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CONFLICT - the Insiders' Guide to Storytelling in Factual/reality TV & Film: The C.O.N.F.L.I.C.T Toolkit for TV and Film Producers

Robert Thirkell

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"The recipe book of great television from one of the best TV makers in the world" Jamie Oliver Story...

Now I Can Dance

Tina Arena

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An, honest, funny, real and totally revealing autobiography from Tina Arena, celebrating a...

River Cottage Veg Every Day!

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall

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Winner of Best Cookbook at the Observer Food Monthly Awards Why don't we eat more veg? They're...

Norwegian Wood: Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2016

Lars Mytting

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THE BRITISH BOOK INDUSTRY AWARDS NON-FICTION BOOK THE OF YEAR 2016 "Every man looks at his wood-pile...

LoganCrews (2861 KP) rated Chariots of Fire (1981) in Movies

Jul 4, 2021

Chariots of Fire (1981)

1981 | Drama, International, Sport

7.6

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Yep - just as overly-mannered, anticlimactic, awards bait-y, and loooonnngggg as everyone says. However, also like everyone says, there's no denying that righteous Vangelis score and drop-dead gorgeous shots (in particular the sumptuous locales, but even the grandiose interior shots here remind you just how much can actually be captured on a camera lens). But honestly? You could do *way* worse in terms of Oscar bait (or even wrongful Best Picture winners). I thought this was mostly fine right up until - ironically - the Olympics happen where it then proceeds to fall apart narratively, structurally, and thematically. This features some fairly compelling notes on antisemitism, faith, and patriotism but they all only get mentioned like once or twice before taking a backseat to the rather sterile and predictable running stuff - which is shot competently but uninvolving, if you're going to underwrite most of the other stuff then you at least gotta have that, boss. Also noticeably misogynistic - setting up the paper-thin women characters as sticks-in-the-mud who have to be condescendingly explained to like infants why they should just shut up and realize that what these rich, spoiled asshole men want is more important than what they want. Plus everyone in this runs like they have to take a massive shit.