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Ishmael Lasting

@ishmaellasting@mastodonapp.uk
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Have been described by a number of people as 'the wittiest person on Mastodon.' (Zero is a number.)

Writer of sorts. Not really here to talk about that though. So far, I seem to be mostly talking about la cinema -- art house, cult and classic mainly. (Side note: If you understand the L'angle du hasard reference without Googling it, that's numberwang).

Also, will post whatever other misbegotten ideas pass through my brain as my synapses misfire.

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Ishmael Lasting
@ishmaellasting@mastodonapp.uk

Have been described by a number of people as 'the wittiest person on Mastodon.' (Zero is a number.) Writer of sorts. Not really here to talk about that though. So far, I seem to be mostly talking about la cinema -- art house, cult and classic mainly. (Side note: If you understand the L'angle du hasard reference without Googling it, that's numberwang). Also, will post whatever other misbegotten ideas pass through my brain as my synapses misfire.

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Ishmael Lasting
@ishmaellasting@mastodonapp.uk

Have been described by a number of people as 'the wittiest person on Mastodon.' (Zero is a number.) Writer of sorts. Not really here to talk about that though. So far, I seem to be mostly talking about la cinema -- art house, cult and classic mainly. (Side note: If you understand the L'angle du hasard reference without Googling it, that's numberwang). Also, will post whatever other misbegotten ideas pass through my brain as my synapses misfire.

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@ishmaellasting@mastodonapp.uk · Feb 27, 2026
@onuryasar@mastodon.online Ha. I'd review things on Letterboxd if you could restrict who can see them to just the people who follow you already. But public reviews feels too close to getting into the 'likes' and 'follows' game of social media to me. It's quieter over here on Mastodon
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@ishmaellasting@mastodonapp.uk

Have been described by a number of people as 'the wittiest person on Mastodon.' (Zero is a number.) Writer of sorts. Not really here to talk about that though. So far, I seem to be mostly talking about la cinema -- art house, cult and classic mainly. (Side note: If you understand the L'angle du hasard reference without Googling it, that's numberwang). Also, will post whatever other misbegotten ideas pass through my brain as my synapses misfire.

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Ishmael Lasting
@ishmaellasting@mastodonapp.uk

Have been described by a number of people as 'the wittiest person on Mastodon.' (Zero is a number.) Writer of sorts. Not really here to talk about that though. So far, I seem to be mostly talking about la cinema -- art house, cult and classic mainly. (Side note: If you understand the L'angle du hasard reference without Googling it, that's numberwang). Also, will post whatever other misbegotten ideas pass through my brain as my synapses misfire.

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@ishmaellasting@mastodonapp.uk · Feb 27, 2026
#LetterboxdFriday MARTY SUPREME -🇺🇸 Liked it, didn't love it. Three main reasons why not: 1) 2.5hr character study of a man who doesn't really have one. He's driven, he's unscrupulous, he's self-absorbed. I get it. What else have you got?. 2) Stuff-stuff-stuff, busy-busy-busy, happen-happen-happen makes it feel a bit one-note. 3) That's an ending straight out of the Hays Code -- be as much as a villain as you like, as long as you get punished or find redemption in the final reel, however jarringly... But it was entertaining, if rather wearing. ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ KAMILLA - 🇳🇴 Adult drama from a child's perspective. Like the To Kill a Mocking Bird of post-war marital infidelity ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ THE SNOW WHITE MURDER CASE - 🇯🇵 Slick and absorbing jigsaw whodunnit with a touch of Rashomon in its DNA ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ASHES & DIAMONDS - 🇵🇱 Gorgeously photographed all-time classic, innit. ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ #LastFourWatched
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@ishmaellasting@mastodonapp.uk

Have been described by a number of people as 'the wittiest person on Mastodon.' (Zero is a number.) Writer of sorts. Not really here to talk about that though. So far, I seem to be mostly talking about la cinema -- art house, cult and classic mainly. (Side note: If you understand the L'angle du hasard reference without Googling it, that's numberwang). Also, will post whatever other misbegotten ideas pass through my brain as my synapses misfire.

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Ishmael Lasting
@ishmaellasting@mastodonapp.uk

Have been described by a number of people as 'the wittiest person on Mastodon.' (Zero is a number.) Writer of sorts. Not really here to talk about that though. So far, I seem to be mostly talking about la cinema -- art house, cult and classic mainly. (Side note: If you understand the L'angle du hasard reference without Googling it, that's numberwang). Also, will post whatever other misbegotten ideas pass through my brain as my synapses misfire.

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@ishmaellasting@mastodonapp.uk · Feb 26, 2026

If I accidentally ram into the back of your car because my brakes don't work, you have every right to be livid about the damage I caused to your car. What we can't do, however, is pretend that accidentally ramming your car and doing it on purpose ,with malice aforethought, are the exact same thing -- legally or morally. Intent matters. Context matters.

#ThisTweetMayNotActuallyBeAboutCars

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@ishmaellasting@mastodonapp.uk

Have been described by a number of people as 'the wittiest person on Mastodon.' (Zero is a number.) Writer of sorts. Not really here to talk about that though. So far, I seem to be mostly talking about la cinema -- art house, cult and classic mainly. (Side note: If you understand the L'angle du hasard reference without Googling it, that's numberwang). Also, will post whatever other misbegotten ideas pass through my brain as my synapses misfire.

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Ishmael Lasting
@ishmaellasting@mastodonapp.uk

Have been described by a number of people as 'the wittiest person on Mastodon.' (Zero is a number.) Writer of sorts. Not really here to talk about that though. So far, I seem to be mostly talking about la cinema -- art house, cult and classic mainly. (Side note: If you understand the L'angle du hasard reference without Googling it, that's numberwang). Also, will post whatever other misbegotten ideas pass through my brain as my synapses misfire.

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@ishmaellasting@mastodonapp.uk · Feb 20, 2026
#LetterboxdFriday NEECHA NAGAR - 🇮🇳 Curious hodgepodge of styles: by turns social realism, expressionism, melodrama. And it's Hindi, so it inevitably throws in some musical numbers. The people of 'the Lower City' rise up against the cruelty of the municipal government. No-one actually mentions the British, but it's India in 1946. The subtext is clear. ('This our land, not your land') Movie's in a bloody awful state though. Memo to India: 'film preservation' is not a dirty term ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ THE HERO - 🇮🇳 One of Satyajit Ray's many masterpieces. One of the best to ever do it Satyajit Ray ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ KOKUHO - 🇯🇵 Decade-spanning three-hour kabuki epic. Shade over-long perhaps, but mostly rather wonderful ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ THE IMAGINARIUM OF DR.PARNASSUS - 🇬🇧 🇨🇦 Terry Gilliam enters the self-parodic phase of his career ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ #LastFourWatched
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@ishmaellasting@mastodonapp.uk

Have been described by a number of people as 'the wittiest person on Mastodon.' (Zero is a number.) Writer of sorts. Not really here to talk about that though. So far, I seem to be mostly talking about la cinema -- art house, cult and classic mainly. (Side note: If you understand the L'angle du hasard reference without Googling it, that's numberwang). Also, will post whatever other misbegotten ideas pass through my brain as my synapses misfire.

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Ishmael Lasting
Ishmael Lasting
@ishmaellasting@mastodonapp.uk

Have been described by a number of people as 'the wittiest person on Mastodon.' (Zero is a number.) Writer of sorts. Not really here to talk about that though. So far, I seem to be mostly talking about la cinema -- art house, cult and classic mainly. (Side note: If you understand the L'angle du hasard reference without Googling it, that's numberwang). Also, will post whatever other misbegotten ideas pass through my brain as my synapses misfire.

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@ishmaellasting@mastodonapp.uk · Feb 13, 2026
#LetterboxdFriday HONEY DON'T! - 🇺🇸 Ethan Coen makes another pretend Coen Bros film. Has a number of the elements we associate with real Coen Bros films, but doesn't quite work ⭐ ⭐ SHALL WE DANCE? - 🇯🇵 Married man going through middle-age crisis sees a pretty young woman in a window and joins a ballroom dancing class... but it all turns out much more charming than it sounds. Only Japanese film I've ever seen that talks reverently about Blackpool Winter Gardens ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ SUMO DO, SUMO DON'T - 🇯🇵 A rubbish university sumo team gets quite good. Similar theme to Shall We Dance? with people accidentally falling in love with niche 'old-fashioned' activities, but the comedy is a bit broader here ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ MEETING WITH POL POT - 🇰🇭 🇫🇷 Solid enough overall, but the decision to keep Pol Pot in shadows and never show his face makes him into a comic book villain in a film that otherwise plays a straight bat ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ #LastFourWatched
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Ishmael Lasting
@ishmaellasting@mastodonapp.uk

Have been described by a number of people as 'the wittiest person on Mastodon.' (Zero is a number.) Writer of sorts. Not really here to talk about that though. So far, I seem to be mostly talking about la cinema -- art house, cult and classic mainly. (Side note: If you understand the L'angle du hasard reference without Googling it, that's numberwang). Also, will post whatever other misbegotten ideas pass through my brain as my synapses misfire.

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Ishmael Lasting
Ishmael Lasting
@ishmaellasting@mastodonapp.uk

Have been described by a number of people as 'the wittiest person on Mastodon.' (Zero is a number.) Writer of sorts. Not really here to talk about that though. So far, I seem to be mostly talking about la cinema -- art house, cult and classic mainly. (Side note: If you understand the L'angle du hasard reference without Googling it, that's numberwang). Also, will post whatever other misbegotten ideas pass through my brain as my synapses misfire.

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@ishmaellasting@mastodonapp.uk · Feb 06, 2026

@hex@dads.cool @onuryasar@mastodon.online I think that's true. And it's true of pretty much all the musicals I like (Dancer in the Dark is another favourite). It's the convention and the lightness I don't like... because I'm a grinch.

It's also, incidentally, why I hated La La Land. That borrows its template from Umbrellas, but when the love story is spoilt rich kids whose time together is disrupted by Hollywood career aspirations instead of someone being drafted into the Algerian effing war, it doesn't just lack the same resonance, I find it borderline offensive in its indulgence. But anywaaaay...

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Ishmael Lasting
@ishmaellasting@mastodonapp.uk

Have been described by a number of people as 'the wittiest person on Mastodon.' (Zero is a number.) Writer of sorts. Not really here to talk about that though. So far, I seem to be mostly talking about la cinema -- art house, cult and classic mainly. (Side note: If you understand the L'angle du hasard reference without Googling it, that's numberwang). Also, will post whatever other misbegotten ideas pass through my brain as my synapses misfire.

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Ishmael Lasting
Ishmael Lasting
@ishmaellasting@mastodonapp.uk

Have been described by a number of people as 'the wittiest person on Mastodon.' (Zero is a number.) Writer of sorts. Not really here to talk about that though. So far, I seem to be mostly talking about la cinema -- art house, cult and classic mainly. (Side note: If you understand the L'angle du hasard reference without Googling it, that's numberwang). Also, will post whatever other misbegotten ideas pass through my brain as my synapses misfire.

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@ishmaellasting@mastodonapp.uk · Feb 06, 2026

@hex@dads.cool @onuryasar@mastodon.online Umbrellas of Cherbourg is one of my favourite films. Top 10. Well, depending on the day. But it floats around there. And -- *drum roll* -- I'm not that fond of musicals generally. But because it's sung-through among other reasons, yeah, masterpiece

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Ishmael Lasting
@ishmaellasting@mastodonapp.uk

Have been described by a number of people as 'the wittiest person on Mastodon.' (Zero is a number.) Writer of sorts. Not really here to talk about that though. So far, I seem to be mostly talking about la cinema -- art house, cult and classic mainly. (Side note: If you understand the L'angle du hasard reference without Googling it, that's numberwang). Also, will post whatever other misbegotten ideas pass through my brain as my synapses misfire.

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Ishmael Lasting
Ishmael Lasting
@ishmaellasting@mastodonapp.uk

Have been described by a number of people as 'the wittiest person on Mastodon.' (Zero is a number.) Writer of sorts. Not really here to talk about that though. So far, I seem to be mostly talking about la cinema -- art house, cult and classic mainly. (Side note: If you understand the L'angle du hasard reference without Googling it, that's numberwang). Also, will post whatever other misbegotten ideas pass through my brain as my synapses misfire.

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@ishmaellasting@mastodonapp.uk · Feb 06, 2026

#LetterboxdFriday

WHEN I SAW YOU - 🇵🇸

A defiant little boy in a refugee camp decides to walk back to Palestine. On the one hand, he should probably listen to his mother more. On the other hand.... Excellently paced drama

⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

GABBEH - 🇮🇷

Elderly couple wash a rug, magically bringing to life one of the characters in the design to tell the history of her tribe. Colourful, lyrical and strange

⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

TEN - 🇮🇷

A woman drives a car and has a number - of conversations with passengers that focus on the plight of women under the regime of Islamic Republic . That's it. That's the film

⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

THE CLAY BIRD - 🇧🇩

East Pakistan is about to become Bangladesh. A little boy is sent to an Islamic school. The film balances domestic drama against the political background.. but is too small for the story it is telling, as underscored when the Pakistani army arrives for the crackdown... entirely off-screen. All round feels a bit televisual

⭐ ⭐ ⭐

#LastFourWatched

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@ishmaellasting@mastodonapp.uk

Have been described by a number of people as 'the wittiest person on Mastodon.' (Zero is a number.) Writer of sorts. Not really here to talk about that though. So far, I seem to be mostly talking about la cinema -- art house, cult and classic mainly. (Side note: If you understand the L'angle du hasard reference without Googling it, that's numberwang). Also, will post whatever other misbegotten ideas pass through my brain as my synapses misfire.

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Ishmael Lasting
Ishmael Lasting
@ishmaellasting@mastodonapp.uk

Have been described by a number of people as 'the wittiest person on Mastodon.' (Zero is a number.) Writer of sorts. Not really here to talk about that though. So far, I seem to be mostly talking about la cinema -- art house, cult and classic mainly. (Side note: If you understand the L'angle du hasard reference without Googling it, that's numberwang). Also, will post whatever other misbegotten ideas pass through my brain as my synapses misfire.

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@ishmaellasting@mastodonapp.uk · Jan 30, 2026
#LetterboxdFriday Ingrid and Alfred double-bill: SPELLBOUND - 🇺🇸 - Two main problems with Spellbound. 1) The silly, po-faced psychoanalysis stuff does weigh it down, and 2) Hitchcock just happened to make better movies using this 'man on the run' template both before and after it ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ UNDER CAPRICORN -🇬🇧 - Uncharacteristic slowburn period drama from Hitch. He considered it to be a 'mistake'. The Cahiers du Cinema lot thought it was among his very finest films. I don't entirely subscribe to either of those views, but the French were closer than the big man ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ SARRAOUINIA - 🇧🇫 🇲🇷 - Ambitiously constructed anti-colonialist war epic ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ NEIGHBOURING SOUNDS - 🇧🇷 - One of those films where I think 'Yes, OK, but where are you going with this?' for quite a lot of the runtime, but it all comes together in the end ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ #LastFourWatched
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Ishmael Lasting
@ishmaellasting@mastodonapp.uk

Have been described by a number of people as 'the wittiest person on Mastodon.' (Zero is a number.) Writer of sorts. Not really here to talk about that though. So far, I seem to be mostly talking about la cinema -- art house, cult and classic mainly. (Side note: If you understand the L'angle du hasard reference without Googling it, that's numberwang). Also, will post whatever other misbegotten ideas pass through my brain as my synapses misfire.

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Ishmael Lasting
Ishmael Lasting
@ishmaellasting@mastodonapp.uk

Have been described by a number of people as 'the wittiest person on Mastodon.' (Zero is a number.) Writer of sorts. Not really here to talk about that though. So far, I seem to be mostly talking about la cinema -- art house, cult and classic mainly. (Side note: If you understand the L'angle du hasard reference without Googling it, that's numberwang). Also, will post whatever other misbegotten ideas pass through my brain as my synapses misfire.

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@ishmaellasting@mastodonapp.uk · Jan 23, 2026

#LetterboxdFriday

DAGUERREOTYPES - 🇫🇷

Agnes Varda films the shopkeepers on her street. And it's wonderful

⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

RUE DAGUERRE IN 2005 - 🇫🇷

Basically a DVD featurette -- remember those? -- going back to the same street 30 years later.

⭐ ⭐ ⭐

NO OTHER CHOICE - 🇰🇷

Park Chan-wook's dark comedy about the ruthlessness capitalism can enforce on us all

⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

LATE AUGUST, EARLY SEPTEMBER - 🇫🇷

In 1990s French cinema, everybody was a writer with a literary agent. Everybody. Another thing the internet destroyed. Ha.

⭐ ⭐ ⭐

#LastFourWatched

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@ishmaellasting@mastodonapp.uk

Have been described by a number of people as 'the wittiest person on Mastodon.' (Zero is a number.) Writer of sorts. Not really here to talk about that though. So far, I seem to be mostly talking about la cinema -- art house, cult and classic mainly. (Side note: If you understand the L'angle du hasard reference without Googling it, that's numberwang). Also, will post whatever other misbegotten ideas pass through my brain as my synapses misfire.

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Ishmael Lasting
Ishmael Lasting
@ishmaellasting@mastodonapp.uk

Have been described by a number of people as 'the wittiest person on Mastodon.' (Zero is a number.) Writer of sorts. Not really here to talk about that though. So far, I seem to be mostly talking about la cinema -- art house, cult and classic mainly. (Side note: If you understand the L'angle du hasard reference without Googling it, that's numberwang). Also, will post whatever other misbegotten ideas pass through my brain as my synapses misfire.

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@ishmaellasting@mastodonapp.uk · Jan 22, 2026

Y'know what? There are some echoes of Suez 1956 in what just happened to the US over Greenland.

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