Okay, same as we did with 15 Authors a while back: Right off the top of your head, think of 15 films that affected you specifically (for whatever reason) over the years, films that stay with you, films that, if you stop to think for a moment, always make you feel something, maybe undefined, but definitely worth remembering. Films in which you can still see certain scenes play in your head if you focus. Films that just plain live on in your memory, no matter what. (Even if all the memory you have is 'old-lady memory' just like moi.) Here's the trick: You only have 15 minutes to do this, so the films must, obviously be ones that are sitting there just below the surface, waiting for you. (Not even the best films you ever saw, but films that are just there, hanging around and always ready to be talked about.)
Today's fifteen: (Subject to change at any moment.)
- BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN starring Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal
- THE BLACK STALLION starring Kelly Reno and the most gorgeous animal God ever put on this earth.
- LAWRENCE OF ARABIA starring Peter O'Toole
- TOP HAT starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
- A NEW LEAF starring Walter Matthau and Elaine May
- STAR WARS starring Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill and Alec Guinness (The first film in the series, no matter what he hell they're calling it now.)
- THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN starring Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen and James Coburn
- TARZAN AND HIS MATE starring Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O'Sullivan
- GIGI starring Leslie Caron, Louis Jourdan and Maurice Chevalier
- THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE starring Lawrence Harvey and Frank Sinatra
- Jean Cocteau's LA BELLE ET LA BETE (Beauty and the Beast) starring Jean Marais and Josette Day
- DIVA starring Frederic Andrei and Wilhelminia Wiggins Fernandez
- THE THIRTY NINE STEPS starring Robert Donat
- BLACK NARCISSUS starring Deborah Kerr, Sabu, Jean Simmons
- THE WIND AND THE LION starring Sean Connery and Candice Bergen
What are your 15?? Quick, quick, off the top of your head!
