Chris Doyle, cinematographer Best film of 1995 Fallen Angels (dir: Wong Kar-wei, HK; Leon Lai, Michelle Reis) and In The Heat Of The Sun (dir: Jiang Wen, China; Xia Yu, Ning Jing, Geng Lee). Angels is the closest I have come to translating the textures, tones and subtexts of the world as I see it into film. It's Hong Kong: energetic, musically adventurous and refutes the myth of eternal love with humour and style. The father/son video sequence still makes me cry.

Heat Of The Sun is the most sensual and perceptive coming-of-age film that I've seen. If Deng Xiaoping sees it he'll start another Cultural Revolution just for the sex! Best film Our next one! (Temptress Moon - directed by Chen Kaige; starring Gong Li and Leslie Cheung - opening early May.) Worst film The worst now could be the best in a decade or two, and vice-versa. Everything's relative, especially in film. Also any film that lacks sincerity.

Scariest film It's difficult to decide. So many films intending to be thrillers end up as horror films - most Category III films, for example - and so do most so-called documentaries. I have a Chinese director friend who is finishing the first filmed (and very graphic) account of a Beijing hospital's advances in surgical sex change. It will be six hours of viewing time about 'his' lifetime of confusion, the 16-hour operation and 'her' half-year's recuperation. Doesn't that scare you? Most disturbing film Most Chinese-American films such as Pushing Hands (dir: Ang Lee, 1991, Taiwan; Sihung Lung, Lai Wang), A Great Wall (dir: Peter Wang, 1985, China; Wang Xiao, Li Qinqin), The Joy Luck Club (dir: Wayne Wang, 1993, US; Kieu Chinh, Tsai Chin) and The Wedding Banquet (dir: Ang Lee, 1993, US/Taiwan; Winston Chao, May Chin). These do both Westerners and Chinese the disservice of trying to explain Chinese culture through formalistic, Hollywood-ish conventions, stereotypes and (hopefully unconscious) reverse patronisation. How can the gay community embrace such a homophobic film as The Wedding Banquet which suggests it's OK to be gay as long as the 'little woman' approves?! Funniest film Derek Jarman's Blue (1993) is two hours of nothing but a totally blue screen with some of the most poetic and moving music, sounds, singing and narrative made for film ... and one very long, loud and effective fart in the face of what made him start and finish - AIDS. Since he lived well, he laughed loudest. And so should we, in release and exhilaration at the knowledge and courage he found to share.

Seen most often Temptress Moon - thousands of minutes of rushes, recriminations, discussions and finally editing and printing: a year of my life (and that of many others) condensed into two hours of your time.

Saddest film Even Stephen Wong King films, such as King Of Gamblers, make me cry  though you can't print why! Best actor/actress All of them. It's such a merciless vocation. They come and go like fashion, never really knowing why or how. They're like children in that need for reflection, encouragement and love. They work harder, sleep less, are more loved, hated, disillusioned and 'higher' in one week than most of us will be in a lifetime ... no wonder they're often confused or naive when it comes to life.

John Dykes, television host and film critic Best film of 1995 Il Postino (dir: Michael Radford, UK/Italy; Massimo Troisi, Phillipe Noiret). A close one this - it could have been Babe (dir: Chris Noonan, Australia), The Usual Suspects (dir: Bryan Singer, US; Stephen Baldwin, Gabriel Byrne, Kevin Spacey) or even Desperado (dir: Robert Rodriguez, US; Antonio Banderas, Joaquim de Almeida, Salma Hayed). I haven't laughed so much in years, but when you consider that an actor (Troisi) died because of the sheer strain of making his dream come true, you know you're looking at something special.

Best film Entertainment-wise I'd look at either the first or second Godfather (dir: Francis Ford Coppola, 1971/1974, US; Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, James Caan, Robert Duvall). In terms of art and morality, you can't beat a good Bergman, such as The Seventh Seal (dir: Ingmar Bergman, 1956, Sweden; Max von Sydow, Gunnar Bjornstrand). The Japanese do the epics best; Seven Samurai (dir: Akira Kurosawa, 1954, Japan; Takashi Shimura, Toshiro Mifune), Ran (dir: Akira Kurosawa, 1986, France/Japan; Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao).

Worst film Police Academy IV - Citizens On Patrol (dir: Jim Drake, 1987, US; Steve Guttenberg, Sharon Stone). Failing that, virtually anything that contains kung fu. I hate that stuff.

Scariest film The Birds (dir: Alfred Hitchcock, 1963, US; Tippi Hedren, Rod Taylor, Jessica Tandy).

Most disturbing film The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (dir: Tobe Hooper, 1974, US; Marilyn Burns, Gunmar Hansen) or Blue Velvet (dir: David Lynch, 1986, US; Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper, Laura Dern). Are people like that? I guess so judging from the newspapers. But it's still mighty scary to see them on the big screen.

Funniest film I laugh myself silly at classic Steve Martin, like The Man With Two Brains (dir: Carl Reiner, 1983, US; Steve Martin, Kathleen Turner) and the classic Ealing comedies as well as the odd Carry On film.

Seen most often Bull Durham (dir: Ron Shelton, 1988, US; Kevin Costner, Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins) or True Romance (dir: Tony Scott, 1993, US; Christian Slater, Patricia Arquette, Dennis Hopper, Gary Oldman). The former because it's about sex and sport (and makes perfect Sunday morning hangover viewing). The latter because it's sooooo cool.

Saddest film Either something about a terminal illness - Shadowlands (dir: Richard Attenborough, 1993, UK; Anthony Hopkins, Debra Winger, Michael Denison) or Love Story (dir: Arthur Hiller, 1970, US; Ali MacGraw, Ryan O'Neal) - or something more spiritual, like Hiroshima Mon Amour (dir: Alain Resnais, 1959, France/Japan; Emmanuelle Riva, Bernard Fresson).

Best actor This is impossible. Jean-Paul Belmondo (Bout De Souffle, Borsalino, Femme Est Une Femme), Lawrence Olivier (Hamlet, Henry V, Richard III), Robert De Niro (Godfather II, Mean Streets, Raging Bull), Daniel Day Lewis (My Left Foot, My Beautiful Laundrette, In The Name Of The Father), Harvey Keitel (Mean Streets, Reservoir Dogs, Taxi Driver), Robert Mitchum (The Big Sleep, Cape Fear - twice - The Longest Day), Pee-Wee Herman (Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Big Top Pee Wee, Buffy The Vampire Hunter) ... the list goes on and on.

Best actress Faye Dunaway (The Champ, Bonnie And Clyde, Chinatown) has always done something for me.

Vicki Ooi, theatre critic Best film of 1995 Braveheart (dir: Mel Gibson, US; Mel Gibson, Sophie Marceau, Patrick McGoohan), because it sets us an inspirational ideal to follow in this world of changing values.

Best film Bicycle Thieves (dir: Vittorio De Sica, 1948, Italy; Lamberto Maggiorani, Erzo Staiola) represents a way of life and values which we can't find anymore.

Worst film Paris, Texas (dir: Wim Wenders, 1984, West Germany/France; Harry Dean Stanton, Dean Stockwell, Nastassja Kinski). It made me feel like a fool! I've seen this film two or three times and I still don't understand it. I don't think you have to agree with a film for it to be good, but it has to at least be comprehensible.

Scariest film Psycho (dir: Alfred Hitchcock, 1960, US; Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh). I still can't have a shower without thinking of this film. Movies filled with special effects like Poltergeist don't scare me. It's the ordinary things that suddenly turn strange that's scary - not monsters! Most disturbing film A Clockwork Orange (dir: Stanley Kubrick, 1971, UK; Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Michael Bates, Warren Clarke) came out at a time when we still believed in morality and this film challenged concepts of right and wrong. Nothing shocks us this much anymore.

Funniest film I laughed non-stop during A Fish Called Wanda (dir: Charles Crichton, 1988, UK; John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline, Michael Palin).

Seen most often I must have seen Casablanca (dir: Michael Curtiz, 1942, US; Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains) 15 times. I love it. I showed it to my university students ... they thought it was dumb because it was in black and white, and didn't have any special effects or sex.

Saddest film Sunflower (dir: Vittorio De Sica, 1969, Italy/France) in which Marcello Mastroianni and Sophia Loren play a couple in love who are forced to part because of the war and afterwards they can't go back because they're leading different lives.

Best actor It's got to be Bogie - Humphrey Bogart (Angels With Dirty Faces, The Big Sleep, The Maltese Falcon). He's so dishy and exudes so much charisma without all that muscular appeal that is so popular these days.

Best actress Meryl Streep (Kramer Vs Kramer, Out Of Africa, The French Lieutenant's Woman) is such a fine film star. She's versatile and looked good even when playing a frumpy housewife in The Bridges Of Madison County! John Paul Massey, KPS purchasing manager Best film of 1995 KPS Member's Choice was the Oscar winner Forrest Gump (dir: Robert Zemeckis, US; Tom Hanks, Sally Field, Gary Sinise, Robin Wright), closely followed by the surprise summer hit Outbreak (dir: Wolfgang Peterson, US; Dustin Hoffman, Morgan Freeman, Donald Sutherland, Rene Russo). My personal choice was Apollo 13 (dir: Ron Howard, US; Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, Gary Sinise, Ed Harris) for the strong acting performances and realism.

Best film Video renters named the action blockbuster Speed (Dir: Jan De Bont, 1994, US; Keanu Reeves, Dennis Hopper, Sandra Bullock) as their all-time favourite, but Forrest Gump will probably take the number one spot in 1996. My favourite changes each month, but having recently seen Seven Samurai, this is my current choice for the sheer character-depth throughout the film.

Worst film All KPS films have been rented by more than a few customers so it is difficult to define the worst. But I tortured myself for more than 30 minutes when I watched It's Pat (dir: Adam Bernstein, 1994, US; Julia Sweeny, David Foley) last year - why do they make these films? Most disturbing film My choice would be Natural Born Killers (dir: Oliver Stone, 1994, US; Juliette Lewis, Woody Harrelson, Robert Downey Jr, Tommy Lee Jones). It is scary to not only know that people like this exist in society, but that society is willing to sensationalise them for their acts.

Funniest film For KPS viewers, Jim Carrey takes number one and two spots with The Mask (dir: Charles Russell, 1994, US; Cameron Diaz) and Ace Ventura - Pet Detective (dir: Tom Shadyac, 1994, US; Courteney Fox). My choice for last year would be Les Visiteurs (dir: Jean Marie Poire, 1993, France; Jean Reno, Christian Clavier) about a French medieval knight visiting modern-day France. But for all time, the Monty Python team's historical tales - Monty Python And The Holy Grail (dir: Terry Gilliam/Terry Jones, 1974, UK; Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin) and Monty Python's Life Of Brian (dir: Terry Jones, 1979, UK) will never be surpassed.

Seen most often KPS renters have been heard complaining 'but the end is at the beginning, then the start is at the end again' as they rent Pulp Fiction (dir: Quentin Tarantino, 1994, US; John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Harvey Keitel, Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson) for the second, third and fourth time. Their choice is also mine, as the profane dialogue can be heard time and time again and still keep you enthralled. I've watched the first 10 minutes of Terminator 2: Judgment Day (Dir: James Cameron, 1991, US; Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Edward Furlong) countless times, but this is for exercising my AV system and annoying the neighbours! Most moving film True stories on film always have a strong effect so I would say Apollo 13 and Alive (Dir: Frank Marshall, 1993, US; Ethan Hawke, Vincent Spano, Josh Hamilton). But after watching Star Wars (dir: George Lucas, 1977, US; Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Peter Cushing, Alec Guinness) as a receptive 10-year-old, I was stunned for days.

Best actor My personal favourite is Alec Guinness in The Bridge On The River Kwai (dir: David Lean, 1957, UK; William Holden, Jack Hawkins, Andre Morell). Others would include Gene Hackman (Bonnie And Clyde, The French Connection, The Poseidon Adventure), Daniel Day-Lewis, Harvey Keitel, Dennis Hopper (Apocalypse Now, Blue Velvet, Easy Rider), Robert De Niro and Jack Nicholson (Batman, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Terms Of Endearment).

Best actress Tough, tough choice but it's a draw between Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast At Tiffany's (dir: Blake Edwards, 1961, US; George Peppard, Patricia Neal) and Marilyn Monroe in Some Like It Hot (dir: Billy Wilder, 1959, US; Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon).

Lindzay Chan, actress Best film of 1995 Queen Margot (dir: Patrice Chereau, France; Virna Lisi, Isabelle Adjani). Plot, character, location, camera, acting ... the only film of 1995 that had everything together. It wasn't the best in anything particular, but it was consistently in the top five of everything.

Best film Gone With The Wind (dir: Victor Fleming, 1939, US; Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh). Melodrama and schmaltz, tacky plot, cheap sets - total style. Leigh was the perfect Queen Bitch, all fear and cunning.

Worst film Too many to mention but the most recent was Fair Game (dir: Andrew Sipes, 1995, US; Cindy Crawford, William Baldwin). The plot was far-fetched from the basic premise (gangster wants to kill lawyer when he could avoid problem by killing client) to execution.

Scariest film Night Of The Living Dead (dir: George A. Romero, 1969, US; Judith O'Dea, Duane Jones). Romero at his best - cheap sets, cheap plots, unknown performers and inspired direction.

Most disturbing film Betty Blue (dir: Jean-Jaques Beineix, 1986, France; Beatrice Dalle, Jean-Hughes Anglade, Consuello De Haviland). It showed the fear behind mental illness and the invidious effects it has on everyone who comes into contact with it.

Funniest film Some Like It Hot, the only film, apart from The Boston Strangler (dir: Richard Fleischer, 1968, US; Henry Fonda, George Kennedy, Mike Kellin), in which Tony Curtis proved he can act. His scenes as a pseudo millionaire with Marilyn Monroe make up for all his subsequent work.

Seen most often Gone With The Wind and Breakfast At Tiffany's. Beautiful people, especially the late Audrey Hepburn - the woman I would most like to look like - living a fantasy life. As escapist as Lewis Carroll in their way, even if full of worries.

Saddest film All Mine To Give (dir: Allen Reisner, 1957, US; Cameron Mitchell, Glynis Johns, Patty McCormack), a puberty special, designed to rub the rawest nerve with dying parents, a selfless big brother and saccharine-sweet family. It sounds cynical but it isn't. This film is a tear-jerker.

Best actor Many candidates, no winner. No male actors seem to have the ability to play every kind of role, compared with Katharine Hepburn (African Queen, Guess Who's Coming To Dinner, On Golden Pond) and Meryl Streep.

Best actress Meryl Streep. She can play any role without embarrassment, from the heights of Kramer Vs Kramer (dir: Robert Benton, 1979, US; Dustin Hoffman, Jane Alexander, Justin Henry) to the pits of The River Wild (dir: Curtis Hanson, 1994, US; Kevin Bacon).

Jackie Chan, actor Best film of 1995: Forrest Gump.

Scariest film: The Exorcist (dir: William Friedkin, 1973, US; Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow).

Most disturbing film: The Godfather.

Seen most often: The Sound Of Music (dir: Robert Wise, 1965, US; Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer).

Best actor: Gene Kelly in Singin' In The Rain (dir: Stanley Donen/Gene Kelly, 1968, UK; Gene Kelly, Donald O'Conner, Debbie Reynolds).

Best actress: Barbara Streisand (The Prince Of Tides, Yentl, Funny Girl) and Jodie Foster (The Accused, The Silence Of The Lambs, Little Man Tate).

Raymond Chow, Golden Harvest Best film of 1995 Summer Snow (dir: Ann Hui On-wah, HK; Siao Fong-fong, Law Ka-ying, Roy Chiao Hung). The film shows that any subject matter, even 'serious' or 'difficult' themes, can be filmed entertainingly.

Best film Casablanca ... pure cinema. A real story with a solid theme told by great craftsmen through enduring characters you can really care about.

Worst film No one sets out to make a bad film but so many end up that way, for many reasons. There are too many to single out any one.

Scariest film Les Diaboliques (dir: Henry-George Clouzot, 1955, France; Simone Signoret, Vera Clouzot). Great scary atmosphere with real suspense and a twist in the tail. (I was tempted to say, 'Any film that goes over budget.') Most disturbing film Schindler's List (Steven Spielberg, 1993, US; Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes). Don't ask, just see it.

Funniest film The Private Eyes (dir: Michael Hui, HK; Michael Hui, Sam Hui). Michael Hui is the quintessential Everyman, displaying all the fears, failings and indestructible spirit of humanity; it transcends language, borders and culture.

Seen most often The Great Waltz (dir: Andrew L. Stone, 1972, US; Horst Buchholz, Mary Costa). This was one of the first films I saw. I watch it again and again - not just for what it is but for what it recalls.

Saddest film Incompreso (dir: Luigi Comencini, 1966, Italy; Anthony Quayle, Stefano Colagrandi, Simone Grannozzi).

Best actor Errol Flynn (Adventures Of Don Juan, Adventures Of Robin Hood, The Charge Of The Light Brigade) was my favourite in my early days. He had so much vitality and energy; he seemed to be living several different lives at once. Later I preferred Clark Gable. He epitomised the Hollywood 'star' for almost 30 years but never seemed to lose his impudent sense of humour.

Best actress Ingrid Bergman (Casablanca, Murder On The Orient Express, For Whom The Bell Tolls, Intermezzo). The perfect combination of innocence, strength and beauty.