Review That Poignant Film Which Touched Your Heart?

Janine The Barefoot

Janine The Barefoot

Wacky Norwegian Woman
Yeah, yeah... I know, action, horror, suspense, mystery, science fiction, drama, comedy, dramedy, period pieces, and so on and so forth. But films that are touching and poignant rarely seem to get any recognition even though many are the ones we most often walk away from feeling changed by. Films that are, by their nature, the ones that stay with us the longest even if we're unaware of it and not quite sure why...

So here's my list, off the top of my head and subject to change. What's yours? One, five, twenty, whatever trips your trigger... go for it and feel free to add why you think so!

The Fall (early Lee Pace)
Stranger Than Fiction
WALL-E
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
Quartet
Nobody's Fool (with Paul Newman)
Out of Africa
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (Tracey & Hepburn)
Driving Miss Daisy
Fried Green Tomatoes
The Judge
The Big Chill
Fly Away Home
 
Hux

Hux

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Also like The Fall. Not enough people have seen that film.

The ending of Cinema Paradiso always gets me. The Hairdresser's Husband, Double Life of Veronique, The Selfish Giant, It's a Wonderful Life, Shawshank Redemption, An Affair to Remember, and yes.... E.T.
 
Carol

Carol

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Janine The Barefoot said:
off the top of my head and subject to change
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Yes, striking some lovely chords of fellow-feeling with your list (and a healthy few never-even-heard-of s too)

If you love Salmon Fishing... have you tried Little Voice? (Mr McGregor on equally good form)

Also I like Field of Dreams (but have any Yorkshirewoman's total lack of baseball knowledge, plus failure to understand why Yanks don't get cricket - nevertheless, great film).

Today's list:

Lion In Winter.
Robin and Marion.
Edward Scissorhands.
A Matter of Life and Death.
Wings of Desire
To Kill a Mockingbird.
 
Janine The Barefoot

Janine The Barefoot

Wacky Norwegian Woman
Carol, I think EM is going to end up being the Alec Guiness of his generation. He has a chameleon-like ability to become whatever he chooses and in many of his movies it was some time before I realized he was the actor I was watching! I also really like that his scripts are always so different from each other. So Little Voice, here I come!

And it's been years since I've seen TKAM. A movie that never fails to charm and delight me and one which always has something new to teach. Did you know that it was the author's (a woman by the way) only book?

It never even occurred to me to put LIW on the list but I'm just flat-out embarrassed that I left off ES!!!!!

Great list GF and thanks for giving me new things to watch and old things to see again!
 
Janine The Barefoot

Janine The Barefoot

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Hux said:
Also like The Fall. Not enough people have seen that film.

The ending of Cinema Paradiso always gets me. The Hairdresser's Husband, Double Life of Veronique, The Selfish Giant, It's a Wonderful Life, Shawshank Redemption, An Affair to Remember, and yes.... E.T.
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Hux said:
Also like The Fall. Not enough people have seen that film.

The ending of Cinema Paradiso always gets me. The Hairdresser's Husband, Double Life of Veronique, The Selfish Giant, It's a Wonderful Life, Shawshank Redemption, An Affair to Remember, and yes.... E.T.
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I've been waiting a long time to see The Fall and it just became available on KODI Exodus to stream. It's magically beautiful and the end always makes me cry. Plus, it's a cinematic visual feast of wonders! And thanks for adding Shawshank.... it's one of those "I know I'm forgetting something and I can't think what it is!" I'll confess to never having seen CP but love foreign films and have heard such wonderful things about it, I think it's about time!

Thank you!
 
Janine The Barefoot

Janine The Barefoot

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MovieKnut said:
I always have a tear in my eye at the end of Field Of Dreams.
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I'm pretty sure this will officially make me The Grinch Who Stole Christmas (the cartoon not "the other one that doesn't count") but....
not a fan of FoD. I don't know why. It's not the B-ball cause crazy as it sounds I love Major League. Maybe it's because, just to me, it felt too much like it was trying too hard. Like they wanted to out- poignant and be so touching that they never managed to do either..... I honestly don't know. All I can say is it just didn't get me the way it did so many others.
 
Janine The Barefoot

Janine The Barefoot

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Carol said:
Nah...that was yesterday's list. Today you can have a new list - in honour of Women's Day I might kick off with

Thelma and Louise
Nanny McPhee
Brief Encounter
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In that case, all I'm going to add is "A Cooler Climate" a movie in which Sally Field plays a once wealthy wife who looses everything in a divorce and goes to work for another woman who's in the same position she was and is initially unaware of it. Judi Davis is her co-star and she's a woman whose work always impresses and amazes me. Also, Pauline Collins in "Shirley Valentine" about a woman who runs away from home to find herself. It's lovely, charming and inspirational.

Both films are focused on women, are uplifting and intelligent and both are films that suffer from never having reached a large enough audience to get the word of mouth votes of confidence they deserved.

Carol, "I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship"...... :emoji_hugging:
 
Carol

Carol

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Janine The Barefoot said:
Pauline Collins in "Shirley Valentine"
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Big yes to that - haven't seen it for years (but what Shirley says on the boat should be compulsory advice to every younger woman embarking on a fling)...
She has a new film out soon co-starring with Joan Collins, which might be promising.
What about Calender Girls? Or Alan Plater's Last of the Blonde Bombshells? (TV film that should have been in cinemas if there was any justice...)
 
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duzit

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@Janine The Barefoot , I also don't like Fields of Dreams - just couldn't buy into it
I can't believe we do have many of the same likes:
WALL-E > how many different tones can WALL-E be sung
Out of Africa > beautiful cinematography & love stories of people & country/landscapes
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (Tracey & Hepburn) > before it's time, beautifully portrayed
Driving Miss Daisy > loved Jessica Tandy
Fried Green Tomatoes > great BBQ
The Judge > I just watched this, read here: https://www.imdforums.com/threads/last-movie-you-watched.50/ (PAGE 6, POST 104)
Fly Away Home > I'd fly w/those geese in a heartbeat![/B]
@Hux
Shawshank Redemption, An Affair to Remember, and yes.... E.T.
@sleepyjack
Rain man &
Forrest Gump > I feel both are classic, heartwarming change the way we perceive life movies

 
BuX

BuX

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Janine The Barefoot said:
Yeah, yeah... I know, action, horror, suspense, mystery, science fiction, drama, comedy, dramedy, period pieces, and so on and so forth. But films that are touching and poignant rarely seem to get any recognition even though many are the ones we most often walk away from feeling changed by. Films that are, by their nature, the ones that stay with us the longest even if we're unaware of it and not quite sure why...

So here's my list, off the top of my head and subject to change. What's yours? One, five, twenty, whatever trips your trigger... go for it and feel free to add why you think so!

The Fall (early Lee Pace)
Stranger Than Fiction
WALL-E
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
Quartet
Nobody's Fool (with Paul Newman)
Out of Africa
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (Tracey & Hepburn)
Driving Miss Daisy
Fried Green Tomatoes
The Judge
The Big Chill
Fly Away Home
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I suggest trying some Asian cinema, which are normally over looked, here is a small selection.

Poetry

4:30

I Wish

Like Father, Like Son

Planet of Snail
 
Carol

Carol

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BuX said:
some Asian cinema, which are normally over looked,
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Hi Bux,
Thanks for suggestions to expand the repertoire - when I lived in Birmingham, there were a couple of cinemas which specialised in showing arrivals from Bollywood, etc, and having a Punjabi flatmate helped there; but now it's not so much a case of overlooking Asian cinema more generally as where to find stuff showing...any hints, please?
 
Towasi

Towasi

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Janine The Barefoot said:
action, horror, suspense, mystery, science fiction, drama, comedy
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Yeah I know, so many people must have a movie fit one of those genres or they think it's a dud where 'nothing happens'. Sometimes I feel like keeping these to myself because enjoying them to their fullest requires some unusual sensitivity.

La Strada
Ballad of a Soldier
Maborosi
The Official Story
Sundays and Cybele
Forbidden Games
The Browning Version
The Naked Island
Death in Venice
In This House of Brede
The Lacemaker
Wings ('66)
Grave of the Fireflies
Home from the Sea
La Frontera ('91)
 
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