williamfaeleith

Favorite films

  • The World According to Garp
  • Mrs. Doubtfire
  • One Hour Photo
  • World's Greatest Dad

All
  • Jobe'z World

  • Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger

    ★★★★

  • Another Country

    ★★★½

  • Queer

    ★★★★

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Jobe'z World

2018

Watched

Didn't like this at all.

Watched on Tubi.

Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger

2024

★★★★ Liked Watched

Martin Scorsese discusses the films of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, his love for them and the massive influence they had on him as a filmmaker.
It's beautifully done and makes excellent use of clips from the films, but the most interesting thing for me was the insight into the 16 year friendship he had with Michael Powell after they met long after Powell's star had faded.

Watched on BBC iPlayer.

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Nest

2022

★★★★ Liked Watched

Now this is what to do with lockdown if you're a filmmaker. Icelandic director Hlynur Pálmason, who made the excellent 'A White, White Day', creates an imaginative and evocative short with a fixed camera pointed at a telegraph pole that is transformed over a year into a treehouse built mainly by and for his three children. We see the changing of the seasons from the harsh, brutal, Icelandic winter to the slightly less harsh spring, summer and autumn, as the…

The Beatles: Get Back

2021

★★★★★ Liked 1

Part 1
So no whitewash here. Peter Jackson just lets us see exactly what happened. This is The Beatles' winter of discontent in the cold, cavernous, poorly acoustic Twickenham Studios. The songs are barely more than rough demos, everyone's niggly and grumpy, only Paul seems to have any enthusiasm for the project and even he's moaning about getting no . But there are still snippets of joy and camaraderie and the genesis of some fantastic songs.
Don't know what it's…