenes - but overall I guess it is a wonderful evocation of time and place (I wasn't there so I can't know); it certainly feels true.
The dynamics of the party are brilliantly captured, to the extent that you forget it is a film with a camera crew and actors with lines and a director calling "action" and "cut". It just flowed through its different moods as a real party does.
Running time: 127 mins
Reviewed by Roger CO, DVD proj @ home on 17 Apr 2021
Scenes in Notting Hill were wonderful, but the trial went on a bit - as it did in real life, and as it had to in order to be true to hat actually happened.
A salutary reminder that the institutionalised racism that created the Windrush scandal recently has strong and deep roots, and at the same time the power and dignity of community can sometimes break down the barriers.
Running time: 93 mins
Reviewed by rogerco, Streamed proj @ home on 12 Apr 2021
How can this life be allowed to be? Using footage shot over many years the story of an expat refugee (what a concept - someone whose homeland is a refugee camp!) and his friends back home in the camp in Lebanon again, as with other recently seen films, underlines the human power of community and family and the destructive force of imposed authority.
All hierarchies are ultimately toxic - e need to find a better form of social organisation here value comes neither from possession nor from oppression.
Running time: 139 mins
Reviewed by rogerco, Streamed proj @ home on 04 Apr 2021
You thought the 1973 Long Goodbye was about as bad as noir could get, but this trumps it in spades. Apart from being overlong (we did give up 40 mins before the end hen it seemed to have been going on for ever, and then finished it the next night where it just got very silly as all was explained), there were no likeable characters (well actually no characters at all - just cardboard cutouts, no drama, no content - just a selection of pretty images of silly young people.
Why two stars and not one? well there was the germ of a plot there and at times it was good to look at.
