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i'm new to your channel Neil and i really enjoyed that!

Hi Neil, Was just checking out this video to see if you have Kings of The Sun. It stars Yul Brynner, George Chakiris, and Shirley Anne Field. I watched it a couple nights ago and enjoyed it. Have you seen it? I think it was filmed in 1963. Hoping all is well with you!

Great video. Thanks for showing that zoom tool on the Rijksmuseum, I had no idea it existed, what an amazing insight. Regarding your opening question, it's a huge subject and hard to define. I know a lot of artists use a composition rule called 'the golden section' which relates to ratio (eg - the distances between objects) which perhaps explains the maths behind why some shots just 'work'. I hope I'm making sense there. But maths make it sound terribly dry. I guess sometimes certain shots/compositions have a certain evocative feel that's hard to explain, much like poetry. Barry Lyndon is a film I really love and watch often just to indulge in its splendour (I love the music too). I hadn't heard of the Rembrandt movies you mentioned but have since seen that Nightwatching is streaming on Amazon so I will check it out. I have only seen The Draughman's Contract once, on a pan and scan VHS, so I must revisit it in it's proper glory. . Another film I really enjoyed that similarly combines art and mystery is Schalcken the Painter made in 1979 (I think it was a BBC production) which is an adaptation of a Sheridan Le Fanu ghost story. Definitely check that out if you haven't seen it, I think you would enjoy it. All the best.

really enjoyed this video, hopefully you dont get too discouraged by the few views, Im afraid you're making content for intelligent adults and this is something youtube doesnt allow, next time shows us more ass, Neil (Im kidding, please don't). You should create a video of artists or painters movie biographies

Hi Neil, regards to your question, I think it would apply mainly to scenes of nature for me personally (preferably void of humans and signs of structures but that’s just my antisocial preference 🤣) I enjoyed the information on The Night Watch painting and the detail of the photo was incredible 😮 The Nightwatching by Peter Greenway sounds very intriguing, I’ve not heard of that film before 🧐 fascinating stuff mate, take care👍😃👍

Incredibly interesting video Neil! I've got to say I'm not trusting at all when a film says it's based on a true story ever since I read that Fargo is completely made up! But, I do love a film or story that is based off something real, and is so interesting that it compells you to research around the topic or person. I watched and loved Van Gogh from Maurice Pialat a year or two ago, and it blew me away and led me to read up all about him and his life. I was lucky enough to visit the Rijksmuseum last year, and it was an incredible place. I wish I could remember if I saw this painting or not, but it's certainly a place you could spend days in and not see everything. I'll definitely try to track down these 3 films, as they look very interesting indeed and right up my street. I just watched another Charles Laughton film a couple days ago and as I was looking through his filmography, I realised I've barely scratched the surface and there is so much more to explore from him. I also really enjoyed The Draughtsman's Contract which was a much darker and different tale than I was expecting, and I'm keen to see more from Peter Greenaway, and Nightwatching sounds brilliant. Again, a wonderful video Neil! Artists often seem to be be rich subjects for films to explore and quite often as is the case here, tragic stories.

Hi Neil, I know you said you enjoyed it for what it was but I’d like to say thank you for biting the bullet and watching it for us, sounds like a film I wouldn’t particularly enjoy 😬 Scott Caan went on to star in Hawaii Five-O as Danny and his acting alas is not on the same level as his fathers 🧐 cheers mate, take care👍😃👍

Great idea. I know that Stanley Kubrick had certain paintings in mind when he made the film Barry Lyndon and with the special lighting and lenses he used, many scenes do seem like paintings. That was amazing, the detail that you can get with the painting you used for the demonstration. I have not seen either of those Rembrandt films. We used to have a restaurant in Kansas City named Rembrandts after the artist. You stole my thunder at the end of your video about Kubrick's film. Will have to see the Greenaway films.

Hi Neil, Great video! Although I would love to see such an old piece of art, I wouldn't want it on my wall. I'd rather have beautiful nature scenes. But some interesting theories about it. Thanks for sharing your information, it is very interesting stuff!

Great stuff Neil. Loved the off on artistic tangent you presented us. Top marks 👍🏼

Hi Neil, Late watching video's again, I don't think i have watched that version of Dracula but i have heard good things about it. The company of wolves has a great cast in it, i tried watching it a few weeks back but couldn't get into it, Will give it another go but i think on the night i it just wasn't for me.

I'll give this one a miss then 😂

I seen one time when it came out. You sum it up well. That same year James Van der Beek was in Texas Rangers another over the top type western.

I have heard of it and funnily enough I went to watch it recently upon noticing that i'd never seen a Western made in the year 2001. It's a surprisingly weak year for Westerns. So I chose to watch American Outlaws only to discover that I didn't own it, just thought I did. But I did own a copy of The Meeksville Ghost from the same year so I watched that and......yeah.....can't exactly recommend that either. It's a 'supernatural' Western with Judge Reinhold as the ghost. It felt more like a children's tv episode aimed at 12 year olds but still, i enjoyed it for what it was, but only just..Your impression of American Outlaw sounds like it's in a similar ballpark regarding quality (sounds like a better film in fact) and I will definitely watch it one day. It sounds fun enough and historical accuracy is pretty much out of the window with most Westerns anyway - print the legend and all that! Happy trails.

It’s a fun movie to watch….Timothy Dalton plays a good bad guy in this 😎😎😎

Hi Neil, no,never heard of that one. Sounds terrible. I think I'd like it.

Yes its a new one on me neil

I don't remember American Outlaw. You would never think of a weak script since you had the great Catwoman writer. Or would you? Maybe they should have called it "Fast & Furious: American Outlaws. At least they had a good cinematographer.

Hi Neil, Are you sure it is not a comedy? I just can't picture Colin Farrell as Jesse James. Just joking about it being a comedy. It does sound like you enjoyed it, so it did what a movie should do, entertain you. I have never seen it, but would if I got a chance to. Glad you had fun watching this! Hope you have a great rest of your week!

Fences is great! Freddy is Jason is a guilty pleasure. I dig it. Nice pickups!

Hi Neil, I’m not sure it casting Colin Farrell as Jesse James is inspired of just foolish… please let us know, once you’ve watched it 🧐 blimey The Company Of Wolves take me back 🤔 I watched the stage version of War Of The Worlds on Tv a few months back and it looked incredible, I’m going to have to get tickets to the actual show one day. Color Out Of Space is so bizarre. I have Pink String And Sealing Wax (purely because it’s set in Brighton) but I’ve yet to see it 😬 nice BFI grabs Neil 🙌 fingers crossed for you on the postal strike, take care mate👍😃👍

Another amazing haul, Neil!!

Western Approaches is a great piece of British propaganda, just like Went the Day Well? Pat Jackson's decision to use real people instead of actors was beneficial to the narrative structure, plus the production used Technicolor for most of the films production. I did read that some of the locations scenes used a system called Monopack, which I wasn't familiar with. The Technicolor aspect was probably used to market the film more effectively to other countries. I did pick this up on DVD via Optimum Releasing back in the day. Unfortunately, the DVD hasn't been fully restored, so I may as well pick up the new Blu-Ray from the BFI. Company of Wolves has probably one of the best British production design studio sets I've seen. But then the production designer in question was none other than Anton Furst of Batman 89. I think the only digital effect applied to CofW's was where the sky has been altered in someway. I really don't mind the slow storytelling of Wolves. Whilst others want the quick fix and action/horror approach, this film feels more like a fireside story told with time and thought and some frights added into the mix.

Nice additions there matey.. Freddy Vs Jason is a fun one which I'm sure you'll enjoy 😎👍

Some nice BFI editions there. Love the T shirt Neil.

Hello Neil, great month of additions so far. It made me smile to see you with The Entertainer. Those special features are excellent. I've seen them a few times. Always amuses seeing the ladies and gentlemen of that era on the beach dressed as if they were going out for dinner. Love in the Afternoon is a Wilder I don't have. I don't think we even have a dvd over here. Hope the rest of your stuff turn up soon.

I gotta be honest re: company of wolves, it has a great george fenton score, really good acting particularly by lansbury, technically is almost flawless, but I do find it very slow and boring. Yet certain moments have stayed with me over the years, and particularly the Fenton score is one of my favorites, so Id say it has a certain je ne sais quoi, a sort of fascination about it and a great atmosphere

Fantastic pickups Neil I recently watched Dracula 🦇 79;I really enjoyed it mate 👍🏻

American Outlaws sounds like a real potential trainwreck. A pretty much unknown at the time Colln Farrell leading in a western like this sounds too intriguing to miss! Something you might be interested in, I watched today was East Riders/Raging Bulls about the era between 1966 and 1980 when the emergence of new directors leading filmmaking over producers... People like Coppola, Bogdanovich, Spielberg, Altman and Peckinpagh. It's all done through interviews and was very interesting....

Some nice films. I don't have it but I have always liked Love In The Afternoon. It would be interesting to see Denholm Elliott as George Smiley. I do need to get an all region player. I do have The Prisoner on blu-ray and it may make an appearance in my 1967 video. You showed some very interesting BFI films and I hope the strike ends and you can get the rest of your order.

Freddy vs Jason is a fun mixture, Friday the 13th and a nightmare in Elm Street. Enemy mine I have that copy you showed it was one of my favorite movies because it was always on TV back in the 90s but the transfer on that is really not spectacular .

Hi Neil, Finally, a new dose of Neil's videos. Yeah! The only one of these I own is Love In The Afternoon. I remember Enemy Mine from years ago. It was a good one. I have seen Fences and that Dracula with Frank Langella. The BFI movies look good, especially Shooting Stars and Pink String and Sealing Wax. Some good buys there! Hope things are going well.

I’ mentioned this channel for this year

Awesome mate😎👍 I now check warewaves quite often now as i missed so e recent sales like that bfi one .😢 I watched that Dracula one you mentioned last night on my foxtell

Man this video is a treat. Five years hard labour reduced to a 12m bullet. 'Best of' lists like this are goldmines of inspiration for fellow movie lovers, so thanks for that. My score is pretty well split. I've seen 25. Own about another 25 (yet to see). And of the remaining 50, I've heard of about half of them. . So many films to respond to - Sunrise is my favourite silent movie and Cottage In Dartmoor is my favourite British silent movie.. I've seen all the Westerns apart from The Great Silence (which i'm holding back on until the perfect bleak winter's day).. Lots there on my watchlist that will now get bumped-up, thanks to the thumbs-up. Eg - The Whisperers, Robbery, Never Let Go, We are the Lambeth Boys, Tiger Bay also Cactus Flower and Targets (which has been knocking around on VHS for 23 years, still unseen). My film knowledge drops off a little in the 21st century so plenty of new titles there for me to explore as well.....Cheers, grand job there. (p.s. don't know if you do requests, but in December it could be fun to see what everyone on this channels' 'top ten first-time viewings of 2024' were? Just a thought :)

Hi Neil, Was just re-watching this video and thought I would check in and see how you are doing? I hope good, been missing seeing your videos!

Hi Neil, Just checking to see if you had the movie, Not Without My Daughter. I see you do and wondered if you have watched it? A real life horror story! Just finished watching it and was horrified that things like that could happen! Take care!

I actually bought the Blu-Ray of Company from my local branch of HMV in their criterion collection sale just last week, Neil. (My amateur operatic company performed the show in the spring this year.)

Sunrise I have but have not watched yet . I don’t care what the Academy decided I still consider it a best picture winner.

Brilliant! Thank you so much Neil 🙏👍

Hi Neil, blimey, I can barely remember what I watch last month, never mind what I’ve seen over the past five years 😮 (please tell me you write down the titles you’ve watched in a note book and this isn’t all from memory) 😬 there are so many in here I’ve not even heard of (it’s cool to have recommendations) nice one Neil, take care mate👍😃👍

Definitely going to check out A Long Memory. John Mills is my favourite actor.

What a great video, only 9 in my collection, good to see two Hammer films and one of them covering a very difficult and disturbing subject. You have a lot of World Cinema titles which i feel i should investigate and check out. Really enjoy seeing your love of film which I totally understand.

The great silence is fantastic very bleak and the ending 😮

You might be surprised that I have only seen 10 of these movies. And one of them (I won't say which one... lol) I think is one of the worst movies I've seen, but that could be me.

Wow. Every time I watch one of your videos you show me movies I have never heard of. Always adding to my watch list. Out of the 100 you shown I have only seen Kajaki(aka Kilo Two Bravo), The Blob, Cactus Flower, The Grey Fox and Speed Racer

So many films I need to check out and so many I have enjoyed over the years. Great video sir.

Hi Neil,great video. I enjoyed that. I think I did not too bad with 19 watched. There's quite a few on my radar. I really want to see Jeanne Dielman after it topped the poll a couple of years ago but it's very difficult to get a copy over here.

I have only seen 12 out of your hundred with And Soon The Darkness being one that I watched recently as I bought it in the Kino Lorber sale. I thought it was very well done. I do have Queen of Spades and The Day The Earth Caught fire on DVD but have not watched them yet. You showed several thrillers that really piqued my interest, among them Tiger Bay and The Whisperers.

I seen 46. I own 32. All those Matarazzo's movies. I saw all of them when I was a child on TV. Actually the leading man of most of them was born in my own city. And I lovevJames Stewart westerns.