The BFI are having an all-night time travel festival, which is fair enough, but look at the fucking selection of films! What did they do - rent 4 dvds for £5 from Blockbuster or something?! Christ, that's a bad line up! Only 'Twelve Monkeys' offers any kind of quality and even then it's a film based on another one - Chris Marker's far superior 'La Jetee'.
Sure, I love 'Terminator 2' and 'Highlander' as tacky 'guilty pleasures', but this represents a great opportunity missed, as far as I'm concerned. Aside from 'La Jetee', they could also have had 'Donnie Darko', 'Solaris', 'The Time Machine' or even lighter-hearted things like 'Groundhog Day' or the Bill & Ted movies. Instead, that selection they plumped for just shows a really leaden imagination.
So - what others have I forgotten? What would you like to see added to a bill so themed?
Sure, I love 'Terminator 2' and 'Highlander' as tacky 'guilty pleasures', but this represents a great opportunity missed, as far as I'm concerned. Aside from 'La Jetee', they could also have had 'Donnie Darko', 'Solaris', 'The Time Machine' or even lighter-hearted things like 'Groundhog Day' or the Bill & Ted movies. Instead, that selection they plumped for just shows a really leaden imagination.
So - what others have I forgotten? What would you like to see added to a bill so themed?
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