00:00I think my favourite film, can I have a list of 47?
00:04Because probably my favourite film would be, I think, Citizen Kane, which is such a cliche.
00:12But I do work at Weatherby Festival, I can do a plug.
00:17We have three days of film at Weatherby Cinema, and I choose three of them.
00:23And this year I've chosen Blazing Saddles, Duck Suit and a musical.
00:29The musical is for other people, but Duck Suit and Blazing Saddles, two of my favourite films.
00:34My best film is Ratatouille, and I've watched it dozens of times and I never get fed up with it.
00:42The creativity and imagination that's gone into it, and the passion, it's just, I love it.
00:49So that's my best film.
00:52OK, and mine's got to be Top Gun.
00:55I watched it when it came out in 1986.
00:58I'd seen it three times at the cinema within about three years,
01:01and I never tire of watching it, even though the ending's always the same.
01:05And it doesn't change, the communists never win, but it's an exciting ride while it happens.
01:10I watched Ruthering Heights recently, the new one, and I really enjoyed it personally,
01:15but obviously I know the casting wasn't accurate remotely.
01:18Some older ones like Back to the Future I really enjoy, as well as American Psycho.
01:24I think Oscars are quite, I mean, they wouldn't say they're drastically important,
01:28but I think it still gives the actors credits for what they've done.
01:31As in, like, Jessie Buckley in Hamlet, she was incredible, and she deserved that Oscar.
01:36Oscars, yeah, I don't usually watch it, but I think it's a good thing.
01:41I mean, it's good that the winner was like that.
01:44It boosts their self-esteem, and actors love all that kind of thing.
01:48So, yeah, I think it's a good thing.
01:49I always watch it.
01:51My favourite movie is the updated 1950s New York version,
01:56Romeo and Juliet, basically, West Side Story,
01:58which, I must confess, I cried at the end.
02:03I have a lot of films at home, a lot.
02:05I've got thousands of them, and mainly war films,
02:08not because I like war, but because I like the factual basis of how they're made
02:12and also the facts surrounding, you know, like World War II.
02:17Frankly, I take very little notice of it,
02:19and the barrenness of the Oscars is borne in mind by the fact I think
02:25Top Gun didn't get any apart from its musical soundtrack,
02:28and it only ever gets three stars off the critics,
02:31not the five stars I think it's worth.
02:33So, I don't pay much attention to the critics or the Oscars.
02:36We saw a film called Sinners before it was, first week it was out,
02:41and I knew what it was about, but I was very surprised
02:44and just thought it was absolutely brilliant.
02:45We've seen it quite a few times now.
02:47So, yeah, I think it is true the Oscars have less of an impact now.
02:52We always have a look at the films that are there
02:54and go, what do we want to see, and we end up watching about 20% of them.
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