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If… (1968) Girl: „Go on. Look at me. I’ll kill you. Look at my eyes. Sometimes I stand in front of the mirror…and my eyes get bigger and bigger. And I’m like a tiger. I like tigers.“

#if....#lindsay anderson #1968 #1960s #uk

pierppasolini

Nope (2022) // dir. Jordan Peele

#insane #nope #jordan peele #usa #2022 #2020s

ozu-teapot

Scum | Alan Clarke | 1979

#scum #alan clarke #1979 #1970s #uk

pierppasolini

The sea has the power to beguile. Back when dad was fishing, he once saw a maborosi - a strange light - far out to sea. Something in it was beckoning to him, he said. It happens to all of us.

Maborosi (1995) // dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda

#maborosi #hirokazu koreeda #1995 #1990s #japan

do you have any book recommendations about british film/film in general?

omg i literally do... i always like to go on my university library website and search whatever topic im interested in or on the internet generally something like "my beautiful laundrette" "brechtian" to see what i can find so there are probably (definitely) a lot of really good things that i wouldnt be able to specifically remember or immediately be able to find but did provide useful context for me & influence my thinking...

(also it actually went the opposite way to usual in that i got more into 60s-80s british cinema through reading about it instead of already having an interest and deciding to read more about it.. though for basically since id first heard of it i had been interested in the idea of kitchen sink drama i had just for some reason never acted on it... basically what happened was me wanting to read every article or essay i could find about my beautiful laundrette and then finding they often referenced other films and movements and so watched them before reading the rest so it would make more sense and then finding i loved them and wanting to watch other things from those directors or writers or other similar films and wanting to read about those too... and reading other things which were cited in those essays and articles)

my number 1 recommendation i think is definitely the lester friedman essay collection but the first one im going to write is an article comparing some works of mike leigh ken loach & hanif kureishi and im pretty sure is the one i originally found from searching "my beautiful laundrette" and how i found the next 2 ill mention because they were both cited and i liked the sound of them a lot.... and has a section i really enjoyed about the ways that my beautiful laundrette departs from social realism but no spoilers or whatever...

okay and now these 2 books.... lester friedmans essay collection i think is especially really great and is definitely definitely my number 1 recommendation for this topic... apart from having the best cover in the world its very good in that it has essays on different topics that you can read in any order you like whenever you feel like it etc (you know like every essay collection -_-) but its also really good in how it talks about the connection between tv and theatre being very connected to british cinema where they are much more separate in america (eg cinema being mainly based in la and theatre being mainly based in new york whereas in britain both were in london and the same actors were much more often in both etc....) and the different forms and conventions this has produced... british tv films of the 60s-80s is maybe quite a niche obsession but i loved reading about it and the past behind & reasons for all of it & suchlike.... there are also chapters on ken russell, terence davies, ken loach, peter greenaway, stephen frears, mike leigh, derek jarman, and black british film collectives (& many more.... ;).....) there was also a chapter about the resurgence of imperial period dramas in the 1980s in britain and what this signifies about thatcherism and perception of empire etc... just a really great collection i think....

there is also a little drama between lester friedman and john hill where john hill said some film choices were slightly too random and didnt have enough to do with thatcherism but lester friedman said that all films produced in that period were about or influenced by thatcherism in some way & though i really love what john hill said about departure from social realism & maybe bc of that alone i can forgive any stupid thing he may say but i am definitely definitely definitely with lester friedman here....

also i feel like the actual main essential foundational reading here would properly be mine & sonias (nabokovvladimir 🥺) various conversations however we have both since gotten different phones so they are unavailable........

also not quite related to the topic i would just definitely recommend the screenplay & the various original drafts for my beautiful laundrette... i loved it even the first time i watched it but they are even more illuminating....

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