My Top Movies (in no particular order)

Fantasia: The best animated feature of all time plus some really good music. If any movie crosses genres it is this one.

Reservoir Dogs: Yes, I am a Tarantino Fan - and this is a darker film than Pulp Fiction. You can almost take it seriously.

Babbette's Feast: How physical and carnal satisfaction can lead to spiritual fulfilment - a challenge to all miseryguts everywhere.

Eraserhead: Boy meets monster; monster turns boy crazy; boy loses monster. Except that the monster is a deformed baby. Any film that discusses teratogenesis is OK by me. And it has Eno's music, too.

Apocalypse Now: Coppola's best feature. Long, unwieldy, uncompromising, a war movie from the losers' point of view.

Blue Velvet: David Lynch's study into the descent of a 'square' into the depths of perversion, where he is appalled to discover that he enjoys it. S&M never looked more pleasurable and more horrifying.

Fellini's Satyricon: The best Italian film of all time (and that's saying something). probably the only film where the creative world of a director's imagination is so faithfully reproduced on celluloid.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show: THE cult film of all time, and I have been hooked since I saw the original version at the King's Road Theatre in 1978.

Schindler's List: Undoubtedly the must-see film for all bigots everywhere. Nuff said.

Hairspray: I had to choose a John Walters film and this is the one I like best if only for Debbie Harry's beehive.

Casablanca: The best tear-jerker yet. I always weep in the end and hope that Ingrid gets off that plane.

It's a Mad Mad Mad World: This is a 3-hour slapstick comedy from the sixties - they don't make'em like that any more. Cameos from the 3 Stooges and Sid Caesar, starring amongst others Mickey Rooney, Spencer Tracy and Phil Silvers.

Trainspotting: The only movie where the hype matches the product plus the sequence using Lou Reed's song 'Perfect Day' is the most perfect blend of music and cinematic action I have seen.

Festen:The disintegration and subsequent rebirth of a family with a terrible secret described in a cinema-verité anti-Hollywood manner hand-held cameras grainy images, close-upos and all. Terrific.