The Colditz Story, Firefox and the rest, on the other hand… Every month. If I really like a film, I may watch it a second time when it is next on, perhaps a few months down the line. If I like a film, I will of course watch to the end. It’s that opportunity-cost thing again - what could I be doing instead of sitting here watching this film? The ‘Delete’ button is always to hand. I have to be in the mood: watching a film takes time (obviously), concentration and sometimes a real effort of will. I don’t do streaming at all.įilms are not part of my comfort zone in the way that books and music are.
The few DVDs I own are mainly music-related, plus a handful of TV boxsets ( The West Wing, House, Kung Fu) and the odd comedy. I rarely go to the cinema (the last films I saw on the big screen were Bohemian Rhapsody and Stan and Ollie but, before that, nothing for years) and I hardly ever buy films to keep. I record on average perhaps four films a month from various TV channels and tend to watch them in irregular bursts - none for weeks at a time and then perhaps three in as many days.
To contextualise that remark a little: whatever the definition of a film buff is, it doesn’t describe me. And secondly, they all end if not happily then at least on an upbeat or uplifting note.Īnother connection is that I can watch these films again and again and again. Well, for one thing, the ‘heroes’ strike me as genuinely heroic: noble, honourable, sincere, generous and kind-hearted - all qualities I greatly admire. What do the following films all have in common? Firefox, starring Clint Eastwood (and his later Absolute Power, come to think of it) The Colditz Story, the 1950s POW film with John Mills Sidney Poitier’s To Sir with Love Shane - and The Return of Shane, otherwise known as Pale Rider The Untouchables, the ‘80s version with Kevin Costner and Sean Connery the big-screen version of Porridge and all those old Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce Sherlock Holmes films?
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