The Deep Focus

Sadly the great visionary of British cinema has passed on. Performance, Walkabout, Don’t Look Now, The Man Who Fell To Earth, Bad Timing, Eureka. Need I say more. I first…

One of the great last lines in Billy Wilder’s filmography is at the end of The Apartment (1960): Jack Lemmon and Shirley Maclaine are playing cards, he tells her he…

It’s so rare these days to be surprised when viewing a new film. This jaded film buff has seen it all and I lost that sense of wide-eyed wonder at…

I know it’s been a while since I updated my blog. Life just gets in the way sometimes. I want to say something about the Widescreen Weekend held in Bradford…

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. Mulholland Drive…

I’ve called this article The Quest for Truth because not only is the film itself a quest for Truth but this post will also be such a quest, a quest…

I thought I would give this post a somewhat controversial title to catch people’s attention. I’ve seen three of De La Iglesia’s films, The Last Circus, Witching and Bitching and…

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. City of…

I’ll never forget the first time I saw Luis Bunuel’s Belle de Jour. It was on television and it was showing as part of a Bunuel season on BBC2. That…

I love it when I discover a quality film I’ve never heard of before, made by a director I’ve also never heard of. In this case, the film is Room…