Films to see once in your life

The list you lend to someone who is starting to take cinema seriously.

Bookmarks

1. Parasite

   5/5

   Bong Joon-ho, 2019. The social comedy that turns without warning.

2. Tokyo Story

   5/5

   Ozu, 1953. Nothing happens, everything is said.

3. 2001: A Space Odyssey

   5/5

   Kubrick, 1968. Still ahead of its time, fifty years on.

4. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

   5/5

   Leone, 1966. Three stares, one theme, an unbeatable finale.

5. The Godfather

   5/5

   Coppola, 1972. Family as a business, and the reverse.

6. Le Trou

   5/5

   Becker, 1960. The prison-break film all the others answer to.

7. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

   4/5

   Demy, 1964. A musical that ends badly, in saturated colour.

8. Chungking Express

   4/5

   Wong Kar-wai, 1994. Hong Kong at night, and expired tins of pineapple.