79. The Man in the White Suit (Alexander Mackendrick, 1951)

Wild Boys.

My top 25 favourite actors, chosen through a mixture of admiration for their talent, the films they appear in, the performances they’ve given, their personalities, how cute they are, and just how much they appeal to me.

Near misses: John C. Reilly, Mathieu Amalric, Moritz Bleibtreu, Matthew Perry.

25. Gael García Bernal
Best film: El Crimen del Padre Amaro
Best performance: Bad Education

24. Dan Futterman
Best film: Capote (as writer)
Best performance: Urbania

23. Will Smith
Best film: Six Degrees of Separation
Best performance: Ali

22. Shia LaBeouf
Best film: Holes
Best performance: A Guide to Recognising Your Saints

21. Jack Black
Best film: The School of Rock
Best performance: High Fidelity

20. Tom Hollander
Best film: Pride & Prejudice
Best performance: Pride & Prejudice

19. Joaquin Phoenix
Best film: Walk the Line
Best performance: Buffalo Soldiers

18. Gregory Peck
Best film: Roman Holiday
Best performance: To Kill a Mockingbird

17. Jeremy Irons
Best film: Lolita
Best performance: Kafka

16. River Phoenix
Best film: Stand By Me
Best performance: My Own Private Idaho

15. David Mitchell
Best film: Magicians
Best performance: TV’s "Peep Show"

14. Cary Grant
Best film: An Affair to Remember
Best performance: Notorious

13. Jake Gyllenhaal
Best film: Brokeback Mountain
Best performance: Brokeback Mountain

12. Rupert Grint
Best film: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Best performance: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

11. Jack Lemmon
Best film: The Apartment
Best performance: Save the Tiger

10. Jean-Pierre Léaud
Best film: The 400 Blows
Best performance: The 400 Blows

09. Philip Seymour Hoffman
Best film: Capote
Best performance:Capote

08. Paddy Considine
Best film: My Summer of Love
Best performance: Dead Man’s Shoes

07. Morgan Freeman
Best film: The Shawshank Redemption
Best performance: Se7en

06. James Stewart
Best film: Rear Window
Best performance: Anatomy of a Murder

05. Haley Joel Osment
Best film: A.I.: Artificial Intelligence
Best performance: A.I.: Artificial Intelligence

04. Leonardo DiCaprio
Best film: William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet
Best performance: The Aviator

03. Tim Robbins
Best film: The Shawshank Redemption
Best performance: The Shawshank Redemption

02. Alec Guinness
Best film: Kind Hearts and Coronets
Best performance: A Bridge on the River Kwai

01. Marlon Brando
Best film: On the Waterfront
Best performance: A Streetcar Named Desire

Tags: Marlon Brando, Alec Guinness, Tim Robbins, Jake Gyllenhaal, cute actors, Harry Potter, classic cinema, movies, films, cinema, acting.

80. The School of Rock (Richard Linklater, 2003)

81. Stand By Me (Rob Reiner, 1986).

R.I.P., River. What a talent. What a waste of a life. :(

Tell me what you see.

I'm going to post 10 random images (but mainly of flowers, as I've been taking quite a few photos of them recently), and I want you to tell me the films which they remind you of. I will then reveal whose mind mirrors that of my own.

01. Harry.
02. Potter
03. Ate.
04. The.
05. Philosopher's.
06. Stone.
07. With
08. His
09. Friends.
10. Yay!

82. The Woman in the Window (Fritz Lang, 1944).