STOP PRESS: The Tin Drum is the film adaptation of a novel by the German nobel laureate Gunter Grass, not Thomas Mann. Apologies. ************** Feisty ol one, No, haven't seen Moulin Rouge. E McGregor is her co-star, isn't he? And never heard of Erich Seagle.. Happy 'running about'. ***** MM (Mangsirey Maila), Seen the first and the third from your WWII film list - all very fantastic. Yeah, Saving Pvt Ryan must be, head and shoulders, the best war film that's ever been made. No other film has ever catptured the level of verisimilitude (big word eh!) of battle-realities more powerfully than this one has. So much to say about the D-Day landing and the carnage that ensued. Oh, forgot to mention 'The English Patient' - another cracking film. Truly captivating performance by the delectable Juliette Binoche who plays Hana, the young nurse. Equally impressive is Naveen Andrews of the Kama Sutra fame, who plays a Sikh soldier, the bomb disposal expert. One of the most moving war time films I have seen. Hey, I better not recite the Wilfred Owen/Rupert Brooks (both Sandhurst alumni) war poems. I'm getting carried away, aren't? :)) Yeah, Casablanca. An all-time classic, it's got to be. Definitely. Not much of a Pacino fan, but I did like his performance in Godfather and A Scent of a Woman.. A Beautiful Mind is lovely - another addition to my collection. The Pianist - got the DVD but haven't watched it. ******** sanamdhun, Yes, that's the one: Grudge. Spine-chilling. Cheers. ************* A few more from my list: A River Runs through it (quite a bit of Wordsworth's poety-reciting there) Remains of the day (adaptation of the Booker winning Ishiguro novel; Hopkins at his best) Surviving Picasso (Hopkins again!) Howards End (Hopkins again! And the delectable Helena Bonham Carter; adaptation of the EM Foster novel) A Room with a View (A superb adaptation of the EM Foster novel again. With Helena Bonham Carter again - no one could play the feisty Lucy Honeychurch better than she!) Total Eclipse (Based on the life of Arthur Rimbaud, the famous French poet. DiCaprio plays the poet, David Thewlis Paul Verlaine, also a French poet and Rimbaud's homosexual lover. Worth a try) The list goes on..