‘By no means fails to make my day’: readers on their feelgood motion pictures

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‘By no means fails to make my day’: readers on their feelgood motion pictures

An Affair to Keep in mind

My dad and mom’ favourite, too. A lot in order that they allowed me to observe it on a college night time. I cherished the arch dialogue (Deborah Kerr), particularly the request for “pink champagne” that I used for years to torture my youthful sister every time she needed to know what I used to be doing. Why, ingesting pink champagne, in fact! It’s on Netflix once more so am having fun with it for the umpteenth time in all its superb technicolor. Deepavali70

Subject of Desires

A feelgood, weepy, anti-fascist ghost story about baseball and fatherhood from a time when the USA had extra goodies than baddies. Appears like a very long time in the past. SnorkellingZeem

Stroll Don’t Run

Very dated 60s romcom however has an enthralling swan track efficiency by Cary Grant as a candy, meddling matchmaker in his final film function. Samantha Eggar is gorgeous. There are a number of bodily comedy moments (Cary Grant began his profession as an acrobat) that make me giggle each time. Dontwantaname1

In a 12 months With 13 Moons

It’s a very heartwarming film about private transformational change. reidlou

Rise of the Guardians

A movie about how valuable childhood innocence is. And I all the time cheer when Jude Regulation’s baddie will get it!!! I watch it every year, at Christmas. Anita1970

Meg Ryan and Kevin Kline in French Kiss. {Photograph}: 20 Century Fox/Allstar

French Kiss

A lot better appearing, funnier and smarter storyline than When Harry Met Sally. TreeFrogJohn

Y Tu Mamá También

No different movie captures so completely the exuberance and cluelessness of adolescence. It is perhaps a bit too horny for the prudish however its comedy (and its social commentary) are first fee. MJMKeating

Cinema Paradiso

For me, an absolute murals that by no means fails to maneuver me. Innocence, nostalgia with an underlying thread of loss and loneliness, makes this my lovely, majestic go-to film when life’s chips are in descent. Aubrey26

Methods to Steal a Million

Audrey Hepburn and Peter O’Toole at their romcom greatest. Loopy fashions, daft plot, enjoyable traces: “Let’s give Givenchy an evening off.” And nice supporting solid together with Eli Wallach, Hugh Griffith and plenty of extra. ThinkingAoud

The Large Lebowski

The soundtrack is good, the dialogue is endlessly quotable, the performances are flawless from everybody. Other than being deeply humorous, it’s stuffed with endearingly odd characters, wealthy with foolish element and, barring a bit violence and disappointment in direction of the tip, it’s general a relaxed and fuzzy story of nothing particularly. Am I flawed?! thealmightycraig

It has a supremely foolish plot however has a pin-sharp script that’s marvelously acted. It makes me chuckle from begin to end. And having watched it a number of instances, I’m nearly phrase excellent with the script. rewilder

Moonstruck

I’ve seen it at the very least 20 instances and it by no means fails to make my day. Each character, huge or small, will get a golden line. No throwaways. The grandfather is well worth the value all by himself: “Why do you make me wait! Howl.” Find it irresistible. Fintan28

A nonetheless from Delight. {Photograph}: Nicola Dove/Allstar

Delight

I went to see it one boring afternoon with out realizing something about it however got here out of the cinema full of pleasure. The soundtrack is wonderful. The story is instructional and actually uplifting. Cardykid

The Daytrippers

A bickering household from Lengthy Island navigating town to assist Hope Davis discover the elusive Sandy, somebody her husband could also be having an affair with. The solid is phenomenal! Anne Meara, Parker Posey, Liev Schreiber and extra. Marcia Homosexual Harden is hilarious. VColarusso

My Man Godfrey

William Powell and Carole Lombard are excellent and the supporting solid has no weak participant. Jean Dixon and Gail Patrick have been by no means higher. It’s witty, charming, and has actual coronary heart. As a bonus, the cinematography is beautiful. JDAretired

Some Type of Fantastic

All the characters really feel genuine, nobody is a bitter caricature of a human being. Because of this, the entire selections really feel actual and proper. Particularly, the tip, proof that generally if you’re ready to let one thing go, it’d simply come again to you. Splutterer

Six Levels of Separation

When Stockard Channing declares her independence and strides out on Donald Sutherland on the movie’s finish, it’s a decision of each grain of pressure within the story and an indication of how life’s related threads can pull us but in addition present us the best way. It’s a superb, satisfying ending and I get a thrill every time I’m fortunate sufficient to see it. cbpm72

Charade

Fantastic chemistry between Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn, characterful assist from James Coburn and Walter Matthau, glamorous Parisian setting and a witty script. The proper romantic comedy thriller. FrogCDE

The Inbetweeners

What’s so intelligent about it, and its equally fantastic sequel, is that beneath the laddish humour, it’s actually fairly candy. 4 misfits simply making an attempt to be “regular”, and form of attaining what they understand as normality by sharing life’s experiences with each other. 11LFO11

Johnny Depp in Ed Wooden. {Photograph}: Touchstone/Allstar

Ed Wooden

It has an excellent script and fantastic performances, however most of all it’s simply an amazingly heart-warming movie. It doesn’t actually matter that Ed is dreadful at making motion pictures as a result of he simply loves what he’s doing. Furthermore, it’s a narrative about compassion, friendship and the worth of simply opening your coronary heart to the world. Ed’s crew are people who find themselves marginalised or rejected or washed up, however he doesn’t care – he’s simply joyful to have them round and to work with them. In return he finds somebody who will love him with out judging him. ThornDavis

This Is Spinal Faucet

I do know it’s coming, I’ve seen it a thousand instances, however when Stonehenge seems, I’m a laughing wreck. Each single time. DarenB

The Good Guys

Is it a masterpiece? No. Is it the funniest movie I’ve seen? No. However I like it. It’s an exquisite mix of 70s noir pastiche, buddy-cop comedy and detective drama with a hell of a solid, and possibly the most effective comedic performances to this point by [Ryan] Gosling and [Ruseell] Crowe (Gosling particularly is effortlessly good). As a result of it doesn’t take itself or its story too significantly, I don’t must be switched on completely to observe it, so it really works for me no matter temper or vitality stage stepping into. jcs100

North by Northwest

Good mixture of drama, romance, comedy, thriller, appears to be like lovely, cracking dialogue, fabulous performances, nice set-piece sequences … Every little thing so completely judged, irrespective of how transient or insignificant a second (see, for instance, the transient scene the place Thornhill escapes the hospital by a younger lady’s room!). And Hitchcock’s hilarious, not remotely delicate, dick joke within the remaining shot of the movie will all the time go away a smile. natjim


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