Films you've watched recently.

[Supershrimper]

The Beautiful Game (2024) on Netflix.

About the homeless world Cup (who knew there was such a thing) Stars Bill Nighy.

 

[BALDY]

Ms Baldy and I went to the cinema (Hackney Picturehouse) and we saw this bore.....

 

[BALDY]

Panned by some of the critics.....But it really impressed us.

 

[BALDY]

Loved by some but not by me

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Loved by some but not by me
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It's a great fim .One Of John S.'s best .

 

[cerbera45]

Teen Wolf (1985)

 

[BALDY]

It's a great fim .One Of John S.'s best .

Sadly about halfway through it--It runs out of steam......There are very mixed reviews of it on Imdb

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Sadly about halfway through it--It runs out of steam......There are very mixed reviews of it on Imdb

It was a landmark film for it's time.Probably a bit unfair to judge it by modern standards.There's a reason it was in black & white,you know,

 

[BALDY]

It was a nlandmark film for it's time.Probably a bit unfair to judge it by modern standards.There's a reason it was in black & white,you know,

Lack of funding?

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Lack of funding?

It was a British film of course but most British films of that era were also made in black & white.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

It was a British film of course but most British films of that era were also made in black & white.

"Back in the day of physical film, before digital took over, there was a big difference between the cost of processing and reproducing colour film and that of monochrome. Black and white is a simpler, more forgiving medium to process, and the film stock is cheaper too."

 

[blues exile]

"Back in the day of physical film, before digital took over, there was a big difference between the cost of processing and reproducing colour film and that of monochrome. Black and white is a simpler, more forgiving medium to process, and the film stock is cheaper too."

It was a low budget affair from Anglo-Amalgamated, not a major British studio. Bogarde and Harvey probably accounted for a big slice of the budget. Black and white was still fashionable then on the continent with Godard, Bergman etc still favouring it so it was not out of step. As a depiction of 'Swinging London' and that time in the 60s it still holds up imo but very much of its time.