Films like Shine, Shine, My Star.

Shine, Shine, My Star (1969) reads as Sombre, steady, measured drama / tragicomedy, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured. Every film below is ranked by distance across the same twelve hand-scored axes — with what it keeps, and where it walks away. Not a genre dump.

Tent of Miracles (1977) poster
1. Tent of Miracles1977

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Girls (1968) poster
2. The Girls1968

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the heightened unreality; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Little Big Man (1970) poster
3. Little Big Man1970

Keeps the heightened unreality; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

The End of a Priest (1969) poster
4. The End of a Priest1969

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the heightened unreality; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Face to Face (1966) poster
5. Face to Face1966

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Robinsonade, or My English Grandfather (1986) poster
6. Robinsonade, or My English Grandfather1986

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the heightened unreality; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

We All Loved Each Other So Much (1974) poster
7. We All Loved Each Other So Much1974

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

The Tale of How Tsar Peter Married Off His Moor (1976) poster
8. The Tale of How Tsar Peter Married Off His Moor1976

Keeps the heightened unreality; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

The Beginning (1970) poster
9. The Beginning1970

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the heightened unreality; trades toward a bone-dry seriousness.

The Toth Family (1969) poster
10. The Toth Family1969

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Whistling Cobblestone (1971) poster
11. The Whistling Cobblestone1971

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the heightened unreality; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

The Human Bullet (1968) poster
12. The Human Bullet1968

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

These are Shine, Shine, My Star’s neighbours — where are yours?

Rate five posters and the same twelve axes read you — then tonight’s pick comes from your own centre of taste.

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