See if you can spot a trend here. I have watched the film Yesterday four times, Citizen Kane twice, Rashomon once, La Règle du Jeu once, The Fifth Element maybe eight times, There Will Be Blood once, Beau Travail once, Persona once, Pitch Perfect too many times to count… and Jeanne Dielman 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles? Never.
Chris Harvey has watched Richard Curtis’s mushy Beatles movie ‘Yesterday’ four times – but could only sit through Todd Field’s Oscar nominee ‘Tár’ once. He investigates what it is about certain films that keeps us coming back for more