I'd been warned off dipping into Godard by various friends and colleagues...

What leads you to watch certain films can vary from person to person, it might be a genre choice, or following a particular film movement.

And if the plot suddenly sounds vaguely familiar, you would be forgiven if the Mike Hodge film "Get Carter", made half a decade later..

One of the strong points of the film is that it aims for a more serious approach and honours the atmosphere of dread..

Visually, it could be argued that if Hollywood benefitted from European sensibilities like Expressionism, then in this film it had come home

"Kwaidan" - literally "Ghost Stories", is exactly what it is - a portmanteau collection of creepy tales set in Medieval Japan.

What I find interesting more than anything else is the snapshot of Rome and Milan in the 60's..

I had seen "Onibaba" ("Trans: "Demon Hag") only once before in the mid 80's (U,K Channel 4) and thanks once again to BFI Player.

In amongst the more familiar films of Hayao Miyazaki's prolific output is "My Neighbours The Yamadas" - this would qualify as "Late-Miyazaki

What I can say is that watching these films has been a journey of discovery with surprises along the way.

This was to be my second or third viewing of "Spirited Away" - I have it on BluRay - and it never fails to hold your attention throughout.