General Chat

Elvira Madigan 1967 dir. Bo Widerburg
- most people know the theme music Mozart Piano Concert. no 21

runners up

Casablanca 1942
City Lights 1931 (Silent)
Bridges of Madison County 1995
Kramer vs Kramer 1979
Dr Zhivago 1965
South Pacific 1958
The French Lieutenant's Woman 1981
Far From the Madding Crowd 1967
Pretty Woman 1990 ( is nearly 25 years old yet ? )
Butterfield 8 1960
Breakfast at Tiffany's 1958
Gone With the Wind 1939

grab a big box of kleenex

Poor Cary, I would have knocked on the door and asked if I could go in to play.

Oh Paula

Sob sniff Sob

Brought it all back now, thanks. :-D :-D

Cary Grant lived near my Dad but his mum wouldn't let him play out in the street with the others. He was destined for better things :-)

@ Barbie

Synopsis

A man (Nickie) and a woman (Terry) have a romance while on a cruise from Europe to New York. Despite being engaged to other people, both agree to reunite at the top of the Empire State Building in six months. On the day of their rendezvous, Terry, in her haste to reach the Empire State Building, is struck down by a car while crossing a street. Gravely injured, she is rushed to the hospital. Meanwhile, Nickie, waiting for her at the observation deck at the top of the building, is unaware of the accident and, after many hours, finally concedes at midnight that she will not arrive, believing that she has rejected him. After the accident Terry, now unable to walk, refuses to contact Nickie, wanting to conceal her disability. Instead, she finds work as a music teacher. Nickie has pursued his talent as a painter and has his work displayed by an old friend, an art shop owner. Six months after the accident, she sees Nickie with his former fiancee at the ballet, which she herself is attending with her former boyfriend. Nickie does not notice her condition because she is seated and only says hello as he passes her. Nickie finally learns Terry's address and, on Christmas Eve, makes a surprise visit to her. Although he steers the conversation to make her explain her actions, Terry merely dodges the subject, never leaving the couch on which she sits. As he is leaving, Nickie mentions a painting that he had been working on when they originally met, and that it was just given away at the art shop to a woman who liked it but had no money. He is about to say that the woman was in a wheelchair when he pauses, suddenly suspecting why Terry has been sitting unmoving on the couch. He walks into her bedroom and sees his painting hanging on the wall, and a wheelchair concealed there. He now knows why she did not keep their appointment. The film ends with the two in a tight embrace, each realising that the other's love endures. In closing, Terry says, "If you can paint, I can walk; anything can happen, don't you think?"

Please pass the tissues.

Random Harvest.

I'm about to cry again! <3 <3

Cynthia, *blushes....I have to say I was totally captivated by a man who had never seen Now Voyager, but always lit two cigarettes for us.. ..*sighs.... a long long tima ago! :-D

I think with you ladies talking all things romantic

It must be Pub O'clock

Roy :-D

I'm with you BC - Now Voyager!

According to my OH - who does have some seniority over me ;-) reckons that it wasn't a stunt and that Paul wotsit just automatically lit 2 cigarettes. I suppose he must have read it somewhere - such a mine of useless info he is...... :-D

definitely Brief Encounter - particularly for the Rachmaninov music.
And also Metropolis

Now Voyager...that cigarette lighting stunt, corny as it is, gets me every time :-D <3

Was it An Affair to remember with Cary Grant meeting at the Empire State Building but ( oh gawd cant remember ) got knocked down crossing the road to meet him.

Lovely film, if its that one LOL

African Queen
Lady and the tramp

Most romantic old film...
Casablanca (1942)
To Catch a Thief (1955)

oooh but where do we draw the line between old and modern :-S because I love...

Bridges of Madison County (1995)
The English Patient (1996)
Pride and Prejudice (2005) though MUCH prefer the BBC TV series (1995) <3

Ooh, Mersey - I love that film :-) <3

I have never watched "Bridges of Maddison County" with Clint Eastwood and Meryl Streep till very recently.....

Its such a lovely, romantic and heart wrenching film.....

Dr Zhivago
Wuthering Heights
Love Story

Ryan's Daughter
Gone With The Wind

most romantic old film.

1. Brief Encounter(1945)
2. Gone with the Wind(1939
3. Casablanca (1942)
4. An Affair to Remember 1957
5. Doctor Zhivago(1965)

I am sure you will think of many more. I don't think they make films like this now.

<3 <3 <3 <3