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November 2024

GROSS/50 1959 Ben-Hur - I can only apologise
Stupid, cruel, stupidly cruel.
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GROSS DISTRACTION - final movies
He didn't know it would be his last film but Tarkovsky's 'The Sacrifice' is very very final.
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GROSS/49 1958 - South Pacific - apocalypse then
It's a delirious, not to say demented, movie - a kind of Eisenhower acid trip.
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GROSS/48 1957 - The Bridge on the River Kwai - the childish delusion of the omnipotence of thought
Public school fantasies take on brute reality in the jungle.
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October 2024

GROSS DISTRACTION - The Apprentice - midtown mendacity, downtown depravity
Trump derangement syndrome has not yet peaked.
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GROSS DISTRACTION - Brief Encounter - a land without cinema
The 1950s are driving me to distraction so let's rewind ten years and watch Brief Encounter again.
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GROSS/47 1956 - The Ten Commandments - cold war artefact
It's a big, silly, camp thing and an anti-Communist weapon and I'm definitely not writing about it. Definitely.
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GROSS/46 1955 - Lady and the Tramp - a very, very good boy
Disney's ultimate hymn to conformity.
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September 2024

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