Hamlet [1948]
Olivier does Shakespeare. Good camera-work for the 40's.

Spirited Away [Disc 1 - Movie] [2003]
Beautiful, imaginative and downright weird. Cartoon that is actually ok for adults.

Return To Oz [1985]
Looks like an 80's Lloyd Webber musical, like Starlight Express. But without the music. Kid's film.

Paris, Texas [1984]
Wim Wenders stretches this out to good effect with Harry Dean Stanton searching for Nastassja Kinski in a bleak Texas.

Yojimbo [VFB 33381] [1961]
Kurosawa's samurai flick plays slower than the western remake. More emoting, but less action. Heresy, I know, but I think A Fistful of Dollars is the better movie. Never seen Last Man Standing.

Monkey Business [1952]
On this Monroe collection, actually a Cary Grant and Ginger Rogers screwball comedy about a scientist who discovers an 'elixir of youth' with consequences a la Jerry Lewis' 1961 remake, The Nutty Professor. Monroe thankfully only plays a minor part as a seductive secretary.

Chinatown [1974]
Jack Nicholson plays a gumshoe in this Polanski directed classic with Faye Dunaway playing the femme fatale. Slow starter, but well worth sticking with.

Orlando [1992]
Tilda Swinton plays the eponymous immortal in this adaptation of the Virginia Woolf's exploration of sexuality and literary convention.

The Truth About Cats And Dogs [1996]
Fairly predictable chick flick version of Cyrano de Bergerac. The moral is that beauty is found on the inside. The 'ugly' chick played by Janeane Garofalo needs to be uglier to really get the point across.

The Big Sleep [1977]
Robert Mitchum plays Raymond Chandler's shamus, Philip Marlowe. But this is not enough to save a classic story completely ruined by Michael Winner's direction. Sara Miles is dreadful too as the femme fatale. See Dick Richard's 1975 Farewell My Lovely to witness how fantastic a Mitchum-as-Marlowe flick can be.

The Long Goodbye [1973]
This time Elliot Gould plays Marlowe, directed by Robert Altman. Set in the funky 70's. Played with absolutely first class cool and dark humour.

Jean De Florette [1986]
Excellent if ponderous story of betrayal in rural 20's France.

Kingdom of Heaven [2005]
Ridley Scott gives the Hollywood treatment to the Crusades. Orlando Bloom single handedly saves the Christians from the Arabs. There are goodies and baddies on both sides and some of the acting (especially on the Arab side) is excellent but apart from that this is a ham-fisted 'epic'.

The Boondock Saints [1999]
Hmm. Vigilantes on a holy mission or a pair of hoodlums that enjoy a murder spree? Sympathy is played towards the former but the film seems deliberately designed to foster debate. Worthwhile anyway.

Manon Des Sources [Jean De Florette Part 2] [1986]
This film is really necessary to complete Jean de Florette. Like the kill Bill films, these were made as a pair and make more sense when viewed as such, although both stand up in their own right. MDS unfolds slowly too but uncomfortable closure is gained at the end.

Spaced: Series 1 [VFC18749]
TV series where flatmates Simon Pegg and  Jessica Stevenson of Shaun of the Dead do daft stuff. Much slower and less funny than SotD. But good that TV like this can be made.