What’s Your Favourite Film?
I’m helping out with the British Film Institute’s 75th birthday celebrations. They’ve asked 75 different ‘well-known people’ to nominate one film each, then ‘the public’ are able to vote on them. The top 5 will be screened at the BFI from January. Here are a few of the choices:
There have been 63 different films nominated so get over there and vote for your favourite. You’ve got til the 30th of September to cast your vote.
Right now the top 10 looks like this:
1. Blade Runner
2. Quadrophenia
3. The Godfather
4. Stalker
5. Pulp Fiction
6. Lawrence of Arabia
7. The Third Man
8. A Matter of Life and Death
9. Singin’ in the Rain
10. Metropolis
If you think that, say, Lawrence of Arabia should be part of the top 5 to be screened instead of Pulp Fiction, then get voting (yea, yea, technically you can only vote once, but if you really care there’s the old wipe the cache and cookies trick!). The whole current order of the films can be seen here.
Come on, kids, help me out and vote!
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10 Comments, Comment or Ping
vinnie
1. Spaceballs
2. Young Frankenstein
3. Murderball
4. Juno
4. Million Dollar Baby
5 Fargo
6. Jackie Brown
7. Stranger than Paradise
8. Do the Right Thing
9. A Christmas Story
10. The Wizard of Oz
Sep 17th, 2008
Mark
I keep seeing Blade Runner topping various charts. I like it. It’s a good film. But it’s not *that* good a film. It’s not better than Lawrence of Arabia. It’s not better than Metropolis. It’s not better than the best film ever (subliminal suggestion, subliminal suggestion) Kind Hearts And Coronets. It’s not worth a top spot, a top ten spot, or a top fifty spot. And some of those others there are very questionable too.
Sep 17th, 2008
Mark Grant
Got to be ‘Blade Runner’ just works on so many levels, and I think it must be about 25 years old, as a Sc-fi it stands up so well. I read a book on it, I think it was a BFI book, years ago, just made me love it ever more. The book talks about seeing, that the film is all about vision, a constant theme .
In contrast I also adore the ‘Princess Bribe’, just a magical funny journey.
While I love ‘Blade Runner’, Kubrick is my fav Director and I think the BFI should do a Kubrick run , they could show all his features and ‘AI’, that would be great, but I do often think what Kubrick would have done with ‘AI’, he has a darker vision that Spielberg, and it would have been better for that.
“I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain… Time to die.”
Sep 17th, 2008
Calraigh
1. Nosferatu
2.On The Waterfront
3.Apocalypse Now
4.Night of the Hunter
5.Brazil
6.Citizen Kane
7.The Big Sleep
8.All The Presidents Men
9. Jaws
10.Network
This is my old uni list and whenever I’m asked this question they still come up, only in different orders, as the years go by. But I’m revising it as I type. Still, I love all of these and I’ve seen Nosferatu about 32 times. I is a freak.
Sep 18th, 2008
Jason
How could they miss “Dune”? Has to be one of the top films ever!
Sep 21st, 2008
vinnie
oh I forgot
11. ‘Meet the Faulkers!”
Sep 22nd, 2008
giagia
Updated Top 10:
1. Blade Runner
2. Quadrophenia
3. The Godfather
4. Lawrence of Arabia
5. Stalker
6. Pulp Fiction
7. The Third Man
8. A Matter of Life and Death
9. Billy Elliot
10. Singin’ in the Rain
Sep 22nd, 2008
Beadyboo
Someone wrote on the BFI vote comments that Terminator 2 should be up for voteroos. Totally agree. Terminator was a seminal piece of work - T2 just broke all the rules about sequels.
Aliens also should have a look in - all JC at his zenith.
I’d post a top 10 but it would take me days of shifting up and shifting down and endless cups of tea.
Sep 22nd, 2008
Mark Grant
Why is Pulp Fiction and Billy Elliot up there, Man! If people are going to be silly, throw in Star Wars and The Full Monty and they we have a really lame list.
Sep 22nd, 2008
Rebecca Watson
I was raised to always wipe my cache and cookies.
Yes, that joke is about five days late but it was important.
Sep 25th, 2008
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