From July 2021 to February 2022
In bold: films/ plays that I think are good
1/ Poirot: Third Girl (2008)
2/ A Star Is Born (1954)
3/ Poirot: Appointment with Death (2009)
4/ Poirot: The Clocks (2009)
5/ Poirot: Three Act Tragedy (2010)
6/ 秋刀魚の味 (An Autumn Afternoon- Japan- 1962)
7/ Poirot: Hallowe'en Party (2010)
8/ Poirot: Murder on the Orient Express (2010)
9/ お早よう (Good Morning- Japan- 1959)
10/ Leigh-Anne: Race, Pop & Power (2021)
11/ We Are Lady Parts (2021)- 6 episodes
12/ Poirot: Elephants Can Remember (2013)
13/ Europa (Italy- 2021)
14/ Mandibules (Mandibles- France, Belgium- 2020)
15/ The Road Dance (2021)
16/ قصیده گاو سفید (Ballad of a White Cow- Iran, France- 2020)
17/ Black Books (2000-2004)- 18 episodes
18/ Howl (2015)
19/ Poirot: The Big Four (2013)
20/ Poirot: Dead Man's Folly (2013)
21/ Poirot: The Labours of Hercules (2013)
22/ Poirot: Curtain: Poirot's Last Case (2013)
23/ The Winter's Tale (BBC 1981)
24/ The Cleaner (2021)- 6 episodes
25/ The Tempest (RSC 2016, ft. Simon Russell Beale)
26/ Gosford Park (2001)
27/ Ocean's Eleven (2001)- again?
28/ Ocean's Twelve (2004)- again
29/ Ocean's Thirteen (2007)- again
30/ Police Squad! (1982)- 6 episodes
31/ King Lear (2006, ft. Don Warrington)- twice
32/ Sherlock Holmes: The Hound Of The Baskervilles (1988)
33/ The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: A Scandal in Bohemia (1984)
34/ The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Dancing Men (1984)
35/ The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Naval Treaty (1984)
36/ The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Solitary Cyclist (1984)
37/ The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Crooked Man (1984)
38/ The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Speckled Band (1984)
39/ The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Blue Carbuncle (1984)
40/ The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Copper Beeches (1985)
41/ The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Greek Interpreter (1985)
42/ The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Norwood Builder (1985)
43/ The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Resident Patient (1985) x
44/ The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Red-Headed League (1985)
45/ The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Final Problem (1985)
46/ Hunting the Essex Lorry Killers (2021)
47/ The Return of Sherlock Holmes: The Empty House (1986)
48/ The Return of Sherlock Holmes: The Priory School (1986)
49/ The Return of Sherlock Holmes: The Second Stain (1986)
50/ This is England '86 (2010)- 4 episodes
51/ The Return of Sherlock Holmes: The Musgrave Ritual (1986)
52/ The Return of Sherlock Holmes: The Abbey Grange (1986)
53/ This Is England '88 (2011)- 3 episodes
54/ This Is England '90 (2015)- 4 episodes
55/ The Return of Sherlock Holmes: The Man with the Twisted Lip (1986)
56/ The Return of Sherlock Holmes: The Six Napoleons (1986)
57/ The Return of Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Foot (1988)
58/ The Return of Sherlock Holmes: The Sign of Four (1987)
59/ The Return of Sherlock Holmes: Silver Blaze (1988)
60/ The Return of Sherlock Holmes: Wisteria Lodge (1988)
61/ The Return of Sherlock Holmes: The Bruce-Partington Plans (1988)
62/ The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes: The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax (1991)
63/ The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes: The Problem of Thor Bridge (1991)
64/ The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes: Shoscombe Old Place (1991)
65/ The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes: The Boscombe Valley Mystery (1991)
66/ The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes: The Illustrious Client (1991)
67/ The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes: The Creeping Man (1991)
68/ The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes: The Three Gables (1994)
69/ The Third Alibi (1961)
70/ The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes: The Dying Detective (1994)
71/ The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes: The Golden Pince-Nez (1994)
72/ The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes: The Red Circle (1994)
73/ The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes: The Mazarin Stone (1994)
74/ Unreported World: The Toxic Cost of Going Green (2021)
75/ The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes: The Cardboard Box (1994)
76/ Panorama: The Electric Car Revolution: Winners & Losers (2021)
77/ The Merchant of Venice (1973, ft. Laurence Olivier)
78/ The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes: The Master Blackmailer (1992)
79/ The Signal-Man (1976)
80/ 독전 (Believer- South Korea- 2018)
81/ British, Jewish: Is Anti-Semitism on the Rise? (2021)
82/ Munich (2005)
83/ Dispatches: Vaccine Wars: Truth About Pfizer (2021)
84/ 하녀 (The Housemaid- South Korea- 2010)
85/ Jumanji: The Next Level (2019)
86/ Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
87/ The Mezzotint (2021)
88/ Kong: Skull Island (2017)
89/ Matilda (1996)
90/ Twelfth Night (1988- Kenneth Branagh)- again
91/ The Merry Wives of Windsor (1982 BBC)
92/ Stacey Dooley: Stalkers (2022)- 2 episodes
93/ Sold: Sex Slaves Next Door (2022)
94/ Squid Game (2021)- season 1, 9 episodes
95/ After Life (2022)- season 3, 6 episodes
96/ The Draughtsman's Contract (1982)
97/ Vợ ba (The Third Wife- Vietnam- 2018)
98/ Twelfth Night (1996)
99/ The Tinder Swindler (2022)
100/ Room at the Top (1959)
I'm pleased by the juxtaposition of King Lear and the divine Police Squad. When you commented recently about the often unacknowledged darkness in Shakespeare's comedies, I silently agreed with the addition that with the slightest of tweaks, the tragedies would become comedies. It has always been my secret wish to see a production of Lear where (with no textual changes) the whole thing was played as a farce. It would require, as the Fat Man said to Sam Spade, "nice judgment and many resources" but I think it could be done.
ReplyDeleteThe best thing on your list, I think, is Meet Me in St. Louis. Tootie is a bit of an icon around my house.
Hahaha.
DeleteI have to think about King Lear as a farce.
Tootie is fabulous.
I think the best film on my list (just film, not counting the plays) is A Star Is Born. Followed by Room at the Top. Meet Me in St Louis is definitely charming though.