PeterRS Posted Tuesday at 08:42 AM Posted Tuesday at 08:42 AM A more lighthearted thread. Can you list the five movies that you consider your favourites? And with just one sentence for each to explain why? I know most such lists are for a minimum of 10 or 20, but it seems more fun just to make the limit five. But you can also add what I term a "sleeper" - a movie that most may not have seen but which has a special meaning for you. My list: Psycho I saw this as a teenager and it was the first movie during which I jumped out of my seat at least three times and almost screamed. Lawrence of Arabia David Lean’s masterpiece epic in my view, better than Dr Zhivago and far better than Passage to India and Ryan’s Daughter. The Go-Between I loved this movie with its various intertwining themes of innocent and not so innocent love, the haves and the have nots, the searing heat of an unusual English summer and the hopes for a brilliant new century soon to be dashed and affect many of the participants. Victor Victoria Have loved this movie ever since I first saw it on a Garuda flight from Bali to Hong Kong, the unaccustomed versatility of Julie Andrews partnering a perfectly magical performance by Robert Preston and the whole gloriously funny souffle masterminded by Andrew's husband, Blake Edwards. Schindler’s List In my view Spielberg’s masterpiece which I saw in a packed small cinema in Tokyo along with 100 or so young Japanese, every one of whom was in tears at the end. My Sleeper: The Egoist I choose this brilliant 2022 Japanese gay movie I saw in Bangkok’s Sam Yan cinema complex last year. Friends had told me about it but I was not prepared for the excellence of its performances, its raw intimate scenes, its heartbreaking pain and the emotions it stirred. The full movie with English subtitles is available on the internet. This is a very brief trailer - Quote
