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Took much pleasure earlier from this ep of Special Branch. 70s anarcho-hippies planting bombs around a beautiful London of edgelands, radical bookshops, communes and gasworks. A young Roger Lloyd Pack is the villain and even has the verger from Dad's Army. https://t.co/0tGMt1OSrB
Carné's Les Tricheurs is very much a beat film with the extra existential angle for being set on the Left Bank. Admittedly Chabrol did this better but it's certainly entertaining, has a great score and even a young Belmondo as the character Oli Reed played in the UK equivalents.
Really fallen for Christopher Chamberlain's paintings of late. He's like a post-war George Shaw with that same focus on forgotten details of everyday places. That first image of Liverpool docklands took my breath away on first seeing it online.
The Strange Affair Of Uncle Harry: mostly brilliant noir, not dissimilar in its world to later years Ambersons with iquaint small town gossips and family pressures. Ending is not as much of a twist as it thinks it is but generally an atmospheric film with some complex characters.