Rome, Open City, Ripley, Films Featuring Imaginary Friends & Question Schmestions

Bonus reviews include ‘Rome, Open City’, Roberto Rossellini’s landmark of Italian neorealism, which offers a portrait of life under the Nazi Occupation and is often cited as one of the greatest films ever made; and ‘Ripley’, an Andrew Scott-starring noirish TV adaptation of Matt Damon’s 1990 'The Talented Mr Ripley’, which sees the eponymous antihero become obsessed with a wealthy playboy and resort to extreme measures to impersonate him. This week’s One Frame Back is the best films featuring imaginary friends to coincide with the release of John Krasinski’s ‘If’. Mark and Simon help us decide what to watch, and what to avoid, this weekend. Plus, they answer a few of your Questions (film-related) and Schmestions (non-film related), from what meal from their childhood they hate the most to whether it’s harder to identify poor acting in foreign language films. Timecodes: 10:47 Rome, Open City Review 19:10 Ripley Review 28:51 One Frame Back: Films Featuring Imaginary Friends 39:26 Weekend Watchlist / Weekend Notlist 46.14 Questions Schmestions Watchlist films this week: Contact – 5Star, Sat 11 May, 12.05pm Modern Times – Sky Arts, Sat 11 May, 1pm The Lavendar Hill Mob – BBC Two, Sat 11 May, 1pm Dead Presidents – Film4, Fri 10 May, 11.10pm Little Women (Greta Gerwig) – GREAT! Movies, Fri 10 May, 6.40pm Notlist films this week: Death Wish 4: the Crackdown – ITV4, Sat 11 May, 11.10pm Amityville: the Evil Escapes – Talking Pictures TV, Fri 10 May, 9.05pm The Predator – E4, Fri 10 May, 9pm You can contact the show by emailing correspondence@kermodeandmayo.com or you can find us on social media, @KermodeandMayo EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal ➼ https://nordvpn.com/take Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee! A Sony Music Entertainment production. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts and follow us @sonypodcasts To advertise on this show contact: podcastadsales@sonymusic.com