King’s Row (1942)

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Kevin Kline’s Mr Hundert is a (slightly) updated version of Mr Chips, and yet he seems to have missed his calling. He was meant to be Regis Philbin.

A bleak portrait of the still-primitive mountain society of the Ozarks but one notable for a remarkable character-study of its heroine

Lars von Trier, clowning around in his own inimitable fashion with the End of the World

Me Myself I, written and directed by Pip Karmel, is a sort of Australian version of Sliding Doors but with little of its prototype’s wit or cleverness. Everybody’s favorite bouncing Aussie lass, Rachel Griffiths (who, like Toni Collette, sprang to international stardom out of Muriel’s Wedding) plays a 30-something journalist in Sydney called Pam Drury….

An amusing fantasy that starts interestingly but then fizzles out