Top film lists are fun – let’s just hope they keep making movies | Vanessa Thorpe
The New York Times’s list of the 25 best quality films may get people thinking less about TV but there are glaring omissions of releases more than 20 years old
We all walk around with an unwritten list in our head; private and cherished. Our best-loved films, whether they once comforted us or exhilarated us, from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang to Bergman’s Wild Strawberries, are up there, haphazardly filed away, in a mental vault of privileged memories.
Some organised people, of course, actually write down these lists on paper and actively curate them. Such film buffs might be quiet, introverted enthusiasts, commonly also
