Cahier Du 2016

It’s that time again, these seem to drop earlier and earlier every year, it’s only just December and already the lists are starting to wriggle out of their electronic nests. Coincidentally this week I’ve started assembling my mammoth end of year post and it’s quite a difficult mountain to climb this year, for various reason that will become clear. Here is the first obligatory supercut, which like the year it represents is a little staid;

I must confess to being somewhat bemused at all the adoration heaped upon Toni Erdmann which seems to be topping numerous collections of cinematic consideration, I think the idea of the film sounds fine on paper, but the trailer looks, well, fairly unremarkable. Maybe something is lost in translation, and given that I haven’t seen the film I am speaking from pure ignorance,so I’m happy to be proved wrong. As usual …