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  A Cottage on Dartmoor 1929

  ★★★★ Rewatched 26 Jan 2023

  I definitely had a lecture on this in first year, but the fact this film felt brand new to me on a ‘rewatch’ says I was either horrifically hungover, or not present.
  This was great though!

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  The Estate 2022

  ★★½ Watched 22 Jan 2023

  Nearly saw this at LFF 22, but glad I waited for it to be on Sky.

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  Soul 2020

  ★★★★½ Watched 11 Oct 2020 1

  Film #4 of London Film Festival 2020

  So glad we got to see this on the big screen at the BFI today - what a great experience! Great extended intro with the filmmakers too (ultra jealous of Justin Johnson’s DVD/blu-ray collection...).

  This felt like Pixar’s first mature animation that they’ve properly made for an older audience. It was well constructed and in my opinion included more interesting ideas than Inside Out in exploring how soul ‘works’. Fantastic casting, fantastic voices. Desperate to listen to the whole score of this film - Atticus Ross and Trent Reznor and Jon Batiste.

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  Thunder Road 2018

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 17 Dec 2018 1

  Held up on the second viewing. Still laughed and cried in the same places as the first time I saw it at the festival.

  I think what I like the most about this film is the way it's made, and the fact that it feels very achievable to make a film like this as my own first feature.

  Good uses of long takes. Jim Cummings is just fantastic.