Saturday, 24 November 2007
'Telegraph' Confirms: Ten Bad Dates Ideal Xmas Prezzie
posted @1:37 p.m. by Richard Kelly
The following from today's Telegraph speaks for itself, happily. The writer, Sameer Rahim, has made an interesting selection from the Walken list...
"Ten Bad Dates with De Niro: a Book of Alternative Movie Lists ed. Richard T Kelly 458pp, Faber & Faber, £12.99, T £10.99
This would make an excellent present for film lovers, or anyone who claims to be one. The editor has asked various people - from filmmakers such as the Coen brothers, Steven Soderbergh and Mike Figgis to buffs such as Ryan Gilbey, DBC Pierre and our very own Tim Robey - to compile quirky movie lists.
We have "Top 10 Films it's Painful to Like" (Love Actually triumphs); "Top 10 Thespian Turns in Drag" (surely Dustin Hoffman in Tootsie should have been higher than fourth?); and, my favourite, "Top 10 Lines by Christopher Walken".
From The Comfort of Strangers (adapted by Harold Pinter from Ian McEwan's novel): "I respect you as an Englishman, but not if you're a… Communist poof. You're not a poof, are you?""
