Tom Charity

Favorite films

  • Children of Paradise
  • Tin Cup
  • The Young Girls of Rochefort
  • Hatari!

All
  • One to One: John & Yoko

    ★★★½

  • The Shrouds

    ★★★½

  • The Friend

  • Paying for It

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The Shrouds

2024

★★★½ Watched

It's the late date movie we need right now. And funny too. Cronenbergian.

Brief Encounter

1945

★★★★ Watched

Stands up better than a lot of Lean's later work, seems to me. The ending's a bit of a chore, but the opening sequence is brilliantly conceived and edited.

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The Ballad of Cable Hogue

1970

★★★½ Rewatched

Peckinpah's comic western is (with Junior Bonner) his most relaxed and forgiving film. It's irreverent, bawdy even, dabbles in split screen early on, throws in some speeded up hijinks for cheap laughs, and the sequence that introduces Stella Stevens as prostitute Hildy zooms in -- repeatedly -- on her ample bosom for comic effect. In tone it's not so far from one of the mediterranean westerns, My Name Is Nobody for instance -- and the presence of Jason Robards in…

Nickel Boys

2024

★★★★★ 1

The most radical big budget film of the year and the best, I think.