Manish Agarwal

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Favorite films

  • Chungking Express
  • Desperately Seeking Susan
  • Spirited Away
  • The Decline of Western Civilization

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  • Graveyard Shift

  • Häxan

  • UHF

    ★★★★★

  • Martyrs

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Graveyard Shift
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Tom's turn to choose for our monthly online film night and this bargain basement effort - rat infested, naturally! - still ticked two of our preferred boxes, being the group's third Stephen King adaptation (after Maximum Overdrive in April 2024 and The Mangler in October 2024) and no less than our fourth movie starring the peerless Brad Dourif (following the original 1988 Child's Play in July 2020, Bride of Chucky in May 2021 and Spontaneous Combustion in March 2025):
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Western Stars
★★★★★ Liked Watched

#TIFF19 WESTERN STARS World Premiere with Bruce in conversation! Love this album so much: the film is a sublime combo of country-gilded orch-pop performance and incredibly poignant, bittersweet memories. 
We have the European Premiere @BFI #LFF soon: https://whatson.bfi.org.uk/lff/Online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=westernstars
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Bruce happened to be sat in the same bit of balcony as us for the screening and graciously shook several people’s hands on his way down to do the Q&A. When he got to me I said “Thank you, Sir!” and he replied ”Thank you, Brother!”, and for that moment all was well with the world.

Twilight City
★★★★★ Liked Watched

"A film essay about London exploring the social and political changes instigated by the Conservative Government of the 1980s. Social historians and activists describe their memories of growing up in the city and provide a critique of London's past and present." - BFI Mediatheque blurb

Hypnotic and haunted, laser-focused yet wide-ranging, this Black Audio Film Collective doc is nearly 30 years old but its scope feels chillingly contemporary: unheard ghosts left behind by the British Empire's brutal colonialism; private money's…