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My ‘favourites’ aren’t necessarily definitive, just four films I love a lot.

Favorite films

  • The Seventh Seal
  • The Addiction
  • The Descent
  • Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter

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  • The X Files: I Want to Believe

    ★★★

  • The X Files

    ★★★½

  • Age of Consent

    ★★

  • Blow Out

    ★★★★★

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  • Before Midnight

    Before Midnight

    ★★★★★

    We appear, and we disappear.

    You watch this film and think: when did Linklater become so cynical? Then you look back at the previous film and realise that actually it was pretty cynical too. Then you go back to where it all began and realise that there was always some cynicism there, even in the hopeful glow of youthful naïveté. Then finally you think about this film again, and realise that maybe it’s not actually so cynical after all. Funny how it works like that.

  • Come and See

    Come and See

    ★★★★★

    I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, "Come and see!" And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him.

    My great-grandparents, Manfred and Else, were Jewish Germans who escaped the country as the holocaust began. Many of their friends and family would not have been so lucky. Although they renounced their faith and nationality, their daughter, my grandmother, remained proud of her Jewish heritage, and,…

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  • The X Files: I Want to Believe

    The X Files: I Want to Believe

    ★★★

    still me and who

    some incredible moments in this one including a dramatic pan to a portrait of george bush and scully googling how to do surgery

  • The X Files

    The X Files

    ★★★½

    me and who

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