For half a century Tom Brook has stalked the red carpet, interviewing the world’s most famous faces, from Hollywood icons of yesteryear to present day movie stars.
From old school legends like Bette Davis and Jimmy Cagney to contemporary stars like Meryl Streep, Renee Zellweger, Timothee Chalamet, and Lady Gaga, Tom’s talked to them all.
Now a new BBC programme celebrate’s the incredible career of the Talking Movies presenter as this month marks 50 years since Tom joined the Corporation as as trainee reporter.
“I never want to stop doing what I do” the 72-year-old veteran reporter says.
“I won’t retire until the BBC sack me. I have never lost the quest for a good story. Put a microphone in my hand and it is almost an animalistic urge to get a good quote.”
Having seen thousands of films, attended countless premieres, film festivals and almost ever Oscars ceremony for the past 30 years Tom Brook, knows a thing of two about the movies.
Now in an exclusive chat he reveals to the Daily Express his top five movies of all time.
Here are the BBC’s Tom Brook, who is also a member of the Critics Choice Association reveals his top five must watch movies of all time:
1. Citizen Kane: the story of newspaper tycoon Charles Foster Kane. This is so remarkable because of its structure and cinematography and how it was put together by Orson Welles when he was only 25 years old. Not always the easiest film to watch but so impressive.
2. Goodfellas: Martin Scorsese’s crime drama portrays the frantic paranoid world of New York mobsters. It has one of the best uninterrupted long tracking shots in the history of cinema as Ray Liotta leads Lorraine Bracco into the Copacabana nightclub in New York introducing her to the mobster world.
3. The Sound of Music: Regarded by many as overly sentimental, to me it’s a classic Hollywood musical that works on every level. I love it for the sheer joy that it brings to its fans – something I witnessed first hand last summer when I went on a Sound of Music singalong bus tour in Salzburg visiting locations where the film was set.
4. Sentimental Value: the small Norwegian drama that just won an Oscar for Best International Feature. I loved it for its classic Scandinavian storytelling from its gifted director Joachim Trier. Also the film shows that although we may have conflict with others, we can if we try at least agree to respect individual differences and get on with life.
5. Anora: The comedy-drama portraying a young sex worker in New York which I loved because of the generosity of spirit that its director Sean Baker extends to all his characters. He is one of my favourite directors because of his honest, realistic depiction of the authentic individuals who inhabit his movies. He’s one of the best directors of his generation.
* Watch ‘Talking Movies: Tom Brook’s 50 Years with the BBC’ on the BBC News channel at 12.30 & 20.30 on Saturday 25 April and 00.30 on Sunday 26 April. It will also be available to stream on BBC iPlayer
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