About Matt Belloni

A few nights ago, I was in the edifice that I still insist on calling the National Film Theatre, where I picked up a leaflet claiming to be The Insiders’ Guide to the BFI London Film Festival. It’s produced by Puck, which is apparently “a news brand focused on the inside stories in entertainment, media, finance, politics, politics, artificial intelligence, the businesses of fashion and sports, and the art world”, which is nice. Included in the slim volume is a piece by one Matt Belloni, a founding partner of Puck and one of the brand’s “generationally talented journalists”, listing his “top 10 British films (and some TV) to see before you die”. And here it is.Well, Matt, it clearly wasn’t impossible, because you did actually deliver a list. And it’s not really “across genres and decades” because there’s a distinct leaning towards Films About Men With Guns, and nothing in black and white or before 1962. But you are, as you said, forgetting some classics: no Ealing comedy or Hammer…