I'm Cary Elwes and I'm a huge Criterion fan and it's a thrill to be here and get to be in this Closet with all these fabulous movies.
Well, of course, one of the first movies I saw on the screen, in London when I was living on my own, was Battle of Algiers, Gillo Pontecorvo.
Basically takes us through how Algeria found its independence through this gritty, incredible movie.
Once you've seen it, you're never the same again.
No one's ever made anything like it.
It's a classic, so we're keeping that, thank you.
One of my favorites: Fellini, Roma.
Why do I love Fellini?
Fellini… All his films are like dreams.
He used to write down his dreams, as soon as he woke up in the morning, because he wanted his films to feel… have that ethereal feel, and he said moviemaking and movies are the closest things we have to dreaming, and so all of his films are like fever dreams.
