Helen Mirren Tells AFI Her Favorite Movie

[pretzelpimp]

L'atalante you ignorant fools

[snowbell495]

her accent is awsome!!!!!!!

[cadmiumheights]

Helen! You da bomb in Mosquito Coast! And that machine gun bit in Red makes me wriggle!

[britturk123]

When she said alatalanker i just wanted the interviwer to knock her the hell out , but then again we all have different tastes for me its simple its eighther scarface or harry met sally trains planes and automobiles E T but in all honesty if i had to pick one film it would be anything with fred astaire because with his dancing, the film came second you were just in awe and loved every second.

[tpmableful]

'Alatalanter'? 'The French film'?!? Fucking poser!

[MrRazorblade999]

@tpmableful Bullshit. It's a great movie.

[tpmableful]

@MrRazorblade999 POSER!

[MrRazorblade999]

@tpmableful  What makes you say that? Have you even seen the movie?

[tpmableful]

@MrRazorblade999 Yeah, the one with the boat and the cats. POSER!

[PorroFirst]

She only likes movies from her youth..

[JustDoWhatITellYou]

@PorroFirst Not true, Encino Man is her third favorite

[chiangmai700]

Still sexy

[Elric33239]

I've had a heavy duty crush on her since "Excalibur!" If I were Arthur, she wouldn't have needed to cast a spell on me to seduce me!

[chrisman737]

Finally someone answers the AFI question with the title of a quality film!

[gratefultiger]

She has excellent taste in cinema as L'Atalante is masterpiece,some woman!

[thechinadesk]

Helen Mirren is amazing.

She is hot now at 65.

She was hot 40 years ago at 25.

Google her name along with the word "young" and you'll see what I mean.

[videogamenostalgia]

aaah she's bullshitting. I bet she'd rather pop on Twilight than some pretentious French film...

[FungusMossGnosis]

@videogamenostalgia

Those are not pretentious movies she mentioned. Educate your self a little: 'L'Atalante' & 'The Baker's Wife' are down-to-earth poetic works of art.Don't malign her for having better taste than you. I'm sure she's rather have root canal than watch 'Twilight' instead.

[videogamenostalgia]

@FungusMossGnosis I'm sure they aren't. I'm just saying it's very standard to answer these sorts of questions with the film the viewers are unlikely to have watched, because it makes the person seem more cultured. It'd be much more fun if they came up with a stupid sensationalist film, than with such a boring choice- it prevents the viewer from connecting with them. Don't be a cultural snob.

[FungusMossGnosis]

@videogamenostalgia

One is not a snob for having better sense than the herd.

Well, B.J Novak's favorite was 'Naked Gun' and G. Lopez's favorite 'Scarface' - so there ya go: enough "stupid sensationalist film" for all of them combined.

And a fine movie is never a "boring choice", unless you are a reverse snob.

[videogamenostalgia]

@FungusMossGnosis 'Having better sense than the herd' Jesus I really hope you're trying to be ironic with that statement. I'm not saying it's a 'boring choice' as a film- in the context of this mini interview it is boring.

[FungusMossGnosis]

@videogamenostalgia

No irony.

You know what's really boring? Your damn video games is what's boring. Bore yourself silly, sport. Sayonara

[videogamenostalgia]

@FungusMossGnosis For someone who considers themselves 'above the herd', you're quite juvenile, aren't you? I bet you're the type that says he listens to Bach when asked what music he likes, but when asked by someone who knows what they're talking about it's 'you know, the usual'. One day you'll learn that all art has its place, and none is of intrinsically higher worth than the other. Au revoir!

[cassablanca20]

@videogamenostalgia Or maybe she really does like it? ;)

[hamakavulla1]

GILF wassap!?!

[SuperHeroMania]

if she's this hot now, imagine how hot she was when she was young

[brabon1]

@SuperHeroMania dont have to imagine...the vids are here on youtube...she was smokin

[xXshamm3rsXx]

i don't get what is so sexy about her lol in my eye's she is just an old bat :S

before i get flamed, i am not gay

[Jakey92407]

@xXshamm3rsXx

She's charming!

[VALMARIESASK]

Right on! Like how is it the USA makes any good film really? Asia/ Sweden/ France and England/ Germany ETC R like Perfection. Any idiot in a non-USA high skool knows that!

[daisychain77]

@christenze, me too!!! There isn't much I wouldn't do to be able to meet her. She is heavenly *sigh. Please adopt me Helen *daydreaming lol x

[IronManOfficialguy]

If I was a actor I would name a porn film just to be funny. I would be like uhhh im going to have to go with backdoor bitches 3. The acting was just so amazing in that movie. It really inspired me.

[pnklmonade127]

@IronManOfficialguy hahahahaah i wish someone would do that!!

[Spartacus217]

I'd let her bang me in the ass with a strap-on.

[JackieBrown101]

She looks exactly how Ingrid Bergman did in the seventies!

[HJManson]

GILF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[shoshana13]

What was her second choice?

[8thArmada]

@shoshana13 the bakers wife?

[AboDi22lalala]

Ladri di biciclette !

[1958louief]

Anything with Helen Mirren in it is a Great Film...

[dylanmaniac]

Nice choice, Dame Helen! Vigo's L'Atalante is one of my all-time favorites as well (#4). Though you didn't pronounce the title quite correctly.

[jblacktree]

You choose to be a know-nothing numbskull with a infatuations on cartoon women and C-grade actresses.Congrats.

[Ramubay]

One of those "trendy" answers that actors like to pony up because they hear its the favorite of well respected directors and critics and they think that it sounds intelligent if they say its their favorite too. Boring as hell answer. Wouldn't it have been cool if she said Deep Throat or Emmanuel in Space?

[jblacktree]

Yeah, no one could really love Vigo's film, or find it magic, or think it's pure cinema or that the acting is wonderful,or the cinematography--by the guy who shot Renoir's films and On the Waterfront--is unearthly splendid. Mirren has to be trying to sound "trendy" because her career is so on the skids and she's so broke and so affected. I pretend to like that "trendy" Bach and "pony up" that answer a lot when music stuff comes up.

[Ramubay]

Well, as they say, you can fool some of the people all of the time. I choose not to be some of the people.

[marky2112]

My favorite film is Punch Drunk Love.

[jovossuck123]

L'Atalante and most things by jean vigeo are so popular with british actors...even tony richardson and Lindsay Anderson...and pretty much everyone in on the british new wave were huge fans of it too...i wonder why

[daisychain77]

How bloody hot is this woman?!

[christentze]

@daisychain77 she's so farking hot. i have fantasies, i tell ya.

[wreyoG]

@daisychain77 cold as ice

[strl050]

Hurray for Jean Vigo!

[mithol]

Helen Mirren is the best actress alive. (noticeI said "alive")

[hanshotfirst1138]

Who would you say "was"" the best?

[mithol]

That's a much harder question to answer. I changed my original contention too. Meryl Streep is also the best actress alive, so it's a tie.

[warpx1]

Let me guess, you also have a 3rd, 4th, 5h,6th...yawn

[mithol]

No actually. I don't.

[bboybram]

Luckily I'm not the only one who gets disgusted by those types of people

[jpww1979]

Her mouth I would love her to.

[wayne763]

For Vigo, I like Zero de Conduite better.

[divaldes]

she is too hot for an older woman

[divaldes]

fuck, she's hot.

[gouvyrock]

my favorite film's "pink floyd the wall"!!!!!

[oobleckboy]

Oh, man. I love that Helen Mirren. And to hear that she & I have the same favorite film, wow! I'm on cloud 9. You can see some scenes from it here on YouTube = L'Atalante posted by rdelima1

[horakhti]

She's so yummy for an older woman.

[Beale64]

I agree.

[celebholly]

Thank you for sharing this. Could you please tell me the first movie she said? I'm having such trouble understanding what she said, probably b/c she mentions a french film.

Thanks again.

[rosebud1419]

The french film L'Atalante directed by Jean Vigo. It's a demanding watch, but good.