Like all Oliveira films, one i'm looking forward to seeing. At 103 he still has another on the go. The combined ages of the leads Lonsdale, Moreau, Cardinale and director himself must be some sort of record. Add Leonor Silveira and the cast alone is extremely enticing

Oliveira, still making films aged 103, was a mere stripling in his mid 50s when he made this. Better be prepared to save life than to kill?

Glorious 6th June indeed- my wedding anniversary!

A good old fashioned romp, Sim and Rutherford splendid of course. I've been waiting ages for this on mubi.

A little charmer, with a freshness and vitality not out of place in the French New Wave- i much prefer Russell's angels to his devils, a fall from grace.

Ruth (what's occurrin?) Jones is a talented writer as well as actress. Seeing her now slimmed down and elegant it's hard to imagine her brandishing a strap-on but she inhabited that TV character perfectly.

Oh languorous mystery, Oh sensuous fluidity, Oh luminous beauty.

Finally on the Mubi database! Maybe not so well known these days but this comedy has been a much loved film with an older generation in Britain, picked by stalwart critics Barry Norman and Derek Malcolm in their respective 100 films of the 20th century. It has an appealing warmth and nostalgia.

Only 5 fans for such a giant of music?

I found it gripping, relished the slow building of paranoid, oppressive and mysterious atmosphere, and it also highlights the dark side of the British private school system, gateway to elite clubs. With such shady characters, tense rivalries and violence, neither side of the cold war comes out with credit. Oldman and the cast as a whole are excellent, the settings and sense of the time very effectively handled.

Literary basis aside, Stone Wedding and Lust for Gold combine for a marvellous pair of Romanian cultural treasures in their own right,

Considering the cast and Angelopoulos' usual standards, although a brave film, this is also a disappointing one, too elusive and wide-ranging to grip onto or be really touched by- ambition and faults that reminded me of Wenders' Until the End of the World

I saw this in my mid teens in the 70s; my memories are vague except for Jane Birkin's being given sexual satisfaction. I was supposed to be improving my French; my young eyes were opened by the cunning linguistics.

Just enjoying reading his Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio, admired by Kafka and Borges..

The Diderot-Rivette-Karina combination is a winner. Satires don't have to come with klaxons blaring. As an indictment of the Catholic church (and wider society too, only reinforced by the film being banned) it feels more powerful for its stylistic restraint, and the casting of Karina more striking after the freedom of Pierrot le Fou. Not the New Wave's blazing star, Rivette has been both bold and richly rewarding.

Sebald's book Rings of Saturn is superb, so i hope to see this film and would be interested in any opinions of it

A self-important film in which discomfiting (even excruciatingly bitter) interactions, neuroses and apocalyptic anxiety are bathed in romanticised visuals and music. Drawing it would seem on Trier's own experience of depression and on Kubrick and Tarkovsky for prophetic depth, the film grates far more than it enlightens, and feels like a misanthropist's revenge. Charlotte Gainsbourg deserved much better.

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A film of extraordinary vision, delicacy, beauty and poignant yearning,

Jones' pretty charm, Boyer's easy elegance, Lubitsch's imagination at work on English eccentricity and class system make for a winning combination.

Take Escher and late 80s Hungarian malaise for a little dark spatial exploration

Lush, seductive, soppy royalist propaganda

A fine film in Welsh with no airs and graces, with nature and poetry set against war. *The old harps that were played before are Suspended on the branches of yonder willows, And the scream of the boys filling the wind, And their blood mixed with the rain."(Hedd Wyn, translation)

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

A magnificent feast of fantasy, magic, imagination and old-fashioned adventure.

An absolute delight! So rich in its settings and details, so magical in its use of technology, so loving of cinema, so noble in its soul: the film Scorsese was born to make

Only 7 fans for Yoda, one of the finest of all screenwriters?!

Superb musical/dance numbers, beautiful locations, and who could not fall for lovely Manisha Koirala's mysterious Shahrzadian attraction? But director Ratnam, no doubt aiming for political weight alongside lush romance, blows all that on o.t.t Hollywood-type action thriller and terrorist claptrap- meddling in affairs, like the ever irritating Shahrukh Khan, with a superficial juvenile grasp. What a waste!

Octopuses are stupendous creatures.After so many TV wildlife programmes we take for granted extraordinary wonders. Here we have amorous goings on as filmed in the 60s by husband and wife Painlevé and Hamon. Among many qualities (e.g magnificent versatile escapologists), Octopuses are known for changing colour when expressing emotions; maybe some enjoying rapturous foreplay are tickled pink.

Innocence far surpasses anything by Noe