An annual requirement and this year easier than has often been the case. So here is my list with a very short and often specific explanation of just why ... 1. Blue Is The Warmest Colour simply the most wonderful piece of film making, 3 hours slips by in a flash, you want another 3 hours and then more but there are also bravura pieces of directing which are breathtaking. For me the sequence when the two main characters are first sitting on the bench which recurs as a setting throughout the film is astonishing. They move closer and closer together in real time but time is simultaneously suspended. Heart stopping. 2. The Great Beauty provides yet more swoon inducing cinematography and a main character who is fascinating as much in what he doesn't say as what he does; an increasingly acute and self-reflective observer of a world gone mad as the privileged pursue their obsessions and ignore the rest. 3. Museum Hours on which I have already said my piece ... 4.
Occasional musings about time spent in museums, galleries, theatres, cinemas and other dark settings ..