MEET THE FILLES

EMILY 
Co-editor and critic

Films I love: Donnie Darko, Boogie Nights, Inglourious Basterds, Beetlejuice, The Royal Tenenbaums, Halloween, The Breakfast Club, E.T.

Films I hate: Avatar, Crash, Napoleon Dynamite

I'll watch anything by: Quentin Tarantino, Tim Burton

Dream cast: Winona Ryder playing Winona Ryder playing Winona Ryder.

Favourite (non-existent) sections of the video store: Early 80s Coming-Of-Age Dramedy, Late 90s Pseudo-Slasher, Southern Fried Feminism

Cinematic moment I secretly want to recreate: Romy, Michelle and Sandy Frink’s interpretative dance to "Time After Time" from Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion. Obviously.

Notable quote-able: "The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what we share with someone else when we're uncool."

MICHELLE
Co-editor and critic

Films I love: Moulin Rouge!, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, The Tracey Fragments, Inglourious Basterds, Requiem for a Dream, Inception

Films I hate: The Harry Potter series

I'll watch anything by: The Coen brothers, Bruce McDonald, Quentin Tarantino, Guillermo del Toro, Woody Allen

Dream cast: Cillian Murphy, Elle Fanning, Heath Ledger, Elizabeth Olsen

Favourite (non-existent) section of the video store: Melodramatic Tragedy

Cinematic moment I secretly want to recreate: Shooting Hitler in the face in Inglourious Basterds

Notable quote-able: "Nobody sits like this rock sits. You rock, rock. The rock just sits and is. You show us how to sit here and that's what we need."


MANORI

Critic

Films I love: Annie Hall, After the Wedding, Fish Tank, Head-on, Incendies, The Orphanage, Rushmore

Films I hate: Groundhog Day

I'll watch anything by: Fatih Akin, Woody Allen, Wes Anderson, Susanne Bier, Bong Joon-ho, Guillermo del Toro, Deepa Mehta

Dream cast: Katherine Hepburn, Gregory Peck, Rebecca Hall, Michael Fassbender, Mads Mikkelsen, Keira Knightley

Favourite (non-existent) section of the video store: Dysfunctional Family Drama

Cinematic moment I secretly want to recreate: The lobster scene in Annie Hall

Notable quote-able: "Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world I feel like I can't take it, like my heart's going to cave in."


AVA

Critic

Films I love: Good Will Hunting, Annie Hall, (500) Days of Summer, Amélie

Films I hate: Fast and the Furious (all of them), anything starring Kevin Bacon

I'll watch anything by: Woody Allen, a Coppola

Dream cast: Jimmy Stewart, Audrey Hepburn, Javier Bardem and Roberto Benigni

Favourite (non-existent) section of the video store: British-Asshole-Turned-Heartthrob (or the genre of Hugh Grant)

Cinematic moment I secretly want to recreate: Jumping up on my desk in class, yelling "Oh Captain! My Captain," to my teacher, Robin Williams

Notable quote-able: "I'll never let anybody put me in a cage." "I don't want to put you in a cage, I want to love you!" "It’s the same thing!”