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David Lynch: Industrial Symphony No. 1: The Dream of the Broken Hearted and Bubba Ho-tep

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The former is a music video. The latter is the best thing Bruce Campbell has done since Evil Dead 3. Indeed, some creative marketroid could simply have re-badged it as Evil Dead 4.

Lolita and Sleepy Hollow

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The former with Andreas, Grégoire, Kyle, the latter with Kyle.

Boogie Nights

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Sleepers

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With Danny, on LaserDisc.

Jackie Brown

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With Danny in England, on LaserDisc.

Dr. Strangelove

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With Kyle in the CS lunchroom.

Tariq Ali: An Indian Dynasty: The Story of the Nehru-Gandhi Family

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The Terminator and Enter The Dragon

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The former with Grégoire and Kyle, the latter with Kyle.

Live Forever

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On Danny's recommendation? — No, of course not: the suggestion was 24 Hour Party People. Supposed to be about Britpop from the mid-90s and how it related to greater society at the time. They spent quite a bit of time on how this mob got bilked by Blair's New Labour and the whole "Cool Britannia" thing, and it focussed too much on Oasis. Damon Alban (from Blur) is one sour cow.

Fight Club

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With Kyle and Mark S..

Top Gun

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With Grégoire and Kyle in the CS lunchroom in the evening.

Black and White

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Great performances by Robert Carlyle and David Ngoombujarra, slightly weird rhythm, very Adelaide. Josephine Byrnes makes an appearance (lead character from Brides of Christ), good to see.