The little white attic

I’m reading Sidney Lumet’s Making Movies , which I think is a very good and enjoyable book, especially for aspiring film directors.  Look a...

This is my list of favourite underrated films.  To explain, I don’t mention films such as Cries and Whispers —generally speaking, most peop...

I’m still reading the Masters of Cinema series of Cahiers du Cinema.  Bill Krohn’s book about Stanley Kubrick isn’t particularly good. The...

Anyone who knows about Orson Welles’s career knows that The Magnificent Ambersons is widely hailed as another masterpiece, “culturally, aest...

For the 1950s:  http://thelittlewhiteattic.blogspot.com/2017/08/my-favourite-films-from-1950s.html The Bad Sleep Well (1960) by Akira Kuro...

Following the previous post, here’s a list of my 3 favourite films of some directors. I also note how many of the directors’ films I’ve watc...

Some of these are not great, some of these I can’t stand, but these are the most inventive/ unusual/ unconventional films I’ve ever seen—fil...

(Note that this is a list of favourites, so some great films may be absent, such as Rashomon or Tokyo Story ).  (A photo of Fellini and B...

My choice.  Why? Because I love lists.  - The 40s: The Great Dictator (1940) Casablanca (1942) Gaslight (1944) Brief Encounter (19...

(originally posted on 17/10/2014).  Such a list only shows how little I've watched (very often, an excellent film is not mentioned here...

We all have certain genres, certain kinds of films or books that aren't really our thing, don't we? Not that they're generally b...

Currently reading "Notes from underground" by Dostoyevsky, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. 1/ The 1st lin...