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Miles Ahead (2015)
Music great, disappointing film.
This film had wonderful music, but I thought it incoherent and self-indulgent. If someone who doesn't know a lot about jazz, and thinks this film would be a good place to start, they will probably be put off, and worse, will deduce that many jazz musicians are druggies and nasty people.
It isn't a biopic. It is a sketch of a very small part of Miles' life. Even though I know he was a difficult person, this film emphasized the negatives in his personality rather than the positives.
It is a wasted opportunity to make a memorable film about this great musician.
The Wednesday Play: The Gorge (1968)
a very funny day out
My wife and I had been married for about three months when we saw this film. We thought it was absolutely hilarious. There were two families, each awful in their own way. The "lower class" family took absolutely everything with them on their picnic, even a kind of "portaloo". One line that sticks is the man in that family saying that "The French always fall down in their toilets," in a broad Bristolian accent. The other man, (who doesn't agree with him) is a prissy middle class man. The middle class man has a daughter, the lower class man has a son. The two youngsters separate themselves from their parents and go off, ending in a bit of a cuddle, in which the girl loses her trousers. When they are found, the prissy man gives the girl his own trousers for the drive home. He then manages to get stopped by the police and have to get out of the car........ We have never forgotten this film, and its succession of hilarious lines.