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Phantom India

Louis Malle is a film director hard to assess because of the variety in his work and often gets left off lists of important film directors precisely because he can’t … Continue reading

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Thursday, 24 April, 2014 · 1 Comment

Great film directors

Lists of great films are easy to compile if you don’t look too hard at what you mean by ‘great’. I looked around and found lots of lists. They all … Continue reading

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Wednesday, 30 May, 2012 · Leave a comment

Favourite American Cinema

This list combines a number of accepted cinema classics with quite a few films of the 30s and 40s I feel are under-appreciated: this was, it is generally admitted, the … Continue reading

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Friday, 24 July, 2009 · Leave a comment

Documentary film: my picks

THE BEST documentary film has all the qualities we appreciate in feature films: drama, excitement, suspense and a vivid appeal to our imagination. Films that content themselves merely with imparting … Continue reading

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Wednesday, 1 July, 2009 · 1 Comment
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