… although maybe these all got impaled when they tried to get into the property at Easter
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Reading & watching- Netflix: Ida (Pawel Pawlikowski 2013) 10 August 2020A stunningly beautiful black and white film about a young woman who has been brought up by nuns. Days before she is about to make vows as a nun, she is sent off to spend some time with an aunt that she didn't know existed. The aunt reveals to her that she was born to Jewish parents and the rest of her family were killed during the Nazi occupation. They […]
- Roman J Israel Esq. (Dan Gilroy 2017) 8 August 2020Denzel Washington as a doggedly idealistic and completely uncool civil rights lawyer. Worth it just for his performance.
- The Casketeers Season 1 (Annabelle Lee-Harris 2018) 7 August 2020This looks like a mockumentary but apparently it's the real thing. It follows Maori funeral directors Francis and Kaiora Tipene and their staff as they go about their work.I had to check, and found that Tipene Funerals really does exist in Auckland. The Tipenes don't mind making themselves look silly, yet they manage to treat the deceased with resp […]
- The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (Chiwetel Ejiofor 2019) 7 August 2020A wonderful film written and directed by the star of Twelve Years a Slave, set in Malawi, about a young boy who persists with what he learns at in the school library to save his village from disaster.
- The Devil's Playground (Fred Schepisi 1976) 4 August 2020I have no idea what anyone else will make of the film, but it captures an era in Catholicism in Australia, and an experience of it that is very close to my own. So of course I want to argue with it some of the time, but at others can barely believe my eyes, and especially ears. I love it.
- Netflix: Ida (Pawel Pawlikowski 2013) 10 August 2020
