The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

I didn't expect The Empire Strikes Back to affect me so deeply. The way Irvin Kershner handles father and son is unlike anything I'd seen before. I came out of it looking at the world differently.

The Empire Strikes Back is not background viewing. Every scene requires you. Put your phone down, dim the lights. Irvin Kershner is doing too much to be half-watched. Give it the attention it deserves.

The music in The Empire Strikes Back is so deeply married to the images that you almost can't separate them. It stays in your head days later and when you hear it again the emotions return immediately.