Annie Hall. I saw it maybe once a month when I was young. It was like my version of going to synagogue, although a lot funnier and less boring Photograph: Ronald Grant Archive
The last best film I've ever seen is Let the Right One In. It knocked me for six, in not a wholly good way. Scenes of first love can unlock long-forgotten dreams and make you feel old and discombobulated Photograph: Ronald Grant Archive
The Seventh Seal. Or, in fact, any Bergman. Or any Fellini Photograph: Ronald Grant Archive
When someone looks into a mirror and sees something terrifying, like a ghost child, behind them. There was definitely a Hammer House of Horror film that did this, although I can't remember which one, and it scared the life out of me Photograph: PR
I remember being incredibly annoyed by Event Horizon, although I can't quite recall why. I saw it in Nantucket and when a man walked out midway he yelled: 'If you people had any dignity you'd leave too!' Photograph: Ronald Grant Archive
The song Shut Your Fucking Face, Uncle Fucker from South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut. Especially the looks of joy on the children's faces as they hear it Photograph: Public Domain
Brilliant, fiendish plot twists, of course, like The Spanish Prisoner, or House of Games, or – I've been told – Up in the Air. Not The Sixth Sense which I got right away Photograph: Ronald Grant Archive Photograph: Ronald Grant Archive
When you see the hero years later and a lifetime has passed and they're really old. Like in The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Or the mother in The World According to Garp Photograph: Ronald Grant Archive
The Omen. If you're going to be a baddie, you might as well be Satan. Plus, he gets away with it. Plus, he lives in a nice house Photograph: Ronald Grant Archive
Manhattan, in Manhattan Photograph: Ronald Grant Archive
Back when I had lots of hair, Gene Wilder. Now, Woody Allen Photograph: Ronald Grant Archive
