Films you've seen recently and would unreservedly recommend:

[mixed_biscuits]

The film is set in 2006 when the state school intake for Oxbridge was sitting around 50% (as it had done throughout most of the 80s, 90s and 00s), it's only since 2017 that the intake percentages have swung away, somewhat dramatically, from the public schools (see here, page 4).

I get the impression that they are admitting more foreign students who may count as State: my college records indicate an increase from 10 to 20% of the undergraduate intake over the past 10 years. The data summaries on student origin at Oxbridge are not very forthcoming when it comes to this important distinction. Foreign students may also 'improve' the proportion of minority ethnic and/or deprived students; I wonder if somewhere like Poland counts as deprived.

 

[mixed_biscuits]

Interesting that the two controversial firebrands of dissensus both went to Oxford. Not sure how many others did.

It's the Oxford motto: Fear No One, Destroy Everything.

 

[Clinamenic]

I think I just saw Craner make a vulnerable yet brilliant post, then pull a Kent and delete it.

 

[shakahislop]

Did you ever manage to sneak into All Souls? That place is inaccessible even if you are a student.

No I didn't. Went pretty systematically into most of the rest I think, but that one is harder obviously. I did see a lecture there advertised but didn't go, that could have been a way in. Another good example of exclusivity, exclusion

 

[IdleRich]

My gf threw a massive fit cos they wouldn't let her apply to All Souls cos her first degree was elsewhere. Still, John Redwood went there so it can't be that special.

 

[IdleRich]

Finished Saltburn... putting this here cos there is already a discussion rather than cos I loved it, but I dunno, started as Brideshead Revisited, turned into Teorama and then finished as one of the Ripley ones. I didn't hate it but the pacing seemed all wrong. The film is long but it felt so rushed like the last bit was on fast forward. I reckon I could have bought the plot if it had been done differently but cos of how it was handled I didn't. Why was Elspeth so into him, we only saw them talk once?

I always like seeing Oxford on film cos I grew up thereabouts but that's an entirely personal foible not a point I can defend.

Thoughts on that?

 

[Clinamenic]

 

[luka]

i watched butch cassidy and the sundance kid back to back with the magnificent seven. good christmas telly.

 

[version]

i watched butch cassidy and the sundance kid

I'm always struck by how much space there is in it. It feels as though there are huge stretches with no music, and almost no sound. You get the funny moments and the heists and shootouts, but you can feel the whole thing's overlooking an abyss. Great film.

 

[luka]

watched footloose last night.

 

[IdleRich]

Yesterday finally watched Family Plot which I think is the only Hitchcock film I've never seen. Weird film, in many ways something about it seems to anticipate Blood Simple which came only eight years later. Both have a kinda similar scene with a man and woman talking in a car driving at night.

 

[mixed_biscuits]

Yesterday finally watched Family Plot which I think is the only Hitchcock film I've never seen. Weird film, in many ways something about it seems to anticipate Blood Simple which came only eight years later. Both have a kinda similar scene with a man and woman talking in a car driving at night.

Pile of wink

 

[sus]

Finished Saltburn... putting this here cos there is already a discussion rather than cos I loved it, but I dunno, started as Brideshead Revisited, turned into Teorama and then finished as one of the Ripley ones. I didn't hate it but the pacing seemed all wrong. The film is long but it felt so rushed like the last bit was on fast forward. I reckon I could have bought the plot if it had been done differently but cos of how it was handled I didn't. Why was Elspeth so into him, we only saw them talk once?

 

[Clinamenic]

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Where was it someone was just showcasing memes like this? I think someone else here just shared some. Almost like an austurbane meme template.

 

[version]

Where was it someone was just showcasing memes like this? I think someone else here just shared some. Almost like an austurbane meme template.

Here.

 

[sus]

the archivist strikes again

 

[version]

 

[wild greens]

Homerton memes do not seem right for some reason

Is Souvlakiland still there?

Edit: i googled and yes it is

 

[luka]

Is the expendables series worth watching at all?

 

[Corpsey]

oh maaaaan this isn't this from american pie 2?

Unbearable film