The 365 days of the year list.

Yes, this is my number one top movie. One of the biggest and most problematic productions ever, was a box office failure (Or at least, financial failure).

Lovely on the eyes, easy on the ears, characters you can touch, tension you can smell... Overall a well written, brilliantly crafted, perfectly scored masterpiece.

I distinctively remember this film opening my eyes to what filmmaking was all about. I watched this film in a friends and I remember thinking at that moment in time that I wanted to make films, I didn't do it of course, but I hope to ratify that in the coming years.

This film is total style, and it's not a cast of style over substance, much like a lot of Guy Ritchie movies (who basically thinks of himself as the English Tarrantino), but this fllm uses it's stylistic elements to further tell the story and drive the misconstrued plot.

The elements in this film, again, are borrowed and you can see that for all to see, Tarrantino does the wonderful thing that educational establishments require you to do when creating an original piece of work, quote your sources. Tarrantino does this in an eloquent way and almost makes it an art form, the film is full of low level, subconcious and subversive quotes.

We have it all, On the Waterfront, Lili, The Great Train Robbery, Kiss Me Deadly, Psycho, 8 1/2, even Batman....

Seriously, this film is so clever in it's production, it's unblievable, it's like a scrap book for film lovers. This film shows Tarrantino's raw love for film, it shows how much he loves his art and shows that he is not afraid to show his inspirations.

I didn't see this till 2002, my ex-gf at the time saw it with her friend and I was supposed to go, but I can't remember why I didn't.

This film left me speechless, I had saw the Citizen Kane of our time and I didn't even know it. For months after this film, all I could think about, was Fight Club, and I broke the first rule of Fight Club, which was in a strange kind of way, a clever bit of reverse psychology by the producers.

This is both Brad Pitt and Ed Norton's best film, hands down, their characters permeate through the screen and schlepp you into a world of intrigue, deception, reckless endangerment and soap.

Kept me guessing till the very end. I remember my dad getting this on VHS from the car boot sale and saying it was a great film at the time, I didn't take his advice to watch it until 10 years later.

Another problematic production, went slightly over budget and there where problems in cast and in the crew. Brian Singer's first major film, which was a gamble by it's backers, a gamble that paid off.

If you haven't seen this film yet, you are stupid.

When I first saw this I was about 10 and I remember that it was the first time I had heard of Alfred Hitchcock. I remember there was a book we had, (I can't remember the name though) and it had a lot of information about old movies, how they filmed them and *beep* like that.

I wish I could remember the name of that book.

When I first saw the Big Lebowski, I really didn't like it, I thought it was dull, unfunny, boring and self indulging. But something must have stuck inside me because I went out and bought the DVD when I first got my PS2 DVD player.

After a few more viewings I was hooked.

The comedy is a rather oblique mode of comedy, I now realise, that at the time, I just didn't "get it". It isn't supposed to be a dialogue driven comedy, the comedy derrives from the situations, the imperfections, the reactions and interactions of the characters and those situations that they put themselves in.

Made me look at comedy in a whole different perspective and showed me how subjective comedy can be.

This won't have you howling at the TV, but it will pleasure and tickle that part of the brain that makes us laugh.

I knew as soon as I saw the advert for this film that I was going to like it, I have always liked Sci-Fi and I have always liked Keanu Reeves as an actor, even in Johnny Mmenomic. Yes, Johnny Mmenonmicnic... Mic,...

I don't think this film needs much of an introduction, it's a fantasy dual world driven concept and the concept is what sells the film. The story is great too, but if you follow the breadcrumbs on this one, the last breadcrumb will be the concept.

Now, it's true, the Wachowski's just took a load of other good ideas, bunched them together and created a slightly westernised version of many of other asian concepts, stories, ideas and styles. But I don't mind, the film is just a squab of liquid lovely goodness...

Again, only a recent film I had seen over the past few years.

I had always been aware of The Wicker Man, but I always thought it was a slight fad. When the *beep* Wicker Man came out there was an influx of interest in the old one and I always just thought it was due to that.

Then one night I was sitting there in the Woods' family household, on my PC and this was on in the background and I heard the song "Willow's Song", and immediately I flicked over to ITV4+1 to see the start.

This film always reminds me of the dangers of being an radical idealist. Now, whether the protagonist is a radical idealist is up to you, but this film's subtext for me is, "Don't *beep* about with people, especially Scottish people, especially Scottish people who have Christopher Reeve at their helm."

Memento is more of a work of art than a film to me. It employs a narrative structure that envelopes the story into some kind of mental mish mashed potatoe with chives and all that *beep*

It's a story, that is placed within a frame, inside of a scenario, aside of a situation, interwoven into a world.

Seriously, this is that good. My only criticism of this film would be the cast, I don't get that perfect cast feel that you sometimes get. What I mean to say is that, with the budget they had, they of course had to employ a means based cast, and that cast do brilliantly. But out of my top 10 films, this is the one film that I feel could have been cast with different actors, without much of a change in the characters.

(Does that make sense?, I don't know, I've been watching a lot of Jurassic Park recently.)

I'm quite sure you know why this movie is here. Orson Welles broke all the rules and records with this little movie.

The word pioneer shouldn't appear on this list more than once, so here it is, Orson Welles is a pioneer, this movie is the proof.

THis is probably one of the hardest movies that you could watch. A man on a downward spiral, a long, long dark downward spiral.

Terrifically acted by David Thewliss, this movie stands out as one of Britains best iconic movies.

Watch it, watch it now.

I always hear people saying that this is an overrated movie, and if Jack Nicholson wasn't in it, it wouldn't be that good.

What is true is that Jack Nicholson is just the tip of the iceberg in this film, he is surrounded by a nicely peppered ensemble.

This film is a perfect example of how an ensemble works together to complement each other and highlight each others imperfections, insecurities, dreams and nightmares.

It is said that Michael Douglas was keen on playing the character of Mac, but handed it over to Jack Nicholson after his fathers wishes.

What a film, what a cast and what performances.

Especially the underrated performance of young Billy, Brad Douriff.

This film spawned a doldrum of various copies, *beep* copies at that... They even brought out a *beep* stage play of this film. But you can't fault this films raw and epic story.

However, again, the story is driven by the characters, much like the Usual Suspects, this film shares more with Usual Suspects than you may first think. Although it doesn't carry the same plot and story, the elements are all still there.

Watch this and Usual Suspects back to back and you will see what I mean, replace comedic value intrinsic in Trainspotting for the suspense and often confusing story telling apects of Usual Suspects, (as well as other elements), then you will see how similar in theory, these two flicks are.

This really should be higher than it is, but in this list, it stands fair to say that this film isn't as good as some of the movies above.

The filmmakers handbook, this movie utilises some of the cleverest shots, production values and story devices in spades. Again, this is a highly tuned ensemble cast, and I would place my hand on my nuts and say that this must have been rehearsed over and over again. If it wasn't, then i'm a dogs leg and James Caan is toiletpaper.

Dead Poet's Society is a coming of age movie about a lad who wants to break free, he doesn't want his world to rule his life, he wants his life to rule the world.

This is a perfect performance by an ensemble cast, I can't say there is a bad actor here, everyone's performance is of top quality, which is great. Even Ethan Hawke breaks a performance barrier here and truly shows why he became the actor that he did.

If you haven't seen this movie or heard of Shane Meadows, then let it be on your head.

The guy is a genius (even though I didn't like the semi-autobiographical "This is England" at all), I still won't hold it against him.

This film is the storymongers cookbook, you can almost tell that this guy had the story and concept first, then everything else fell into place.

It works because of it's raw functionality. It measures up to a lot of the films below this title because of that raw functionality.

A very English, very British and very Northern walk of life, no matter how deluded, strung out or sensationalist it may be. I also found myself laughing at bits that I shouldn't be laughing at, this film employed some very strong visual elements intended to shock the audience and it placed me in a place I haven't been for ages, a place where we go to, to hide our inner angst.

I always wondered if this was based on some sort of true story, or whether it was straight from the imagination of Paddy Considine and Shane Meadows, I wonder...

The man, the logend told in story, by Johnny Depp.

Don't take this as said, I'm sure this has been Holly-wood-ised and I'm sure this isn't how Ed Wood truly was, but nevertheless this is a still a good story.

A true inspiration, this guy has inspired me to no ends.

A metaphor filled film. This film is directly influenced by Paprika an anime film, Christopher and Jonathon Nolan can say whatever they want, but Paprika came before Inception and there it is...

However, this film feels to me, to be a giant metaphor for life after death and the idea that we are in a world within a world, which directly flies in the face of certain religions and beliefs, but there you have it... For me, this film is just a bit more than a story and a concept, but a giant metaphor, one that no-one can prove or disprove, which brings us right back to square one. In an inceptionised kind of way of course....

A classic story, retold in a manner befitting of the classical context. Gary Oldman's finest performance by far, if you disagree, that's fine, but he gives it all in here, a catalogue of emotions delivered in a box of tricks, which all together presents a character with a unique drive, for a ubiquitous need.

What is so creepy about this movie? Why is it such a good thriller?

Well, for a start, Jodie Foster being cast is nothing short of genius, she actually looks like a little girl lost, which is what she is supposed to be. Hannibal Lector is supposed to be her father figure and she is supposed to portray the little girl lost, a bit like Alice in Wonderland, which is a slightly metaphorical look at this film.

The one prime spark of genius in this film is the direct-to-camera acting. This has been used before in a few European (mostly French and German) films of the early 30's, but this was a revival of this method. A method which not only places the viewer in a certain perspective, as if they are exploring these characters, but draws the viewer in to analyse each of the characters.

Other films of late have tried to use this method, but no-one has hit it like Silence of the Lambs.

This is an excellent film. Simple as, Cameron Crowe has crafted an iconic and stylish cheesefest.

Tom Cruise is brilliant as the self styled David Aames, he fits the bill like an Australian boy in a shark.

I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it any more.