Favorite Romantic Movies
By ph. diddy on Dec 25, 2004 in Uncategorized
Here’s a list of my favorite romantic movies:
1. Bridget Jones’ Diary (2000) — Gives hope to bumbling 30-something’s everywhere……
2. Pillow Talk (1959) — Doris Day and Rock Hudson were in several movies similar to this one. This one was by far the best. Unlike movies today, which are so blunt and to the point, this movie is chuck full of innuendo, which makes for many humorous situations.
3. When Harry Met Sally (1989) — A talky picture that is neither preachy nor heavy-handed….
4. Strictly Ballroom (1992) — Kinda makes you believe in love….. at least for a couple hours
5. The Rose Tattoo (1955) — A very passionate movie…..Burt Lancaster is my dream man.
6. Two for the Road (1966) — This movie showcases love once the honeymoon is over……Audrey Hepburn and Albert Finney are brilliant.
7. Untamed Heart (1993) — I love this movie. Christian Slater is so sweet and loving in this movie, you know it’s fiction.
8. Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961) — Again, a movie full of innuendo…. but even a golddigger and a gigolo can find love….
9. Moonstruck (1987) — Cher is really a good actress and this movie has a certain re-watchability factor…..
10. Love Actually (2003) — I think this movie is great. “I feel it in my fingers….I feel it in my toes…” Unfortunately, I identify the most with Laura Linney’s character (boo hoo)…..
What are some of your favorite romantic movies?
8 Comment(s)
By Andrew on Dec 25, 2004 | Reply
What about the excellent Pretty Woman? Or Moulin Rouge, not quite the same genre, but excellent nonetheless.
By jett on Dec 26, 2004 | Reply
Casablanca has to be on any list. For something more offbeat the Johnny Depp films ‘Benny & Joon’ and ‘Chocolat’ would rate.
By Darrell on Dec 26, 2004 | Reply
“Same Time, Next Year” would be my choice to add to the list.
By Warchild on Dec 26, 2004 | Reply
Truffaut’s - Love On The Run
Truffaut started out to be the most belligerent of the Nouvelle Vougue but somehow ended up it’s most compassionate. This might seem an odd choice to some compared to the brauvara od Les Nuit American, or the raw power of 400 Blows.
Along with Jean Pierre Leaud, Truaffaut has offered up a scintillating semi-autobiographical history of Antoine Doinel, from adolescence through middle-age, we’ve been given the history of man, and tantamount to that history there is nothing to speak of but love.
This is an omnibus film – it contains bits and snippets of all the previous Doinel films.
Not only does it skillfully recreate the most lasting impressions and feelings from the previous films, it playfully re-introduces some of those characters from the past.
The film opens with Antoine rushing to his divorce hearing. His is the first divorce in France under the new laws so he is bemused to discover himself the center of attention. While there he discovers his first love, Collette, has become a rising star attorney. Cleverly there is an interesting juxtaposition of the “old” Collette, with the new striving adult Collette.
Antoine happily greets her and we learn that he now is in love with Sabine (an achingly beautiful and wonderful woman of the sort we all fall in love with even though they could only exist in Truffaut’s imagination. Sabine works in a record store, where several months ago Antoine dillegently worked to pick her up. As a hobby she repairs antique watches.
Now, the entire film, even for those who have not followed the Doinel films for the previous 30 years, is full of amusing anecdotes, reminices; it has much of the feel of catching up with an old friend. It would be warmly thought of if only for that, but the total of all that goes before it is saved for the final and devastatingly beautiful ending – it is a carefully constructed moment that Koscinski manged to exquisetly heist for his wonderful “A Short Film About Love.”
Sabine is about to break up with Antoine. With all of his rushing about being Father, Ex-Husbande, Employer, ambitious writer, she feels that he doesn’t truly love her, and as much as she cares for him she cannot allow herself to be equally loved in return.
She catches him inbetween one of his mad rushings and tells him this and he asks her, “Do you remember how we met?”
Sabine recounts the story of his clever pick up in her record store and remember how she usually didin’t date customers but he was so cute. Antoine shakes his head and says, “No, that is how you met me. I met you before.”
And he recounts a tale of waiting at for a phone booth. The man already in the booth is having a violent argument with someone. He gets so angry he takes out a photograph and tears it to shreds, hangs up and storms away.
Antoine enters the phone box and curiously picks up the pieces of photo, he assembles them and “falls in love with the most beautiful face in the world.”
He spends the next year, every free moment tyring to find this face, his only clue a torn up photo.
Sabine is entranced but really can’t accept this wild story until, in gentle denounment Antoine pulls a phto from his pocket, it is tapped and ragged and unmistakably Sabine.
Or “A Short Film About Love” is mandatory if you like romance.
By cyberhobo on Dec 28, 2004 | Reply
Iris.
By Cathy on Dec 28, 2004 | Reply
What about Doctor Zhivago? that’s one my favorite romantic movies.
By Susan on May 20, 2006 | Reply
What about Dirt Dancing??
By Susan on May 20, 2006 | Reply
oops… Dirty Dancing