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Summer Of Soul [2021]

Summer Of Soul (...Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised) is an entertaining feature documentary about the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival which celebrated African American music and culture. Vibrant mix of archived political interviews,  performing footage of some well-known blues and soul singers of the era, supposedly not seen since this was filmed as the tapes have only recently been recovered some fifty years on.

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Small Axe [2020 TV Limited Series]

Five part mini TV series named after the Wailers song, is based on the real-life experiences of London's West Indian communities between 1969 and 1982. Each episode telling a different story, each directed by Steve McQueen, chip firmly on shoulder with agenda driven one sided race relations point of view can feel clichéd. Nevertheless a good series best watched as a whole with some top soundtracks of the era and good performances, episode 1 a two hour epic in itself and episode 2 for the soundtrack alone.

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Annette [2021]

A stand-up provocateur comedian and his opera singer wife have a two year old puppet 'daughter' with a surprising talent. This unique rock opera  by the avant-garde Ron and Russel Mael duo of Sparks, in their first ever feature is certainly different. A mix of brilliance, frustration and tedium. Bizarre as only Sparks can be. Worth seeing only for those who can stomach the genre.

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On 8/19/2021 at 3:59 PM, Palatkik said:

Small Axe [2020 TV Limited Series]

Five part mini TV series named after the Wailers song, is based on the real-life experiences of London's West Indian communities between 1969 and 1982. Each episode telling a different story, each directed by Steve McQueen, chip firmly on shoulder with agenda driven one sided race relations point of view can feel clichéd. Nevertheless a good series best watched as a whole with some top soundtracks of the era and good performances, episode 1 a two hour epic in itself and episode 2 for the soundtrack alone.

The one set in the blues party was quite inaccurate and got slagged off online. I went a lot in the 80's but the writer was not old enough to have experienced them at the time. The idea of people dancing to kung fu fighting, writhing about on the floor and slackness in somebodies garden was ridiculous. The music selection was also tame and limited mostly playing Janet Kay, opportunity lost there.

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Stillwater [2021]

Drama piece of an American oil-rig roughneck travels from Oklahoma to the French south coast to help his estranged daughter, who is in prison for a murder she claims she didn't commit. Confronted with language and legal barriers to understand in a foreign country, he builds a new life there with a mission to exonerate his child. This dodgy story is just about held together with fine character portrayals.

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The Devils (1971)

In 17th-century France, Father Urbain Grandier seeks to protect the city of Loudun from the corrupt establishment of Cardinal Richelieu. Hysteria occurs within the city when he is accused of witchcraft by a sexually-repressed nun.

Not sure if the version I watched, of this Ken Russell movie, is the UK or the USA version, both of which were heavily censored, but the UK one, less so. 

Stars: Vanessa Redgrave, Oliver Reed.

In its day, pornographic, today, reasonably mild. Performances, particularly Oliver Reed and Vanessa Redgrave, are outstanding.

For making a movie, that's a proper movie, from when they still made good movies, and blockbusters, hadn't been invented yet - 5 stars

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The North Water [2021 TV Limited Series]

Dramatic period thriller TV series of a disgraced ex-army surgeon who signs up as ship's doctor on a whaling expedition to the Arctic in 1869. Hoping to escape the horrors of his past, he finds himself on an ill-fated journey with a murderous psychopath. In search of redemption, his story becomes a harsh struggle in the Arctic wasteland. This slow moving thriller, flat at times, jumps hoops showing it's based on a novel, has a top cast giving some good performances, set in a stunningly bleak environment.

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Censor [2021]

After viewing a strangely familiar video nasty, a film censor, sets out to solve the past mystery of her sister's disappearance, embarking on a quest that dissolves the line between fiction and reality. Ambitious low budget horror flick set in 80's Britain works OK. Worth seeing if you are into the horror genre.

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The Toll [2021]

A low budget darkly-comic thriller set on the Pembrokeshire coast about a toll booth operator with a past that is fast catching up with him. Enjoyably amusing crime caper, with an acceptable cheesy ending, hits the ground running with nonstop deadpan humor amongst the rolling Welsh countryside.

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Welsh Countryside? They must have had very creative editing then, and some poetic Licence.

Cleddau Bridge over Cleddau River was the only toll road / bridge in Pembrokshire, it went Toll Free in early 2919, and as long as you don’t mind the enormous LNG terminal in Milford Haven I suppose the scenery is nice.

 

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