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Seeing the success of my last article, on the Greatest Guitarists, I am going to continue the "pop culture" series I am running. Music being a fundamental I will constantly refer back and forth to, in future I will also cover books and other forms of media. But today I will be talking about film. And not just any film.

❤Romance❤

Perhaps the oldest film genre, it deals with the most powerful of human emotions: love.

It is therefore befitting I commence my 'Top 5: Film' list with the founding genre of the the media style.
(That didn't come out right...)

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5.

An Affair to Remember


Starring: Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr

The classic story of love-that-was-never-meant-to-be, and sorrow and sadness. But like a true romance, despite already having partners (and some grave injuries) the protagonists' love endure!

A 1957 classic, it should be watched by all not just because of Grants superior acting, but to say that you have and join the ranks of the film elite.

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4.

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir


Starring: Gene Tierney and Rex Harrison

Another Black 'n' white classic (most of these are), Tierney is a widow seeking the relaxed country life. A trying author, she meets the sea-captain ghost of her new house, and through him writes her first novel. Together they form a friendship which death will not due part.

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3.

Broke Back Mountain


Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Heath Ledger

This movie takes this place, not for its brilliant directing or story, but instead for the social issues it deals with. The LGBT community is large, real and part of society and is not a problem. The whole "in the closet" idea is the central idea of the film and executed brilliantly.

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2.

Roman Holiday


Starring: Audrey Hepburn, Gregory Peck

Audrey Hepburn, often remarked as one of the beautiful women of all time, stars in this 1953 rom-com. Acting as a Princess, Hepburn flees a palace durng her European tour. She meets, Peck, a journalist, who on discovering her true identity wants to write a story on her. They enjoy Rome in its finest, riding motorbikes, dancing on the Tiber. And their love begins to bloom...

I love this one, one of the first true romances I ever saw, it inspired me when I went to Rome, and practically designed our family's sight seeing tour.

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1.

Midnight in Paris


Starring: Owen Wilson, Marion Cotillard, Rachel McAdams

Owen Wilson plays, Gil Pender a nostalgic writer on a honeymoon in paris with his wife Inez (Adams). Woody Allen in his classic and funny style, transports Gil back in time (literally) to the days of Hemingway, Fitzgerald and Eliot. Any lover of 20^th century writer will love it. When Gil falls in live with a girl from the past the films delightful quirkiness begin to pick up.

I first saw this on a plane, on the way to Japan as a ten year old, and I have loved it ever since. Though not a classic it soon should be, not to mention the fact we studied this movie at school.

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There you go, a rather tacky list really, I wrote it like that since the genre really is in itself. Anyway, you all should watch these and show your families as they really are very good.

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