Is any fictional character more perfect for today’s chaotic and isolationist times than Gene Hackman’s ‘Harry Caul’, from the ‘The Conversation’. Harry is one of film’s great characters, a security expert obsessed with his own security and privacy.

The film is by Francis Ford Coppola and was tipped out of Oscar for Best Pic by ‘Godfather II’, another of Coppola’s films (Chinatown was also up that year – a bit of a golden era). The films might be famous but I doubt many could name the winners of Best Actor, Best Actress, from that year, but I remember as a kid seeing the movies they were in and loved them both.

Art Carney in ‘Harry and Tonto’ (okay, I had assumed a western when I went but…