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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment

Stills life: John Hannah

It's a Wonderful Life
Which film have you seen most often?
It’s a Wonderful Life. I remember watching it one Christmas with a whole bunch of guys, tears running down all our faces.
Photograph: Kobal
Dark Water
What scares you?
Dark Water – my least favourite way to die must be drowning, so that whole scenario with the body floating in the dark tank really got me.
Photograph: PR
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
What excites you?
Who was that actress in the top hat in The Unbearable Lightness of Being? Lena Olin. She worked!
Photograph: Kobal
It's a Wonderful Life
What makes you cry?
It’s a Wonderful Life again – the scene where he finds Zuzu’s petals in his pocket on the bridge.
Photograph: Ronald Grant Archive
A Night at the Opera
What makes you laugh?
Groucho Marx. The sanity clause scene, from A Night at the Opera.
Photograph: Kobal
Fort Apache
What's the best landscape you've seen on film?
Some of the landscapes in The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor they shot in China are amazing. But is there anything as striking as Monument Valley in those old westerns?
Photograph: Kobal
Basil Rathbone as Holmes in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
If you were a baddie who would you be?
A psychologically deranged schizophrenic, with a normal part of me that relates to people, and then another part that completely loses that connection. That’s all civilisation is, that recognition of other people. Professor Moriarty.
Editor's note: This picture shows Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes, Moriarty's nemesis
Photograph: Ronald Grant Archive
Ocean's Eleven
Which star do you think you look like?
It’s obvious, isn’t it? George Clooney.
Photograph: PR
O Brother Where Art Thou?
Which star would you like to look like?
George Clooney too. I loved him in O Brother, Where Art Thou, with his hair net he sleeps in. I do that with my hair, too – I wear a beanie to keep it down.
Photograph: PR
The Red Shoes
What's the best film you've never seen?
The Red Shoes. My four-year-old daughter is into ballet, so she watched a bit of it when it was on telly the other weekend. But it’s also got story elements, and she’s a bit too young for those yet. So it got turned off again.
Photograph: Ronald Grant Archive
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