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The shower scene in Psycho featured on the Observer readers’ list, but only in second placeDirector Neil Jordan said he’d always turned down the chance to write about his favourite films, ‘Not because I can’t think of them, but because I can far more readily think of my favourite bits of movies than my favourite movies. Many dull movies are redeemed by unexpected, accidental bits of poetry,’ he said – and actual bits of poems, which brought a ‘smart but decidedly commercial film to a different kind of life’ in Four Weddings and a Funeral with that Auden recital.Likewise, Rutger Hauer’s final speech in the rain in Blade Runner always seemed to Jordan ‘like a quote from Paradise Lost’. Continue reading...