“A portrait of an English eccentric, an obsessed octogenarian with many interests but one passion:
to detail every film ever made anywhere in the world.”
John Walker, author of The Halliwell’s Film Guide.
Title (Year) Director. Place is a documentary in the celebratory style of Free Cinema, displaying an intimate portrait of Alan Goble, an obsessed octogenarian with many interests but one passion: to detail, every film ever made anywhere in the world from the earliest days of cinema to the present.
Now a widower, he reflects on his effortful accomplishment, which has been awarded a Guinness Record as the world’s largest film-related database.
We also observe him in a moment of relaxation, watching over his garden, rewilded more than forty years ago, where, every evening, generations of badgers snuffle for food, and fox cubs play in the long grass. And, through his own movies, we can observe his progress, from a Saturday morning cinema-going childhood through work and marriage to his solitary existence in a book-lined home, where he continues to find solace in his archival activities. It offers the story of his and our time through a close-up view of an unusual, extraordinary, and individual life.
Synopsis by author of The Halliwell’s Film Guide, John Walker.
Chris Collier was born on August 1, 1973, in Brighton, East Sussex, England. He is a director known for Title (Year) Director. Place (2023) and FrightFest: Beneath the Dark Heart of Cinema (2018). As well as working as a documentary filmmaker, he has produced various projects, including; Morbid Fascination: The Nekromantik Legacy (2014) and In Conversation with the Death King (2014).
Influenced by the long tradition of British documentaries, Chris is focused on producing personal stories, witnessing lives, finding the extraordinary from within the every day, and sharing the learning.
Title (Year) Director. Place is a 24 Foot Square / Hypothetical Blue co-production.
Further production information can be found on IMDb