Kelly Macdonald, who stars in the Coen brothers' No Country For Old Men. Photograph: Francois Mori/AP
Road movies probably began with Don Quixote but we have come to think of them as a quintessentially American genre. What's your favourite?
The person who's probably made more road movies than anyone is Wim Wenders.
His Alice in the Cities from 1974 is re-issued at the moment and very fine it is too, full of angst and tenderness. Wim's having a retrospective at Bfi Southbank and Paris, Texas is in there too, of course.
I met up with him and found him in big, bulky form, sporting a fine pony tail, a thin moustache and chunky reddish specs, dressed in a beige linen suit - he looked like an ad exec for BMW. But he speaks drily and fondly about making Alice, Buena Vista Social Club, The Goal Keeper's Fear of the Penalty and much else.
Also in this show, I meet Kelly Macdonald, who starred in Trainspotting and is famous for being lovely, versatile and Scottish. She's not quite in Wenders' Paris, Texas, but is certainly now showing off a fine Texan accent in the Coen Brothers' brilliant No Country For Old Men. She more than holds her own faced with local boys Tommy Lee Jones and Josh Brolin and is rather touching in the film, disproving what seemed unlikely casting at the time.
I've also got reviews of an amazing one-off: three five-star movies all released in one week. Find out which ones.
Ok, I'll tell you that one is the deserving Cannes winner 4 Months, 3Weeks, 2 Days - which isn't on the Bafta nomination list for Best Foreign Film - scandalous, no? Instead there's The Kite Runner, Lust, Caution, La Vie en Rose, The Lives of Others and The Diving Bell and The Butterfly.
Apart from your favourite road movies, also tell me - what have Bafta missed out from their list?
Happy listing and happy viewing
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