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Favorite films

  • Sansho the Bailiff
  • The Green Ray
  • Mirror
  • Alice in the Cities

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  • Sleep Has Her House

    ★★★★★

  • David Copperfield

    ★★★★

  • Molière

    ★★★★½

  • Sleep Furiously

    ★★★★½

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  • Sleep Has Her House

    Sleep Has Her House

    ★★★★★

    I'm wary of lumbering Scott Barley with superlatives, but when I was thinking Beethoven, Sibelius, Friedrich and Tarkovsky it's because in an avant-garde contemplative film we have a deep romanticism and love of nature that touch the sublime; it's a magnificent achievement that works on many levels, a major breakthrough for not only the young Welsh director but contemporary cinema too.

  • David Copperfield

    David Copperfield

    ★★★★

    Just pipped by Lean's Great Expectations as best screen Dickens adaptation, this is a thoroughly involving film with some memorable character turns by the likes of irrepressible W C Fields as Micawber, Edna May Oliver as redoubtable aunt Betsey, Basil Rathbone as young David's dastardly oppressor Murdstone, and a suitably slithery Roland Young as "be 'umble" Uriah Heep

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  • Maborosi

    Maborosi

    ★★★★★

    The debut feature of Kore-eda (one-time documentarist and director of the widely admired “Afterlife” and “Nobody Knows”) is one of a small, precious number of films for which i have felt lovesick. Maborosi’s story is superficially simple: affected by the death of her grandmother and her husband’s inexplicable suicide, a young Osaka woman starts new married life, along with her son, in a remote seaside fishing village, but finds the past continues to trouble her. Eschewing close-ups,the narrative draws the…

  • Electrocuting an Elephant

    Electrocuting an Elephant

    ½

    Shame on Edison

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