PopcornTreeCt

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/news/1...ith_eva_mendes

Secrets & Lies (1996, Mike Leigh)

"I'm a huge Mike Leigh fan and would love to work with him. His approach to filming sounds fascinating and exciting. I understand that he doesn't give his actors a script but instead hands them scenes and encourages improvisation. I'm not sure if this is indeed his process, but the result is nothing short of beautiful intimate moments. And this film is full of them! At times it feels so intimate it's almost voyeuristic. To me, that's what makes a performance really exciting...when you're almost embarrassed to be peeking into peoples' lives. And that happens a lot in this perfect emotional drama."

Fitzcarraldo (1982, Werner Herzog)

"I had the pleasure of working with the director of this film, Werner Herzog, recently. He is one of my all-time favorite filmmakers. In Fitzcarraldo, he manages to bring an opera house into a Peruvian jungle. What an amazing concept!"

Network (1976, Sidney Lumet)

"Duvall, Dunaway, Finch, Holden and Ned Beatty...are you kidding?

This film is as true today as it was when they made it over 30 years ago. It's just amazing how little things haven't changed since then.

Faye Dunaway kills it in this film. Her body language is so precise and her character's ambition is simply frightening. Ned Beatty's monologue alone makes this one worth watching."

The Big Lebowski (1998, Joel & Ethan Coen)

"I would die to work with the Coen Brothers. I love their sense of humor. This film is hysterical on so many levels, but I guess it's the diverse group of characters that really gets to me. Jeff Bridges is perfection as "the dude" and Julianne Moore kills it as Maude, but my favorite may be John Turturro as "Jesus." To me, this is a perfect comedy. Oh yeah and the soundtrack is SICK!!!"

City of Lost Children (1995, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Marc Caro)

"Nobody portrays children in cinema better than the French. Jeunet and Caro direct the amazing Ron Perlman in this surrealist fairy tale. He plays a scientist that kidnaps children so he can steal their dreams in hopes of slowing down his own aging process. So beautiful, so French."

SPiRAL

I love her.

Cosmic Bus

For some reason, the first thing that popped into my head was that image of Paris Hilton holding a Neutral Milk Hotel CD.

Does Rotten Tomatoes do a lot of these 'stars favorite films'?

iamiam

I call BS.

RichC2

She got the description for City of Lost Children wrong, well the character (Ron Perlman isn't the scientist), but otherwise nice picks.

Supermallet

Now if only she could pick such good films to actually be in.

NoirFan

Is "kills it" some kind of hip-hop lingo?

Charlie Goose

I would love to taste her and find out.

BullGooseLoony

In my circle of friends, "kills it" is usually a bad thing; like killing the joke or the mood. But she seems to mean it as a positive.

hardercore

So when do we get her actual list of favourites?

tylergfoster

I think good taste made her seem hotter.

Giantrobo

[cough]Her publicist picked those[/cough]

Michael Corvin

Yep. Just seems like a stunt to get get better roles in the future.

starman9000

Kills it usually means "did a really great job." You hear it a lot in sports and music. (not just hip hop)

jiffy97

Guess we would have to know the context of how they got the info. Was it an interview where she just answered off the cuff or something that was pre-scripted or e-mailed?

BullGooseLoony

Clearly.

My guess is that some she legitimately likes, but it seems like she's listing directors she wants to work with to elevate her career after "The Women" and "Ghost Rider."

islandclaws

No way these are few favorite films. No chick lists Fitzcarraldo as one of her top FIVE of all-time.

NoirFan

"And that happens a lot in this perfect emotional drama."
"I had the pleasure of working with the director of this film, Werner Herzog, recently."

Sounds pre-scripted to me. Her publicist could have at least bothered to get the characters in City of Lost Children straight.

"I'm a huge Mike Leigh fan and would love to work with him."
"I would die to work with the Coen Brothers."

Be a little more obvious, why don't you.

starman9000

You guys are weird. Do you really think you have to be some phenomenal actress to enjoy great movies? And she obviously typed out her answers, it wasn't some off the cuff interview, nor was it presented that way.

Drexl

It might be believable if it was Sam Mendes.

PopcornTreeCt

You guys are killing the fantasy!

Senor Javi

Yeah, this never seemed right to me. I remember she was interviewed by AFI a couple years ago. She said her favorite movie was Anchorman, which seems far more likely. Just hearing her talk about movies in interviews, it seems like she doesn't know too much about them. The way she wrote that seems way too contrived, like she was trying to say things that sound really good but offer no real insight into the movies. There's no depth. I think that if you talked to her at length about these movies you'd find that she doesn't know too much about them.

The Antipodean

Wait, where's "Ghost Rider"?

Sean O'Hara

Astonishing -- every film she picked was made since she was born.

PopcornTreeCt

Well, there have been some good movies made in the last 30 years.