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John Bleasdale
John Bleasdale

John Bleasdale

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Favorite films

  • Casablanca
  • The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
  • Raiders of the Lost Ark
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey

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  • Days of Heaven

    ★★★★★

  • Blood and Wine

    ★★★★

  • Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story

    ★★★★★

  • Nightmare Beach

    ★★★

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  • Days of Heaven

    Days of Heaven 1978

    ★★★★★ Rewatched by John Bleasdale 06 Jul 2022

    Still great

  • Blood and Wine

    Blood and Wine 1996

    ★★★★ Watched by John Bleasdale 06 Jul 2022

    Dark misanthropic noir

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  • American Anarchist

    American Anarchist 2016

    ★★ Watched by John Bleasdale 02 Sep 2016

    Irritating waste of a good topic

  • Run Hide Fight

    Run Hide Fight 2020

    ★ Watched by John Bleasdale 07 Sep 2020 1

    An unflushed toilet

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  • documentary
  • animation
  • brian de palma
  • comedy
  • disney
  • financial crisis
  • hbo
  • horror
  • italian cinema
  • john carpenter
  • kids film
  • michel gondry
  • noam chomsky
  • rosi
  • rotterdam
  • science fiction
  • stephen king
  • volante
  • woody allen

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Bio

Host of the Writers on Film podcast. Words at The Economist, The Guardian, The FT, The Times, Cine-Vue, Il Manifesto, HotCorn, Sight and Sound and many more.

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Watchlist

34
  • The King of Marvin Gardens
  • Drive, He Said
  • A Cure for Wellness
  • The League of Gentlemen
  • Pool of London

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Diary

3,334
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    Days of Heaven
    6
    Blood and Wine
    2
    Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
    2
    Nightmare Beach
  • Jun

    29
    America, America
    27
    The Northman
    27
    Elvis
    25
    Moonfall
    25
    Mass
    23
    The Music Room

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  • 84 ★ ratings (2%)
  • 383 ★★ ratings (8%)
  • 2,048 ★★★ ratings (45%)
  • 1,532 ★★★★ ratings (34%)
  • 513 ★★★★★ ratings (11%)
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Recent lists

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  • Air Doll
  • Vanya on 42nd Street
  • Culloden
  • Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
  • Departures

Films I own but haven’t seen 22 films

  • The Devil, Probably
  • Floating Clouds
  • The Life of Oharu
  • Russian Ark
  • Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks

Sight and Sound watch list 23 films

  • The Maltese Falcon
  • Gabriel Over the White House
  • The Greeks Had a Word for Them
  • The Story of Temple Drake
  • Employees' Entrance

Precode Watchlist 2022 20 films

Activity

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  • John Bleasdale added The King of Marvin Gardens to his watchlist on 2022-07-06

  • John Bleasdale added Drive, He Said to his watchlist on 2022-07-06

  • John Bleasdale reviewed, liked and rated Days of Heaven ★★★★★ on Wednesday Jul 6, 2022 on 2022-07-06

  • John Bleasdale reviewed and rated Blood and Wine ★★★★ on Wednesday Jul 6, 2022 on 2022-07-06

  • John Bleasdale reviewed and rated Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story ★★★★★ on Saturday Jul 2, 2022 on 2022-07-03

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