Saturday, 31 May 2025

May 2025

Best First Viewings:
The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo (Margaret Tait, 1955)
The Last Gasp (Ingmar Bergman, 1995)
Star in the Dust (Charles F. Haas, 1956)
Bergman Island (Marie Nyreröd, 2006)
Manhandled (Allan Dwan, 1924)
My Favourite Season/Ma saison préférée (André Téchiné, 1993)
The Thin Man (W.S. Van Dyke, 1934)
The Sunbeam (D.W. Griffith, 1912)
Ceiling Zero (Howard Hawks, 1936)
One, Two, Three (Billy Wilder, 1961)

Books Read:
Still in the Saddle: The Hollywood Western, 1969–1980 by Andrew Patrick Nelson
Wild Strawberries (BFI Film Classics) by Philip French, Kersti French
God and the Devil: The Life and Work of Ingmar Bergman by Peter Cowie
The Searchers (BFI Film Classics) by Edward Buscombe
For Esmé — with Love and Squalor and Other Stories by J.D. Salinger