“I remember Sam ’cos he was like me”
The UK’s British Film Institute (BFI) recently published a list of what they consider to be the ten greatest British sci-fi films.
As good as that list is, they then asked members to vote for the films they thought had been overlooked.
Here’s the list of winners published today.
Moon (Duncan Jones, 2009)
The Man Who Fell to Earth (Nicolas Roeg, 1976)
Brazil (Terry Gilliam, 1985)
Sunshine (Danny Boyle, 2007)
The Quatermass Xperiment (Val Guest, 1955)
Zardoz (John Boorman, 1974)
Village of the Damned (Wolf Rilla, 1960)
Gravity (Alfonso Cuarón, 2013)
Friendship’s Death (Peter Wollen, 1987)
The Man in the White Suit (Alexander Mackendrick, 1951)
The BFI also had this to say regarding the member selections:
“It was a family affair at the top of our poll this week, with writer-director Duncan Jones taking pole position with his 2009 debut film Moon, and his father David Bowie’s outing as an alien in The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976) the second most popular omission from our original list.”
So congratulations to the Joneses, and if for some mad reason you’ve not seen either Moon or The Man Who Fell To Earth, your life really is incomplete without them.