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A few days ago it was my pleasure to interview French director Brice Cauvin about his feature debut, the excellent Hotel Harabati, which you may recall appeared in both Miss D’s and my top ten lists of 2007. I’ll be posting clips from the film and our interview in a few days, but right now [...]
I’m sorry about the lateness of this list but if the truth be told I hate writing my top ten. I don’t mind weeding out the films I didn’t like and whittling down the amount of good films to a number resembling ten but it’s the ordering that I detest. Who’s to say that if [...]
Why do I feel the unhealthy, compulsion to spend days obsessing over what 10 out of the 123 films I watched this year (told you I was obsessive!) were my favourites, and why do I have to wait until every day of previous year has passed to ensure I’ve truly seen all the films I’m [...]
If you’re one of our more regular visitors to the site and have been checking us out since the early days, then you’ll know our love for lists. MarBelle and I have already dedicated a post to the list earlier in the year, when I wrote about a book dedicated to filmic lists (Faber and [...]
Has anyone else noticed how the majority of Television minutes dedicated to the movies recently seem to be assigned to the all conquering ‘List’? Every week we seem to have a new list of top movie moments, decided by some unknown panel, yet we the movie viewing public rarely get a say in these lists.
OK I’ve finally stepped up and written this most fluid of lists down, so for better or worse, this is how I’ll recall my film viewing of 2006 when my memory has rotted and all I can go on are the documented facts. I’d like to point out that as Miss D said in her [...]