Dig! XX tonight. Seen it a ton of times, still my fave band film. Extra footage, what a treat!
“The only reason to go and see The Brian Jonestown Massacre is if you really like hearing three chords all night, or want to see a fight” 
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The Alto Knights
Pretty standard mob fare, with Robert De Niro playing both the titular characters Frank Costello and Vito Genovese. All the gangster movie hallmarks are present: deals in the funeral parlor, the big family meals, mucho “whaddyagonnado”’ etc etc. De Niro spends the entire film channeling Vito as Joe Pesci’s Goodfellas/Casino character which makes you wish he’d played that role instead to capture that old adversarial dynamic between them from those films. Still, its an enjoyable two hours and De Niro is never less than entertaining in Mob mode. Maybe this will even be his last
I love mob films & De Niro but I fon"t fancy this at all, heard the trailer on the radio a few times & all the characters sound like the gangsters in The Simpsons to me.
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Tired of the DeNiro gangster shtick…of course he’s an incredible actor (of recent note he was amazing in Scorcese’s Killers of the Flower Moon) but it feels like he’s phoning it in with the mob roles. A few months ago we revisited Midnight Run which was a rare comedic turn for him at the time–highly recommend!!
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He’s great in Meet the Parents too, in fact ever since then he’s been phoning it in. The Irishman was very dull.
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Agreed 100%. It was a slog!
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Midnight Run is a classic, one of my favourite ever films.
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Have you seen King of Comedy? He’s brilliant in that
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Brilliant one, that. Loved him in minor roles too like in Jackie Brown. And the 70s - it’s indisputable that Bob in the 1970s - early 80s was as consistently brilliant as Stevie Wonder or Neil Young during that decade…
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Saw a couple of good films this week. Being Maria – a biopic about Maria Schneider and the Last Tango In Paris times, then also Holland the new Nicole Kidman film with Matthew Maccabean from succession which is a fun thriller.
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This was absolutely gorgeous. Flow follows the tale of a Cat that has to escape a flood, presumably after an environmental disaster. It has to bond with other animals to overcome many challenges. The film is wordless but accompanied but a beautiful score. It picked up best animation at the Oscars.
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Watched this last night. Really enjoyed it. Doubles up as a feature length advert for Comte cheese. I left the cinema thinking * Homer Simpson voice in head * “Mmm, Comte.”
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Went to see Warfare today. Not very Balearic I know but I like a good war movie. This is an intense 90 mins, pretty much in real time. Thought it was great.
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Going next week. Excited to catch it heard good things
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Did you like Civil War? I didn’t really rate it much…
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Haven’t seen it yet.
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Saw a fantastic film “A foreign affair” by Billy Wilder, starring Marlene Dietrich. It’s filled with Wilder’s amazing razor-sharp comedy/social/political critique.
Filmed in Berlin after WW II, so some sobering footage of the bombed-out cityscape, which looks so sadly familiar of today’s news coverage of Gaza, Syria, Ukraine.
Lots of dialogue also seems very familiar to today’s US Admin. rhetoric, which goes to show how little we learn.
Five black market chocolate bars out of five
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Seems apt to watch Conclave tonight, ‘that would be an ecumenical matter then’.
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We gave the Guadagnino Burroughs adaptation “Queer” a go. 
Guadagnino has a great eye for interiors but something just doesn’t sit right. “Queer” was mostly filmed on sets and it kinda has this airless feel. The 50s-era sets, AI-looking backdrops combined with the use of Nirvana, New Order, etc makes for an odd frisson. Daniel Craig is pretty good in that worldly worn-out Graham Greene vibe but nobody else really sticks (save for a great Lesley Manville cameo in the third act) and you find yourself just not caring at all about these people.
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