28 Saturday Jul 2018
Tags
Alien, Alien: Covenant, Blade Runner, Hannibal, Prometheus, The Counselor, The Duellists, Thelma & Louise
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. Blade Runner (1982)
2. Alien (1979)
3. The Counselor (2013)
4. Thelma & Louise (1991)
* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *)
1. The Duellists (1977)
2. Prometheus (2012)
3. Alien: Covenant (2017)
4. Hannibal (2001)
24 Tuesday Jul 2018
Tags
A Kind of Loving, An Englishman Abroad (TV Film), Billy Liar, Cold Comfort Farm, Darling, Far from the Madding Crowd 1967, Midnight Cowboy, Screen One (A Question of Attribution) (Television), Separate Tables 1983 (Cable Film), Sunday Bloody Sunday, The Day of the Locust, The Falcon and the Snowman
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971)
2. Billy Liar (1963)
3. A Kind of Loving (1962)
4. A Question of Attribution (1991)
(TV Film)
(Episode of “Screen One”)
5. Separate Tables (1983)
(Cable Film)
(I saw it on an old VHS tape)
6. An Englishman Abroad (1983)
(TV Film)
7. Cold Comfort Farm (1995)
8. Far from the Madding Crowd (1967)
9. Darling (1965)
* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *)
1. Midnight Cowboy (1969)
2. The Falcon and the Snowman (1985)
3. The Day of the Locust (1975)
23 Monday Jul 2018
Posted in 1960's Cinema, 1970's Cinema, 1980's Cinema, 1990's Cinema, American Cinema, Anthology, Biography, British Cinema, British Filmmakers, Cinema, Comedy, Documentary, Drama, Film Directors, Greatest, History, Horror, Ken Russell, Lists, Music, Musical, Romance, Science Fiction, Short Cinema, Television, Thriller, Top 304
Tags
Altered States, Aria (Nessun dorma) (Short Film) (Anthology), Crimes of Passion, Gothic, Isadora Duncan the Biggest Dancer in the World (TV Film), Lisztomania, Mahler, Monitor (Always on Sunday) (Television), Monitor (Elgar) (Television), Monitor (The Debussy Film) (Television), Omnibus (Dance of the Seven Veils) (Television), Omnibus (Dante's Inferno) (Television), Omnibus (Song of Summer) (Television), Salome's Last Dance, Savage Messiah, The Boy Friend, The Devils, The Lair of the White Worm, The Music Lovers, The Rainbow, Tommy, Valentino, Whore, Women in Love
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. Lisztomania (1975)
2. The Devils (1971)
(I saw it on an old VHS tape and on youtube a month back)
3. Tommy (1975)
4. Women in Love (1969)
5. The Boy Friend (1971)
6. Savage Messiah (1972)
7. The Music Lovers (1970)
8. Mahler (1974)
9. Valentino (1977)
10. Whore (1991)
* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Short Cinema)
1. Aria (1987)
(Segment: “Nessun dorma”)
(Anthology Film)
* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Television)
1. Song of Summer (1968)
(Episode of “Omnibus”)
(Documentary)
(TV Film)
2. Dance of the Seven Veils (1970)
(Episode of “Omnibus”)
(I watched it on youtube)
(Documentary)
(TV Film)
3. Isadora Duncan, the Biggest Dancer in the World (1966)
(Documentary)
(TV Film)
4. The Debussy Film (1965)
(Episode of “Monitor”)
(Documentary)
(TV Film)
5. Elgar (1962)
(Episode of “Monitor”)
(Documentary)
(TV Film)
6. Dante’s Inferno (1967)
(Episode of “Omnibus”)
(Documentary)
(TV Film)
7. Always on Sunday (1965)
(Episode of “Monitor”)
(Documentary)
(TV Film)
* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *)
1. Altered States (1980)
2. The Lair of the White Worm (1988)
3. Crimes of Passion (1984)
4. Salome’s Last Dance (1988)
5. The Rainbow (1989)
6. Gothic (1986)
18 Wednesday Jul 2018
Posted in 1970's Cinema, 1980's Cinema, 1990's Cinema, Adventure, American Cinema, Anthology, Austrian Cinema, British Cinema, British Filmmakers, Cinema, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Film Directors, Greatest, Horror, Italian Cinema, Lists, Music, Mystery, Nicolas Roeg, Science Fiction, Thriller, Top 304
Tags
Aria (Un ballo in maschera) (Anthology), Bad Timing, Don't Look Now, Eureka, Insignificance, Performance, The Man Who Fell to Earth, The Witches, Walkabout
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. Don’t Look Now (1973)
2. Performance (1970)
(co-directed with Donald Cammell)
3. Walkabout (1971)
4. The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976)
5. Eureka (1983)
6. Bad Timing (1980)
7. Insignificance (1985)
8. The Witches (1990)
* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Short Cinema)
1. Aria (1987)
(Segment: “Un ballo in maschera”)
(Anthology Film)
18 Wednesday Jul 2018
Posted in 1960's Cinema, 1980's Cinema, Adventure, American Cinema, British Cinema, British Filmmakers, Cinema, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Film Directors, Greatest, History, Lists, Sport, Tony Richardson, Top 304, War
Tags
A Taste of Honey, The Border, The Charge of the Light Brigade 1968, The Entertainer, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, Tom Jones
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962)
2. A Taste of Honey (1961)
3. The Border (1982)
* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *)
1. The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968)
2. Tom Jones (1963)
2. The Entertainer (1960)
15 Sunday Jul 2018
Posted in 1940's Cinema, 1950's Cinema, 1960's Cinema, British Cinema, British Filmmakers, Carol Reed, Cinema, Comedy, Drama, Family, Film Directors, Film Noir, Greatest, Lists, Musical, Mystery, Thriller, Top 304, War
Tags
Night Train to Munich, Odd Man Out, Oliver, Our Man in Havana, The Fallen Idol, The Stars Look Down, The Third Man
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. The Third Man (1949)
2. The Fallen Idol (1948)
3. Odd Man Out (1947)
4. Our Man in Havana (1959)
5. Night Train to Munich (1940)
6. The Stars Look Down (1940)
* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *)
1. Oliver (1968)
25 Monday Jun 2018
Posted in 1930's Cinema, 1940's Cinema, 1950's Cinema, 1960's Cinema, Adventure, American Cinema, Australian Cinema, British Cinema, British Filmmakers, Cinema, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Film Directors, Greatest, Horror, Lists, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, Music, Musical, Mystery, Romance, Thriller, Top 304, War
Tags
49th Parallel, A Canterbury Tale, A Matter of Life and Death, Age of Consent, Black Narcissus, Contraband, I Know Where I'm Going, One of Our Aircraft Is Missing, Peeping Tom, The Edge of the World, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, The Red Shoes, The Small Back Room, The Spy in Black, The Tales of Hoffmann, The Thief of Bagdad 1940
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. The Red Shoes (1948)
2. A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
3. Peeping Tom (1960)
(Pressburger had no involvement)
4. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
5. The Tales of Hoffmann (1951)
6. I Know Where I’m Going! (1945)
7. Black Narcissus (1947)
8. A Canterbury Tale (1944)
9. The Small Back Room (1949)
10. The Edge of the World (1937)
(Pressburger had no involvement)
11. The Thief of Bagdad (1940)
(co-directed with Ludwig Berger and Tim Whelan)
* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *)
1. Age of Consent (1969)
(Pressburger had no involvement)
2. One of Our Aircraft Is Missing (1942)
3. 49th Parallel (1941)
4. Contraband (1940)
5. The Spy in Black (1939)
19 Tuesday Jun 2018
Tags
A Matter of Loaf and Death (Animated Short), Chicken Run (Animated Film), Creature Comforts (Animated Short), Early Man (Animated Film), Wallace & Gromit: A Close Shave (Animated Short), Wallace & Gromit: A Grand Day Out (Animated Short), Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (Animated Film), Wallace & Gromit: The Wrong Trousers (Animated Short)
* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Short Cinema)
1. Wallace & Gromit: A Close Shave (1995)
(Animated Short)
2. Wallace & Gromit: The Wrong Trousers (1993)
(Animated Short)
3. Wallace & Gromit: A Grand Day Out (1989)
(Animated Short)
4. Creature Comforts (1989)
(Animated Short)
5. A Matter of Loaf and Death (2008)
(Animated Short)
* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Feature Films)
1. Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)
(co-directed with Steve Box)
(Animated Film)
2. Chicken Run (2000)
(co-directed with Peter Lord)
(Animated Film)
* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *) (Feature Films)
1. Early Man (2018)
(Animated Film)
15 Friday Jun 2018
Posted in 1990's Cinema, 2000's Cinema, 2010-Present Cinema, Action, Adventure, American Cinema, American Filmmakers, British Cinema, British Filmmakers, Christopher Nolan, Cinema, Crime, Drama, Dutch Cinema, Film Directors, French Cinema, Greatest, History, Lists, Mystery, Science Fiction, Thriller, Top 305, War
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. Memento (2000)
2. Dunkirk (2017)
3. The Dark Knight (2008)
* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *)
1. The Prestige (2006)
2. Following (1998)
3. Inception (2010)
4. The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
06 Wednesday Jun 2018
Tags
In Bruges, Seven Psychopaths, Six Shooter (Short Film), Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
2. Seven Psychopaths (2012)
3. In Bruges (2008)
* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Short Cinema)
1. Six Shooter (2004)
