Four of David Stratton’s favourites you can stream right now

JAWS (Binge) “I was director of the Sydney Film Festival in 1975, and I had to choose between two films that nobody had seen for closing night. One, a film called Jaws, by a young director named

Steven Spielberg. The other was TheDayOfTheLocust, based on a famous novel about Hollywood in the 1930s. I chose Locust. Big mistake. It’s a terrible picture! When I saw Jaws about a month later, I knew it should have been the film. It changed many things.”

BREAKERMORANT (Netflix) This classic 1980 war drama starring Edward Woodward and Bryan Brown was “one of those films made when the Australian New Wave was at its height. Bruce Beresford can be an uneven director, but at his best – which he is here – he knows how to tell a story, work with actors and provide compelling visuals.”

LORENZO’SOIL

(Binge, Foxtel Go)

George Miller’s 1992 tearjerker about a couple (Nick Nolte and Susan Sarandon) fighting the clock to save their terminally ill son is “deeply moving”, says Stratton. “George put his heart and soul into this. If you look at this film and then MadMax:Fury Road, you would not think they were made by the same director. That’s a huge credit to his ability.”

MILLIONDOLLARBABY (Binge, Foxtel Go) “I’m a huge fan of Clint Eastwood and think he is the last of the great classical mainstream Hollywood directors,” says Stratton, who calls Eastwood’s Oscar-winning 2004 boxing drama “a tragic story, told with such emotion. The last part of this movie is extraordinary. And Clint makes directing it all look so easy.”