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Old 18-08-2007, 06:39 AM
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Threads has to be up there along with Kes and Billy Liar for me.

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Old 18-08-2007, 07:38 AM
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Nil By Mouth is great shout.

Shane Meadows has a great knack of catching the desperation and depression of Thatcher's Britain. Thought there was a brilliant depressing undercurrent in the comedy Brassed Off too.
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KES, though not without lighter bits, boils down to: a character with only one thing to care about, loses that thing. And not through any personal flaw or mistake, through his wretched circumstances. Film seems to suggest that the bastards WILL grind us down, whatever we do. That's pretty depressing.
I haven't even bothered to watch RATCATCHER...
"A work of art is always exhilerating, never depressing, no matter what the subject matter."
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Brazil?? Bearing in mind it's a comedy, that's a very bleak ending....from Hollywood, has anyone (apart from Mr Crook) seen Val Lewton's The Seventh Victim, from the 1940's? The final sequence is the tubercular woman leaving the house, for the one last night on the tiles that will kill her, as the chair in the next room topples on the floor, from where the occupant has just hung himself from the lightfitting....
Bit of a Bay Window, what??
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I'd put The War Zone up their for mood and subject matter, also Mike Leigh's Naked.

Kes contains one of the funniest scenes in Brian Glovers 'George Best'.
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I'd forgotten that one, it's a helluva slog to sit through it.
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'Three Weddings and a Funeral'... well I get depressed everytime it is praised.
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'Three Weddings and a Funeral'... well I get depressed everytime it is praised.
I agree Aarky what a stupid film dont get me started about that pain in the backside Hugh Grant i hate the man and his films.
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The Richard Curtis phenomenon is hard to explain, however Four Weddings and a Funeral appears a classic next to Love Actually.
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KES, though not without lighter bits, boils down to: a character with only one thing to care about, loses that thing. And not through any personal flaw or mistake, through his wretched circumstances. Film seems to suggest that the bastards WILL grind us down, whatever we do. That's pretty depressing.
I haven't even bothered to watch RATCATCHER...
"A work of art is always exhilerating, never depressing, no matter what the subject matter."
Not only the thing he loves, but his one chance to escape a future down t'pit

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