DOM: Ace In The Hole (Wilder,US,1951)
(Spoiler Alert!) With the recent events in Chile, I decided to watch this film again. Kirk Douglas plays a one time big journalist down on his luck and taking a […]
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CHRIS: Land and Freedom (Loach, Spain, UK, 1995)
“Revolutions are contagious.” Every time I watch this film, something stirs deep within me, an anger, but also a sense of pride, mixed with an unsettling frustration that is hard […]
CHRIS: Ghost World (Zwigoff, US, 2001)
This film brings together two genres that dominated cinema in the 2000s: the comic book adaptation and the off-beat-indy ‘family in crisis’ movie. Daniel Clowes’ excellent graphic novel, upon which […]
DOM: Don’t Look Back (Pennebaker, UK, 1967)
This is Pennebaker’s groundbreaking documentary on Bob Dylan’s 1965 British tour, which started in Sheffield on 30th April and cumulated at the Royal Albert Hall for two nights 09-10th May […]
CHRIS: Capturing The Friedmans (Jarecki, US, 2002)
“Well, there’s some things I don’t want to talk about.” David Friedman A measure of a good film is how long it stays with you once the credits roll. This […]
CHRIS: Star Wars (Lucas, US, 1977)
“Promise me that you’ll never watch it again.” Alec Guinness (to a young fan) I had one of those kodak moments this week. I watched STAR WARS for the first […]
CHRIS: Three Colours: Red (Kieslowski, France, Switzerland, Poland, 1994)
Between 1992 and the end of the decade, I was watching about 3 -4 films a week at the cinema. I was a multi-plex whore, giddy at the prospect of […]
DOM: Gaslight (Dickinson, UK, 1940)
If I could dedicate this list to one person, it would be Leslie Halliwell, first of all he was from Bolton and secondly he wrote about film with more passion […]
CHRIS: Blade Runner (Scott, US, 1982)
“I’ve seen things, you people wouldn’t believe.” Could the final scene of BLADE RUNNER be the greatest ever show down in cinema history? Forget the rest of the film for […]
DOM: Desperately Seeking Susan (Seidelman, US, 1985).
The one thing that the Derek Malcolm list threw up, or rather didn’t was his own personal favourites, we can all rave about Touch Of Evil, Tokyo Story or Shoah, […]
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