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Wednesday 15th October 2014

Synopsis extract :
The island of Goto has been isolated from the world providing a closed universe within which a ...
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Reviewed by Roger, DVD proj @ home on 15 Oct 2014

Review of "Goto, Isle d'Amour"

Yes, as intriguing as it was when I first saw it 43 years ago. It feature's Handle Organ Concerto in G as well as the musical saw.



Friday 3rd October 2014

Synopsis extract :
Naive young girl gets pregnant by shop-assistant in her fathers shop and is thrown out by family ...
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Reviewed by Roger, Landulph Memorial Hall on 03 Oct 2014

Review of "Diary of a Lost Girl with Wurlitza"

Good story and quality film making (for the silent era) with excellent soundtrack performed live by Wurlitza



Saturday 20th September 2014

Rated by Roger, DVD proj @ home on 20 Sep 2014




Thursday 4th September 2014

2014

Night Moves

Director : Kelly Reichardt

Synopsis extract :
3 activists blow up a dam and then suffer the fall out
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Reviewed by Roger, Watershed Bristol on 04 Sep 2014

Review of "Night Moves"

For the first half its a conventional thriller taking the side of the young activists as they execute their plot to blow up an environmentally damaging hydro dam. After the attempt things go a bit wrong and it becomes an observational psychological drama before a climax and then departing in a new direction. Very believable characters and place. A couple of minor issues - I don't think if you were going to do an action like that you wouldn't think through the possible consequences and be better prepared for them. Very good that the film doesn't moralise about their action, it simply raises the activists own internal moral ambiguity. In some ways the climax was a bit wrong and forced, but the ending is superb.



Sunday 17th August 2014

2013

Running time: 90 mins

A Field In England

Director : Ben Wheatley

Synopsis extract :
Civil war soldiers leaving a battlefield encounter an Alchemist who traps them in a field for ...
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Reviewed by Roger, DVD proj @ Home on 17 Aug 2014

Review of "A Field In England"

Decidedly odd. The sort of thing that when young one might have thought terribly profound in a obscure way, when slightly older it may have seemed pretentious, now it just comes across as mildly engaging but ultimately hollow.