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
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
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
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
