The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

Extended cut re-released in cinemas...

In A Lonely Place

Nicholas Ray's GREAT, GREAT film with Humphrey Bogart as a screenwriter who is suspected by his new lover of killing a girl found murdered after visiting him. Her suspicions grow and their relationship becomes more and more fraught...

Quite possibly the best film I've seen this year so far. The Class down to second, Rachel Getting Married down to 3.

Three Monkeys

The Soft Skin (La Peau Douce)

Someone on Amazon said that this Truffaut film has aged better than others. I'm not entirely sure that's true.

I found this rather dull to be honest. The lead man is irritatingly infantile, and has a smarmy way about him that made me take agin him. He is a man who at not being able to find a newspaper he's left lying around his house, leaves his wife looking for it while he drives off to his lover.

Compared to the Antoine Doinel films that we've been watching recently, which are so light yet subtly dark, and so evocative and charismatic, this was humdrum and curiously un-full of desire, both on the part of director and actors.

The Class (Entre Les Murs)

Rachel Getting Married has been fallen one place in Films-Of-The-Year-So-Far. This is a new entry, it's The Class by Laurent Cantet.

This trailer's in French, but it's so much better than the Anglo ones. And you don't really need to know French to see what this film's like.

Love on the Run (L'amour en fuite)

Lake Tahoe