Kuma (2012) 7/10

Man's Castle (1933) 9/10

Prisoners (2013) 8.5/10

Balkan Spy (Balkanski spijun) (1984) 8.5/10

Three Came Home (1950) 8/10

The Marathon Family (Maratonci trce pocasni krug) (1982) 8/10

I saw Stage Struck (1958). An aspiring actress is trying to break through into Broadway theatre. The film is a remake of Morning Glory (1933) which was Katherine Hepburn's third film.

Susan Strasberg who played the actress in Stage Struck was the daughter of Lee Strasberg who set up the Actors Studio and was the key person in method acting. This film was also her third film but she was no Katherine Hepburn and did not get to the top as Hepburn did. The film does have its moments but isn't a great film.

The film was directed by Sidney Lumet and this was his second feature film but it is not in the same league as his first, which is the great 12 Angry Men.

The film also starred Henry Fonda. It also starred Christopher Plummer in his feature film debut, Joan Greenwood and Herbert Marshall.

Snowland (Schneeland) (2005) 8.5/10

Paradjanov (2013) 7/10

The Ashes (Popioly) (1965) 9.5/10

But nothing to do with The Ashes which starts tonight

I never watch that awful sport 

The Collector (1965) 8/10

Mother And Child (2009) 6/10

I saw Ann Vickers (1933) which starred Irene Dunne. Based on a novel by Sinclair Lewis it's a short film at 76 minutes but could easily have been made into a longer film with the material it covered. Definitely a pre-Hay code film where the heroine is assumed to have an abortion, scenes in a women's prison where a convict is executed by hanging and another convict is being whipped, the heroine subsequently has an affair with a married man and has an illegitimate child and the film is allowed to have a happy ending.

The film starts in 1918 where the USA becomes involved. In an early scene where there's a party for the departing soldiers, I saw a man looking rather admiringly at Irene Dunne. That is irrelevant to the film but I've checked and it was a cameo appearance by the film's director John Cromwell.

There's a scene in a hotel room with Irene Dunne and her first lover in the film. The camera pans away from them to the open window where we see a cinema with a sign announcing next week's film "Joan the Woman". The scene darkens for a moment and then lightens again to show that a week has passed and the next week's film is "Shoulder Arms". That of course is the Chaplin film. That may be a bit of a goof as Shoulder Arms was released in the States on 20 October 1918 and WW1 ended of course on 11 November 2018.

Yoso (1963) 8/10

Escape From Hong Kong Island (Mak dau sin sang) (2004) 8/10

Sara (1997) 7/10

Legend Of A Duel To The Death (Shito no densetsu) (1963) 8.5/10

Time Without Pity (1957) 7.5/10

The Great War (La Grande Guerra) (1959) 9.5/10

Daylight (Daglicht) (2013) 6/10

Su-Ki-Da (2005) 8/10

Adventurers (Kalandorok) (2008) 6/10

Hunted (1952) 8.5/10

Battle For Heavy Water (Kampen om tungtvannet) (1948) 9/10

The Two Mrs. Carrolls (1947) 7/10

Captain Phillips (2013) 8/10

In The Fog (V tumane) (2012) 8/10

I watched Knight and Day (2010) which starred Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz.

The film plot is so ridiculous that I almost switched off. Only rescued by the likeability of Cameron Diaz.