1. What is one movie you think everyone should see? I don't think there is one. If there's one thing I learned behind the counter of a video store, it's that there's a perfect movie for every person, but it's going to be a different movie for every person.
I do think more people should try old movies once in a while - stuff that came out before you were born. Films your parents and grandparents like. Everyone should see Singin' in the Rain, and at least one Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers movie. Everyone should see a decent western once in their life. Everyone should watch a silent comedy by Charlie Chaplin or Buster Keaton. Everyone should watch a German silent film like Metropolis or The Cabinet of Dr Caligari. Everyone should see one of the first few Disney animated features: Bambi, maybe, or Dumbo.
Most importantly, people should watch the films they like, and not take shit from anybody claiming "that movie's rubbish".
2. You are given the opportunity to write/produce a spin-off series of Doctor Who. It can use any characters you like from the old or new series. What do you do? UNIT, re-developed to work like CTU in 24. High-tech, professional, sleek and plain-clothed. Competent, based in London but set all over the UK. Think of it as a Torchwood with better scripts and less of a pre-occupation with adolescent sexual obsessions. Doctor Who meets Spooks
3. Given all the childhood icons that have died this month, who is someone from film/tv where their passing would be not unwelcome to you? I honestly can't think of anyone. There are certainly some actors with reputations for being monstrous pricks, but that doesn't mean I'd be happy for them to suddenly die.
4. Favourite memory of a time spent with Sonia? The one day we spent in Frankfurt, in retrospect. Constant hilarity for about 24 hours.
5. Do you think Mathilda May? Maybe, but probably not.
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Date: 2009-01-29 04:51 pm (UTC)I don't think there is one. If there's one thing I learned behind the counter of a video store, it's that there's a perfect movie for every person, but it's going to be a different movie for every person.
I do think more people should try old movies once in a while - stuff that came out before you were born. Films your parents and grandparents like. Everyone should see Singin' in the Rain, and at least one Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers movie. Everyone should see a decent western once in their life. Everyone should watch a silent comedy by Charlie Chaplin or Buster Keaton. Everyone should watch a German silent film like Metropolis or The Cabinet of Dr Caligari. Everyone should see one of the first few Disney animated features: Bambi, maybe, or Dumbo.
Most importantly, people should watch the films they like, and not take shit from anybody claiming "that movie's rubbish".
2. You are given the opportunity to write/produce a spin-off series of Doctor Who. It can use any characters you like from the old or new series. What do you do?
UNIT, re-developed to work like CTU in 24. High-tech, professional, sleek and plain-clothed. Competent, based in London but set all over the UK. Think of it as a Torchwood with better scripts and less of a pre-occupation with adolescent sexual obsessions. Doctor Who meets Spooks
3. Given all the childhood icons that have died this month, who is someone from film/tv where their passing would be not unwelcome to you?
I honestly can't think of anyone. There are certainly some actors with reputations for being monstrous pricks, but that doesn't mean I'd be happy for them to suddenly die.
4. Favourite memory of a time spent with Sonia?
The one day we spent in Frankfurt, in retrospect. Constant hilarity for about 24 hours.
5. Do you think Mathilda May?
Maybe, but probably not.