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, InceptionCo-editor and critic
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
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!”
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!”