What Films did You Watch Last Week (21/01 - 27/01) CLOSED

The Favourite - see below!  I actually really admired the offbeat camerawork, although it took a while to get used to it.

I actually just started watching season 1 of Broadchurch for the first time this week.  Completely hooked.

Mine:

Boy Erased (2018) - 5/10. Didn't care for this as much as I hoped, perhaps due to some clumsy direction. Lucas Hedges is excellent and Russell Crowe is developing into a solid (and stocky) character actor - a scene between the two at the end is by far the best in the film.

Night Moves (1975) - 6/10. Solid scuzzy seventies thriller with superb Gene Hackman.

After the Wedding (2006) - 5/10. Very well acted, always watchable but it's essentially a soap opera complete with plenty of melodramatic plot twists.

Golden Boy (1939) - 5/10. Before William Holden became one of the most charismatic and versatile actors of his era, he made this boxing drama with ever excellent Barbara Stanwyck. Watchable but the script lacks wit and the splendid Adolphe Menjou is underused.

Black Girl (1966) - 7/10. Brief, powerful feature by Senegalese director Ousmane Sembène, who's Moolaadé I saw and loved the previous week.

Road House (1948) - 7/10. Intense, memorable thriller with Widmark, Lupino, Cornel Wilde and Celeste Holm all excellent.

Private Life (2018) - 5/10. Okay drama about a middle aged couple planning assisted reproduction with a young relative.

Street of Shame (1956) - 7/10. Kenzi Mizoguchi's last film is a touching drama about five desperate women working in a brothel in post-War Tokyo.

Best Film: Street of Shame
Best Director: Kenzi Mizoguchi, Street of Shame
Best Actress: Olivia Colman, Emma Stone & Rachel Weisz, The Favourite
Best Actor: Gene Hackman, Night Moves
Best Supporting Actress: Ayako Wakao, Street of Shame
Best Supporting Actor: Russell Crowe, Boy Erased