It's slow work - I've been marking.

( X: Eyes of Laura Mars (Irvin Kershner, 1978) )

Catch up time

( XL: The Andromeda Strain (Robert Wise, 1971) )

Beginning ridiculously late in the year with one of the Top 100:

( I: Pickpocket (Robert Bresson, 1959) )

Falling behind...

( CXXIX: Die Welle (The Wave, Dennis Gansel, 2008) )

I'm shocked: this afternoon I went to see a film that I felt sure was one of the Top 100 - but actually isn't. Once Upon a Time in America is -and with good reason, it's one of the finest four hour movies I know. But The Good, the Bad and the Ugly? Parently not. But you should grab any opportunity to see it on the big screen.

( CXII: Il Buono, Il brutto, Il Cattivo (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Sergio Leone, 1966) )

CVII: Sans Soleil (Sunless, Chris Marker, 1983)But let us talk about the audience. We pass over the old guy in the front row who fell asleep for the first half. We've all been there. No, the people that walked out - twelve or fourteen of them, even up to seventy minutes in. I get that it would not be everyone's cup of tea - in many ways I found it ( Read more... )

CV: Letter from an Unknown Woman (Max Ophüls, 1948)

One of the Top 100.

She's called ( SPOILER! )

( CIV: Sunrise: A Tale of Two Humans (F.W. Murnau, 1927) )

( LXXXV: The Red Shoes (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, 1948) )

( LXXXII: Amadeus (swell consopio) (Tacita Dean, 2008) )