In my humble opinion, the best movie of all time is Casablanca. The amount of wonderful character actors (Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet, Claude Raines) add so much color to an already incredibly compelling story. The stakes couldn’t be higher and the action moves along briskly as Rick (a metaphor for the US in the early days of WW II) finds himself drawn in further and further until he realizes that the allies’ fight is his fight as well. The performances by the leads, Paul Heidreid and especially Ingrid Bergman and Humphrey Bogart as a world weary bar owner and spot on. The lines are immortal and to site five of them here would be to leave fifteen more of them behind. It is the most satisfying movie-going experience of my life. BTW, if the singing of Les Marsailles doesn’t make you tear up, you don’t have human emotions.

Zoey