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Gringuito (1998)

Absorbing and quite original.

My Movie Rating:

8 / 10

Güeros (2014)

Excellent observational film set during the 1999 Mexican student strikes. Full of interesting stylistic tricks that the director carries off with panache and more than a bit of tongue-in-cheekery. Frequently funny and sometimes moving. Naturalistic acting from Sebastián Aguirre. Also see El comienzo del tiempo.

My Movie Rating:

9 / 10

La Guerre des boutons (2011)

My Movie Rating:

7 / 10

La Guerre des boutons (1962)

My Movie Rating:

8 / 10

La Guerre des tuques (1984)

Much loved in Québec.

My Movie Rating:

8 / 10

Gulliver's Travels (1996)

My Movie Rating:

8 / 10

Habanastation (2011)

A touch formulaic, but heartfelt and likeable. The young actors were all participants in a youth theatre workshop in Havana, and they do a great job. Overall highly recommended. Could make a good dual watch with De cierta manera, Retrato de Teresa and To Dance Like a Man.

My Movie Rating:

8 / 10

Hachi-gatsu no kyôshikyoku (1991)

By Akira Kurosawa of Rashomon and Ikiru, but surprisingly, not brilliant. Definitely lesser Kurosawa. Still well worth a watch.

My Movie Rating:

8 / 10

Hada (2015)

Genuinely scary.

My Movie Rating:

8 / 10

Haganenet (2014)

Nadav Lapid's cri de cœur against philistine materialism. The poems in the film were composed by him when he was aged four through seven. His mother edited the film. Also see his La Petite amie d'Émile and Synonyms. Sarit Larry, who plays the kindergarten teacher, rebelled against her religious family to become an actress; this was her first film role in sixteen years, as she had gone on to study philosophy and become co-director of the Jewish-Palestinian feminist community educational organisation Mahapach-Taghir.

My Movie Rating:

9 / 10

Half Kenneth (2009)

My Movie Rating:

9 / 10

Hand in Hand (1961)

For some reason the priest-rabbi dialogue in this made me think of the 1961 masterpiece Mother Joan of the Angels, with its stunning scene in which a Polish rabbi and Roman Catholic priest, played by the same actor, confront one another. I was also reminded of John Schlesinger's extremely beautiful depictions of an Orthodox or Conservative/Masorti Jewish service and a Russian Orthodox Christian one in Sunday, Bloody Sunday and An Englishman Abroad, respectively. This film is very well made and manages to be sweet without being schlocky, but can't avoid seeming a bit pat and contrived. A better film in the 'children make friends across a social divide in England' vein is Jemima + Johnny: it's short and to the point, the children are that crucial bit younger that makes their unprejudiced innocence more believable, and it's made Free Cinema style and is often reminiscent of Lindsay Anderson's wonderful early shorts such as The White Bus and O Dreamland.

My Movie Rating:

8 / 10

Handel's Last Chance (1996)

Has its silly, unrealistic plot elements but is not as wildly anachronistic as Bach's Fight for Freedom, and Tod Fennell has a nice enough voice. Still, I say: if you want a boy-and-composer movie, see Beethoven Lives Upstairs. If you want a boy-and-Händel story, listen to Hallelujah Handel from the Classical Kids series. If you want to hear boys singing the Messiah, get the recording by the Choir of New College Oxford under Edward Higginbottom. It's a reconstruction of the 1751 version, in which Händel used boy singers for the soprano solos.

My Movie Rating:

5 / 10

Happiness (2013)

Very interesting but perhaps has too much of an agenda for a documentary made by an outsider. The Next Guardian is better.

My Movie Rating:

8 / 10

The Happy Years (1950)

Based on Owen Johnson's Lawrenceville Stories and directed by the prolific William Wellman. A jolly, feel-good, rosy-glow kind of a story featuring both a very fine performance by Dean Stockwell and a nice treatment of many boyhood-movie tropes: fistfights and first crushes and baseball and classroom pranks...Its influence can be seen in later movies such as The Sandlot.

My Movie Rating:

8 / 10

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)

My Movie Rating:

8 / 10

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)

My Movie Rating:

8 / 10

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001)

Harry Potter's a phenomenon for good reason.

My Movie Rating:

8 / 10

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)

Prisoner of Azkaban is my favourite of the Harry Potter books, perhaps along with Deathly Hallows, and this adaptation, directed by Alfonso Cuarón of A Little Princess, is without doubt the best of the Harry Potter movies, perhaps along with Deathly Hallows Part 1.

My Movie Rating:

9 / 10

Häschen in der Grube (2004)

My Movie Rating:

9 / 10

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