Comments on: What’s Your Favourite Film?

By: Rebecca Watson

Rebecca Watson — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:33:29 +0000

I was raised to always wipe my cache and cookies.

Yes, that joke is about five days late but it was important.

By: Mark Grant

Mark Grant — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:48:41 +0000

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.

By: Beadyboo

Beadyboo — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 13:28:19 +0000

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.

By: giagia

giagia — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 11:37:00 +0000

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

By: vinnie

vinnie — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 08:25:25 +0000

oh I forgot

11. ‘Meet the Faulkers!”

By: Jason

Jason — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 08:31:18 +0000

How could they miss “Dune”? Has to be one of the top films ever!

By: Calraigh

Calraigh — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 03:35:23 +0000

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.

By: Mark Grant

Mark Grant — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 18:34:27 +0000

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.”

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 18:23:48 +0000

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.

By: vinnie

vinnie — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 16:05:38 +0000

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