TV watch: Michael Caine

Michael Caine was ninety on Tuesday. Last Saturday afternoon was really miserable and I broke my own (ridiculous and self-imposed) rules about watching daytime TV and watched The Ipcress File and Funeral in Berlin. I’ve just noticed that BBC 4 are showing both films again this evening plus a masterclass on acting for film, given by Caine in 1987. I remember this as brilliant, so I intend to watch it. I love The Ipcress File for all the scenes of sixties London: the bowler hats, the buses, everybody smoking all the time. It’s worth watching just for that.