In honour of Oscar season, this is a list of the favourite film(s) of the editorial staff at the Cayman Free Press:
Tammie Chisholm – Gone With the Wind
Jan Byrne – It’s a Wonderful Life
Carol Winker – Funny Girl
Jewel Levy – Pretty Woman
Ron Shillingford – Scarface
Michael Klein – Heat, Naked Gun, 2001: A Space Odyssey
Norma Connolly – Fight Club
Brent Fuller – Blade Runner (if he had to pick just one)
Joe Shooman – The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Natasha Were – One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, City of God, Life Is Beautiful, The Big Lebowski
Matthew Yates – Mortal Kombat
Stuart Wilson – The Matrix
Eugene Bonthuys – Blade Runner: The Director’s Cut
Sherry Vanwey – Grease
Brian Wright – Forrest Gump
Judy Isacoff – Lawrence of Arabia, The Killing Fields, Schindler’s List, Ghandi
Alan Markoff –
Favourite western: The Outlaw Josey Wales (over the more acclaimed Eastwood film Unforgiven)
Favourite war move: Schindler’s List (Ralph Fiennes’
performance should have won an Oscar)
Favourite outer space sci-fi movie: Aliens (I hear Inception will change my mind)
Favourite earth-based sci-fi movie: Blade Runner
Favourite comedy: Life of Brian
Favourite comedy musical: The Blues Brothers
Favourite stupid comedy: The Mask (followed closely by Caddyshack)
Favourite police/crime comedy: Beverly Hills Cop
Favourite romantic comedy: When Harry met Sally
Favourite animated comedy: Shrek (the first one)
Favourite mob move: Godfather II (yes, over Godfather)
Favourite sports movie: Bull Durham (baseball, for the love of the game)
Favourite horror movie: The Thing (no happy ending in this one)
Favourite epic: Dr. Zhivago
Favourite biopic: Amadeus
Favourite disaster movie: Titanic
Favourite courtroom drama: A Few Good Men (followed closely by True Believer)
Favourite crime drama: The Silence of the Lambs
Favourite conspiracy theory movie: JFK
Favourite documentary: Bowling for Columbine
Favourite movie not listed in one of the above categories: Pulp Fiction
Favourite dialogue in a movie: The opening sequence to Reservoir Dogs (second goes to the Dennis Hopper/Christopher Walken exchange in True Romance)
Favourite shootout: The hotel scene in True Romance (nothing like three different sides in a gun battle)
Most intense movie scene: The D-Day beach landings in Saving Private Ryan
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