Minnie Driver

“Well look, I'm an actress, okay, so All About Eve is required watching because, you know, probably at any given time you're either like Bette Davis or you're Anne Baxter. I mean, I don't really love seeing women pitted against each other type movies, if there is one movie where I will watch it, it is this one because it is clever and sharp and clearly of a time when women gave as good as they got.”

“I was 15 when I watched Betty Blue. Béatrice Dalle was like somebody drew her and she came to life, like this embodiment of everything that I wanted to be as a woman. Something about French movies when you're a teenager as well, they kind of let me down when I grew up when I realized that life wasn't like that. I really did think that it was that beautifully lit, it was that hot, there was that much sex and that much power.”

“An Angel at My Table by Jane Campion. It is about New Zealand's probably most famous author called Janet Frame and her apparent madness even though she wasn't really mad, and the landscape of New Zealand, this power and grace and beauty of this place and the experience of this brilliant artist who was just treated so appallingly. Kerry Fox who stars in An Angel at My Table was in it and she is a rare, deep, beautiful actress.”

“Uncut Gems. I do not understand why Adam Sandler was not nominated for an Academy Award and why he did not win. What I found so arresting about this film apart from Adam Sandler's Performance and the direction and the horrifying music is that the female characters are so fully drawn, they are so full of blood and life, and it makes this very kind of dirty male tale so centered and so rife with life. I love this film.”

“This film, along with Withnail and I, Down by Law and Withnail and I are probably the two movies that I would watch when I was a teenager and it was exactly what I dreamed being an adult would be like. This slightly surreal, you can do anything but you may well end up in prison. That maybe I could fall in love with someone as cool as John Lurie or Tom Waits or indeed Roberto Benigni. I mean, 'ice cream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream.'”

“So La Cage aux Folles. I mean, who didn't love—I love The Birdcage, I love the remake of this film, but this is the one to watch really. Like in 1978 to be telling a story of a gay couple and like this big caper, it's like a gay caper movie. It makes you laugh at the absolute kind of mortification of the way in which people behave, at the deep love that is at the center of it. It's a really brilliant film. It was one of my father's favorite movies.”