1960-1969

Bette Davis and Joan Crawford upstaged (almost) by a staircase and tea set.

The best horror film of all time? Perhaps. yet so much of the screen time is taken up with such humdrum activities as cleaning the bath, folding newspaper and looking at what the characters are looking at - y'know, that door, or up those stairs.

At the gentle insistence of my older brother, I've jumped well ahead of the list to watch this three hour epic by Andrei Tarkovsky...