I try to update my favourites list regularly with a new theme.
Current favourite films are....favourite 'about film directors' films.
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A History of Violence 2005
If you can suspend disbelief for the duration and ignore some clunky dialogue, then this is a pretty good straightforward thriller. Much different to the other Cronenberg films I've seen and with a great opening 'one-shot' scene.
It's suspenseful with good acting but, for me, too many characters are introduced just to be killed off. -
Concert for George 2003
The very best tribute concert put on at The Albert Hall exactly one year after his death by George's wife Olivia and son Dhani with musical direction by Eric Clapton.
The whole thing is fantastic but highlights include:
The Monty Python team plus guests (including Tom Hanks) doing 'The Lumberjack Song'.
Billy Preston and Eric Clapton sharing lead vocals and solos on what is probably my favourite ever George song, 'Isn't it a Pity'.
Ringo being Ringo.
Paul McCartney's ukulele…
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Nest 2022
Now this is what to do with lockdown if you're a filmmaker. Icelandic director Hlynur Pálmason, who made the excellent 'A White, White Day', creates an imaginative and evocative short with a fixed camera pointed at a telegraph pole that is transformed over a year into a treehouse built mainly by and for his three children. We see the changing of the seasons from the harsh, brutal, Icelandic winter to the slightly less harsh spring, summer and autumn, as the…
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The Beatles: Get Back 2021
Part 1
So no whitewash here. Peter Jackson just lets us see exactly what happened. This is The Beatles' winter of discontent in the cold, cavernous, poorly acoustic Twickenham Studios. The songs are barely more than rough demos, everyone's niggly and grumpy, only Paul seems to have any enthusiasm for the project and even he's moaning about getting no support. But there are still snippets of joy and camaraderie and the genesis of some fantastic songs.
Don't know what it's…