@ishmaellasting@mastodonapp.uk
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May 08, 2026
Ishmael Lasting
@ishmaellasting@mastodonapp.uk
Have been described by a number of people as 'the wittiest person on Mastodon.' (Zero is a number.) Writer of sorts. Not really here to talk about that though. So far, I seem to be mostly talking about la cinema -- art house, cult and classic mainly. (Side note: If you understand the L'angle du hasard reference without Googling it, that's numberwang). Also, will post whatever other misbegotten ideas pass through my brain as my synapses misfire.
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#LetterboxdFriday
THE HIRELING - 🇬🇧
A chauffeur, traumatised by the war, falls for a depressed aristo. It doesn't end well for him. There's a lot going on here. It has a literary depth to it. But it's dry
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THE RED & THE WHITE - 🇭🇺
🎶 War! (Huh, good god) What is it good for? Eastern European arthouse films made in opposition to it. Say it again 🎶
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TOUCH OF EVIL - 🇺🇸
Classic, innit.
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MR ARKADIN - 🇫🇷 🇪🇸
Not sure which cut of this I saw the first time around, but it wasn't this 'Comprehensive Version', which salvages the film, but still leaves it very rough around the edges.
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@nicegnome@social.horrorhub.club
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May 01, 2026
nicegnome 🇬🇱
@nicegnome@social.horrorhub.club
A grudge is a promise your heart makes Screenwriter 🍿 Regular writer 📜🖊️ Aspiring cosplayer 🪡 Video gamer 🎮🖥️⌨️ http://letterboxd.com/nicegnome https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/nicegn0me
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Tina Fey's Four Seasons is better.
Letterboxd tells me The Martian is my most logged film (8 rewatches)
#LastFourWatched #letterboxd #movies
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@ishmaellasting@mastodonapp.uk
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Apr 17, 2026
Ishmael Lasting
@ishmaellasting@mastodonapp.uk
Have been described by a number of people as 'the wittiest person on Mastodon.' (Zero is a number.) Writer of sorts. Not really here to talk about that though. So far, I seem to be mostly talking about la cinema -- art house, cult and classic mainly. (Side note: If you understand the L'angle du hasard reference without Googling it, that's numberwang). Also, will post whatever other misbegotten ideas pass through my brain as my synapses misfire.
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#LetterboxdFriday
THERESE RAQUIN - 🇫🇷
The kind of technically solid, high quality but sterile literary adaptation that provoked the French New Wave -- so I suppose we should be grateful for that
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FATA MORGANA - 🇩🇪
Werner Herzog's lyrical documentary about mirages. Or something
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OUT OF THE PAST - 🇺🇸
Weirdly (to me anyway), I hadn't seen this before. Has absolutely everything I could possibly want from a classic noir. Gorgeous photography, smart-arse 'hard-boiled' dialogue, double-crosses, unnecessarily complex plot structure, &c.
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THE SEVENTH CONTINENT - 🇦🇹
All these years on, Michael Haneke's feature debut demonstrates that Michael Haneke arrived fully-formed
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@nicegnome@social.horrorhub.club
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Apr 17, 2026
nicegnome 🇬🇱
@nicegnome@social.horrorhub.club
A grudge is a promise your heart makes Screenwriter 🍿 Regular writer 📜🖊️ Aspiring cosplayer 🪡 Video gamer 🎮🖥️⌨️ http://letterboxd.com/nicegnome https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/nicegn0me
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Last four watched!
@jasonrush@social.horrorhub.club was soooo lucky, he met Merida at Disneyland while I was in the stupid bathroom!
He had never seen the movie so we watched it at the hotel 🐻
#lastfourwatched #letterboxd #movies
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@ishmaellasting@mastodonapp.uk
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Feb 27, 2026
Ishmael Lasting
@ishmaellasting@mastodonapp.uk
Have been described by a number of people as 'the wittiest person on Mastodon.' (Zero is a number.) Writer of sorts. Not really here to talk about that though. So far, I seem to be mostly talking about la cinema -- art house, cult and classic mainly. (Side note: If you understand the L'angle du hasard reference without Googling it, that's numberwang). Also, will post whatever other misbegotten ideas pass through my brain as my synapses misfire.
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#LetterboxdFriday
MARTY SUPREME -🇺🇸
Liked it, didn't love it. Three main reasons why not: 1) 2.5hr character study of a man who doesn't really have one. He's driven, he's unscrupulous, he's self-absorbed. I get it. What else have you got?. 2) Stuff-stuff-stuff, busy-busy-busy, happen-happen-happen makes it feel a bit one-note. 3) That's an ending straight out of the Hays Code -- be as much as a villain as you like, as long as you get punished or find redemption in the final reel, however jarringly... But it was entertaining, if rather wearing.
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KAMILLA - 🇳🇴
Adult drama from a child's perspective. Like the To Kill a Mocking Bird of post-war marital infidelity
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THE SNOW WHITE MURDER CASE - 🇯🇵
Slick and absorbing jigsaw whodunnit with a touch of Rashomon in its DNA
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ASHES & DIAMONDS - 🇵🇱
Gorgeously photographed all-time classic, innit.
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@ishmaellasting@mastodonapp.uk
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Feb 20, 2026
Ishmael Lasting
@ishmaellasting@mastodonapp.uk
Have been described by a number of people as 'the wittiest person on Mastodon.' (Zero is a number.) Writer of sorts. Not really here to talk about that though. So far, I seem to be mostly talking about la cinema -- art house, cult and classic mainly. (Side note: If you understand the L'angle du hasard reference without Googling it, that's numberwang). Also, will post whatever other misbegotten ideas pass through my brain as my synapses misfire.
mastodonapp.uk
#LetterboxdFriday
NEECHA NAGAR - 🇮🇳
Curious hodgepodge of styles: by turns social realism, expressionism, melodrama. And it's Hindi, so it inevitably throws in some musical numbers.
The people of 'the Lower City' rise up against the cruelty of the municipal government. No-one actually mentions the British, but it's India in 1946. The subtext is clear. ('This our land, not your land')
Movie's in a bloody awful state though. Memo to India: 'film preservation' is not a dirty term
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THE HERO - 🇮🇳
One of Satyajit Ray's many masterpieces. One of the best to ever do it
Satyajit Ray
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KOKUHO - 🇯🇵
Decade-spanning three-hour kabuki epic. Shade over-long perhaps, but mostly rather wonderful
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THE IMAGINARIUM OF DR.PARNASSUS - 🇬🇧 🇨🇦
Terry Gilliam enters the self-parodic phase of his career
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@ishmaellasting@mastodonapp.uk
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Feb 13, 2026
Ishmael Lasting
@ishmaellasting@mastodonapp.uk
Have been described by a number of people as 'the wittiest person on Mastodon.' (Zero is a number.) Writer of sorts. Not really here to talk about that though. So far, I seem to be mostly talking about la cinema -- art house, cult and classic mainly. (Side note: If you understand the L'angle du hasard reference without Googling it, that's numberwang). Also, will post whatever other misbegotten ideas pass through my brain as my synapses misfire.
mastodonapp.uk
#LetterboxdFriday
HONEY DON'T! - 🇺🇸
Ethan Coen makes another pretend Coen Bros film. Has a number of the elements we associate with real Coen Bros films, but doesn't quite work
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SHALL WE DANCE? - 🇯🇵
Married man going through middle-age crisis sees a pretty young woman in a window and joins a ballroom dancing class... but it all turns out much more charming than it sounds. Only Japanese film I've ever seen that talks reverently about Blackpool Winter Gardens
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SUMO DO, SUMO DON'T - 🇯🇵
A rubbish university sumo team gets quite good. Similar theme to Shall We Dance? with people accidentally falling in love with niche 'old-fashioned' activities, but the comedy is a bit broader here
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MEETING WITH POL POT - 🇰🇭 🇫🇷
Solid enough overall, but the decision to keep Pol Pot in shadows and never show his face makes him into a comic book villain in a film that otherwise plays a straight bat
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@nicegnome@social.horrorhub.club
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Jan 30, 2026
nicegnome 🇬🇱
@nicegnome@social.horrorhub.club
A grudge is a promise your heart makes Screenwriter 🍿 Regular writer 📜🖊️ Aspiring cosplayer 🪡 Video gamer 🎮🖥️⌨️ http://letterboxd.com/nicegnome https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/nicegn0me
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Chasing Summer is the Sundance standout so far...really great screenplay and acting
#LastFourWatched #Letterboxd #Sundance
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@ishmaellasting@mastodonapp.uk
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Jan 30, 2026
Ishmael Lasting
@ishmaellasting@mastodonapp.uk
Have been described by a number of people as 'the wittiest person on Mastodon.' (Zero is a number.) Writer of sorts. Not really here to talk about that though. So far, I seem to be mostly talking about la cinema -- art house, cult and classic mainly. (Side note: If you understand the L'angle du hasard reference without Googling it, that's numberwang). Also, will post whatever other misbegotten ideas pass through my brain as my synapses misfire.
mastodonapp.uk
#LetterboxdFriday
Ingrid and Alfred double-bill:
SPELLBOUND - 🇺🇸 - Two main problems with Spellbound. 1) The silly, po-faced psychoanalysis stuff does weigh it down, and 2) Hitchcock just happened to make better movies using this 'man on the run' template both before and after it
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UNDER CAPRICORN -🇬🇧 - Uncharacteristic slowburn period drama from Hitch. He considered it to be a 'mistake'. The Cahiers du Cinema lot thought it was among his very finest films. I don't entirely subscribe to either of those views, but the French were closer than the big man
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SARRAOUINIA - 🇧🇫 🇲🇷 - Ambitiously constructed anti-colonialist war epic
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NEIGHBOURING SOUNDS - 🇧🇷 - One of those films where I think 'Yes, OK, but where are you going with this?' for quite a lot of the runtime, but it all comes together in the end
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Last four films watched - Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto (1954), Personal Velocity (2002) , Broken Rage (2024), Predator: Badlands (2025) #lastfourwatched #letterboxdfriday #films #films2026 #japanuary #japanuary2026
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Close - Beautiful desperately sad film about grief and the pressure to conform. Terrific performances all round.
Rachel Gets Married - One of the most annoying films I’ve seen in a long time. Can everybody just shut up?!
An Asian Ghost Story - Curious enjoyable speculative doc about haunted wigs, by way of colonialism, Communist China hair-export bans, and made-up Dutch scientists doing stone-tape-type experiments with hair.
The Running Man - Lumpen po-faced remake with all the political subtlety of a sledgehammer to the head. Dismal.
#Films #Movies
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@sharazluke@mastodon.world
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Jan 30, 2026
Sharaz Luke
@sharazluke@mastodon.world
Hi, I’m Sharaz (he/him) Fav weekly hashtags: #tunetuesday #musicwomenwednesday #thursdayfivelist #letterboxdfriday #lastfourwatched #jukeboxfridaynight #kungfusat #thesundaystarter #wordle Header pic is of my beloved snowboard
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#LetterboxdFriday
Only managed to watch 2 films this week (after binging The Night Manager and starting Wonder Man).
The Roses ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Walled in was great, and viewed as part of the kung fu Saturday watch party here on the fediverse. Will watch again.
The Roses was good- great acting and story, but I just wanted more. Plus setting it in Cali when it was obviously filmed in Devon seemed needless.
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