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Classic political comedy. I got obsessed enough to create some mediocre fan art for the immortal Malcolm Tucker. For some reason the feature film 'In The Loop' didn't reach the same heights of genius. Loads of great lines, but it lacked an emotional dimension. Starting to sound like a prat.
Beautifully scripted series about a goldrush town, wooden sheriff aside. Particularly memorable anaesthetic-less gall stone removal scene.
What more can be said? The most brilliant drama series EVER made. Got a bit of a crush on Snoop.
Peepshow for women: bitterly depressing comedy. Cancelling the third series was a crime: BBC Three should be shot.
Guilty viewing: cheesy, sound-in-space, mildly fascist. Starbuck is worryingly appealing.
More cheese, and a ridiculously well-behaved serial killer, but he's just so watchable.
Getting On
Why weren't more episodes of this Peter Capaldi hospital comedy produced. The wobbly verite camera technique is looking a little tired (modern image stabilisation can cope quite easily even with cerebral palsied camera operators).
Not wildly funny, but sweet characters.
Seinfeld
Curb your enthusiasm
Spaced
The Mighty Boosh
Blackadder
Faulty Towers
Yes Minister
Peepshow
30 Rock
The Office
South Park
Flight of the Conchords
Walking Dead
Survivors (1975 original series)
Film
My Dad let us watch this at a young age and it burnt itself into my memory. Got a bit obsessed with it as a teenager and had a tradition for years of playing the opening credit sequence and the final scene at the start & end of every school holiday.
I found out later that the brilliant, disjointed end scene was a budgeting screw up: the production ran out of money and Peckinpah was in despair over losing his final spectacular battle scene.
The production crew cobbled together some burning tires and an abandoned train, and created something far more interesting than just another sfx spectacle.
Cross Of Iron opening title sequence
The Green Ray
The Piano Teacher
Uzak
Freddy Got Fingered
Why does no-one I know realise the comic
awesomeness and deeply moving young man's
journey in this film?
Winter Light
Now that's a bodycount.
Daisies
A Winter's Tale
Take that, patriarchy. We used to eat in the
actual cafe, although the crack in the pavement
has gone.
Anatomy Of A Murder
The Lady Vanishes
A Matter Of Life And Death
The Ploughman's Lunch
Fuck me, what an ending.
Me and my brothers were left speechless at this
ending. Dad quickly reassured us the British
would have wiped the Turks out in that scene.
Don't think that was quite the point.
There's Something About Mary
Klaustastic
Solaris
The Draughtsman's Contract
Culloden
The Conformist
Got this out of the library because I didn't know
Ingrid Bergman had directed a film. Swedish is
so the best language for miserable characters.
Once wrote a really embarrassing gushy letter to
Ingmar, hope he never received it.
Scenes From A Marriage
Ran
[Spoiler alert] Don't really like Fellini films for
some reason (soggy?) but this is amazing. The
best switch-around ending ever, would have
been so easy to leave it tragically on the cliff
edge, rather than Cabiria rejoining the party &
smiling.
Bloody Sunday
The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner
October
Pather Panchali
Aliens
There's no nonembarrassing way to say this:
watching the rabbit pinned down by the cat
scene, aged 8, was my first sexual experience.
It's taken years of lapo-feline therapy to regain
an interest in humans.
Easy Rider
Homicide
The Third Man
Terminator
Thanks for the years of nightmares. I actually
sleep-attacked a friend during one of them.
The Abyss
Down By Law
Opening night
Die Hard
Rambo
How genius was this film? Deeply critical of
Spanish catholic oppression but Franco's
censors didn't realise until it was out in the world
winning festival awards.
The Night Porter
Citizen Kane
The only way to see this pre-torrent was by
booking a screening at the BFI archive. Went
into the screening room and they dumped a pile
of film cans in front of the steenbeck. Old school.
Winstanley
It Happened Here
Ryan Gosling is literally god.
Cria Cuevros
Boudu Saved From Drowning
La Grande Illusion
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Borat
Withnail And I
Audition
Battle In Heaven
Adaptation
Saw this brilliance on a stood-up nondate. Felt
great afterwards. PS avoid the excuse, 'I forgot'.
Your Aunt died; your legs were crushed in an
accident; humour me.
Consumer-zombies. Never equalled.
'I like to start the month with a postman'.
Came out spinning. This film gave me so much
cred since I was the only person at school who
saw it before it was banned.
Jaws
When The Cat's Away
MP have made it so hard to take any period
film seriously.
Full Metal Jacket
A Short Film About Love
A Short Film About Killing
Got a little bit obsessed with this film in not a
healthy way.
La cage aux Folles
Man with a Movie Camera
Clockwork Orange (1st half)
Once Upon a Time in the West
The Thin Blue Line
First film to really blow me away. Showed me
there are other human beings out there outside
of my uncomfortable head.
Once Were Warriors
Stand By Me
State of Siege
Knife in the Water
Blair Witch Project
Half Nelson
Assault on Precinct 13 (original)
Now that's a shoot-out.
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La Signe du Lion
Stalker (the ending)
Watched this film in a creative writing course at
school. The 1st time somebody showed me how
to see all the things that are going on in a drama
scene. Plus attempted suicide stories always
fascinating for grumpy teenagers.
'Shoot straight,you bastards'.
Macbeth (Polanski version)
Medieval violence as it actually might have been.
No fancy swordwork, just messy mutual hacking.
It seems that non-english filmmakers have
always done a better job of putting Shakespeare
on screen. Maybe because they're not so
weighed down by the text.
The Wild Bunch
What the hell is wrong with that country? Despite
best effort to hold it together had to have a cry
when the woman returns to her house and looks
for her furniture.
The Wicker Man (director's cut)
So much better than the original release.
Lighting still crap.
Watched this about 300 times as a teenager.
The Killer
The Vanishing (original)
Le Boucher
Wish more people would stop trying to make
video look like film. It's electronic and shit, work
with it.
Pixote
Eraserhead
Richard Attenborough gives a magnificent ham-
performance.
84 Charlie Mopic (in memory mainly)
Mindwalk
Midnight Cowboy
Kranti (original)
Hindi anticolonial musical. Check out the Gay
Oppressor: a frilly shirted Englishman singing
with his boot literally on a suffering Indian.
Watched the whole thing not realising there was
an English subtitle option on the bootleg DVD..
I'm sure the dialogue was awesome.
Truly Madly Deeply
Rocky
The Long Good Friday
Very upsetting irradiated infant anal bleeding
scene. Let's really try not to have a nuclear war
this century.
Irreversible
La Collectioneuse
Saturday Night Fever
How to scare the shit out of the 80's generation.
Interesting to compare to the big budget US
equivalent, The Day After. Their snazzy effects
have dated much more than our cheapo
masterpience.
A Fish Called Wanda
Bad Day at Black Rock
Tailspin
The Assassination of Richard Nixon
Ghosts
Elvira Madigan
The Silence
King of Comedy
Blew me away as a child. Church services were
never the same again.
I wanted to be a terrorist after watching this.
After the rehearsal
Raging Bull
Eagle vs Shark
'You not gonna shit right for a week!' Genius film
hiding behind a bland title.
Trading Places
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Iraq For Sale
American Werewolf in london
Don't watch this, just buy your daily food &
pretend it hasn't gone through a horrendous
industial processing system.
4 months 3 weeks & 2 days
The Ceremony
Lars And The Real Girl
Two Hours from London
Greedy corporate royalty fuckers buried this
brilliant student film for 30 years over music
copyright issues. Welcome to Pirate karma.
Only film I've seen that shifts effortlessly
from documentary to studio style and back
again.
Grave of the Fireflies
God I hate our gender.
Local Hero
Superbad
The Class
Sicko
Really hard to track down this film. Ended up
watching a shitty VHS copy in the BFI archive.
Best birthday present ever from my best friend.
Not quite brilliant enough to qualify for the list but
something containing Paddy Considine has to be
on here.
Actress goes through the nightmare postwar
Polish prison system. Imagine living in a country
that detains and interrogates people indefinitely
without revealing what evidence they...oh wait.
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill
Short film set in the Troubles of Northern Ireland.
Interesting how the 1989 cgi-less violence is so
much more effective than today's computer
generated bloodletting.
Ecoroll
climate writers/activists
UK climate groups
Campaign Against Climate Change
Wisdom in Nature (London Islamic
COIN (Climate Outreach & Information
UK anti-coal campaigns
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UK climate arts
UK climate blogs
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climate videos
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climate articles
Drax 29 trial: closing statement
Can this really save the planet?
international publications
scientific journals
wikipedia articles
world energy sources and consumption
activist useful resources
Scottish Activist Legal Project
UK Action Medics (maybe defunct?)
UK university resources
Sustainable Energy without the hot air
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international bodies
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
sustainable finance
UK ngo's
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other UK campaigns
the laboratory of insurrectionary imagination
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Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting
good UK blogs
UK altjournalism
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international video streams
UK social spaces
Advisory Service For Squatters
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rampART collective (currently homeless)
low emissions food
the bad guys
greenwashers
Ed Miliband, Minister for Energy
nutcases
nonsense blogs
carbon offset scams
malthusian wankers
technosolutions hype
Underground Coal Gasification Partnership
carbon capture & storage nonsense
crappy publications
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ngo's
Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants
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Filmmaking resources
Web Series
The Maria Bamford Show (video link)
Brilliant use of a real-life breakdown to make a wonderful web series. Classic 'We're Not Afraid of the Dark' musical number sung from under the duvet.
Zach Galifianakis' excruciating celebrity interviews.
Lisa Kudrow is the 3 minute therapist.
Video-activism
Procrastination Corner
'Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.' Von Braun
Check out this genius short film about a couple chatting over a steak. Nothing really happens, no close-ups of sizzling steak passions. What makes it so great?
