Fillums

I have barely ventured out my door today. Instead I have stayed in and watched films - a word I am quite partial to pronouncing 'fillum' in the Irish stylee, for no particularly obvious reason.
The first was a phantasmagorical meander through time and chance called 'Mr Nobody' (intriguing, but at more than two and a half hours, a bit long), and the second was 'A Matter of Life and Death', the famous Brit film about a downed airman's visions of life after death. It stars legendary silver screen smoothie David Niven and even features a very young Dickie Attenborough in a cameo role. The dialogue is frightfully 1940s, delivered with a liberal sprinkling of stiff upper lips and 'what ho!'s but the special effects are quite impressive for the time and the depiction of heaven as a serene, milk-white airport arrivals lounge lingers in your mind afterwards. The film is famous for its seamless switching between colour and black-and-white footage. The former scenes include some relatively *rare* technicolour depictions of the British countryside at that time (1946).
One thing I hadn't noticed before: the opening is hugely reminiscent of its near contemporary 'It's A Wonderful Life'.