Films watched in 2020
Downloads
& streaming:
The Keepers - season 1 (Netflix documentary series) 9/10
Tell Me Who I Am (Netflix) 9/10
The Staircase (Netflix documentary series) 8.5/10
Don't F**k With Cats (Netflix documentary series) 8.5/10
Tiger King (Netflix documentary series) 8.5/10
Finding Vivian Maier (Amazon) 8.5/10
Three Identical Strangers (Netflix) 8.5/10
Flint Town (Netflix documentary series) 8.5/10
Killer Inside: The Mind of Aaron Hernandez (Netflix) 8.5/10
Better Call Saul - Season One (Netflix) 8.5/10
Better Call Saul - Season Two (Netflix) 8.5/10
Better Call Saul - Season Three (Netflix) 8.5/10
Better Call Saul - Season Four (Netflix) 8.5/10
Better Call Saul - Season Five (Netflix) 8.5/10
Breaking Bad - Season One (Netflix) 8.5/10
Breaking Bad - Season Two (Netflix) 8.5/10
Breaking Bad - Season Three (Netflix) 8.5/10
Breaking Bad - Season Four (Netflix) 8.5/10
Breaking Bad - Season Five (Netflix) 8.5/10
The Salt of the Earth - Wim Wenders (Mubi) 8.5/10
King Rat - Bryan Forbes (Amazon) 8.5/10
Wild Wild Country (Netflix documentary series) 8.5/10
Sunset Boulevard - Billy Wilder (Amazon) 8.5/10
Stories We Tell (Mubi) 8.5/10
Icarus (Netflix) 8.5/10
Diego Maradona (Amazon rental) 8/10
Dirty Dancing (Amazon) 8/10
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (Netflix) 8/10
Nurse Jackie – season four (Amazon) 8/10
Nurse Jackie – season five (Amazon) 8/10
Nurse Jackie – season six (Amazon) 8/10
Nurse Jackie – season seven (Amazon) 8.5/10
Fahrenheit 11/9 (Netflix) 8/10
American Murder The Family Next Door (Netflix) 8/10
Voyeur (Netflix) 8/10
November 13: Attack on Paris
(Netflix) 8/10
Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Mubi) 8/10
Five Easy Pieces (Amazon) 8/10
The Untouchables (Amazon) 8/10
Bacurau (Mubi) 8/10
Grey Gardens 2009 (Amazon) 8.0/10
A Streetcar Named Desire - Elia Kazan (Amazon rental) 8/10
Les Dames
Du Boise De Boulogne - Robert Bresson (Amazon rental) 8/10
Gloria - John Cassavetes (Amazon) 8/10
Man with a Movie Camera - 1929 (Amazon) 8/10
The Last Detail (Amazon) 8/10
The Friends Of Eddie Coyle (Amazon) 8/10
The Kiosk (Mubi) 8/10
Michael Palin: Travels Of A Lifetime series (BBC I-player) 8/10
The Apartment (Amazon) 8/10
Lemmy (Netflix) 8/10
Bikram – Yogi – Guru – Predator (Netflix) 8/10
The Human Condition Part 1: No Greater Love (Amazon) 8/10
I Vitelloni - Fellini (Mubi) 8/10
The Sunshine Hotel (Amazon) 8/10
Struggle: The Life and Lost Art of Szukalski (Netflix) 8/10
After Life - series 2 (Netflix) 8/10
Long Weekend (Amazon) 8/10
The Big Clock (Amazon rental) 8/10
Strangers on a Train – Hitchcock (Amazon rental) 8/10
The Big Sleep (Amazon rental) 8/10
The Big Heat (Amazon) 8/10
Under The
Volcano (Amazon)
8/10
Olla - short (Mubi) 8/10
Meshes of the Afternoon - short (Mubi) 8/10
Trust - Hal Hartley (Amazon rental) 8/10
This Country series two (BBC I-player) 8/10
Black Books series two x 2 (Netflix) 8/10
Black Books series three (Netflix) 8/10
Black Books series one x 2 (Netflix) 7.5/10
This Country series three (BBC I-player) 7.5/10
The Wayward Girl (Edith Calmar) (Mubi) 7.5/10
The Pharmacist (Netflix) 7.5/10
The Social Dilemma (Netflix) 7.5/10
The Booksellers (Amazon) 7.5/10
The Collector – Turkish documentary (Mubi) 7.5/10
The Stranger (Netflix) 7.5/10
Da 5 Bloods (Netflix) Spike Lee 7.5/10
Selma (Mubi) 7.5/10
The Innocent Man (Netflix) 7.5/10
The Hitch-Hiker 1953 (Mubi) 7.5/10
Moonrise Kingdom (Amazon rental) 7.5/10
Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich (Netflix) 7.5/10
Pharos of Chaos (Mubi) 7.5/10
Spring Night, Summer Night (Mubi) 7.5/10
Uncut Gems (Netflix) 7.5/10
La Bete Humaine - Renoir (Mubi) 7.5/10
Our Town 1956 (Mubi) 7.5/10
This Country series one (BBC I-player) 7.5/10
Fear City: New York Vs The Mafia
(Netflix) 7.5/10
Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened (Netflix documentary)
7.5/10
The Two Killings of Sam Cooke (Netflix documentary) 7.5/10
Trump: An American Dream (Netflix documentary) 7.5/10
Jim & Andy (Netflix documentary) 7.5/10
The Limits Of Control - Jim
Jarmusch (Amazon Prime) 7.5/10
Four Horsemen (YouTube) 7.5/10
Get Me Roger Stone (Netflix) 7.5/10
Mank (Netflix) David Fincher 7/10
El Camino (Netflix) 7/10
Wits in Felixstowe (Amazon Prime) 7/10
John Was Trying To Contact Aliens (Netflix short documentary) 7/10
Panic in the Streets (Amazon) 7/10
Second City Firsts: Early to Bed – Alan Bleasdale (Amazon) 7/10
Henry Fool - Hal Hartley (Amazon) 7/10
Amateur - Hal Hartley (Amazon) 7/10
Our Man in Havana (Amazon) 7/10
At the Mouth of Madness (Amazon) 7/10
The Dead Don't Die (Amazon) 7/10
Coffee and Cigarettes (Mubi) 7/10
The Great Hack (Netflix) 7/10
Beat the Devil (Amazon) 7/10
De Palma (Mubi) 7/10
The Limey (Amazon) 6/10
Woman in Chains (Mubi) 6/10
Alphaville (Mubi) 6/10
Eva (Mubi) 6/10
Vivarium (Amazon rental) 6/10
Color Out of Space 5.5/10
Blu Ray:
Bait (Mark Jenkin) 9/10
The Shop on the High Street (Ján
Kadár, Elmar Klos) 9/10
Nights of Cabiria (Federico Fellini) 9/10
Joker (Todd Phillips) 9/10
Don't Look Now (Nicolas Roeg) 9/10
The French Connection (William Friedkin) – original colour timing version 9/10
Touch of Evil (Orson Welles) – 1998 restoration (1.85:1 version) 9/10
Das Boot – original 6-part series (Wolfgang Petersen) 8.5/10
The World at War – original series (Lawrence Oliver narrated episodes only) 8.5/10
Séance On
A Wet Afternoon (Bryan Forbes) 8.5/10
The Cremator (Juraj Herz) 8.5/10
The Ear (Ucho) Karel Kachyna 8.5/10
Fargo - Season One 8.5/10
Road (Alan Clarke) 8.5/10
My Life As A Dog (Lasse Hallström) 8.5/10
The Lighthouse (Robert Eggers) 8.5/10
Parasite (Bong Joon Ho) 8.5/10
Onibaba (Kaneto Shindô) 8.5/10
The Cranes are Flying (Mikhail
Kalatozov) 8.5/10
The Man Who Laughs 8.5/10
Wake in Fright (Ted Kotcheff) 8.5/10
Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich) 8.5/10
On Dangerous Ground (Nicholas Ray) 8.5/10
Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander Mackendrick) 8.5/10
Apollo 11 8.5/10
Odd Man Out (Carol Reed) 8.5/10
Three Outlaw Samurai (Hideo Gosha) 8.5/10
The Sword of Doom (Kihachi Okamoto) 8.5/10
Grey Gardens (1975) 8.5/10
Mouchette (Robert Bresson) 8.5/10
Nurse Jackie – season one 8.5/10
Nurse Jackie – season two 8.5/10
Nurse Jackie – season three 8.5/10
Fail Safe (Sidney Lumet) 8.5/10
Ace in the Hole (Billy Wilder) 8.5/10
Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry) 8.5/10
Being John Malcovich (Spike Jonze) 8/10
Closely Observed Trains (Jirí Menzel) 8/10
Lord of the Flies 8/10
Girlfriends (Claudia Weill) 8/10
The Killers (Robert Siodmak) 8/10
My Ain Folk (Bill Douglas) 8/10
My Childhood (Bill Douglas) 8/10
My Way Home (Bill Douglas) 8/10
Bunny Lake is Missing (Otto Preminger) 8/10
The Painted Bird 8/10
Still Walking (Hirokazu Koreeda) 8/10
Smithereens (Susan Seidelman) 8/10
Le Bonheur (Agnes Varda) 8/10
Jabberwocky (Terry Gilliam) 8/10
12 Monkeys (Terry Gilliam) 8/10
Jacob’s Ladder 8/10
The Snake Bit (Anatole Litvak) 8/10
Il Grido (Michelangelo Antonioni) 8/10
Under The Tree (Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson) 8/10
Sanjuro (Akira Kurosawa) 8/10
The
Burmese Harp (Kon
Ichikawa) 8/10
Angel Heart (Alan Parker) 8/10
The
Manchurian Candidate (John
Frankenheimer) 8/10
A Face in the Crowd (Elia Kazan) 8/10
The Hallelujah Handshake 8/10
F For Fake (Orson Welles) 8/10
Le Quai Des Brumes (Marcel
Carné) 8/10
Distant Journey (Alfréd Radok) 8/10
Night Tide (Curtis Harrington) 8/10
Nightfall (Jacques Tourneur) 8/10
The Firm (Alan Clarke) 8/10
A Follower for Emily (Alan Clarke) 8/10
The Quiet Earth 8/10
Monos 8/10
Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder) 8/10
They Live By Night (Nicholas
Ray) 8/10
This Gun For Hire (Frank Tuttle) 8/10
Ministry of Fear (Fritz Lang) 8/10
ItalianAmerican (Martin Scorsese documentary) 8/10
Hotel Du Nord (Marcel Carné) 8/10
The Music Room (Satyajit Ray) 8/10
Rebel Without A Cause (Nicholas Ray) 7.5/10
Tetro (Francis Ford Coppola) 7.5.10
Rogue Male 7.5/10
Pickup On South Street (Samuel Fuller) 7.5/10
Criss Cross (Robert Siodmak) 7.5/10
Laura (Otto Preminger) 7/10
Gun Crazy (Joseph H. Lewis) 7.5/10
Gilda (Charles Vidor) 7.5/10
Mildred Pierce (Michael Curtiz) 7.5/10
Horace (Alan Clarke) 7.5/10
Funeral Parade of Roses 7.5/10
Human Desire (Fritz Lang) 7.5/10
The Lady of Shanghai (Orson Welles) 7.5/10
The Reckless Moment (Max Ophüls) 7.5/10
The Woman in the Window 7.5/10
The Man Who Knew Too Much - (Alfred Hitchcock 1956 version) 7.5/10
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith 7.5/10
The Last Movie (Dennis Hopper) 7.5/10
Psy Warriors (Alan Clarke) 7.5/10
To Live And Die in LA (William
Friedkin) 7.5/10
In a Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray) 7.5/10
The Big Combo 7.5/10
Detour (Edgar G. Ulmer) 7.5/10
Der müde Tod (Destiny) 7.5/10
Shock Corridor (Sam Fuller) 7.5/10
The Killing (Stanley Kubrick) 7.5/10
The Old Dark House (James Whale) 7/10
Dementia 7/10
Under the Age (Alan Clarke) 7/10
And You Act Like One Too – short (Susan Seidelman) 7/10
American Boy (Martin Scorsese) 7/10
Finally, Sunday (François Truffaut) 7/10
Les 3 Boutons (Agnes Varda) 7/10
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (Paul Newman) 7/10
That Cold Day in the Park 7/10
Silence and Cry (Miklós Jancsó) 7/10
The Beales of Grey Gardens 7/10
The Killers (Don Siegel) 6.5/10
The Strange World Of Gurney Slade 6.5/10
Antoine and Collette (Truffaut) 6.5/10
Why Don't You Just Die 6.5/10
Elephant (Alan Clarke) 6.5/10
Eating Raoul 6.5/10
Christine (Alan Clarke) 6/10
The Naked Kiss (Sam Fuller)
6/10
New World (Hoon-jung Park) 6/10
DVD:
The Singing Detective (Dennis
Potter) 10/10
GBH (Alan Bleasdale) 10/10
Boys from the Blackstuff (Alan Bleasdale) 10/10
Connections (James Burke) 9/10
The Kingdom (Lars Von Trier) 8.5/10
Jake's Progress (Alan Bleasdale) 8.5/10
All or Nothing (Mike Leigh) 8.5/10
Robin Redbreast 8/10
Le Signe du Lion (the Sign of Leo) Eric Rohmer 8/10
Something Different (Vera
Chytilová) 8/10
The Sun In A Net (Štefan Uher) 8/10
Abigail's Party (Mike Leigh) 8/10
The Party And The Guests (Jan
Němec) 8/10
Transport from Paradise (Zbyněk
Brynych) 8/10
Meantime (Mike Leigh) 7.5/10
Four Days in July (Mike Leigh) 7.5/10
"Nuts in May" (Mike Leigh) 7.5/10
Divorce Italian Style 7.5/10
Mama Roma (Pier Paolo Pasolini) 7.5/10
Home Sweet Home (Mike Leigh) 7.5/10
A Tale of Springtime (Eric Rohmer) 7.5/10
The Big Flame (Ken Loach) 7.5/10
Thriller – Lady Killer 7.5/10
Romeo, Juliet and Darkness (Jiří Weiss) 7.5/10
The Kiss of Death (Mike Leigh) 7/10
La Boulangere de Monceau (Eric Rohmer) 7/10
A Summer's Tale (Eric Rohmer) 7/10
Hard Labour (Mike Leigh) 7/10
In Two Minds (Ken Loach) 7/10
The End of Arthur's Marriage (Ken Loach) 7/10
A Bagful Of Fleas (Věra
Chytilová) 7/10
Grown Ups (Mike Leigh) 7/10
Come Dancing (Bill Douglas) 7/10
3 Clear Sundays (Ken Loach) 7/10
The Permissive Society (Mike Leigh) 6.5/10
Who's Who (Mike Leigh) 6.0/10
