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"Some People" (1962)
Clive Donner
Network, DVD, UK

Despite what it's misleading trailer would have you believe, a trailer that makes out this British "musical" to be something akin to "The Wild One U.K.", this film is ultimately little more than crude propaganda for the Duke of Edinburgh Awards youth scheme.

That said, despite a story obviously steeped in the UK class system, filled with stereotype characters and tropes (regretful father looking back on a youth he'll never again experiece, angry young loner, token black who doesn't say or do much) and side plots that go nowhere (the business with the experimental jet plane, don't ask, being the obvious example) this is still an engaging 90 minutes. Shot it seems entirely on location in and around Bristol, with it's rear loader "Corporation" buses, coffee shops, roller rinks, teens lusting over newsagent windows full of (not so dirty) dirty magazines, people openly smoking everywhere, this movie's worth a watch as a time capsule of not so swinging life in early-60's Britain.

Every Movie I Watch During January 2016

First of a monthly run down of all movies I have watched in the previous month.

"The Offence" (1972)

Sidney Lumet

Eureka Masters of Cinema, Blu-ray. UK

"The Virgin Soldiers" (1969)

John Dexter

Columbia, DVD, UK

"Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" (1990)

Steven Barron

Mediumrare, DVD, UK

"Mr Majestyk" (1974)

 Richard Fleischer

Signal One Entertainment, Blu-ray, UK

"Idiocracy" (2006)

Mike Judge

20th Century Fox, DVD, UK

"Star Wars: The Force Awakens" (2015)

J.J. Abrams

cinema screening

The Tales of Beatrix Potter (1971)

Reginald Mills

Optimum Releasing, DVD, UK

"Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals" (1977)

Joe De'amato

88 Films, Blu-ray, UK

"The Final Countdown" (1980)

Don Taylor

Blue Underground, DVD, USA

"Runaway Train" (1985)

Andrey Konchalovskiy

Arrow Video, Blu-ray, UK

"Titanic" (1953)

Jean Negulesco

20th Century Fox, Blu-ray, UK

"Song of the Sea" (2014)

Tomm Moore

Studio Canal, DVD, UK

"The Muppets" (2011)

James Bobin

Disney, DVD, UK

"The Fallen Idol" (1948)

Carol Reed

Optimum Releasing, DVD, UK

"The Wedding Trough" (1975)

Thierry Zéno

Njuta Films, DVD, Denmark

"Cruel Story of Youth" (1960)

Nagisa Ôshima

Eureka Masters of Cinema, Blu-ray, UK

"Michael" (1924)
Carl Th. Dreyer
Eureka Masters of Cinema, DVD, UK

"Ganja and Hess" (1973)
Bill Gunn
Eureka, Blu-ray, UK

"Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde" (1932)
Rouben Mamoulian
Warner's, DVD, UK

"Computer Chess" (2013)
Andrew Bujalski
Eureka Masters of Cinema, Blu-ray, UK

"Evilspeak" (1981)
Eric Weston
88 Films, Blu-ray, UK

"Amarcord" (1973)
Federico Fellini
Warner's, DVD, UK

"Merry Christmas Mr.Lawrence" (1983)
Nagisa Oshima
Optimum Releasing, DVD, UK

"Battle Beyond the Stars" (1980)

Jimmy T. Murakami

Warner's, VHS, UK

"The Black Cat" (1981)
Lucio Fulci
Shameless Screen Entertainment, DVD, UK

"I'm Gonna Git You Sucka" (1988)
Keenen Ivory Wayans
101 Films, Blu-ray, UK

"Terkel in Trouble" (2004)

Kresten Vestbjerg Andersen

Thorbjørn Christoffersen

Stefan Fjeldmark

Eureka, DVD, UK

"The Naked Prey" (1965)

Cornel Wilde

Eureka Masters of Cinema, Blu-ray