dir. James Cameron (1997)
Cameron, already a celebrated director, hit the stratosphere with the release of Titanic, a dramatisation of the voyage of the infamous passenger liner. Already immortalised in film multiple times before Cameron’s effort, what sets this one apart is the manner in which the disaster movie emerges from the water to collide with the pure romance of Jack and Rose’s relationship. The extended runtime allows us to have reached the point of denoument for the class-mismatched couple just in time for the fireworks – and what fireworks they are.