Here is crime novelist Jake Arnott’s list of ‘desert island’ films that he presented at the Museum on Saturday 16 September 2017.
His choices, which he described as ten clips with a narrative, were:
- Fear Eats the Soul (1974) – boy meets girl
- The Man Who Fell To Earth (1976) – a stranger in town
- Dead of Night (1945) – a character breakdown
- The Lady from Shanghai (1947) – the set-up
- All About My Mother (1999) – transition
- Brighton Rock (1947) – the murder
- Some Like It Hot (1959) – the comedy routine
- Les Enfants du Paradis (1945) – the heartbreak
- Guys and Dolls (1955) – the eleven o’clock number
- Imitation of Life (1959) – The End
