Films - September, October and November.

The autumn is usually the best time for cinema but for once I don't think it's quite matched up to the spring. That said Pride was the most easily enjoyable film of the year whilst Ida might be the best. I usually hate Mike Leigh films - his caricatures and his patronizing way with working class characters get in the way of any enjoyment. Mr Turner still suffered from these faults but less so and there is much that is good in it. Some thought A Most Wanted Man slow and pedestrian but it had me hooked from the first moment. '71 was one of the nicest surprises of the year.
   I missed Locke and Joe at the cinema yet both are fantastic. Tom Hardy and Nicholas Cage pull off two of the best performances of the year.

At the cinema:

 

• Pride

• A Most Wanted Man
• '71

• Gone Girl
• Nightcrawler
• Say When
• Mr Turner
• Ida

• The Imitation Game
• Haider

• Interstellar
• Paddington

On DVD/Blu-ray:

 

• Plein Soleil (1960)
• Sophie's Choice (1982)
• Locke
• Joe

• Starred Up
• Mary Kom
• Miss Lovely

• Khoobsurat
• Gulabi Gang
• Tell No One (2006)