Resaw Blade Runner (1982) in the Final Cut version. That's the one with the unicorn dream scene and with the little origami unicorn at the end is the clearest sign that Deckard was a replicant.

Watched Wall-E (2008). Good animation and the character of Wall-E was likeable enough. But if one thinks about the film in terms of the future of this planet it's rather depressing and it's a dystopian film. The ending does have some slight hope for the future.

Watched The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! (2012).
Aardman animation - great fun though Queen Victoria might have said "we are not amused", not that there's any evidence that she actually said that.

Watched The Winslow Boy, the 1999 version which had Nigel Hawthorne (compared to Cedric Hardwicke in the classic 1948 version) and Jeremy Northam (Robert Donat). A good adaptation with a well chosen cast.

Neil North who played the part of the First Lord of the Admiralty was the Winslow boy in the 1948 version.

Rebecca Pidegon, the daughter in the film, is married to David Mamet who directed the film, and is Matthew Pidgeon's sister - he played the part of the older brother.

Watched The Christmas Candle (2013). A pleasant film, part fantasy, part Christian and a bit like one of those Ealing films with a community coming together.

Watched Oz the Great and Powerful (2013). Watchable, technically spectacular, but lacking any real emotion, it's lacking a heart.

I resaw after many years The Masque of the Red Death (1964), one of Roger Corman's adaptations from Edgar Allan Poe. One of the best horror films of the 1960s and a chillimg memorable ending. Vincent Price is excellent, gearing up for his later Witchfinder General.

Very stylish film and clearly influenced by Bergman's The Seventh Seal.

Red obviously is key in the film as per the title. One aspect of this is that at the end of the film Price unmasks the Red Death character robed in red and then dies. A parallel could be drawn to Donald Sutherland in Don't Look Now when he dies at the hands of the mysterious character in the red cape. Nicholas Roeg was the cinematographer of The Masque of the Red Death, so this is a real possibility.

Watched the 1945 film Scarlet Street which was on the Talking Pictures TV channel. A Fritz Lang film starring Edward G Robinson, Jean Bennett and Dan Duryea. Dark film-noir. A remake of the French Jean Renoir film La Chienne (1931) and I could sense a Gallic touch to this. That title is an appropriate description of the Jean Bennett character but it would be have been impossible for a film to be given the English transalation at that time.

The leads are excellent in this darkly ironic film. Just watch this very short clip - Robinson is an amateur artist in his spare time.

Watched The Wandering Jew (1933) on the Talking Pictures TV channel
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0024750/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_1

The version shown is the shortened version rather than the original which presumably is lost - some 30 minutes shorter.

An extremely dated British curio of a film. The first 3 segments are very stagey and hard going. The last segment (Seville and the Spanish inquisition) is more watchable and has quite an effective end.

Based on legend and not a Biblical story.

Resaw The Illusionist (2006). A good quality film with a decent story and where the lead (Edward Norton) was trained to perform the magical illusions rather than them having to resort to CGI special effects. One of those rare modern films which is enjoyable.

Watched Who?, a 1974 film. A low key film, not really science fiction or a spy thriller, more of a mystery. American scientist severely injured in a car crash on the border between East and West Germany has been captured by the East Germany military. He has been nursed back to health but is so badly scarred much of his body is replaced with electronics and his face is replaced with a metal mask. That's before the start of the film where the scientist is supposedly released to the Americans but who is he really? They won't let him return to his Neptune project unless he can prove that he is who he says he is.

The lead American interrogator is played by Elliott Gould, the scientist (?) by Joesph Bova and there are flashbacks to the East Germany military interrogations or are they brainwashing lead by Trevor Howard.

It's quite a good film and unusual. In the states it was released on video under the title Robo Man. I can see why but the film is totally different in style to Robocop. It is also known as The Man with the Steel Mask.

The film was directed by Jack Gold.

I resaw Dead End (1937) which starred Joel McCrea &  Sylvia Sidney and also a notable performance by Humphrey Bogart. Also the group of boys which were known as the Dead End Kids which had various films afterwards. Clearly a film version of a stage play. Directed by William Wyler.

The two best scenes were between Baby Faced Martin (Humphrey Bogart) and his utterly despairing broken mother (Marjorie Main) and him meeting his ex girl friend (Claire Trevor) who had turned to prostitution (clearly indicated rather than stated).

As a point of trivia, in the Broadway stage production of the play the part of the rich boy was played by Sidney Lumet.

Exceptional photography by Gregg Toland with use of deep focus which he would use 4 years later in Citizen Kane.

Rewatched Carnival of Souls (1962). Very low budget independent film, a bit like a full length Twilight Zone story. Considering that it is low budget, it's not bad and at times quite eeries.

As a piece of trivia the assistant director was Reza Badiyi. 6 years later he created the title sequence for the original Hawaii Five-O, a strong contender for the best title sequence in the history of television.

Saw the British film Sapphire (1959) which was on the Talking Pictures channel. Good quality intelligent police procedural film with a racial background. The two lead detecives were played by Nigel Patrick and Michael Craig. Peter Vaughan's second film role (not credited).

The last film I saw was Deadpool 2