Time Out’s The 100 Best SF Films (article news).
A few months ago, I was asked to contribute my top ten favourite SF movies to a list for Time Out Magazine. There were some restrictions like you couldn’t choose film series, which made things tough if you liked more than one in a series so I picked one each out of my favourites, stating that it depends on the day of the week as to whether it would stay that way. I did stay away from super-hero films (which oddly other people didn’t) telling editor Tom Huddleston that they should be dealt with in a separate category. Anything else was by how many times I remembered them.
If you want to see my selection, you need to look here under ‘G’ not ‘W’. I’m in some interesting company.
www.timeout.com/london/film/the-100-best-sci-fi-movies-film-critics-and-experts-g-k
I wasn’t sure at what it would be like at the end. You can scan the list for yourself as there are a lot of surprisingly missed films. The most surprising is so many foreign films got into the mix but all the usual suspects are still the favourites.
www.timeout.com/london/film/the-100-best-sci-fi-movies
Tom says he’s expecting controversy. Personally, I think I would have gone for at least twenty each.
Geoff Willmetts
July 2014