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Showing posts with label Ian Holm. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ian Holm. Show all posts
Saturday, 9 August 2025

Naked Lunch (1991)

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 "It's a Kafka high. You feel like a bug." When I was in my late teens and early twenties, I got into the habit of reading nov...
Saturday, 26 September 2020

Brazil (1985)

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"I won't look at your willy." This film is, of course, a work of genius from the unique mind of Terry Gilliam- Kafkaesque,...
Saturday, 18 January 2020

A Midsummer Night's Dream (1968)

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"Lord, what fools these mortals be..." I never knew before tonight's random looking through Amazon Prime that this odd lit...
Saturday, 6 April 2019

From Hell (2001)

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“You’re not going to see the twentieth century...” I first saw this at the pictures when I was at uni back in 2001, long before I first ...
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Tuesday, 3 May 2016

Henry V (1989)

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"I'm afeared there are few die well that die in battle, for how can they charitably dispose of anything when blood is their argumen...
Tuesday, 8 March 2016

Time Bandits (1981)

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"Four foot one! That is a long time, isn't it?" This isn't really all that brilliant a film, in spite of some splend...
Friday, 6 November 2015

Oh! What a Lovely War (1969)

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"The lights are going out all over Europe..." The cast for this film is ridiculous . Aside from the people I've tagged...
Wednesday, 7 October 2015

The Madness of King George (1994)

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" We consider ourselves blessed in our constitution. We tell ourselves our Parliament is the envy of the world. But we live in the heal...
Saturday, 11 April 2015

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994)

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"You gave me life, and then you left me to die." This is a very different cinematic version of Frankenstein . The point is not...
Sunday, 5 February 2012

Alien (1979)

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“You still don't understand what you're dealing with, do you?” I should have reviewed this film ages ago. It’s certainly ...
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