Many of us, I get the feeling, don’t go and see as many films as we used to, or want to. Instead we spend all our time complaining that we don’t have enough time to watch films any more. Speaking purely as a hard-working freelance, I also miss all those old black-and-white movies BBC2 used to show in the afternoon, to fill in the yawning hours between lunch and teatime.
Marcus Berkmann
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George Tiffin's All the Best Lines features the best dialogue in films, while David Thomson's Moments That Made the Movies gathers the most enthralling sequences

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