Front Row's Kirsty Lang gives her answers and recommendations

Kirsty Lang

1. Best Film of 20th Century

I don't know about best but one of my favourite films of the 20th Century is Bob Fosse's Cabaret which I have watched numerous times for the fantastic mix of music, history and the seedy atmosphere of 1930s Berlin.

2. Best Film of 21st Century so far...

Guillermo Del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth - a marvellous blend of dark fantasy and even darker history.

3. Earliest Film Memory

Watching Gone With The Wind with my mum at a cinema in Tokyo where we lived when I was a child.

4. Scene that changed your life

Catherine Deneuve at the train station in the Umbrellas of Cherbourg (another of my all time favourite films)

5. Best going to the flicks experience

Sitting on the bonnet o f a car at a Drive-In cinema in America late on a hot summer's night with a big bag of pop corn.

6. Best director working today

Danny Boyle. (Listen to Danny Boyle on The Film Programme and Front Row).

7. Best actor working today

Andy Serkis. He was absolutely brilliant as Ian Dury in Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll.

8. Best actress working today

Helena Bonham Carter. Compelling to watch and incredibly versatile from Cockney wench in Sweeney Todd to Queen Elizabeth in The King's Speech.

9. Most exciting new film prospect

Will Poulter an exciting young British actor who stole the show in the latest Chronicles of Narnia film. Also in Son of Rambow but I first spotted him in Channel 4's School of Comedy and thought he was brilliant.

10. Most interesting new development in cinema

Not 3D.

11. Will watching movies on mobile phones take off?

Not for me.

12. Are Hollywood's days numbered?

Not yet but it's a rough road ahead.

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