Men On The Mountain (Emberek a havason) (1942) 7/10

Treeless Mountain (2009) 8.5/10 2nd viewing

Sunset Limited (2011) 6/10

In China They Eat Dogs (I Kina spiser de hunde) (1999) 7.5/10
Amer (2009) 4/10

Good Morning (Ohayo) (1959) 9/10

Wildside (Vildspor) (1998) 6/10

Abel (2010) 7.5/10

Priest Of Evil (Harjunpaa ja pahan pappi) (2010) 6/10

En Karlekshistoria (1970) 8/10

The Joke (Zert) (1969) 8/10

I resaw Hitchcock's Spellbound the other day. That's the one with the dream sequence on which Salvador Dali worked on. Budgetary constraints meant that the sequence is shorter than intended.

I think Spellbound which is in black and white has the shortest colour scene (I think there are 2 frames) ever.

The last two films I have seen are very different

Nanny McPhee - it's one of those children's films which adults can enjoy - a sort of cross between Mary Poppins and Roald Dahl.

The African Queen (reseen) The version shown on Film 4 recently is the recently restored version. An excellent film.

Brest Fortress (Brestskaya krepost) (2010) 8/10

Rango (2011) 5/10

House Of Fools (De Gales hus) (2008) 7/10

Pusher (1996) 6/10

Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965) 9/10

Kald Mig Bare Aksel (2002) 7/10

Willow Tree (Beed-e majnoon) (2005) 9/10

The Human Resources Manager (2010) 8/10

When The Tenth Month Comes (Bao gio cho den thang muoi) (1985) 9/10

Tokyo Drifter (Tokyo nagaremono) (1966) 6/10

Drive Angry (2011) 3/10

The Day I Became A Woman (Roozi ke zan shodam) (2000) 7.5/10

Lapland Odyssey (Napapiirin sankarit) (2010) 7/10

The Mirror (Ayneh) (1997) 8.5/10

The White Sound (Das weisse Rauschen) (2001) 7/10

The two most recent films I have seen are very different (both re-seen).

The first was the classic My Darling Clementine, an iconic western.

The second was The Bone Collector, which is fairly derivative but made pasable by Denzel Washington and Angeline Jolie.

I suppose I should also add What Happens in Vegas, only watchable because Cameron Diaz was in it. It's the sort of film which makes one look back with fondness on the screwball comedies with the likes of Claudette Colbert (It Happened One Night) or Katherine Hepburn (Bringing Up Baby and in particular the films with Spencer Tracy).

Yesterday I watched Ridley Scott's first feature film The Duellists. It is set in Napoleonic times and is about a 15 year grudge match between two officers played by Keith Carradine and Harvey Keitel. Scott had hoped to have Michael York and Oliver Reed, but they were not available. A strong list of supporting actors in small roles - Albert Finney, Edward Fox, Tom Conti, Alun Armstrong and also Pete Posthlewaite in his feature film debut.

The film was made 2 years after Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon and there are similarities between the two films to make me think that Scott was heavily influenced by Barry Lyndon.

The Duellists is based on a story by Joseph Conrad and is supposedly a true story. It is a slight story, but what makes the film stand out is the cinematography. The final scenes were filmed at Château de Commarque. It's located in Dordogne between Sarlat and Les Eyzies, in the commune of Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil. And the final shot has to be one of the most beautiful shots ever put to film. 

Dusk (Schemer) (2010) 7.5/10

The Last Exorcism (2010) 3/10