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one that I have asked myself. Put aside your more intellectual or film standard criteria. Over the years what film (or films) made a really personal emotional connection with you, Possibly something that you may find somewhat difficuly to discuss or maybe understand. You don't have to know the reason why, just a connection. I am working on my list and will post it when I have it done. Thanks.
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"Spread this message every way that you know how: the Age of Saviours is past."
"...a time will come when the past and not the future will be veiled from humanity..."
1. It's a Wonderful Life
2. King Kong
3. Forrest Gump
to me would be 'Saving Private Ryan'. It to me broke away from past war films and possible gave a more realistic description of what it must have been like to fight in a war.. I had several uncles that fought in WW2 and Korea and their stories seem to be close to a lot what this film depicted.
Several of them had some difficulties with their lives when they returned.( bless them)...
Have you seen the classic "The Best Days of our Lives"?
A great film on subject.
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nt
a few of the Miyazaki animated features.
I was about 4. The chase on the stairs gave me nightmares for years.
Great Expectations - terror in the graveyard
The Nutty Professor - I recall falling instantly and deeply in love with Stella Stevens, but remember nothing else about it. I was 6, alright? (I later had a more mature relationship with Grace Kelly, following her entrance in Rear Window, which I think is the most breathtaking shot I've ever seen, but it turned out badly ...)
Woodstock: 3 days of peace and music - pretty much cemented my tastes in rock music ever after.
M. Hulot's Holiday and Diva, which involve powerful nostalgic associations and colour the France of my imagination.
...THEY SHOOT HORSES DON'T THEY.....BRAZIL. All have an other worldly aura to them. Ray Hughes.
Beranek's Law:"... if one selects his own components, builds his own enclosure, and is convinced he has made a wise choice of design, then his own loudspeaker sounds better to him than does anyone else's loudspeaker." ACOUSTICS,B. Beranek,McGraw Hill
Having been involved with Cancer, loss and children, the first two films were hard to watch all the way through, much less not react strongly to. For all its faults and soap like tone, Terms did some things spectacularly well and was spot on in depicting some of life's challenges. Finding Neverland was a gem and a great talking point about life and loss with my own kids. They love the Deppster. Honorable mention to Depp and DiCaprio in Gilbert Grape.To Kill A Mockingbird is in a class by itself in detailing a child's innocence, wonderment and adventure set against a dark backdrop of adult human weakness, fear, racism and inhumanity. The acting from top to bottom in that cast was as good as I've ever seen.
For reasons I can't explain, that movie has had a profound, lasting effect on me since I first saw it as a child all the way through to today.
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It's just that...when I was really young...well...I don't think I wanna talk about it.
Baba-Booey to you all!
I don't like a lot of people.
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replys. Quite a range of choices.
These come to mind first - I re-saw El Topo years later, having rented it to show with a bunch of friends whilst on holiday.
Gradually, the friends left one by one and I found myself alone watching it, wondering why something so laboured & contrived had hit me so hard as a teen....?
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Station Agent was a little gem of a movie, my entire family was moved by it.
I can't remember who suggested it to me but I'm glad they did.
Later
Rich
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..., "To kill a Mocking Bird", "Kagemusha", Kurosawa´s "Dreams" (not the whole film, though...), "La Scoumoune", "A Walk with Love and Death", "Johnny got his Gun", "Conversation Piece", "Lucky Star", "Tasio"...
Your call has brought a flood of moving memories, thank you so much!
Regards
BF
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Call me gullible, but sitting in a darkened theater watching the opening scene of Saving Private Ryan and being totally engrossed in the experience really effected me much more than I would have expected. The realism with the surround sound, jerky camera work...it all just clicked.
Tideland still haunts me a bit. Can't figure out the why. Might be the depiction of the child, or her special freind. Still sticks with me to this day.
Finally, the end of 7th Seal when the knight realizes death is at hand and he shows such reaction. Pure chills.
If you've seen it, you will, perhaps, know...
(the 1967 version is the one I am talking about, I have not seen the 2006 remake).
DOH is, in my opinion, not as good a film, and I do find the nihilistic outsider of Badlands an attractive image (not exactly a "hero"), but in reality the child's voiceover of DOH and especially right at the end where she breaks out of the children's home and leaves with the words about finding a "character" and making a life (does she call it "an adventure"?), is, for me, a very inspirational moment.
the monkies that could fly scared the crap out of me!
Dorothy's "Somewhere over the Rainbow" always touches me.
We'll have to agree to disagree about human caused global warming until the next global cooling scare comes along.
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Taste of Cherry and all the rest.
He's the greatest of a wonderful contemporary group of Iranian directors.
Among the best two or three working today, from any country (I'd rate him the highest for simplicity, power, oeuvre).
tell us more as to what in these films specifically effected you and how. Thanks.
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I was powerfully affected by several scenes in LBM, as Arthur Penn had a way about violence that just rocked me to my core. The massacres were horrific, and the humor was perverse. The characters were memorable. It was as if Charles Dickens had written a western. Great movie.
I was in Daytona for the motorcycle event the year it came out.Saw it once there and when I got back to Chicago I paid to see it 5 more times in a year. I recently Netflix'd it to see if it was as good as my old brain cells told me it was. Well there were scenes that made me laugh till I almost wet myself and some still made me cry.
That was the first movie I can recall that changed my thinking about the
'Old West'.
Richard Mulligans portrayal of Custer ( in my mind ) was probably the closest of what he was like.
Anyway just got back from 'Iron Man' I loved it, except I think their subs were either turned down or not working.
Later
Rich
..predating "Dances With Wolves" by 20 years, that humanized the Native American Indian for me in a most touching Western -- this for one taught in grade school that General Custer was a hero.The Penn clan really have contributed a lot to the art and life of film -- imo.
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I am always moved by this film, and I've watched it many times. If the scene at the end with the little girl searching for her friend doesn't break your heart, you may not have one.
...was "Born Free" as a child - moved to tears by its end (and John Barry score).
As an adult: "Frances" (1982; dir. Graeme Clifford); yet another John Barry score...Hummm.
Both my sis and I were driven to tears by that movie as kids. I still remember the music extremely well, even hum it once in a while (MANY years later). It was on TV a while back (haven't seen it for ~30 years?), but don't think I could bear to watch it.
Elsa (lioness) has always remained in the back of my mind; it still amazes me that a kid used to Saturday morning cartoons could establish such a "connection" in only 1 1/2 hours.
I'm guessing I was around 8 or 9 when I saw it (and oh yes, I remember Elsa). Serious impact. Odd, strange, true. I guess some day I'll have to watch it again.
I guess what I am looking for is still some deep personal emotional experience that you may or not understand why it effected you. I am talking about basic roots like for example as a young boy when my parents took me to see Bambi. I still remember crying out loud in the theater when Bambi's mother dies. That was my first exprience at how a film can emotionally effect you. A sort of primitve example but closer to what I am talking about. Thanks everyone for sharing your thoughts.
watching Old Yeller get shot as a six year old had the "Bambi" effect on me.
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when Anthony Hopkins' C.S. Lewis and the young Douglas Gresham in the Attic after the boy's Mother had succumbed to cancer. Hopkins as C.S.Lewis puts his arm around the boy who says with deep grief that he misses her so much and they both along with myself watching them burst in to deep, gushing sobs of open hearted emotion... and to Give Sir Anthony Hopkins his due for a Trifecta of Tears in case it was not known he played the older man in the film I mentioned first;Hearts in Atlantis,his non-relationship relationship with Emma Thompson's 'Mary Kenton' in The Remains of the Day tore my heart out in several scenes first when she confronts him in his room as he reads a book, again when he is told his father has died and he thanks the bearer of this sad news and returns immediately to his serving and finally at the end when he is left standing alone in the rain as the bus carries away the Love he never let himself know... for ever.. so lost love and lost loved ones seem to be what strike me most profoundly... that or Tony Hopkins is the most genuine emotionally engrossing actor in film... or both.
fits the bill perfectly
The dying public servant who at first experiences anger and terror after learning he has cancer but in the end finds the courage and drive to divert city funds to build a children's playground and die with dignity.
Also the business men at the end who all think they were the ones who helped get the playground made and then there is a beautiful scene where they all realize the guy who died did it not them.
A very heartfelt and emotional film and among my favorite.
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One of my favorites, too.
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because I first saw it at the Harvard Sq Theatre with some of the recently late Dr. Hofmann's potion..
A beautifully executed pseudo-acid trip for adults. The journey of a man-child in search of his destiny overshadowed by evil and distractions of the adult world. Greenaway for the Peter Pan Syndrome.
A Walk in the Clouds..
is an old fashioned movie, in an old fashioned setting with old fashioned values and an old fashioned heart. I love it.
Rhustlers Rhapsody
is a parody of Westerns, but has a heart. It starts with a a black and white mono cowboy chasing 3 bad guys away from a stagecoach. The voice over says those were the good old days for Rex, but I wonder what it would be like if he made a movie now. Suddenly the color snaps on, the dolby kicks in
and the bad guys look genuinely bad. They turn around and their rifles sound
quite a bit larger than life. Surprised by the changes, Rex skedaddles. Pass the root, please.
The Blues Brothers
I must have seen this a few hundred times. Don't ask me why.
Piece of Cake
an old Brit Docudrama that follows a Spitfire squad from just before the war to the Battle of Britain. This connects because it is quite simply damn good.
SciFi series, B5,Firefly,Voyager,DS9
yes, these are not films, by and large. But I connect to them in a personal way. They say to me that humanity can grow up and will not wipe itself out from incompetence or malice. What I can say, I'm an incorrigible optimist.
I think its the idea of love coming under attack and the frailty thru which people must endure i find moving. In Hearts in Atlantis we have a fatherless boy for a short time having a benevolent Father figure to love who brings great joy into his otherwise mundane existence only to have forces beyond them both tear them apart destroying the warmth that had grown. Children of Men i think for its juxtaposing vulnerable innocence with monstrous devouring evil which seeks relentlessly to stomp out any trace of goodness which arises in the world. This theme is found in many films i tend not to in my older years find fantasy features like LotR etc entertaining so CoM delivers the theme within more realistic terms.
...I have not seen "Hearts in Atlantis but will now. Your description reminds me of "The Return" (Vozvrashcheniye), another for the list.
..a film MUST connect on an emotional level before any critical appraisal deserves be made.
Having said that, several come to mind. Antonioni's "Il Grido" and Glauber's "Deus e o Diabo na Terra do Sol really stay with me. Really, anything by Antonioni resonates powerfully.
Also l just rewatched "The Assassination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford. An instant classic, I believe. Casey Affleck's performance is a tour de force. This is full of great performances and really captures the melancholic, lantern-lit atmosphere of that American time.
Speaking of westerns, I'll top this off with "Unforgiven". Or "Open Range". Or....."Missouri Breaks".
...I would say that the best films are nutritious both itellectually and emotionally. But I can also appreciate a film that leans strongly in an intellectual direction as long as it has some kind of conceptual intensity and hold its ideas together well. I've found that I can have a visceral reaction to films that really come at me hard intellectually. It's like lhe intensity of their thought itself causes an emotional reaction due to their directness and lack of dilution with which the ideas are delivered. Alain Resnais' "Mon Oncle D'amerique" and some of Greenaway's films are useful examples of this.
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