Heath Ledger is laid to rest this Saturday in Perth.

6. Words from Christopher Nolan, the last director to complete a film with Ledger. Some well chosen words:

“Heath was bursting with creativity. It was in his every gesture. He once told me that he liked to wait between jobs until he was creatively hungry. Until he needed it again. He brought that attitude to our set every day. There aren’t many actors who can make you feel ashamed of how often you complain about doing the best job in the world. Heath was one of them.

When you get into the edit suite after shooting a movie, you feel a responsibility to an actor who has trusted you, and Heath gave us everything. As we started my cut, I would wonder about each take we chose, each trim we made. I would visualize the screening where we’d have to show him the finished film—sitting three or four rows behind him, watching the movements of his head for clues to what he was thinking about what we’d done with all that he’d given us. Now that screening will never be real. I see him every day in my edit suite. I study his face, his voice. And I miss him terribly.”

5.The Dark Knight Trailer

4. Daniel Day Lewis’ tribute on receiving his Screen Actors Guild Award

3. This has to be one of the richest period in film I can remember, stretching from last years ‘Assassination of Jesse James’, to work this year like ‘4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days’. With ‘There Will Be Blood’ to look forward to and indeed the new heights Christopher Nolan looks set to bring to the Batman series it is a great time to be a movie fan. ‘I’m Not There’ is a prime example os such unique and innovative storytelling. Here is a clip with Heath Ledger, one of 6 actors playing various evocations of Bob Dylan.

2. ‘Two Hands’
The film I hve chosen to offer a mini review of by way of tribute is an Australian set film Ledger starred in susbsequent to his big break in ‘10 Things I Hate About You’. The film is an absolute gem. A simple story of a simple errand gone very wrong, the film tells of Ledgers character trying to make better of himself. The story is a familiar one, but with Ledger leading an extremely likeable cast and the film being equal parts moving, blackly comic and well - made it is well worth searching out. Never dull for a moment, the film encompasses an almost farcical sequence of Ledger trying to fathom how to escape a bank job where his accomplice has managed to knock himself out cold vaulting over the bank counter to quiet scenes driving forth suspense, emotion and quirkiness.

1. The final scene in ‘Brokeback Mountain’. Scoff all you want at the topic of this movie, this performance is flawless.