Desert Island Series . . . Festive Festivalers Make Their Picks

Tom Knott, Gigi Hu, Chris Robinson, Philippe Moins and Yvette Kaplan.

Philippe Moins' . . .

Here are my choices for the holidays on the moon:

I could say Le Cuirassé Potemkine (Potemkin), Les Enfants du Paradis (Children of Paradise), Citizen Kane and Mars Attacks! to emphasize my cultural background. But for this selection, and for the beginning of a new year (hoping better than this one in Belgium), I prefer to give a list of films without any pretention.

  1. 9 secondi e mezzo by Vincenzo Gioianola.
  2. Early Bird by Peter Lord and David Sproxton
  3. Gertie the Dinosaur by Winsor McCay
  4. Trainspotting by Jeff Newitt
  5. Les Shadoks by Jacques Rouxel
  6. All the first Felix the Cat films.
  7. The five first minutes of Time Bandits by Terry Gilliam.
  8. An Inside Job by Aidan Hickey
  9. George and Rosemary by Alison Snowden & David Fine
  10. Stalker by Andreï Tarkovsky, especially first 10 minutes.

Yvette Kaplan's . . .

I love Beavis and Butt-head. They make me laugh. They made me laugh when I first saw Mike Judge's film, Frog Baseball three-and-a-half years ago and they still make me laugh.

My biggest desire in working on Beavis and Butt-head Do America was that people who for one reason or another never understood the show would get out there and see that, "Hey! I get it! These are two really dumb guys. Two really funny dumb guys. Two really dumb, funny, innocent guys." And they'd laugh. I think we did it, and I'm really proud and really happy about it.

  1. Amarcord by Frederico Fellini.
  2. Cinderfella (Jerry Lewis) by Frank Tashlin.
  3. Adventures of an * by John & Faith Hubley.
  4. Angels With Dirty Faces by Michael Curtiz, with James Cagney.
  5. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger.
  6. The Wizard of Oz by Victor Fleming.
  7. One Touch of Venus with Robert Walker & Ava Gardner.
  8. A Thousand Clowns with Jason Roberts, Jr.
  9. Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol by Abe Levitow.
  10. Gigi by Vincente Minnelli, with Leslie Caron & Louis Jordan.







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