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My Fair Lady (1964)
Wonderful!
My Fair Lady is truly one of the most wonderful musicals in the history of film. It completely deserves to be on AFI's list. The magnitude of this film was truly one of kind though not surprising considering George Cukor as the director (Gone with the Wind). His films were generally of epic grandeur and that's part of the charm. This movie may not have the special effects that movies have today, i.e. The Matrix, etc. but the charm of the movie is incomparible. It truly is a legend in it's own right. To take a Broadway musical, based on Pygmalion, and turn it into a movie takes hard work and is generally unprecedented. It truly takes genius. The sets (London in the 19th century), the costumes (gorgeous), and the characters are phenomenal. Rex Harrison plays a very convincing professor Henry Higgins. And Audrey Hepburn is stunning as well as charming. Her transformation from a common flower girl into a lady is, at times, breathtaking. This movie deserved it's 8 Oscars!! It's a winner!
Pinjar: Beyond Boundaries... (2003)
One of the best!
I have been a Hindi movie buff since the age of 4 but never in my life have a watched such a moving and impacting movie, especially as a Hindi film. In the past several years, I had stopped watching contemporary Hindi movies and reverted to watching the classics (Teesri Kasam, Mere Huzoor, Madhumati, Mother India, Sholay, etc.) But this movie changed everything. It is one of the best movies I have ever seen. I found it not only to be moving but also found it to be very educational for someone who is a first generation Indian woman growing up in America. It helped me to understand my own family history, which was always something very abstract to me. But, to "see" it, feel it and understand it helped me to sympathize with the generations before me and the struggle that Indian people endured. The film helped to put many things into perspective for me, especially considering the current world events. I never thought that a movie could change the way I think like this before... it did. The plot is fantastic, the acting superb and the direction is flawless. Two thumbs up!