Hope (Umut) (1970) 9/10

You Would Not Even Dream It (Vam i ne snilos...) (1981) 8/10

Midnight In Paris (2011) 8/10

What Have I Done To Deserve This (Qué he hecho yo para merecer esto) (1984) 7/10

The Assassination (Ansatsu) (1964) 7/10

Elokuu (2011) 8/10

Bridesmaids (2011) 7/10

Life In One Day (Het leven uit een dag) (2009) 8/10

Leo (2007) 5/10

I resaw the Cary Grant film "My Favorite Wife" (1940) which is about a man whose wife supposedly drowned 10 years before, remarries and on the same day his "drowned" wife (Irene Dunne) returns. It was being remade as "Something's Got to Give" with Marilyn Monroe but was never completed due to her death. The film was then remade as "Move Over Darling" with Doris Day.

The film is very loosely based on the poem "Enoch Arden" by Tennyson, but in the poem, it is the husband who returns after having been assumed to have drowned, and the poem is far from being a comedy. But the surname Arden was used in the films.

The Westerner (1940) 8.5/10

Johnny Guitar (1954) 7.5/10

Pigs & Battleships (Buta to gunkan) (1961) 8.5/10

Dreng (2011)  6/10

The Ward (2010) 3/10

At Five In The Afternoon (Panj é asr) (2003) 8/10

I saw John Ford's film "The Fugitive" (1947) starring Henry Fonda. This was based on a Graham Greene book, but with fundamental differences. The film is set in an unnamed Central American state where religion has been oppressed and Fonda is a priest on the run from the police because he is a priest. Apparently this was one of Ford's favorite films and Fonda considered it to be his best work. The film is full of religious symbolism from the very beginning to the end. What was striking to me was the black and white cinematography. Apparently there is a colourised version but that would totally destroy the film. There is a reason why top photographers use black and white stock - to enhance shadows and light.

The cinematographer was Gabriel Figueroa, a Mexican, and was Luis Bunuel's main cinematographer whilst Bunuel was in Mexico. In The Fugitive, some of the scenes are not dissimilar to some of Eisenstein's films in a photographic sense.

The new priest who appears right at the end of the film was played by Mel Ferrer (uncredited) in his film debut.

The Great Madcap (El gran calavera) (1949) 7/10

Signs Of Life (Lebenszeichen) (1968) 8/10

Blind Date (1996) 4/10

Heartbeat (Sim-jang-i Ddwooin-da) 7/10

Everything Must Go (2010) 7/10

I resaw To Be or Not to Be (1942) which ranks as one of the best farce/black comedies ever made. Besides Carole Lombard in her last film and Jack Benny in easily his best film, there was also Robert Stack (best known for Eliot Ness in the TV series The Untouchables) in a very early role.

I also saw Build My Gallows High (1947) with Robert Mitchum. Jet black film noir with most of the main characters being killed off by the end of the film. A very early appearance from Kirk Douglas in his second film. The film was released as Out of the Past in the USA and was remade as Against All Odds in 1984.

Whistle Down The Wind (1961) 10/10 3rd viewing

The Swing (Hustawka) (2010) 7/10

Children... (A-i-deul) (2011) 9/10

Upperdog (2009) 6/10

It's Love I'm After (1937) 9/10

Boy Meets Girl (1984) 7.5/10

27 Dresses (2008) - formulaic romcom which was watchable but nothing special about it. The most original thing about the film was the closing credits which took the form of a newspaper article about the closing scene (no details to avoid spoiler) showing the credits embedded in the article.

H-8... (1958) 9/10

Mammuth (2010) 7/10

Your Highness (2011) 3/10

Suicide Room (Sala samobojcow) (2011) 6/10

Therapy (Parterapi) (2010) 6/10

Comrades (1986), Bill Douglas's last film about the Tolpuddle Martyrs who were transported to Botany Bay for their attempts to get a fair wage and set up a trade union. Because of the public reaction they were eventually reprieved.

A long film running for 3 hours, this clearly was a labour of love for Bill Douglas and those involved. Bill Douglas was a collector of old photographic equipment. This included equipment used by travelling entertainers showing slides illuminated by lanternlight. These slides could include historical accounts. This is a fundamental part of the film's conception. Alex Norton plays several parts in the film including that of a travelling lanternist.

The film has a remarkable feel for authenticity. It's not a perfect film - some of the scenes seem a bit out of place.

The film is held together by Robin Soans as George Loveless, the leader of the Martyrs. Rarely in films and tends to be mainly appearing on television. One of the other Martyrs was played by Philip Davis who is now much better known as Phil. This was Imelda Staunton's first film (as Betsy Loveless).

There were quite a few well known actors who appeared in cameos in the film, the most important part being that of Mr Pitt by Michael Hordern.For the most part they fitted in with the exception of Barbara Windsor in a non-comedic part but impossible to be taken seriously.

Losers Club (Kaybedenler Kulubu) (2011) 6/10

The Lovely Bones (2009). Too much emphasis on CHI effects lessened what should have been a much better film. Peter Jackson's earlier film Heavenly Creatures was a better film.

I resaw Bringing up Baby (1938) for the umpteenth time, one of the funniest films ever made.

Heavenly Creatures is an excellent film

Agreed on Bringing Up Baby being one of the funniest films ever made

Ornamental Hairpin (Kanzashi) (1941) 8.5/10

Woman In The Rumor (Uwasa no onna) (1954) 7.5/10

Brothers (Veljekset) (2011) 7/10

Metropolitan (1990) 7/10

La Ronde (1950) 8/10

Hall Pass (2011) 4/10

Oh dear, doesn't sound as if you liked that one bit. I haven't seen it yet, but I have got the director's previous film on DVD "Daisies" in English yet to see, so I hope that is worth watching.

I saw Daisies a few years ago and i hated it as much as Fruit Of Paradise, I am not a big fan of over the top weirdness which is why i also dislike Eraserhead and House (Hausu)

Btw if you want to watch Fruit Of Paradise, its is on youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygOPE8QmjLE

Attack The Block (2011) 7.5/10

Hahaha (2010) 7/10

Thanks, I think

If you want wierdness try The Shanghai Gesture (1941) from Josef von Sternberg. It's on again on Film 4 on Thursday. The Radio Times gives it 5 stars out of 5, but I would give it 1 star. If it were being remade now, it would suit Baz Lurhmann.

Thanks, but i will give it a miss as i no longer watch films on channels that have adverts during the film as it always use to makes me lose interest after a while

Barefoot (Barfuss) (2005) 8.5/10

Generally I watch films I've recorded rather than live, and when they I have commercials, I just fast forward through them which gets over most of the interruptions.

I did start watching Fruit of Paradise but stopped after about 18 minutes as my head was spinning. For me it might have been better if I had seen it on a television as I am too close to my computer monitor for watching films. I found the first section hypnotically weird - the Garden of Eden influenced sequence. The next sequence was closer to normal but still very strange - although not a ballet, to me it seem to resemble a ballet in structure. I stopped at the point where the girl gave the sachel back to the lurking man. 

I had a look at the youtube channel where that film was posted. It seemed to have quite a lot of Eastern European films from around the 60s so it may be worth exploring more, though the films posted further back seem to be in lots of segments rather than a whole which is more disruptive than ad breaks. One of the more recently posted films though was Celine and Julie Go Boating, so it looks as if the channel may have widened beyond Eastern Europe.

A PC isnt the best way to watch a film because as you say you are too  close to the screen, plus you need to be comfortable to watch a film, that was why i never watched films online until i got a laptop a few years ago

All the films on that youtube channel are Czechoslovakian

When i watch youtube films that are in segments, i open up multiple windows so when the video ends i can quickly get to the next one 

The Devil And Daniel Webster (1941) 9/10

Zhou Yu's Train (Zhou Yu de huo che) (2002) 5/10

The Devil and Daniel Webster is one of the all time great fantasy films to come out of Hollywood, and Walter Huston as Mr Scratch is utterly brilliant.

The last film I saw... Harry Potter deathly hallows pt 2