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
For a brief introduction and a running list of movies covered in this project, click here 60) Alien (1979), directed by Ridley Scott Last year I was in my living room with a cockroach. I thought I saw it duck out from behind my curtains and then run back behind them, and I wasn’t entirely sure that… Read More Better than BFI’s Top 100: 60-56
Dir. Alexander Mackendrick. Starring Alec Guinness, Cecil Parker, Michael Gough Brilliant and a touch erratic, retiring and obsessive, Sid Stratton (Guinness) raises a truly frightening question when he succeeds in making an eternal fabric. Indeed, it is scary enough that the movie does not dare to answer its own question, relying on a flighty and… Read More The Man in the White Suit (1951)
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