Ok, here’s my top ten, all time, greatest ever, most brilliant, movies ever of all time, ever. Ready??

1. The Producers (original Mel Brookes, the one and only Zero Mostel)
1. Life of Brian
1. Blazing Saddles
1. Pulp Fiction (for its startling originality and Uma Thurman in that wig)
1. Duel (Spielberg masterpiece)
1. Star Wars (original, first one ever, ie part 4, which it would never have become if it had failed)
1. Play it Again Sam (Woody who can no longer be named)
1. Annie Hall (ditto)
1. The Graduate (introducing Dustin Hoffman, but Anne Bancroft… OMG, Anne Bancroft…)
1. Bullitt (jacked up Mustangs, Steve McQueen, Dodge Chargers, it had everything)
1. French Connection (same as Bullitt but Gene Hackman must be on this list)
1. Enter the Dragon (simply terrible film, hence very funny, but Bruce Lee at his arrogant best)
1. Thelma and Louise (because I’m a feminist. And Gina Davies was soooo fit)
1. Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind (love Richard Dreyfus, love modelling out of mashed potatoes)
1. Terminator (sheer brilliance, wonderful time paradox)
1. Terminator 2 (spectacularly visual, same time paradox, you can never have it too many times… no pun)
1. The Lives of Others (East Germany at its most grey and bleak and yet wonderful)
1. Django Unchained (so much violence, has to get on the list)
1. Kill Bill (Uma, martial arts, both parts just sensational)
1. Carrie (the original, obvs, the best ‘you wouldn’t wanna see me angry’ flick ever)
1. Frankenstein (Boris Karloff in the original)
1. Young Frankenstein (the… errrr… re-make)
1. Double Indemnity (my personal, ultimate, ‘noir’ movie. And Barbara Stanwick)
1. Some Like it Hot
1. Cabaret (funny, brilliant, musical, yet the dark threat of the Nazis seeping all through it, quite incredible)
1. American Graffiti (George Lucas autobiographical debut movie, introducing Harrison Ford and a shit-load of amazing cars)
1. Blue is the Warmest Colour (you simply can’t go wrong with gorgeous French lesbians)
1. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (Paul Newman was gorgeous and never more so than in fab cowboy-ish flick)
1. Fargo (just brilliant, from start to finish, every part played to absolute perfection)
1. Duck Soup. (Because without the Marx Brothers innovation verging on insanity would we ever have reached the comedic highs of Monty Python? Of Woody Allen?)

So there. It’s a start.

Happy Day after yesterDay

A xxxx