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DOM: The Thing (From Another World) (Nyby, US, 1951)

02/05/2011by Dirk 1 Comment

“An intellectual carrot, the mind boggles!”, indeed it does! Based on J W Campbell’s short story “Who Goes There?” in which a mysterious alien disguises itself in every person in […]

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DOM: Breaking the Waves (Von Trier, Denmark, Sweden, France, Netherlands, 1996)

07/03/2011by Dirk 1 Comment

When I first started watching films in the late 80s and early 90s, as I have said before Halliwell’s Film Guide led me through the maze of films from the […]

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DOM: Listen to Britain (Jennings, UK, 1941)

27/02/2011by Dirk Leave a comment

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: A Clockwork Orange (Kubrick, UK, 1971)

20/02/2011by Dirk 3 Comments

In a way I feel it quite a shock that it has taken me so long to get to one of the most revered of film directors, Stanley J. Kubrick. […]

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DOM: The Maltese Falcon (Huston, US, 1941)

13/02/2011by Dirk 3 Comments

“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 […]

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DOM: Casablanca (Curtiz, US,1942)

30/01/2011by Dirk 1 Comment

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, […]

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DOM: Letter From An Unknown Woman (Ophuls, US, 1948)

16/01/2011by Dirk 1 Comment

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 […]

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DOM: The Red Shoes (Powell & Pressburger, UK, 1948)

28/12/2010by Dirk 2 Comments

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 […]

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DOM: Christmas Story (Clark, US, 1983)

28/12/2010by Dirk Leave a comment

When Bob Clark died a couple of years ago, it seemed all press concentrated on his previous film to this, Porkys, or his other Christmas movie, Black Christmas, but I […]

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DOM: Goldfinger (Hamilton, UK, 1964)

28/12/2010by Dirk Leave a comment

The definitive action film. The third in the highly successful Eon productions James Bond film series (the first two were Dr. No and From Russia With Love, both superb, but […]

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