Downfall is, however, elevated by an incandescent performance from Bruno Ganz as the doomed tyrant. Their one-upmanship over an American heiress (Glenne Headly) makes for one of cinema's great comic rivalries.ĭownfall (Dir Oliver Hirschbiegel, 2004) Hirschbiegel plays it straight in his study of Hitler's last days. Awesome!ĭirty Rotten Scoundrels (Dir Frank Oz, 1988) Michael Caine and Steve Martin are rival con artists scamming wealthy marks on the French Riviera. Form echoes content as the picture allows character to develop independently of story (insofar as such a thing exists). Beat that, Austen.ĭazed and Confused (Dir Richard Linklater, 1993) The master of loose-limbed film-making, Linklater takes us back to Austin in 1975 to meet a lolloping set of stoners, movers and layabouts. Gave us Paul Rudd and the late Brittany Murphy. Alicia Silverstone was great as the archetypal valley girl – nosy but decent – in a film whose ripples are still spreading. He soon catches up with the killer, only to reignite an ancient family feud.Ĭlueless (Dir Amy Heckerling, 1995) Yes, we know it's an adaptation of Jane Austen's Emma.
A shuffling broken man who lives in his car, Dwight is stirred into action by news that the man who killed his parents is getting released from prison. Priceless.īlue Ruin (Dir Jeremy Saulnier, 2014) Macon Blair is a revelation as Dwight, the lost soul at the heart of Jeremy "Green Room" Saulnier's backwoods thriller. This may have been so, but, sparring at the 1968 US party conventions, they come across as two sides of the same patrician coin. Ferrarra's unabashedly torrid (and strangely Catholic) drama was remade by Werner Herzog in 2009, but remains an entirely singular picture.īest of Enemies (Dir Robert Gordon, Morgan Neville, 2015) In this indecently entertaining documentary, we find Christopher Hitchens explaining that Gore Vidal (left-wing libertine) and William F Buckley (right-wing scold) really did hate one another.
Are the various strange occurrences down to the boy's misbehaviour or a natty spectre spoken of in a children's book?īad Lieutenant (Dir Abel Ferrarra, 1992) The horrific rape of a nun might just be getting to Harvey Keitel's gambling, crack- smoking, sexual-assaulting, corrupt cop. This superb Australian shocker concerns a young mother coping indifferently with her troublesome young son. The Babadook (Dir Jennifer Kent, 2014) The best modern horror has always derived from everyday traumas. TBĪirplane! (Dir Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker, 1980) Surely, this still irresistible comedy must have the greatest hit-rate for classy one-liners in the history of the medium? That goes without saying and stop calling me "Shirley". This dramatic discovery threatens to blow their long marriage apart. In the days before the party, Geoff receives a letter: the body of his first love, Katya, has been found, encased in ice. Watch the blasted film.Ĥ5 Years (Dir Andrew Haigh, 2015) Kate (Charlotte Rampling) and Geoff (Tom Courtenay), are a retired couple preparing for their 45th anniversary party. We would ask for a few more from before 1960, but there are still plenty of classics to fill the yawning evenings.
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