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Throughout the month of May, 2009, Jonathan Coe was given “Carte Blanche” at the Cinematek in Brussels to present a season of his favourite films. These were his 27 choices …
Ace in the Hole (US, Billy Wilder, 1951)
Avanti (US, Billy Wilder, 1972)
Black Narcissus (UK, Michael Powell, 1947)
Blockheads (US, Laurel and Hardy, 1938)
Don’t Look Now (UK, Nicolas Roeg, 1973)
The Dead (US, John Huston, 1987)
Dead of Night (UK, Robert Hamer, Alberto Cavalcanti, Basil Dearden, Charles Crichton, 1945)
I Know Where I’m Going (UK, Michael Powell, 1945)
Kind Hearts and Coronets (UK, Robert Hamer, 1949)
The King of Comedy (US, Martin Scorsese, 1983)
The Lady Vanishes (UK, Alfred Hitchcock, 1938)
Local Hero (UK, Bill Forsyth, 1983)
Love and Death (US, Woody Allen, 1975)
Malpertuis (Belgium, Harry Kumel, 1971)
O Lucky Man! (UK, Lindsay Anderson, 1973)
Orphée (France, Jean Cocteau, 1950)
Les Parapluies de Cherbourg (France, Jacques Demy, 1964)
Playtime (France, Jacques Tati, 1967)
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (US, Billy Wilder, 1970)
Sansho Dayu (Japan, Kenji Mizoguchi, 1954)
Sherlock Jr (US, Buster Keaton, 1924)
The Shop Around the Corner (US, Ernst Lubitsch, 1940)
The Sweet Smell of Success (US, Alexander MacKendrick, 1957)
The Terence Davies Trilogy (UK, Terence Davies, 1974-83)
Tom Jones (UK, Tony Richardson, 1963)
Vertigo (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
Les Yeux Sans Visage (France, Georges Franju, 1959)
Jonathan Coe
was born on 19 August 1961 in Lickey, a suburb of south-west Birmingham. His father worked in the motor industry as a research physicist; his mother was a music and PE teacher.read more
