It turns out I’m horrendously ignorant when it comes to cinema.
This revelation started out innocently enough with my admission of never having seen Forrest Gump the whole way through. This led to much ridicule from those present, which reminded me a great deal of the time my Jiu-Jitsu friends found out I’d never seen The Karate Kid (I WAS GIVEN PRESSUPS). Cue the inevitable ‘5 classic films you have to have seen’ conversation… Ok, let’s face it, there are a LOT of classics I haven’t seen!
As a consequence, I’ve had a bit of a brainwave… Using the IMDB Top 250 list as a reference point, I’m going to make my way through the classics in a sort of ‘let’s make sure Len never gets ridiculed/pressups for not having seen a film’ crash course in all things cinematic. My coursework? Every Monday I’ll write about the film I’ve seen as proof that I’m actually following through with this crazy plan. I’ll call it Movie Monday, because who doesn’t love a bit of alliteration?
It looks like I’ll be watching a lot of films in the next few months… I’ll make sure to post regular reports about my crash course in the classics, starting with, appropriately, Forrest Gump, coming in at number 38. on the Top 250!
So over to you; what are your Top 5 films? My personal 5 favourites are:
Das Leben der Anderen (The Lives of Others)
El laberinto del Fauno (Pan’s Labyrinth)
Surprise surprise, two of my five are auf Deutsch…
