The Thinking Machine 31

What are the films that most formed us in earliest childhood? There are usually not cinephile classics or masterpieces; they might be movies we have never since re-watched, and that we even actively mis-remember. Yet some part of our inner universe, our private mythology, is indelibly contained in their ghostly trace. Here is a case in point: one of many screen tales told about a fantastic journey to the earth’s centre, made in the year that a certain film critic was born…