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Descriptions are based on those in the Radio Times guide to films. The third column gives the language spoken in the film, with an asterisk indicating that it did not have English subtitles.

The number in black is the number of stars assigned by the Radio Times guide; the number in red is one greater than the number of T’s assigned by the Télérama Guide du cinéma chez soi (2004). Where a film is not reviewed in one of my other guides I instead give in blue a rating from the Guide DVD 2008. Unfortunately this awards scores in the range from 1-7 in reverse order, so I convert the scores as follows: {7,6}→1; {5,4}→2; 3→3; 2→4; 1→5.

DVDs are those we have watched at home (owned or borrowed) since buying a DVD player in Jan 2007. Criticisms (and marks out of 10) on this page are by Colin. There are links to additional comments by both of us. Roughly speaking:

• 1–3   are unpleasant;
• 4 & 5 mean that your time could have been better spent;
• 6 & 7 mean that your time was spent pleasantly; and
• 8–10 are positively rewarding.

I sometimes don’t comment on films in French because of my imperfect understanding of them, and I didn’t watch La dolce vita.

The date in the last column is the month of viewing.

Good films we’ve seen at the cinema include Diva, the Scent of green papaya, the Ian MacKellan Richard III, the Remains of the day, the Lives of others (all 9), and the Kenneth Branagh Love’s labour’s lost (8). Bad films include 8½ (4), Babel (4), and Breaking the waves (3).

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