DOM: Listen to Britain (Jennings, UK, 1941)
Humphrey Jennings was called “The only true poet of the English cinema” by Lindsay Anderson, something that could be thought of as true, but Jennings has fallen out of favour […]
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DOM: The Maltese Falcon (Huston, US, 1941)
“What is it?” “The stuff dreams are made of.” The closing line to the definitive detective film. Based on Dashiell Hammett’s novel of the same name and filmed twice before […]
DOM: Casablanca (Curtiz, US,1942)
You must remember this, perhaps the most famous film in Hollywood history (maybe bar Gone With The Wind), is also one of the most quoted and mis-quoted films of all, […]
DOM: Letter From An Unknown Woman (Ophuls, US, 1948)
This is the reason I dedicated this list to Leslie Halliwell, his books have been much more than just an inspiration to me, so it is such a shame that […]
DOM: The Red Shoes (Powell & Pressburger, UK, 1948)
In a way I was quite surprised that when Derek Malcolm chose his favourite Michael Powell film he chose The Life & Death Of Colonel Blimp (the first classic film […]
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 […]
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