A Canterbury Tale is a key work in the careers of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, it blends the objectives of their wartime propaganda films, with the stranger mystical aspects they are often more remembered for today. It also has a whiff of the sexual pervert about it, as found later and far more explicitly in Powell’s infamous undoing, Peeping Tom (1960).

Federico Fellini’s City of Women is lavish, is about woman and is all Mastroianni, made in 1980 I’m sure many find it his best post 1970 film, more engaging than Roma, as confronting as Amarcord, like Satyricon without the orgies, music as out there as 8 ½ and woman of the Dolca Vita variety.