Films 2019

Cinema:

Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (1928) 7.5/10 (NFT1, BFI, London)
Tales from Tin Pan Alley 7/10 (Hack & Hop, London)
Us 7/10 GFT(Glasgow)
Macario 7/10 FT3, BFI
Heaven and Earth (Silent film) + live score, BFI NFT1 6.5/10
Accident (1929 short) + live score, NFT1, BFI 6.5/10
Out of Blue 6/10 GFT (Glasgow).

Blu Ray:

Chernobyl 9.5/10
The Battle of Algiers 9/10
The Look of Silence 9/10
The Third Man 9/10
This is England '88 9/10
This is England '90 9/10
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest 9/10
Rear Window 9/10
Bicycle Thieves 8.5/10
Edge of Darkness 8.5/10
Hour of the Wolf (Bergman) 8.5/10
Mr Robot - season one 8.5/10
The Lives of Others 8.5/10
A Woman Under the Influence 8.5/10
How I Ended This Summer 8.5/10
Shoplifters 8.5/10
This is England 8.5/10
This is England '86 8.5/10
Shirkers 8.5/10
Shame (Bergman) 8.5/10
Apocalypse Now Final Cut 8.5/10
Les Diabolique 8.5/10
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 8.5/10
Maborosi 8/10
Paterson 8/10
Mother 8/10
Withnail & I 8/10
A Blonde in Love 8/10
Can You Ever Forgive Me? 8/10  
Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter  8/10
La ciociara (Two Women) 8/10
Everybody in Our Family (Toata lumea din familia noastra) 8/10
Pi (1998) 8/10 
Au Hasard Balthazar 8/10
Fargo 8/10
La Notte 8/10
La Isla Minima (Marshland) 8/10
The Pumpkin Eater 8/10
Army of Shadows (L'armée des ombres) (Melville) 8/10
Cries and Whispers 8/10

Umberto D 8/10
Khrustalyov, My Car! 8/10
Penda's Fen (Alan Clark) 8/10
Son of Saul 8/10
Klute 8/10
Panique 8/10
The Reflecting Skin 8/10
The Big City 8/10
Grizzly Man 7.5/10
Brink of Life 7.5/10
The White Diamond 7.5/10
Ninety Degrees in the Shade 7.5/10
Black Peter 7.5/10
Isle of Dogs 7.5/10
November 7.5/10
Bob le Flambeur (Melville)7.5/10
Le Doulos (Melville) 7.5/10
Goto, Island of Love 7.5/10
The Caretaker (Pinter) 7.5/10
Blood Simple - the director's cut 7.5/10
The Fireman's Ball 7.5/10
Black Girl 7.5/10
The Return 7.5/10
Loveless 7.5/10
Accattone (Pasolini) 7.5/10
Ordet (Dreyer) 7.5/10
The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner 7.5/10
Roma (Fellini) 7.5/10
Eyes Without a Face (Les Yeux sans visage) 7.5/10 SOLD
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood 7.5/10
The Last Train Through Hardcastle Tunnel (Alan Clarke) 7.5/10
The Touch (Bergman) 7/10
La Soufriere (short) 7/10
Sawdust & Tinsel 7/10
How Much Wood Would A Woodchuck Chuck 7/10
The Rite 7/10
Alexandra (short) 7/10
Two-Lane Blacktop 7/10 SOLD
Hands over the City (Le mani sulla città) 7/10  SOLD
Léon Morin, prêtre (Melville) 7/10
Kikujiro 7/10 SOLD
Horror Express 7/10 SOLD
The Flying Doctors Of East Africa (short) 7/10
Salvatore Giuliano 6.5/10 SOLD

DVD:

Unknown White Male 8/10
The Tea Party (Pinter) 8/10
Taste of Cherry 7.5/10
The Basement (Pinter) 7/10
Pickpocket 7/10
Career Girls (Mike Leigh) 7/10

Downloads, Purchases  & Streaming: 

Babylon Berlin series 1 9/10 (Amazon) 
Roma 9/10 (Netflix)
Festen 9/10 (Amazon)
Fleabag Series 2 8.5/10 (BBC)
After Life 8.5/10 (Netflix)
The Edge 8.5/10 (Amazon)
The Rider 8.5/10 (Amazon)
Spoor (Pokot) 8.5/10 (Amazon)
Don't Forget the Driver 8.5/10 (Amazon)
Dig! 8.5/10 (Youtube)
Faces Places (Agnes Varda) 8/10 (Netflix)
Zodiak 8/10 (Amazon)
Mr Robot Season 4 8/10 (Amazon)
A Fantastic Woman 8/10 (Amazon)
Ray & Liz 8/10 (Amazon)
This Way Up 8/10 (ALL4)
The Chambermaid 8/10 (Curzon)
Border 8/10 (Amazon)
Happy as Lazzaro 8/10 (Curzon)
Manta Ray 8/10 (Mubi)
Zama 8/10 (Amazon)
The Favourite 8/10 (Amazon)
In The Soup 8/10 (Amazon)
Edward Scissorhands 8/10 (Amazon)
Hiroshima Mon Amour 8/10 (Amazon)
Mindhunter season 2 8/10 (Netflix)
Russian Doll - Season 1 8/10 (Netflix)
Badlands 8/10 (Amazon)
No Data Plan 8/10 (Mubi)
Fearless 8/10 (Amazon)
Reservoir Dogs 8/10 (Netflix)
Educating Rita 8/10 (Amazon)
The Godfather 8/10 (Amazon)
Letter to Brezhnev 8/10 (Amazon)
Groundhog Day 8/10 (Amazon)
Marriage Story 8/10 (Netflix)
Stranger Things Season 3 8/10 (Netflix)
If Beale Sreet Could Talk 8/10 (Amazon)
Up The Junction 8/10 (Amazon)
Under the Silver Lake 8/10 (Amazon)
Get Out 8/10 (Netflix)
GameFace Series one 8/10 (ALL4)
The Irishman 8/10 (Netflix)
In Fabric 7.5 (Amazon)
Neighboring Sounds 7.5/10 (Amazon)
Breath Normally 7.5/10 (Netflix)
Raining Stones 7.5/10 (Amazon)
Ash Is Purest White 7.5/10 (Amazon)
Husbands 7.5/10 (Amazon)
Inside Llewyn Davis 7.5/10 (Amazon)
The Wild Pear Tree 7.5/10 (Amazon)
Midsommar 7.5/10 (Amazon)
Back to Berlin 7.5/10 (Amazon)
Adoption 7.5/10 (Mubi)
Varda by Agnes 7.5/10 (Curzon)
Cold War 7.5/10 (Curzon)
The Goonies 7.5/10 (Netflix)
The Man Who Fell to Earth 7.5/10 (Amazon)
L'Eclipse 7.5/10 (Amazon)
High Hopes (Mike Leigh) 7.5/10 (Amazon)
Casque d'or 7.5/10 (Amazon)
One Cut of the Dead 7.5/10 (Amazon)
The Godfather Part II 7.5/10 (Amazon)
Starfish 7.5/10 (Amazon)
Madeline's Madeline 7.5/10 (Amazon)
The Long Good Friday 7.5/10 (Amazon)
Get Carter 7.5/10 (Amazon)
Room At The Top 7.5/10 (Amazon)
Burning 7.5/10 (Amazon)
Back to the Future part 3 7.5/10 (Netflix)
Somers Town 7.5/10 (Amazon)
Three Colours Blue 7.5/10 (Amazon)
Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes 7.5/10 (Netflix)
The House That Jack Built 7.5/10 (Amazon)
The Miseducation of Cameron Post 7/10 (Amazon)
The Souvenir 7/10 (Amazon)
Phoenix 7/10 (Mubi)
Alice T 7/10 (Mubi)
Hail Satan? 7/10 (Curzon)
Goodtime 7/10 (Netflix)
Sorry to Bother You 7/10 (Amazon)
Lunch Hour 7/10 (Amazon)
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant 7/10 (Amazon)
Jodorowsky's Dune 7/10 (Amazon)
Local Hero 7/10 (Amazon)
Being Frank - The Chris Sievey Story 7/10 (Amazon)
Rapado 7/10 (Mubi)
High Life 7/10 (Amazon)
The Beaches of Agnes 7/10 (Amazon)
Midnight Movies (doc) 7/10 (Amazon)
Paddleton 7/10 (Netflix)
The Magic Gloves 7/10 (Mubi)
Hitchcock/Truffaut 7/10 (Tivo)
Conny Plank: The Potential of Noise 7/10 (Amazon)
Back to the Future part 2 6.5/10 (Netflix)

BBC CULTURE - 100 greatest foreign-language films - check list

100. Landscape in the Mist (Theo Angelopoulos, 1988)
99. Ashes and Diamonds (Andrzej Wajda, 1958)
98. In the Heat of the Sun (Jiang Wen, 1994)
97. Taste of Cherry (Abbas Kiarostami, 1997)
96. Shoah (Claude Lanzmann, 1985)
95. Floating Clouds (Mikio Naruse, 1955)
94. Where Is the Friend's Home? (Abbas Kiarostami, 1987)
93. Raise the Red Lantern (Zhang Yimou, 1991)
92. Scenes from a Marriage (Ingmar Bergman, 1973)
91. Rififi (Jules Dassin, 1955)
90. Hiroshima Mon Amour (Alain Resnais, 1959)
89. Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman, 1957)
88. The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1939)
87. The Nights of Cabiria (Federico Fellini, 1957)
86. La Jetée (Chris Marker, 1962)
85. Umberto D (Vittorio de Sica, 1952)
84. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Luis Buñuel, 1972)
83. La Strada (Federico Fellini, 1954)
82. Amélie (Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 2001)
81. Celine and Julie go Boating (Jacques Rivette, 1974)
80. The Young and the Damned (Luis Buñuel, 1950)
79. Ran (Akira Kurosawa, 1985)
78. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee, 2000)
77. The Conformist (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1970)
76. Y Tu Mamá También (Alfonso Cuarón, 2001)
75. Belle de Jour (Luis Buñuel, 1967)
74. Pierrot Le Fou (Jean-Luc Godard, 1965)
73. Man with a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, 1929)
72. Ikiru (Akira Kurosawa, 1952)
71. Happy Together (Wong Kar-wai, 1997)
70. L’Eclisse (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1962)
69. Amour (Michael Haneke, 2012)
68. Ugetsu (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1953)
67. The Exterminating Angel (Luis Buñuel, 1962)
66. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1973)
65. Ordet (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1955)
64. Three Colours: Blue (Krzysztof Kieślowski, 1993)
63. Spring in a Small Town (Fei Mu, 1948)
62. Touki Bouki (Djibril Diop Mambéty, 1973)
61. Sansho the Bailiff (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1954)
60. Contempt (Jean-Luc Godard, 1963)
59. Come and See (Elem Klimov, 1985)
58. The Earrings of Madame de… (Max Ophüls, 1953)
57. Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1972)
56. Chungking Express (Wong Kar-wai, 1994)
55. Jules and Jim (François Truffaut, 1962)
54. Eat Drink Man Woman (Ang Lee, 1994)
53. Late Spring (Yasujirô Ozu, 1949)
52. Au Hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson, 1966)
51. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Jacques Demy, 1964)
50. L’Atalante (Jean Vigo, 1934)
49. Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979)
48. Viridiana (Luis Buñuel, 1961)
47. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu, 2007)
46. Children of Paradise (Marcel Carné, 1945)
45. L’Avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1960)
44. Cleo from 5 to 7 (Agnès Varda, 1962)
43. Beau Travail (Claire Denis, 1999)
42. City of God (Fernando Meirelles, Kátia Lund, 2002)
41. To Live (Zhang Yimou, 1994)
40. Andrei Rublev (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1966)
39. Close-Up (Abbas Kiarostami, 1990)
38. A Brighter Summer Day (Edward Yang, 1991)
37. Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001)
36. La Grande Illusion (Jean Renoir, 1937)
35. The Leopard (Luchino Visconti, 1963)
34. Wings of Desire (Wim Wenders, 1987)
33. Playtime (Jacques Tati, 1967)
32. All About My Mother (Pedro Almodóvar, 1999)
31. The Lives of Others (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, 2006)
30. The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman, 1957)
29. Oldboy (Park Chan-wook, 2003)
28. Fanny and Alexander (Ingmar Bergman, 1982)
27. The Spirit of the Beehive (Victor Erice, 1973)
26. Cinema Paradiso (Giuseppe Tornatore, 1988)
25. Yi Yi (Edward Yang, 2000)
24. Battleship Potemkin (Sergei M Eisenstein, 1925)
23. The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1928)
22. Pan’s Labyrinth (Guillermo del Toro, 2006)
21. A Separation (Asghar Farhadi, 2011)
20. The Mirror (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1974)
19. The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo, 1966)
18. A City of Sadness (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 1989)
17. Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Werner Herzog, 1972)
16. Metropolis (Fritz Lang, 1927)
15. Pather Panchali (Satyajit Ray, 1955)
14. Jeanne Dielman, 23 Commerce Quay, 1080 Brussels (Chantal Akerman, 1975)
13. M (Fritz Lang, 1931)
12. Farewell My Concubine (Chen Kaige, 1993)
11. Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard, 1960)
10. La Dolce Vita (Federico Fellini, 1960)
9. In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai, 2000)
8. The 400 Blows (François Truffaut, 1959)
7. 8 1/2 (Federico Fellini, 1963)
6. Persona (Ingmar Bergman, 1966)
5. The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir, 1939)
4. Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa, 1950)
3. Tokyo Story (Yasujirô Ozu, 1953)
2. Bicycle Thieves (Vittorio de Sica, 1948)
1. Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa, 1954)

Art

Picasso 1932: Love, Fame, Tragedy 9/10 Tate Modern, London

New music bought and played

Brockmann & Bargmann - Licht 7.5/10
Thorsten Quaeschning - Cargo OST 8.5/10 (CD/LP)
Hoshiko Yamane & Duenn- Nakaniwa 8/10
Paul Haslinger - Halt and Catch Fire OST Promo 7/10
Tangerine Dream - Quantum Gate/Quantum Key 8.5/10
Tangerine Dream - Destination Berlin OST 6.5/10
Besarin Quartet - III 8/10
Suzanne Ciani - Fish Music 7-inch
Suzanne Ciani - Liberator 7-inch
Kenny Graham - The Small World Of Sammy Lee OST
Tangerine Dream - Zeit UK RSD2018 release
Tangerine Dream - Electronic Meditation RSD release
Tangerine Dream - Run to Vegas/ Leviathan 12"
Hoshiko Yamane - Threads
Steve Hauschidt - Strands
Steve Hauschidt - Where All Is Fled
Steve Hauschidt - TradegyAnd Geometry
Steve Hauschidt - Sequitur
Steve Hauschidt - S/H
Arp - Zebra
Red Garland - Soul Junction
Rauelsson - Mirall (download) 8/10
C.R. Gillespie - Seance Works 8/10
Claudia Brucken & Jerome Froese - Beginn 5/10 (Download)
Mark Peters - Ambient Innerland
Popol Vuh - Fitzcarraldo OST
Popol Vuh - Nosferatu OST
Engineers - In Praise Of More
Engineers - Three Fact Fader
Cape Fear OST
S.A.R & Ulrich Schnauss - Hypnotic Gestures/ Sailing through
Tom Rogerson with Brian Eno - Finding Shore
Engineers - s/t 7.5/10
Anne Dudley - Plays The Art Of Noise
The Butterfly Wheel - Wisdom's Waters 7.5/10
Martin Lizotte - Ubiquite 8/10
Steve Reich - Six Pianos
Steve Reich - Sextet/ Six Marimbas
Steve Reich - Different Trains
Jelly Cleaver - Cure For An Existential Crisis 7/10
Kettel - Whisper Me Wishes
Milt Jackson & John Coltrane - Bags & Trane
Dave Brubeck - Take Five Portrait of a Legend (x 16 albums)
A Lily - Ten Drones On Cassette
The Fires Of Ork 1 & 2
Immersion - Sleepless 7.5/10
Clara Mondshine - Memorymetropolis
Clara Mondshine - Luna Africana
The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Time Further Out
Tangerine Dream - Miracle Mile LP RSD2018 release
Tangerine Dream - Miracle Mile CD
John Williams - Raiders Of The Lost Ark OST
Cannonball Adderly & Joe Zawinul - Complete Studio recordings 1961-1962
Moebius Story Leidecker - Familiar
Richard Barbieri - Planets & Persona 7/10
Mark Peters - Innerland 8.5/10