………..I saw Godard’s Weekend when I was a mere eighteen years old. And liked to fool myself that I actually understood it when in reality it went straight over my…
Read moreI wouldn’t say I was a film buff, but………
………….when I was a teenager my favourite reading matter was Halliwell’s Film Guide. It had a permanent place next to my bed. The rest of the family must have thought…
Read more“Tedious”, “Dire” – Which Film Is This?
“Advances at far too slow a pace”, “condescendingly over-emphatic direction”, “tedious”, “dire”. The film being described is William Friedkin’s “Sorcerer”. And the quotes come from two well-known film guides, the…
Read moreFilms Seen at the Cinema in 2005
NB Top ten favourite new films are listed in a different colour font. Films I consider to be masterpieces have the letter M written after the title in red. The…
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