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The 2. 5 greatest summer films . The Talented Mr Ripley. Anthony Minghella (1. There’s a certain kind of sunshine that kisses everything with gold.

And Anthony Minghella’s slick adaptation of the Patricia Highsmith thriller captures it perfectly – that gilded easy privilege of the in- crowd, slumming it during a long, languid summer on the Italian coast. Beguiled by nights hopping with jazz – electric, alive – conman Tom Ripley (Matt Damon) finds himself exquisitely tortured by the fickle enthusiasms and casual cruelty of Dickie Greenleaf (Jude Law). Perhaps not even Tom can unpick the mess of emotions he feels for Dickie – does he want to have him? Or to be him? He opts for the latter. Photograph: Alamy Stock Photo. Do the Right Thing. Spike Lee (1. 98.

Whoo- ee, it’s gonna be a scorcher today!” During the hottest day of the summer, tensions come to the boil in a pressure- cooker Brooklyn neighbourhood. When first released, Spike Lee’s electrifying drama alarmed some conservative critics, who shrieked that the film was an incitement to riot – a claim previously made of such accepted classics as The Blackboard Jungle (1. Brilliantly capturing the scorching atmosphere of a Bedford- Stuyvesant district heatwave, Do the Right Thing is as thrillingly edgy today as it was nearly 3.

It earned Lee his first Oscar nomination, for best original screenplay. Mark Kermode Zo. But she introduces herself as Mikael, not Laure. With her cropped hair and loose- limbed skater slouch, she is accepted by everyone as a boy, even starting a tentative flirtation with an older girl. With this sensitive, understated study of a transgender child, C. No school, no routine, new friends. For a few short months, Laure/Mikael is perfectly free.

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People only casually acquainted with the work of Ingmar Bergman wouldn’t think of him as an especially summery film- maker: chilly despair may seem the characteristic temperature of his oeuvre, until you get to the spry, glinting warmth of Smiles of a Summer Night (1. Summer Interlude (1. Download Bedeviled (2017) For Free there. Swedish audiences back in 1.

To watch it is akin to feeling a late- summer breeze on the back of your neck. Guy Lodge Kathryn Worth, Tom Hiddleston and Mary Roscoe in Joanna Hogg’s Unrelated. Photograph: Alamy. Unrelated. Joanna Hogg (2.

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Jonathan Romney. Watch a trailer for Adventureland. Adventureland. Greg Mottola (2. This 1. 98. 0s- set teen movie takes place in a crappy theme park that touts “Giant Ass Pandas” as unwinnable prizes and blares Falco’s Rock Me Amadeus on loop from its tinny speakers. Jesse Eisenberg’s James is stuck there for the summer earning money for college while his friends travel Europe; he meets the quiet, infinitely cooler Em (Kristen Stewart); the two fall in love as fireworks explode across the sky to the sound of Crowded House’s Don’t Dream It’s Over.

A hangout comedy that speaks to the teenagerish sense of longing experienced during a dull summer spent at home – it’s perfect. Simran Hans Samantha Morton in Lynne Ramsay’s Morvern Callar. Photograph: www. ronaldgrantarchive. Morvern Callar. Lynne Ramsay (2. Full of sweat and sangria and stolen clinches with strangers, Morvern Callar’s hedonistic Ibiza trip is the kind of summer break that changes the way you relate to the world for ever. For Morvern (a mesmerising Samantha Morton), numbed by the suicide of her boyfriend and a lifetime spent in a dour Scottish dead- end town, it’s a holiday that opens her eyes. On a whim, she and her friend Lanna hire a car to take them high into the hills.

They find their way blocked by a local festival. Download I Smile Back (2015) Movie In Hd. Morvern simply hauls her suitcase from the car and joins in. At that moment, she rejects the expectations that anchor to her home town and decides to follow her impulses instead. WI Janet Landguard and Burt Lancaster in The Swimmer. Photograph: Moviestore. The Swimmer. Frank Perry (1.

Forget the beach for a minute. For some of us, it’s the sharp, sour aroma of swimming- pool chlorine that most vividly evokes summer, and no film – not even its more famous near- contemporary The Graduate(1. Frank Perry’s woozy, wistful adaptation of a John Cheever story. Showing up at a friend’s pool party one perfect weekend, a strapping Burt Lancaster resolves to “swim his way home” through the backyards and blue waters of suburban Connecticut, his unhappy past soaking through with every stop.

The sunkissed perfection and freezing void of the American Dream have rarely been explored in such simultaneous detail. GL Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Blissfully Yours: an . Photograph: Alamy.

Blissfully Yours. Apichatpong Weerasethakul (2. Not strictly a summer film, but a hymn to the joys of sweat, sex and reverie in a lush forest setting. Thai auteur Apichatpong makes films (2.

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Two women and a man get away from their daily problems for a jungle break and some graphically depicted intimacy. Steamy in every sense, but also intensely strange and beautiful. JR Vincent Gauthier and Marie Rivi.

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Like New Year’s Eve, the annual holiday comes with such an expectation of enjoyment that a bad day feels like a personal failure. For Delphine (a largely improvised performance by Marie Rivi.

Shot on super 1. 6mm, the film looks as grainy as a beach picnic on a windy day. It has an unflinching naturalism and authenticity which makes this ambling, unfocused quest for an elusive good time into painfully compulsive viewing. WI William Hurt and Kathleen Hurt in Lawrence Kasdan’s Body Heat. Photograph: Allstar. Body Heat. Lawrence Kasdan (1. Literally and figuratively one of the hottest movies I’ve seen, Body Heat is an updated riff on Billy Wilder’s classic noir Double Indemnity (1.

A southern gothic erotic thriller with a B- movie style saxophone on the soundtrack, it stars Kathleen Turner (before she became the voice of Jessica Rabbit) and a mustachioed William Hurt as a pair of lovers whipped into a sweaty, passionate frenzy by the dizzying Florida heat. The chemistry between the pair is electric, but this is Turner’s film; a cool, conniving seductress, iconic in the white blouse and red pencil skirt that makes Hurt’s Ned reach boiling point. SH Roy Scheider in Spielberg’s classic Jaws.

Photograph: Allstar. Jaws. Steven Spielberg (1. Steven Spielberg’s visceral adaptation of Peter Benchley’s voracious best- seller scared a generation out of the water and into the cinemas. The story – a cross between Melville’s Moby- Dick and Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People – finds a seaside resort terrorised by a great white shark as the 4 July holiday draws near.

Roy Scheider is perfectly cast as the police chief who fails to close the beaches, with terrible results. With its sunny vistas and bloody waters, Jaws ate modern cinema whole; four decades later, it’s impossible to go for a summer swim without hearing John Williams’s threatening theme. MK Diego Luna, Maribel Verd. Abandoned by their girlfriends for the summer, two hot- headed youths (Gael Garc. The great humanist critic Roger Ebert famously cited Y Tu Mam. MK Katharine Hepburn and Rossano Brazzi in David Lean’s Summertime.

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