Ten Films There Ought to Be a Law Against Watching on Television

I shudder to think of anyone discovering these for the first time on the small screen

Lawrence of Arabia (1962). Credit: Sony

I am a cinema fundamentalist. Cinema is the true faith. Television is the antichrist. When the VHS revolution came about, I was having none of this “I’ll wait till it comes out on video” piffle. Watch a low-res, pan and scan, mono version on a 4:3 television instead? Nope.

In a similar way, today I utterly reject al…