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    Movie What's the last movie you saw? (8)

    I think Badlands and Days of Heaven, his two first moves, from the 70s, are probably the ideal introductions. Only 90 minutes too! Which is a runtime he’s never really returned to.
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    Movie What's the last movie you saw? (8)

    Have you seen Malick's films?! From everything I've heard about Train Dreams, he could be your jam!
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    Movie What's the last movie you saw? (8)

    Yeah I believe Malick struggled in the editing room and decided to bring Linda Manz back after the fact to improvise narration, following Sissy Spacek in Badlands and becoming a key part of his style. It might be the best use of a narration in a film and just evokes something more. I get not...
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    Movie What's the last movie you saw? (8)

    I don't know why people make out like Chalamet's not conventionally attractive, like he doesn't perfectly fit the Montgomery Clift/Alain Delon/Tony Leung/River Phoenix/Leonardo DiCaprio "pretty boy" mould. Is top left Matty Healy from The 1975? If it's an actor, I don't recognise them from that...
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    Movie What's the last movie you saw? (8)

    Days of Heaven (1978) - I frequently go with this as my favourite film ever but had never seen it at a cinema, until now. Yeah, the sheer beauty of its images and music are only greater seeing it this way. Every frame could be put in an art gallery. Such a beautifully gentle film, such...
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    Your Movie and TV Hot Takes

    I dunno, I think this has become a bit apocryphal as a story, in part thanks to Dr Phil grifting. From all accounts they bickered on the set and it was a very difficult shoot, but she only ever really spoke fondly of it afterwards. Tragically, she seems to have suffered from extreme mental...
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    Movie What's the last movie you saw? (8)

    No, that’s what Tourette’s is (or this form, which involves vocal tics). You sometimes say the one thing you absolutely least want to say. When he met the Queen he shouted “**** the Queen”. It was badly handled by the BAFTAs (they only warned people in his immediate vicinity and didn’t even...
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    Song Contest Part XXIV, Host: Loonerty, Theme: Beginning/New, Votes Due: Sunday 10pm AEDT

    Didn't Fossie 32 do this?
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    Song Contest Part XXIV, Host: Loonerty, Theme: Beginning/New, Votes Due: Sunday 10pm AEDT

    Should definitely have more people follow Doris' lead and think of innovative ways to release the results more often.
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    Song Contest Part XXIV, Host: Loonerty, Theme: Beginning/New, Votes Due: Sunday 10pm AEDT

    5. Sufjan Stevens - Come On! Feel the Illinoise omgfridge 4. Kate Bush - Deeper Understanding raskolnikov 3. The Who - Relax Fossie 32 2. Richard Ashcroft - You On My Mind In My Sleep JHF1870 1. Joni Mitchell - Twisted myblueroan
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    Song Contest Part XXIV, Host: Loonerty, Theme: Beginning/New, Votes Due: Sunday 10pm AEDT

    Thank you Lunchlady Doris and Harvey Manfrenjensenden - that's the teamwork we rarely get to see in this individualistic contest!
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    Movie What's the last movie you saw? (8)

    I took it as a way to immerse in this time and place - lots of characters who float in and out, but it felt like they all could be tapes worthy of study of themselves; Udo Kier’s Holocaust survivor, the Angolan couple, Dona Sebastiana, even the guy at the servo at the beginning, they all could...
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    Movie What's the last movie you saw? (8)

    Yeah they expanded the Academy voter base and things did get better. Movies like Finding Neverland, Chocolat, you can’t imagine them being nominated for Best Picture today.
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    USA USA Presidential Election 2028 - assuming we're all still alive

    The ones who the Democrats keep trying to appeal to unsuccessfully? Awesome. **** Newsom. Yes, the establishment Democrats leant hard into the “woke” stuff but that was also an attempt to give some kind of progressive credentials to counter the left wing insurgency (lest we forget Bernie Bros)...
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    Movie What's the last movie you saw? (8)

    I’ve also seen 9 without really trying, only not having seen Train Dreams (I know many people here love it), I think my ranking is: Classics: 1. One Battle After Another 2. The Station Agent 3. Sinners Pretty great: 4. Sentimental Value 5. Marty Supreme Good enough: 6. Bugonia Did not...
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