First Movie I Ever Saw
Probably wasn't the very first, but it was certainly one of🧸 the earliest I remember.
Weirdly, I don't have a really strong memory of it. But I do remember going to visit the Chaplins' house in Switzerland as a little kid, and having the lovely Una Chaplin project prints for us... some Charlie Chaplin films, a few o💞ther movies.
I've just remembered - I think I may have seen Kubrick's Barry Lyndon there!
Movie All Kids Should See At School
I'm not a fanatical devotee of Ferris - like a lot of people s👍eem to be. I just love the idea that kids have their own world with their own prioritie - away from the adult realm.
That꧃'s a big ꧙validation for kids and maybe a shock to some adults.
Another film kids should see is Peter Brook's 1963 version of Lord Of The Flies - as a ꦯwarning about how cruel we can be and how quickly we can fall into cha꧑os.
It'd be a great double bill! I'd say Ferris first, then Lord Of The Flies ...
Movie I Should Have Seen But Haven't
Most of the French New Wave films, really. I haven't seen much of Godard or Truffaut. I always feel a bit guilty about that. I've seen Truffaut's 400 Blows but that's about it.
I think Breathless is the big on🌳e, though. Yes, I'm sure Quentin Tarantino would be shock🍃ed...
Movie Everyone Hates But I Love
This is a bit embarrassing... Bu🅺t it's great. Honestly!
It's an early Ed Harris film about renaissance fairs in the American mid-west. Ed is the leader of a motorcycle gang who are ꧒all medieval re-enactors.
They travel to these ren-fairs༺ and run jousting competitions on motorbikes. They think they're Camelot in the modern era.
His crew are just livi☂ng their dream but, yes, Ed is a bit deluded and disturbed. I think it's hugely underrated.
Movie That Always Makes Me Cry
It's the ET thing.
Anything where there's a small child🌳 who gets separated from his companion is an instant blub.
I'm an easy targeꦺt, though. I'll bawl at anything.
W🧸ith Moon, we only had one character tꦿo draw out all the emotion. There's a version where we see more of what happens... being careful not to give anything away here... after the end.
We ev💦en shot something, but it seemed so out of charact🔥er with the rest of the film, we didn't use it.
Movie I'd See As A Last Request
I lo🔯ve this film sooo much. The relatio𒀰nship between Trapper John and Hawkeye Pierce is incredible.
Although it's not in the film all the time and it's not always 🧜up-front, they're such interesting, smart characters𝓀 - deep, clever guys.
And you rea🐠lly get a sense of who everyone is - even with very little going on. It all feels so natural - a masterclass in seemingly effortless charact🎉erisation.
Movie I'd Love To Remake
I think this migh🥀t actually be out𝓀 of copyright now. I recently got it for free - legitimately - from somewhere online.
It's such a weird and wonderful story - criminals helping the police to catch a child-killer because - but it's so old now that you're not going to attract a new au✨dience to the original, unless they're film-school types.
I'd love to have a go at remaking it. But my next movie is going to be another sci-fi called Mute - it's basically my love-letter to Blade Runner . It's a thriller that takes place in a fut♛🎃ure Berlin.
It's the flipside to Moon , which is about isolation and alienation. Mute is about trying to maintain your identity wh𒁏en you're✨ surrounded by people.
Movie I'd Take To A Desert Island
Iꦏt'd have to be something upbeat to keep my spirits up.
Being British, it is a film that's a little bit outside of my sphere o🍨f reference, but because I've travelled so much I don't feel strongly connected to one place.
So even though it's a film set in the American college system, it still feels sort 💞of൩ native to me.
Animal House is just one ♏of those films that makes you feel happy. I never get 🌳bored of it.
Obscure Movie I Love But No-One's Heard Of
This is written by David Peoples, the guy who wrote Blade Runner and Twelve Monkeys .
It stars the inimitable Rutger Hauer and my teenage crush, Joan ༒Chen.
It's a very low-budget film with no real special effects but it's a well played take on the Rollerball idea - a bruta𝓀l futuristic sport. And R🏅utger Hauer is as magnetic as ever.
It's another one ripe for remaking. Maybe when I'm done with Mute and M , I'll take a look at it. M🤡y first fiꦇlm that doesn't begin with 'M'...
Moon opens on Friday 17 July. Read the Total Film review .
