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five questions with author/film critic christopher null

Author, film critic and Editor-in-Chief and Publisher of www.filmcritic.com Christopher Null agreed to answer my Five Questions: 

1.  What’s the last movie you’ve seen?

The Fountain.

2.  Which movies have meant the most to you and why? 

Well ”meaning” is a loaded term. I enjoy the sociopolitical message of films like Brazil and Dr. Strangelove, but love the art in them too. But when you get down to it, they don’t really ”mean” anything to me, say, the way my kids do. They’ve enriched my life and my appreciation of the craft of moviemaking and film criticism — and I LOVE watching movies, seriously – but I still have the restraint to recognize that they are just that: Only movies. That said, Strangelove is probably my favorite film of all time, I think its statement on war is the most powerful ever put to film, and it’s also the funniest and best-crafted movie ever.

3.  Which movies could you watch more than once and still enjoy? 

Wow, a lot of them. My DVD collection currently runs to about 2200 films (you have no idea how many boxes that fills…). I return again and again to Hitchcock’s best work. Brazil, Blade Runner, Strangelove, Annie Hall, lots of Woody Allen. Great comedy is easily rewatchable. I’ve probably seen Real Genius 100 times. I probably watch Animal House every time it’s on cable and my TiVo snags it for me. 

4.  If you could meet any film character, who would you choose?

Assuming you mean fictional character, I’d have to say Charles Foster Kane.

5.  If you could meet any filmmaker (living or dead), who would you choose?  

Alfred Hitchcock or Orson Welles. Maybe both together, if it could be arranged.