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Better Than BFI’s Top 100: Un Certain Regard

For a brief introduction and a running list of movies covered in this project, click here The trouble with a top 100 list is usually #101.  What follows here is not 101-125, and it shouldn’t be construed that way, but it is a list of movies that I thought about a great deal when I was… Read More Better Than BFI’s Top 100: Un Certain Regard

July 27, 2019 speakerformediocrities1 Comment

Better than BFI’s Top 100: 1

For a brief introduction and a running list of movies covered in this project, click here 1) Brief Encounter (1945), directed by David Lean I went back a few days ago and decided to count how many movies each director had contributed to this list. Mike Leigh was first, with seven entries. Then David Lean and Michael Powell,… Read More Better than BFI’s Top 100: 1

July 27, 2019March 31, 2021 speakerformediocrities1 Comment

Better than BFI’s Top 100: 4-2

For a brief introduction and a running list of movies covered in this project, click here   4) Kes (1969), directed by Ken Loach Kes is the first foreign-language movie I’ve written about for this series (waits patiently for laughs). In seriousness, this is a fairly talky movie, done in Yorkshire accents so thick that I honestly wouldn’t… Read More Better than BFI’s Top 100: 4-2

July 27, 2019 speakerformediocrities1 Comment

Better than BFI’s Top 100: 7-5

For a brief introduction and a running list of movies covered in this project, click here   7) Odd Man Out (1947), directed by Carol Reed 6) Hunger (2008), directed by Steve McQueen In the course of the past couple years, I have watched a number of movies from and about Ireland. I’ve seen Ken Loach’s takes, and John Ford’s… Read More Better than BFI’s Top 100: 7-5

July 24, 2019 speakerformediocrities1 Comment

Better than BFI’s Top 100: 10-8

For a brief introduction and a running list of movies covered in this project, click here   10) Don’t Look Now (1973), directed by Nicolas Roeg As a mystery in English, I’m not sure there’s another picture that compares to Don’t Look Now until Mulholland Drive, and even then those two movies take such different approaches to solving mysteries that… Read More Better than BFI’s Top 100: 10-8

July 22, 2019 speakerformediocrities1 Comment

Better than BFI’s Top 100: 15-11

For a brief introduction and a running list of movies covered in this project, click here   15) Mr. Turner (2014), directed by Mike Leigh J.M.W. Turner was famous for his seascapes. There’s nary a person to be found there; there are the clouds, the sun, the ships, of course the water. But people are of less interest,… Read More Better than BFI’s Top 100: 15-11

July 20, 2019 speakerformediocrities1 Comment

Better than BFI’s Top 100: 20-16

For a brief introduction and a running list of movies covered in this project, click here   20) Sapphire (1959), directed by Basil Dearden Murder will out, but what’s most interesting to me about the outing in this movie is the reaction. The primary suspect all along was David. His pregnant black girlfriend was found murdered in… Read More Better than BFI’s Top 100: 20-16

July 19, 2019 speakerformediocrities1 Comment

Better than BFI’s Top 100: 25-21

For a brief introduction and a running list of movies covered in this project, click here   25) Black Narcissus (1947), directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger Leonardo DiCaprio (Howard), Cate Blanchett (Kate), Jude Law (Errol), and Adam Scott (Johnny) are all sitting at a table together. Two of them are a little teed off about… Read More Better than BFI’s Top 100: 25-21

July 17, 2019 speakerformediocrities1 Comment

Better than BFI’s Top 100: 30-26

For a brief introduction and a running list of movies covered in this project, click here   30) This Sporting Life (1963), directed by Lindsay Anderson The British New Wave, for all of its depictions of angry young men, was not always good at finding actors to credibly play them. It is a line that Laurence Harvey… Read More Better than BFI’s Top 100: 30-26

July 16, 2019July 16, 2019 speakerformediocrities1 Comment

Better than BFI’s Top 100: 35-31

For a brief introduction and a running list of movies covered in this project, click here   35) The Man in the White Suit (1951), directed by Alexander Mackendrick The most successful of the British labor comedies, The Man in the White Suit does a good job of making the comedy work. This is a fairly zany movie largely… Read More Better than BFI’s Top 100: 35-31

July 13, 2019 speakerformediocrities2 Comments

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