PLEASE NOTE: If someone else has plans for today, feel free to override this and do them!

Failing that, in the absence of anybody else doing anything, and given that I’m not going to be around myself between about 3pm and mid-late evening, I’ve banged together a cheap & cheerful afternoon & evening of some of the films I’ve shown this year, with their commentary tracks turned on (and the subtitles for the original dialogue likewise)… plus one Blu-Ray extra. Sorry if this is nobody’s idea of New Year’s Day fun.

14:00 – Intro music.

14:05 – The Medusa Touch (1978) – commentary by Kim Newman & Stephen Jones with the film’s director and co-producer Jack Gold.

15:54 – The Shout (1978) – commentary by Kim Newman & Stephen Jones only (they joke at the beginning that nobody else wanted to do it!).

17:20 – The Appointment (1982) – commentary by Vic Pratt of the BFI with the writer & director of the film, Lindsay Vickers.

18:49 – I Start Counting (1970) – commentary by film historian Samm Deighan.

20:35 – Jenny Agutter remembers I Start Counting.

20:55 – The Woman in Black (1989) – commentary by Kim Newman, Mark Gatiss & Andy Nyman. This – by necessity – is the original 4:3 TV version (with ad-caps intact), rather than the newly-made 16:9 version I showed earlier in the year. So this one loses some material off the sides but has some more top & bottom. Content-wise the two versions are identical. I’ve heard most of this commentary, it’s rather good.

22:37 – Quatermass and the Pit (1967) – commentary by writer Nigel Kneale and director Roy Ward Baker.

00:15 – Closedown music.

00:20 – Closedown.

NOTE: As mentioned above, I’m not going to be around for most of this (although I’ll try to keep half-an-eye on it), so if anybody with streamer access would rather see the films as normal, or do something else, feel free to muck about with it!! I may also reverse the order of the last two films.

Also, apologies (a) for the lack of pee-break interstitials and (b) to those who are allergic to Kim Newman…