by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent
As everything with Sean Young, who’s busy these days with ComicCon’s, Film work, TV Guest spots, Celebrity appearances, plus a TCM gig with Disney Cruises, the final result is spectacular… if you wait long enough. Actually, that’s an inside joke because actor Sean Young delivers more than promised for her Top 10 assignment. The praying photo of her above is by none other than the late Robert Mapplethorpe.
As they say in Hollywood? “Better good, than good and early.”
Even when the iconic actor fires off a text to explain why her favorite film list is late, even that is spectacular in its own way knowing she just got back from London on a shoot. “Quendrith, Sorry for delay. I have no excuse. Just a slower human nowadays.” Like a boss, she’s managed to include a reaction quote for each choice. Here’s the reveal…
Sean Young’s Favorite Films of All Time
1. 愛のコリーダ [Ai no Korīda, In the Realm of the Senses] (JAPAN)
Director: Nagisa Ōshima
Release Date (Japan) - October 16, 1976
A very controversial sex-heavy recap of a 1936 love affair, murder, and wow-finish that penetrates the boundaries of sexual representation on film (ie; the MPA would have a coronary watching it for a rating).
Sean Young: “The strangest movie I have ever seen about a topic that isn't easy. Sexual obsession.”
2. BEING THERE
Director: Hal Ashby
- Release Date (U.S.) - December 19, 1979
A razor sharp dramedy, this satire showcases a dull-normal literal gardener whose television-inspired soundbite way of speaking is interpreted as profound by his peers, who launch him into political stardom.
Sean Young: “A paradox and an inside joke. What is intelligence anyway?”
3. NO WAY OUT
Director: Roger Donaldson (1987 version*)
- Release Date: August 14, 1987
Pentagon aide becomes naughty, but also caught inside a lethal conspiracy, while snooping into a murder linked to a higher-up, none other than the Secretary of Defense. [Sean starred in it with Kevin Costner.] (*There was a 1950 version of No Way Out.)
Sean Young: “Never saw a lady in the back seat of a car looking so happy to be there with a guy she's about to have sex with.”
[Editor’s note: this is one of the ‘most-rewound scenes’ of all time, according to movie stats.]
4. A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN
Director: Elia Kazan -
Release Date: February 28, 1945
Searing coming-of-age drama that chronicles a young girl’s journey as she shakes off poverty, family drama, to follow her own path to maturity in Brooklyn during the early-20th-century.
Sean Young: “The aching hearts of the characters were as great in the movie as they were in the book.”
5. SINGING IN THE RAIN
Directors: Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen
- Release Date: March 27, 1952
A beloved Hollywood musical made to celebrate the rocky divide and reconfiguration of Show Business Stars as they leap from The Silent Era to Sound Films with tap dancing, a form of personal expression that becomes High Art, as Gene Kelly choreographs some of the most incredible and innovative dance numbers on screen.
War-Themed Documentary from Acclaimed Director Mike Dorsey Sets Digital Debut on North American VOD Platforms and DVD on August 1, 2025
Freestyle Digital Media, the digital film distribution division of Byron Allen’s Allen Media Group, proudly announces the acquisition of VOD rights to the war-themed documentary feature SISTERS OF UKRAINE, which will be available to rent/own on North American digital HD internet, cable, and satellite platforms, as well as on DVD, starting August 1, 2025.
Directed by acclaimed documentarian Mike Dorsey, SISTERS OF UKRAINE traces the journey of volunteers and nuns who bring a group of Ukrainian refugees on a three-day journey across Europe to housing in Spain. Two volunteers from an aid organization in Barcelona travel to a convent in western Ukraine where nuns are helping refugees following the Russian invasion. They spend three days living in the convent and helping the nuns care for local refugees who have fled eastern Ukraine, including a mother with eight children and an elderly woman who survived a missile attack on the train station in Kramatorsk that killed 60 civilians. But following the bombing of the Kerch Bridge in Crimea, the mission to bring Ukrainians to refugee housing in Spain is thrown into doubt as all of Ukraine is put under lockdown while Russia fires over 80 missiles at the country in retaliation. After a delay, the volunteers take a group of three-dozen refugees and families of soldiers fighting in the war on a three-day journey by land across Europe to housing near Barcelona.
Directed by Mike Dorsey (LOST AIRMEN OF BUCHENWALD, MURDER RAP: INSIDE THE BIGGIE AND TUPAC MURDERS), the documentary SISTERS OF UKRAINE was produced by Steven Campos and Mike Dorsey. Featured interviewees include Eduardo Llop, Rafael “Rafa” Moreno, and Mother Maria Cristiana Demianczuk.
"SISTERS OF UKRAINE is a war documentary about the lives behind the front lines; the lives Ukraine’s soldiers are fighting to protect,” said filmmaker Mike Dorsey. “The 2,500-mile, three-day journey by land out of Ukraine and across Europe with a group of three-dozen refugees and families of soldiers fighting in the war, into the welcoming arms of an aid organization in Spain, is the film’s emotional payoff. But what my crew and I will never forget is witnessing these incredibly brave young nuns, led by Mother Cristiana, who have already dedicated their lives to the service of others, face the greatest challenge of their lives. SISTERS OF UKRAINE captures their courageous spirit."
Freestyle Digital Media negotiated the deal to acquire SISTERS OF UKRAINE directly with the filmmakers and The Gersh Agency.
SISTERS OF UKRAINE trailer (YouTube): www.youtube.com/watch?v=VELaSo_jhs8
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