Laurence Boyce

Laurence Boyce is an award winning film journalist who has written for the likes of Hotdog, Little White Lies, Netribution and Film And Festivals Magazine. He is a member of FIPRESCI (the International Federation of Film Critics) and, when not writing, is also a programmer and curator. He is currently the director of GLIMMER: The Hull International Short Film Festival.

“Compiling a list such as this is inherently masochistic. Given that one of the questions that I get all the time is ‘So what’s your favourite movie of all time then?’ and my reply is always ‘Oooh, I can’t choose at all’, writing some down seems a bit wrong. Consider this list a snapshot of my current mood and this can always change at any given moment – though if you forced me into a corner I would probably choose North By Northwest as my favourite film of all time….”

• Adam's Apples (2005) .. Anders Thomas Jensen
• All the President's Men (1976) .. Alan J. Pakula
• The American Astronaut (2001) .. Cory McAbee
• Associations (1975) .. John Smith
• The Battle of Algiers (1966) .. Gillo Pontecorvo
• The Big Lebowski (1998) .. The Coen Brothers
• Blackmail (1929) .. Alfred Hitchcock
• Blade Runner (1982) .. Ridley Scott
• Le Boucher (1970) .. Claude Chabrol
• Clerks. (1994) .. Kevin Smith
• Closely Observed Trains (1966) .. Jirí Menzel
• Come and See (1985) .. Elem Klimov
• Copy Shop (2001) .. Virgil Widrich
• Dekalog (1989) .. Krzysztof Kieslowski
• Les Diaboliques (1955) .. Henri-Georges Clouzot
• Do the Right Thing (1989) .. Spike Lee
• 8½ (1963) .. Federico Fellini
• Eraserhead (1977) .. David Lynch
• Fallen Art (2004) .. Tomek Baginski
• The Falls (1980) .. Peter Greenaway
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) .. Terry Gilliam
• The Four Hundred Blows (1959) .. Franτois Truffaut
• The Goonies (1985) .. Richard Donner
• Hard Boiled (1992) .. John Woo
• Harvie Krumpet (2003) .. Adam Elliot
• Johnny Guitar (1954) .. Nicholas Ray
• Made In Britain (1982) .. Alan Clarke
• Meshes of the Afternoon (1943) .. Maya Deren
• Mothlight (1963) .. Stan Brakhage
• Night Mail (1936) .. Harry Watt & Basil Wright
• The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz (2000) .. Ben Hopkins
• North by Northwest (1959) .. Alfred Hitchcock
• Nosferatu (1922) .. F.W. Murnau
• Ohayo (1959) .. Yasujiro Ozu
• The Princess Bride (1987) .. Rob Reiner
• Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) .. Steven Spielberg
• Robinson in Space (1997) .. Patrick Keiller
• Rome Open City (1945) .. Roberto Rossellini
• Ryan (2004) .. Chris Landreth
• Schizopolis (1996) .. Steven Soderbergh
• Shallow Grave (1994) .. Danny Boyle
• The Shawshank Redemption (1994) .. Frank Darabont
• Soft (2007) .. Simon Ellis
• La Strada (1954) .. Federico Fellini
• The 39 Steps (1935) .. Alfred Hitchcock
• Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould (1993) .. François Girard
• 3-Iron (2004) .. Kim Ki-duk
• Toy Story (1995) .. John Lasseter
• The Usual Suspects (1995) .. Bryan Singer
• The Wrestler (2008) .. Darren Aronofsky