Ishmael Lasting
@ishmaellasting@mastodonapp.uk
Have been described by a number of people as 'the wittiest person on Mastodon.' (Zero is a number.) Writer of sorts. Not really here to talk about that though. So far, I seem to be mostly talking about la cinema -- art house, cult and classic mainly. (Side note: If you understand the L'angle du hasard reference without Googling it, that's numberwang). Also, will post whatever other misbegotten ideas pass through my brain as my synapses misfire.
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Ishmael Lasting
@ishmaellasting@mastodonapp.uk
Have been described by a number of people as 'the wittiest person on Mastodon.' (Zero is a number.) Writer of sorts. Not really here to talk about that though. So far, I seem to be mostly talking about la cinema -- art house, cult and classic mainly. (Side note: If you understand the L'angle du hasard reference without Googling it, that's numberwang). Also, will post whatever other misbegotten ideas pass through my brain as my synapses misfire.
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Apr 17, 2026
#LetterboxdFriday
THERESE RAQUIN - 🇫🇷
The kind of technically solid, high quality but sterile literary adaptation that provoked the French New Wave -- so I suppose we should be grateful for that
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FATA MORGANA - 🇩🇪
Werner Herzog's lyrical documentary about mirages. Or something
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OUT OF THE PAST - 🇺🇸
Weirdly (to me anyway), I hadn't seen this before. Has absolutely everything I could possibly want from a classic noir. Gorgeous photography, smart-arse 'hard-boiled' dialogue, double-crosses, unnecessarily complex plot structure, &c.
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THE SEVENTH CONTINENT - 🇦🇹
All these years on, Michael Haneke's feature debut demonstrates that Michael Haneke arrived fully-formed
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Mairita 
@mariilasa@toot.lv
Pļāpāju par grāmatām un citām interesēm. Mēdzu lasīt no rītiem: #brokastisargrāmatu Īsas izlasīto grāmatu atsauksmes: #grāmata #Valmiera #kinovakars #LetterboxdFriday #Afiša #Gauja #balkondārzs Padomi par Mastodon: #toottips #mastodontips
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Apr 17, 2026
#LetterboxdFriday no manis 3 filmas.
🎬 Archipelago - interesants stīvas vidusmēra angļu ģimenes portrets, "klusa" filma. Māte ļoti cenšas nodrošināt ģimenei jaukas brīvdienas, bet viss jūk pa vīlēm. Galda ainas brīnišķīgas.
🎬 Little Women (2019) - šī ekranizācija patika labāk kā grāmata un es esmu cilvēks, kurš parasti saka, ka grāmata labāka par filmu. Koncentrētāks stāsts, labāk manāmas feminisma vēsmas.
🎬 The Truman show - jaukākā šausmu filma. Nebiju redzējusi, jo besī Džims Kerijs.
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Ishmael Lasting
@ishmaellasting@mastodonapp.uk
Have been described by a number of people as 'the wittiest person on Mastodon.' (Zero is a number.) Writer of sorts. Not really here to talk about that though. So far, I seem to be mostly talking about la cinema -- art house, cult and classic mainly. (Side note: If you understand the L'angle du hasard reference without Googling it, that's numberwang). Also, will post whatever other misbegotten ideas pass through my brain as my synapses misfire.
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Ishmael Lasting
@ishmaellasting@mastodonapp.uk
Have been described by a number of people as 'the wittiest person on Mastodon.' (Zero is a number.) Writer of sorts. Not really here to talk about that though. So far, I seem to be mostly talking about la cinema -- art house, cult and classic mainly. (Side note: If you understand the L'angle du hasard reference without Googling it, that's numberwang). Also, will post whatever other misbegotten ideas pass through my brain as my synapses misfire.
mastodonapp.uk
@ishmaellasting@mastodonapp.uk
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Feb 27, 2026
#LetterboxdFriday
MARTY SUPREME -🇺🇸
Liked it, didn't love it. Three main reasons why not: 1) 2.5hr character study of a man who doesn't really have one. He's driven, he's unscrupulous, he's self-absorbed. I get it. What else have you got?. 2) Stuff-stuff-stuff, busy-busy-busy, happen-happen-happen makes it feel a bit one-note. 3) That's an ending straight out of the Hays Code -- be as much as a villain as you like, as long as you get punished or find redemption in the final reel, however jarringly... But it was entertaining, if rather wearing.
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KAMILLA - 🇳🇴
Adult drama from a child's perspective. Like the To Kill a Mocking Bird of post-war marital infidelity
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THE SNOW WHITE MURDER CASE - 🇯🇵
Slick and absorbing jigsaw whodunnit with a touch of Rashomon in its DNA
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ASHES & DIAMONDS - 🇵🇱
Gorgeously photographed all-time classic, innit.
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Ishmael Lasting
@ishmaellasting@mastodonapp.uk
Have been described by a number of people as 'the wittiest person on Mastodon.' (Zero is a number.) Writer of sorts. Not really here to talk about that though. So far, I seem to be mostly talking about la cinema -- art house, cult and classic mainly. (Side note: If you understand the L'angle du hasard reference without Googling it, that's numberwang). Also, will post whatever other misbegotten ideas pass through my brain as my synapses misfire.
mastodonapp.uk
Ishmael Lasting
@ishmaellasting@mastodonapp.uk
Have been described by a number of people as 'the wittiest person on Mastodon.' (Zero is a number.) Writer of sorts. Not really here to talk about that though. So far, I seem to be mostly talking about la cinema -- art house, cult and classic mainly. (Side note: If you understand the L'angle du hasard reference without Googling it, that's numberwang). Also, will post whatever other misbegotten ideas pass through my brain as my synapses misfire.
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@ishmaellasting@mastodonapp.uk
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Feb 20, 2026
#LetterboxdFriday
NEECHA NAGAR - 🇮🇳
Curious hodgepodge of styles: by turns social realism, expressionism, melodrama. And it's Hindi, so it inevitably throws in some musical numbers.
The people of 'the Lower City' rise up against the cruelty of the municipal government. No-one actually mentions the British, but it's India in 1946. The subtext is clear. ('This our land, not your land')
Movie's in a bloody awful state though. Memo to India: 'film preservation' is not a dirty term
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THE HERO - 🇮🇳
One of Satyajit Ray's many masterpieces. One of the best to ever do it
Satyajit Ray
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KOKUHO - 🇯🇵
Decade-spanning three-hour kabuki epic. Shade over-long perhaps, but mostly rather wonderful
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THE IMAGINARIUM OF DR.PARNASSUS - 🇬🇧 🇨🇦
Terry Gilliam enters the self-parodic phase of his career
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Ishmael Lasting
@ishmaellasting@mastodonapp.uk
Have been described by a number of people as 'the wittiest person on Mastodon.' (Zero is a number.) Writer of sorts. Not really here to talk about that though. So far, I seem to be mostly talking about la cinema -- art house, cult and classic mainly. (Side note: If you understand the L'angle du hasard reference without Googling it, that's numberwang). Also, will post whatever other misbegotten ideas pass through my brain as my synapses misfire.
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Ishmael Lasting
@ishmaellasting@mastodonapp.uk
Have been described by a number of people as 'the wittiest person on Mastodon.' (Zero is a number.) Writer of sorts. Not really here to talk about that though. So far, I seem to be mostly talking about la cinema -- art house, cult and classic mainly. (Side note: If you understand the L'angle du hasard reference without Googling it, that's numberwang). Also, will post whatever other misbegotten ideas pass through my brain as my synapses misfire.
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@ishmaellasting@mastodonapp.uk
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Feb 13, 2026
#LetterboxdFriday
HONEY DON'T! - 🇺🇸
Ethan Coen makes another pretend Coen Bros film. Has a number of the elements we associate with real Coen Bros films, but doesn't quite work
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SHALL WE DANCE? - 🇯🇵
Married man going through middle-age crisis sees a pretty young woman in a window and joins a ballroom dancing class... but it all turns out much more charming than it sounds. Only Japanese film I've ever seen that talks reverently about Blackpool Winter Gardens
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SUMO DO, SUMO DON'T - 🇯🇵
A rubbish university sumo team gets quite good. Similar theme to Shall We Dance? with people accidentally falling in love with niche 'old-fashioned' activities, but the comedy is a bit broader here
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MEETING WITH POL POT - 🇰🇭 🇫🇷
Solid enough overall, but the decision to keep Pol Pot in shadows and never show his face makes him into a comic book villain in a film that otherwise plays a straight bat
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Ishmael Lasting
@ishmaellasting@mastodonapp.uk
Have been described by a number of people as 'the wittiest person on Mastodon.' (Zero is a number.) Writer of sorts. Not really here to talk about that though. So far, I seem to be mostly talking about la cinema -- art house, cult and classic mainly. (Side note: If you understand the L'angle du hasard reference without Googling it, that's numberwang). Also, will post whatever other misbegotten ideas pass through my brain as my synapses misfire.
mastodonapp.uk
Ishmael Lasting
@ishmaellasting@mastodonapp.uk
Have been described by a number of people as 'the wittiest person on Mastodon.' (Zero is a number.) Writer of sorts. Not really here to talk about that though. So far, I seem to be mostly talking about la cinema -- art house, cult and classic mainly. (Side note: If you understand the L'angle du hasard reference without Googling it, that's numberwang). Also, will post whatever other misbegotten ideas pass through my brain as my synapses misfire.
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@ishmaellasting@mastodonapp.uk
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Jan 30, 2026
#LetterboxdFriday
Ingrid and Alfred double-bill:
SPELLBOUND - 🇺🇸 - Two main problems with Spellbound. 1) The silly, po-faced psychoanalysis stuff does weigh it down, and 2) Hitchcock just happened to make better movies using this 'man on the run' template both before and after it
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UNDER CAPRICORN -🇬🇧 - Uncharacteristic slowburn period drama from Hitch. He considered it to be a 'mistake'. The Cahiers du Cinema lot thought it was among his very finest films. I don't entirely subscribe to either of those views, but the French were closer than the big man
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SARRAOUINIA - 🇧🇫 🇲🇷 - Ambitiously constructed anti-colonialist war epic
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NEIGHBOURING SOUNDS - 🇧🇷 - One of those films where I think 'Yes, OK, but where are you going with this?' for quite a lot of the runtime, but it all comes together in the end
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Last four films watched - Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto (1954), Personal Velocity (2002) , Broken Rage (2024), Predator: Badlands (2025) #lastfourwatched #letterboxdfriday #films #films2026 #japanuary #japanuary2026
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Julia, normal person 🍒
@Juju@magnificentbeardsfan.club
I hate people and I'm German which is basically the same thing. FUCK NAZIS! "Mostly grumpy but nonethless super charming" - @Kiki "I like your work. Big fan." - @PostMasterGeneral (fiancé)
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Julia, normal person 🍒
@Juju@magnificentbeardsfan.club
I hate people and I'm German which is basically the same thing. FUCK NAZIS! "Mostly grumpy but nonethless super charming" - @Kiki "I like your work. Big fan." - @PostMasterGeneral (fiancé)
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@Juju@magnificentbeardsfan.club
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Jan 30, 2026
I didn't want to do the last four because those sucked but the other ones this week were great. God's Own Country was incredible, 12 Angry Men as well, surprisingly so.
#lastninewatched #letterboxdfriday
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Arratoon
@arratoon@beige.party
Copy editor/music/film/books/bikes/running/staring into the middle distance. London. #NoBots No alt text in photos no follow
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#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched
Close - Beautiful desperately sad film about grief and the pressure to conform. Terrific performances all round.
Rachel Gets Married - One of the most annoying films I’ve seen in a long time. Can everybody just shut up?!
An Asian Ghost Story - Curious enjoyable speculative doc about haunted wigs, by way of colonialism, Communist China hair-export bans, and made-up Dutch scientists doing stone-tape-type experiments with hair.
The Running Man - Lumpen po-faced remake with all the political subtlety of a sledgehammer to the head. Dismal.
#Films #Movies
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Sharaz Luke
@sharazluke@mastodon.world
Hi, I’m Sharaz (he/him) Fav weekly hashtags: #tunetuesday #musicwomenwednesday #thursdayfivelist #letterboxdfriday #lastfourwatched #jukeboxfridaynight #kungfusat #thesundaystarter #wordle Header pic is of me (right) and my friend in an anime / cyberpunk style.
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Sharaz Luke
@sharazluke@mastodon.world
Hi, I’m Sharaz (he/him) Fav weekly hashtags: #tunetuesday #musicwomenwednesday #thursdayfivelist #letterboxdfriday #lastfourwatched #jukeboxfridaynight #kungfusat #thesundaystarter #wordle Header pic is of me (right) and my friend in an anime / cyberpunk style.
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@sharazluke@mastodon.world
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Jan 30, 2026
#LetterboxdFriday
Only managed to watch 2 films this week (after binging The Night Manager and starting Wonder Man).
The Roses ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Walled in was great, and viewed as part of the kung fu Saturday watch party here on the fediverse. Will watch again.
The Roses was good- great acting and story, but I just wanted more. Plus setting it in Cali when it was obviously filmed in Devon seemed needless.
#lastfourwatched
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