Favourite films?

[JHyde]

I like good ol' Wes Anderson very much. I also like Life Aquatic - and I'm sure he's directing Fantastic Mr Fox which is yet to come out here.

I also forgot Shopgirl, which was a movie that could not have resonated with me more strongly than the first time I saw it, mainly because it had definite echoes of my life at that point in time. I love Steve Martin, and I can only hope that spate of terrible movies he made the last 10 years or so is over. I'd really like to read more of his fiction, both plays and more novellas should he choose to go that way again.

I'd also like to add Christine Jeffs' movies - Rain, Sylvia and Sunshine Cleaning (yes, I know, I like a lot of movies with sunshine in the title).

And I am looking forward greatly to Jane Campion's new film Bright Star. I don't think she's made her best film yet. And I adore Abbie Cornish, I've been a big fan of hers since Somersault. Did I say Candy earlier? Candy is the adaptation of a wonderful book by Luke Davies that was also the last Australian movie Heath Ledger did. It also starred Abbie Cornish.