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Aftrr a lean period I've seen two really good legal campaign movies in two nights... it helps restore faith in truth in these difficult times.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial_(2016_film)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Official_Secrets_(film)

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Just watched Radioactive, a film on Marie Curie based on a graphic novel.

It seems to have hit various nerves, with some dire reviews but I really enjoyed it,  despite it's flaws. It's great to see the woman who revolutionised science and the position of women in science as a flesh and blood human. The 'flash forwards' to the dangers and successes of radioactivity really worked for me. Pike was superb and a fabulous score was just a bonus.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_(film)

Still available for a few weeks.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0018481/radioactive

This is on Film 4, tonight, from 23:10. Not sure if it’ll be available on demand afterwards. Curious to see how it’ll seem 25+ years on ... 

Starring Vincent Cassel, Hubert Koundé and Saïd Taghmaoui, the film chronicles a day and night in the lives of three friends from a poor immigrant neighbourhood in the suburbs of Paris. The title derives from a line spoken by one of them, Hubert: "La haine attire la haine!", "hatred breeds hatred". (Wiki)*

https://www.channel4.com/programmes/la-haine (French w/ English subtitles): La Haine (1995) Powerful drama that rips apart the romantic, tourist view of Paris. [...] three friends debate how to use a police revolver that they have found during a riot.

2 - 3 minute reviews here by Mark Kermode & Mark Cousins:

youtube.com/watch?v=N-B0TaiE1pU&

youtube.com/watch?v=mdai9V9BmyM&

* https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Haine#Reception

I’ve seen Denial’s Rachel Weisz in only two other films - Disobedience & The Favourite – she’s impressive in all three, playing very different characters

Good to see that Disobedience & The Assistant are back on Film4:

https://www.channel4.com/programmes/disobedience (2018) Rachel Weisz plays a woman returning from her glamorous secular life to her strict Jewish community when her father dies in this powerful tale of forbidden love

Wikipedia (spoilers elsewhere on the page): On [...] Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 84% based on 209 reviews, and an average rating of 7.20/10. The website's critical consensus states, "Disobedience explores a variety of thought-provoking themes, bolstered by gripping work from leads Rachel Weisz, Rachel McAdams, and Alessandro Nivola."[28] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 74 out of 100, based on 38 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[29]

https://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-assistant (2019) Intense drama starring Julia Garner [& Matthew Macfadyen, in a single, significant scene]. A beleagured assistant at a major movie production company suspects her boss may be up to no good with the new girl. 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Assistant_(2019_film)#Reception

La Haine is a classic, and pretty timeless too. Seems to be the inspiration for a lot of euro 'estate' stuff on Netflix!

Just watched Living with Bill Nighy,  middle class bureaucrat in post war London gets a second lease of life. Nice and uplifting against a rather stifling backdrop.

Yes enjoyed Living.

Yes, one of the top 100 films of world cinema* & seems to have inspired the film mentioned by Mark Kermode in his YouTube review (up thread) (not sure if it's been on Netflix). Hubert is still my favourite of the three leads

* https://www.empireonline.com/movies/features/100-greatest-world-cinema-film...

Saw 'The Night of the 12th' last night. What a movie! Very powerful, avoids all clichés, deliberately unsatisfactory ending (no neat conclusion ... such is life). Performances, everything about it, totally realistic. Loved the way it was shot and edited. And some very interesting freaky music in some places. Understated, yet strangely moving at the end. Something of a masterpiece, certainly a mini-masterpiece.

Glad to see this thread taking off again with so many compelling recommendations. Just finished watching a fabulous profile of one of my favourite authors of my youth: Kurt Vonnegut Stuck in Time...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut:_Unstuck_in_Time

My wife and I watched "Last Cow" last night.  A very plausible, to us, tale of hard-scrabble life in the PNW.  It was filmed near Portland Oregon in; "Oregon Territory" and was set in the early 19th century.

We both thought it was enjoyable.

Oops, I should've titled it "First Cow" 

I went to see 'How to Blow Up a Pipeline' on Saturday, I thought it was great. Really taught thriller, excellent score and camerawork, and thought-provoking too.