Four Weddings and a Funeral offers a tourist brochure version of England, more concerned to pander to an American audience’s fantasies about Britain than to offer any accurate insights. The most memorable film I have seen in recent months is Gary Oldman’s Nil by Mouth. It is as good as anything Mike Leigh or Ken Loach have done, but it evokes memories of those realist dramas the BBC used to make .

Murnau created one of the silent cinema’s last and most luminous masterpieces. Before there was the teenage witch, there was Audrey Hepburn’s Sabrina (sorry Kiernan!). Audrey plays the young daughter of a rich family’s chauffeur, who falls in love with both the older and younger brothers of the family. Talk about keeping it in the family… This film is impossibly chic, romantic and full of fantastic atmosphere . It may have been made between the world wars, but It Happened One Night has a fresh, modern story that feels like it could have been filmed yesterday.

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