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Medea (1969)

Extraordinary, beautiful and intense. Remind me never to cross a Colchian sorceress.

My Movie Rating:

10 / 10

Mino (1986)

Rather sombre towards the end - but then it is about WWI! A gorgeous production.

My Movie Rating:

10 / 10

Moonland (1926)

About as gorgeous as a short film can be.

My Movie Rating:

10 / 10

Møv og Funder (1991)

A truly great film about friendship, trust and love, with wonderful performances from the whole cast. Unmissable!

My Movie Rating:

10 / 10

My Ain Folk (1973)

My Movie Rating:

10 / 10

My Childhood (1972)

My Movie Rating:

10 / 10

My Way Home (1978)

My Movie Rating:

10 / 10

The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey (1988)

Every time I've watched this film, I've liked it more.

My Movie Rating:

10 / 10

Nine Meals from Chaos (2018)

My Movie Rating:

10 / 10

O (2006)

Completely breathtaking.

My Movie Rating:

10 / 10

Obecná skola (1991)

Unmissable, nostalgic, classic Czech comedy.

My Movie Rating:

10 / 10

Of Time and the City (2008)

A gorgeous elegy, mixing bitter criticism (particularly of the Church, but also of more modern trends) and warm nostalgia, a meditation on the corrosive nature of time that has something of the mood of T. S. Eliot's 'Four Quartets' (quoted in the film). Utterly unique. A work of genius.

My Movie Rating:

10 / 10

Oliver Twist (1985)

An absolutely stunning BBC TV series, absolutely faithful to the novel. Scott Funnell plays Young Oliver for the first episode (he's the one whose photo seems to be in all the publicity, perhaps because it is he who goes up to ask for 'more'); and then, ten minutes into the second episode (after a 'passage of time' sequence), Ben Rodska takes over as Oliver, for the remaining 11 episodes. He is an absolutely wonderful Oliver, perhaps the best there's ever been. Indeed, all the performers are wonderful - it is difficult imagining this miniseries being bettered.

My Movie Rating:

10 / 10

Our Gang Follies of 1938 (1937)

One of my all-time favourite Our Gangs.

My Movie Rating:

10 / 10

Our New Errand Boy (1905)

14-year-old Tom is more a force of nature or a mischievous imp than a human being - a sort of amoral boy-deity, who causes mayhem without the slightest sympathy for those he torments. A lesser director would have turned the tables on him at the end in order to deliver a moral lesson. But in this film, he joyfully outwits his pursuers, and we end with him laughing uncontrollably at his victims' misfortune. And the wonderful thing is that we side with the boy, we share in his delight, so that the whole film becomes a celebration of irrepressible vitality. A truly extraordinary work.

My Movie Rating:

10 / 10

Padre Padrone (1977)

I'm surprised at some of the comments on this film. Far from being either "surreal" or "unrealistic", it seems to me very earthy and realist. I see no reason for having a moral spasm just because it depicts things as they were. As for the bestiality scene - this was how things were; boys were horny, and the available options were either farmyard animals or each other. I don't suppose the animals suffered more than mild discomfort at most. As for it being 'disgusting', my feelings are the same as Terence, "Homo sum; nil humani alienum mihi puto." In any case, the film definitely scotches any notion of peasant life as a bucolic idyll - the Taviani brothers side more with Marx's "idiocy of rural life". The protagonist's father isn't demonised, though - he is simply an outcome of his own upbringing; if anything is to blame for the brutishness of it all then it's the poverty and insecurity of peasant life. I found the whole film wonderful and enlightening. A definite 'must-see'. (Get the Arrow Academy Taviani blu-ray set whilst it's still available!)

My Movie Rating:

10 / 10

Pelle der Eroberer (1986)

My Movie Rating:

10 / 10

Le petit roi (1933)

A great film, with an exceptional performance from Robert Lynen.

My Movie Rating:

10 / 10

Po strnisti bos (2017)

Gorgeous, gentle comedy. Also see "The Elementary School", to which this film was the prequel.

My Movie Rating:

10 / 10

Poil de carotte (1932)

Unmissable performances. A masterpiece.

My Movie Rating:

10 / 10

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