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[personal profile] rydra_wong2021-10-02 01:27 pm
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There's going to be a Lor Sabourin film!



Full film going up on the 6th (N.B. the content warnings as it sounds like it's going to deal with some hard stuff). See my previous post on Lor because I am such a fan of theirs.
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[personal profile] rydra_wong2020-04-26 01:26 pm
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London Mountain Film Festival has gone virtual

Which also means it's accessible for people who are not in London.

https://www.londonmountainfestival.com/

Sign up your e-mail address, and next weekend you get a password to watch all the films online for free.

I'm especially excited about "Pretty Strong" (Nina Williams and Hazel Findlay in the same film!).
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[personal profile] rydra_wong2019-02-19 11:55 am
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"Oh my goodness gracious, he just fell to his death"

This is utterly wonderful:



Including: Mission Impossible, Point Break, Star Trek V, Vertical Limit and Cliffhanger.

He's having SO MUCH FUN: "Oh, this is one of the worst scenes in all of Hollywood climbing. Let's turn the volume up."

(Content note: contains "spastically" used in a kind of derogatory way but when describing spasming movement, which is ... not entirely inaccurate? Anyway.)
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[personal profile] rydra_wong2019-01-10 08:36 am
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Free Solo

I wrote a quasi-review of the film about Alex Honnold's free solo of El Cap (now possibly in a cinema near you, especially if you're in the UK):

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And a gratuitous post with a glorious bit transcribed from a podcast, of Honnold discussing the state of his amygdala:

Also I have to move this to a post because I love it so much