Ilkley Film Society
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Quality of film and Personal Satisfaction 2019-2020
Summer 1993
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1 2 3 4 5
3 4 16 36 22 3.86
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Personal Satisfaction
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1 2 3 4 5
5 15 16 31 14 3.42
Comments
5 3 A beautifully made film. Characters extremely well drawn. Sense of loss very well conveyed.
4 4 Oh for a Spanish childhood
4 4 Very upsetting in places. Brilliant filming.
4 4 Quietly moving. Great to see a Catalan language film on the international circuit
1 1 Very queasy making camera work! Linguistically interesting but……[unhappy face emoji]
Leave No Trace
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1 2 3 4 5
1 1 4 17 41 4.12
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1 2 3 4 5
1 1 3 22 37 4.00
Comments
5 5 Very moving film. Superb acting and excellent photography
5 5 Very moving, excellent film
5 5 Appreciate sub-titles
5 5 Excellent and moving. Sub-titles not obtrusive
5 5 Wonderful filmand magnificent scenery.Many lovely moments
5 4 Sad
5 4 Forest scenery very good. Portrayal of people who can't communicate, very good and very sad.
4 4 Subtitles fine, didn't disturb me at all although I didn't need them for this film.
4 4 Subtitles were appreciated
4 4 Nice gentle film. Not convinced about him leaving his daughter bat end
4 4 Enjoyed the film
4 4 Enjoyed the film. Better without sub-titles
3 3 Moving
The Wife
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1 2 3 4 5
0 2 11 36 24 4.12
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1 2 3 4 5
0 4 11 39 19 4.00
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5 5 Enjoyed the film very much. Didn't want it to end.
5 5 Loved the film
5 4 The moth was superb
4 4 Difficult to sit through, obnoxious man
4 4 Too much use of the F word; not really needed
4 4 Faithful unto Death.' A relationship fractures at a crucial moment as portrayed with some accomplished acting
3 3 A sad story, well told.
3 3 Interesting story of co-dependency. Excellently played by both primary characters. Shame I couldn't warm to either of the characters - there was something fake about the whole film for me.
3 3 Glenn Close was brilliant
3 3 Brilliant acting but plot too easy to predict
2 2 Thin and cliched. Just about watchable
Shoplifters
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1 2 3 4 5
0 0 12 37 25 4.18
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Personal Satisfaction
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1 2 3 4 5
0 2 23 24 25 3.97
Comments
5 5 Absolutely brilliant!
4 3 Family - what family?
4 3 Not as good as expected
3 3 OK - rather long
Rafiki
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1 2 3 4 5
0 0 9 21 7 3.95
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1 2 3 4 5
0 2 7 21 7 3.89
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5 5 Beautiful and touching
4 4 A brave coming of age drama with rich and colourful photography
4 4 Well told story and beautiful cinematography
3 2 A bit bore
Rafiki
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1 2 3 4 5
0 0 9 21 7 3.95
Dogman
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1 2 3 4 5
7 7 20 21 16 3.45
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Personal Satisfaction
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1 2 3 4 5
17 15 15 15 9 2.77
Comments
5 5 Revenge is sweet!
5 4 Stomach gripping - achieved what I assumed the directo wanted to say on the packet
5 4 Brilliant mix of hopelessness, misery, bullying, retribution and the wonderful comedy of the utterly ludicrous
4 4 Darkly comic realism - evocative if not uplifting
4 4 But did not like extreme violence
4 3 The dogs were superb. The film was a good watch
4 3 Revenge is not quite so sweet
4 3 Thought we had chosen to attend a non-violent films!!!!
3 3 Noir but bordering on just plain stupid
1 1 Deeply unpleasant
0 0 Awful!
The Dawn Wall
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1 2 3 4 5
1 4 10 17 40 4.26
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1 2 3 4 5
0 1 8 14 49 4.54
Comments
5 5 Should be a 6, 6. One of the best films I have ever seen!
5 5 Brilliant.
5 5 Fantastic! Any more like this?
4 4 Very Good
3 5 Great film. Shame about the pausing, but otherwise superb. Very good.
Cold War
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1 2 3 4 5
1 1 8 22 31 4.29
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1 2 3 4 5
1 1 13 18 30 4.19
Comments
5 5 Beautiful
Faces Places
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1 2 3 4 5
0 0 3 17 19 4.41
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Personal Satisfaction
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1 2 3 4 5
0 3 5 12 19 4.21
Comments
5 5 Cool, arty, relaxing, inspiring
5 5 Beautiful
5 5 Brilliant. Unusual. Very artistic.
5 5 Il evoquait le memoires joyeuse de la France
5 5 Charmante!
5 5 Charmant pour les yeux
4.5 4.5 Great!
4 4 Imaginitive ideas and likeable artists (if only a bit long) but reassuring that art can still have popular support and involvement of ordinary people.
Funny Cow
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1 2 3 4 5
0 4 15 19 18 3.91
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1 2 3 4 5
2 4 12 18 20 3.89
Comments
5 5 Brilliant acting
5 5 Brilliant acting
4 5 Gloomy film. Great performance by Maxine Peake. Life in the 70s
3 4 Maxine Peake on fine form. Plot somewhere between educating Rita and My Fair Lady, with northern grit
2 3 Good performance by Maxine Peake, but storyline unconvincing and hackneyed.
The Guilty
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1 2 3 4 5
0 0 6 37 39 4.40
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1 2 3 4 5
0 1 11 31 39 4.32
Comments
5 5 A really fantastic film
5 5 Tense and claustrophobic thriller
5 5 Brilliant. What a tour de force. Excellent acting and suspense!
4 5 I thought minimalism was for furniture and I don't like it, but this was great. Fantastic acting, twists and turns and kept interest throughout.
4 4 You should not have said in your summary that there was a "massive plot twist" because I guessed very early on who'd done it and I would otherwise not have done so.
4 4 Knew it was Iben who had killed baby. Very claustrophobic and intense.
Apostasy
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1 2 3 4 5
2 4 19 25 18 3.78
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1 2 3 4 5
5 8 23 18 14 3.41
Comments
5+ 5+ To see this particular film was one of the reasons I joined IFS. It was even better than I expected but even more depressing than expected. Man's inhumanity to man. Apostasy - hypocrisy. Thank you.
4 4 Keep well away from Wellington Road
4 2 Depressing
3 1 Beyond dreary
3 1 There's always room to mess with people's minds!
1 1 A thoroughly ugly film, like a cockroach crawling through your dinners.
Capernaum
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1 2 3 4 5
0 0 2 16 38 4.64
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1 2 3 4 5
1 0 5 17 33 4.45
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5 5 Brilliant film. Tense, moving, thought-provoking. Shocking but realistic. Best I've seen this season.
5 4 A strange mix of harshness and hope but too harrowing to give 5:5
5 4 Captivating; very well made and rather traumatic
5 3 Hard to watch
Nae Passaran
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1 2 3 4 5
0 2 6 36 25 4.22
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1 2 3 4 5
0 0 5 24 40 4.51
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5 5 Very moving
4 5 Charmingly 'amateur'. Loved the humour.
4 5 Never doubt the power of solidarity! Vinceremos!
4 4 V. G. animation of a coup.
3 4 I agree, a bit too long
Jeune Femme
Scores
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1 2 3 4 5
6 11 21 21 6 3.15
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Personal Satisfaction
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1 2 3 4 5
11 14 22 12 6 2.82
Comments
4 3 Stylish and fast moving search for meaning. Jusqu'à la dérive
4 3 Disturbing and realistic portrayal of the difficult dilemmas found in modern day life
4 3 Magnificently and very convincingly acted by all major characters. Quite well put together (a few editing blips for me). But overall didn't quite gel for me.
3 1 Deeply tedious. Complete lack of continuity - at the start she had no luggage but had 3 different sweaters and a change of shoes
2 2 Tedious
2 0 Rubbish
1 1 Unusual, but not entertaining
BlacKkKlansman
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1 2 3 4 5
1 0 3 30 26 4.33
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1 2 3 4 5
1 0 5 30 24 4.27
Comments
5 5 Spike Lee excelling (even) himself. Another sad reflection on man's inhumanity to man.
5 5 Very powerful and thought provoking.
5 5 Well crafted exposé of US racism, as it was and as it continues today.
5 5 Needed a degree of humour to make such an awful subject watchable. Ending brought it back to sad reality well.
5 5 Terrific!
4 5 This history is frightening
4 5 Liked the patchwork approach
4 4 Excellent in so many ways but sad about the predictable political bias at the end.
4 4 Thought provoking
The White Crow
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1 2 3 4 5
0 3 5 14 11 4.00
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Personal Satisfaction
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1 2 3 4 5
0 2 8 13 10 3.94
Comments
5 4 A very engrossing performance but difficult to follow at times.
4 4 Dance will out: colourful biopic with monochrome flashbacks.