10 films Bilal Lashari wants everyone to watch

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Forrest Gump (1994)



Director: Robert Zemeckis

Forrest Gump is a film that gives you perspective and life inspiration. It is technical and yet full of grace and soul.

Back to the Future trilogy (1985, 1989, 1990)



Director: Robert Zemeckis

Back to the Future is the defining time travel trilogy. These iconic, smart and masterfully crafted entertainers have characters that will make you fall in love with them. Zemeckis makes you believe that movie magic exists.

Requiem for a Dream (2000)



Director: Darren Aronofsky

This film is a cult classic; an intense, stylised psychological thriller, with a chilling soundtrack, that leaves you disturbed for days.

Citizen Kane (1941)



Director: Orson Welles

Citizen Kane makes you marvel at the genius of Welles. For film-makers, this is a master class on camera direction, amongst other things. It is often considered the greatest film ever made and for good reason.

The Theory of Everything (2014)



Director: James Marsh

Eddie Redmayne’s unbelievable performance in the film leaves you full of gratitude for all that you have.
Borat (2006)



Director: Larry Charles

This Sacha Baron Cohen film might just be the funniest movie ever. 

The Truman Show (1998)



Director: Peter Weir

The Truman Show reminds you that your life is a one big, scripted sitcom.


Rush (2013)



Director: Ron Howard

An adrenaline-packed, powerful story of rivalry, this film is Hollywood done right.


Inception (2010)



Director: Christopher Nolan

A surreal, inventive and cerebral masterpiece, Inception is Nolan let loose and at his best.


Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)



Director: Michel Gondry

This is an imaginative and dreamy love story told by the brilliant collaboration of Gondry and Charlie Kaufman.

 

The writer is a film-maker whose directorial debut ‘Waar’ (2013) was a blockbuster. He is currently making the reboot of ‘Maula Jatt’. He tweets @blashari

Published in The Express Tribune, June 27^th, 2016.

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