Favourite Romantic/Romantic Comedy Movie

Subject: RE: Favourite Romantic/Romantic Comedy Movie
From: s6k
Date: 18 Apr 04 - 03:48 PM

True Romance is bloody good

Subject: RE: Favourite Romantic/Romantic Comedy Movie
From: musicmick
Date: 18 Apr 04 - 10:17 AM

As bubee says, "Like a piece of furniture.".

Subject: RE: Favourite Romantic/Romantic Comedy Movie
From: Ellenpoly
Date: 18 Apr 04 - 07:01 AM

Musicmic, I can no longer admit without a blush how many times I've watched "Crossing Delancy". I want the Bubbee for my own... and that last scene is definitely one of my favs..xx..e

Subject: RE: Favourite Romantic/Romantic Comedy Movie
From: musicmick
Date: 17 Apr 04 - 03:49 PM

Yeah, and didn't you love it when Nick actually pops his buttons at the end of "The Thin Man Goes Home"?
Also, isn't it strange that, in the first movie, Nick is not the thin man? The thin man is the first murder victim. I guess it is like calling all those Peter Sellers movies The Pink Panther when, in the original Pink Panther, not only is Sellers not the Pink Panther, the Pink Panther is the stolen diamond.
A ruse, by any other name, ......

Subject: RE: Favourite Romantic/Romantic Comedy Movie
From: steve in ottawa
Date: 17 Apr 04 - 11:27 AM

re: previous post
Just checked: Nick and Nora are the happy romantic couple in The Thin Man.
There are also (but the first is easily the highest rated):
1. Thin Man, The (1934) William Powell and Myrna Loy
2. After the Thin Man (1936) ditto through 1947
3. Another Thin Man (1939)
aka "Return of the Thin Man"
4. Thin Man Goes Home, The (1945)
5. Shadow of the Thin Man (1941)
6. Song of the Thin Man (1947)
7. "Thin Man, The" TV Series (1957-59) Peter Lawford and Phyllis Kirk

Subject: RE: Favourite Romantic/Romantic Comedy Movie
From: musicmick
Date: 17 Apr 04 - 12:38 AM

"Crossing Delancey" because I am a second generation Jew, too.
"Moonstruck" for the same reason.
I watch nothing but romantic comedies.They are delightful, fantastic, and the kind of real life that I need to be true.
"The American President" is good, too.
I am too damned sophisticated for slapstick like "My Man, Godfrey" or "Bringing Up Baby" but I could watch Nick and Nora for days.
I'm surprised that no one has mentioned "Houseboat".

Subject: RE: Favourite Romantic/Romantic Comedy Movie
From: GUEST,Fred Mller
Date: 16 Apr 04 - 11:51 PM

That cello and piano bit in TMDeeply is so much nicer than the syrupy version of the song I remember on the radio. It stayed in my head for weeks.

Subject: RE: Favourite Romantic/Romantic Comedy Movie
From: steve in ottawa
Date: 16 Apr 04 - 05:45 PM

I totally forgot about Jack Palance as the romantic painter in Bagdad Cafe. Oh, that was well done. I wonder what else I've forgotten from that wonderful show?

Hey, how about Roberto Benigni's
Il Mostro (The monster) Fabulous. Very funny. Subtitled. (first two minutes are decieving -- this is NOT a slasher film, but rather a film about a sweet guy who's mistaken for a slasher)

or The Party, with Peter Sellers?

The Accidental Tourist is good, both sad and funny.
If Lisa Manelli and Dudley Moore don't bug you, try Arthur.
Ditto for Dustin Hoffman? then try Tootsie.
Amélie is very good (overcoming fears - Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain)
The Rainmaker (Lancaster tries to woo Hepburn) is solid.
Enchanted April contains a great reconciliation.
I also liked Before Sunrise (young folks on a European train)
A quiet slow one: The Scent of Green Papaya (Mui du du xanh)

Subject: RE: Favourite Romantic/Romantic Comedy Movie
From: Grab
Date: 16 Apr 04 - 08:31 AM

A good one I just got on DVD - "The man who sued God". Very well done, and very funny. Also "Bagdad Cafe" is lovely.

Graham.

Subject: RE: Favourite Romantic/Romantic Comedy Movie
From: freda underhill
Date: 16 Apr 04 - 06:17 AM

ditto on Groundhog Day.

Subject: RE: Favourite Romantic/Romantic Comedy Movie
From: Ellenpoly
Date: 16 Apr 04 - 05:53 AM

I also have to ditto about "Truly Madly Deeply". A very special film which always reduces me to a puddle of tears. Anyone who has lost someone they loved can't help but be moved by this film.

I'm also glad "Bull Durham" was mentioned. What a terrific combination of the right actors in the right roles...even Kevin Costner, who was given one of the great movie monologues of all time, about what he believes in (the long slow wet kisses that last for days...OMG). And if there is anyone sexier than Susan Saranden, (and just more so with age) I can't name them...xx..e

Subject: RE: Favourite Romantic/Romantic Comedy Movie
From: Jeanie
Date: 16 Apr 04 - 04:21 AM

John P: That's really interesting about how they did the cello playing in 'Truly, Madly, Deeply'. I will look out for that the next time I watch it. To be honest, I have always been so caught up in that scene, that the thought hadn't occurred to me that it couldn't have been Alan Rickman playing ! For those who don't know the film: It is such a poignant scene. She starts to play the piano part and "hears" in her head her dead partner playing the cello part of the piece, and you just feel so much how much she is missing him. The fact that he doesn't come in with the cello at that point in the music could not make it more clear to her that he just isn't here any more. Then, the cello music in her head become cello music being played in the room by him, there, playing the cello that she has kept propped up in the corner of the room, not having been able to face putting it away in its case. Then, much later in the film, there is one of her very big "moving on" steps when she is able to put the cello away. (I think she gives it to her nephew, who is learning to play ?).

Wonderful film.

- jeanie

Subject: RE: Favourite Romantic/Romantic Comedy Movie
From: GUEST
Date: 16 Apr 04 - 01:37 AM

About 20 years ago (aged 29) I had an affair with a young man who was 19. At the time the age difference was a big deal for me, but not for him. I refused to get involved until I had taken him to see Harold and Maude first!

Subject: RE: Favourite Romantic/Romantic Comedy Movie
From: John P
Date: 16 Apr 04 - 01:26 AM

Jeanie, I remembered "Truly, Madly, Deeply" at work today and fired up the computer when I got home to add it to this thread, but you got there before me. I heartily second your motion. Juliet Stevenson does the most powerful and believable grieving (and getting through it) I've ever seen on film, and Alan Rickman has never been better (except for maybe in "Die Hard", which was an entirely different sort of role).

Did you catch the cello playing? It was also the most believable musicianship by a non-musician I've ever seen in a movie. I heard Mr. Rickman speak once and someone asked him how he did it. He said there was a good cellist crouching on the floor behind him, reaching around him and playing. We had great shots of Rickman's face being emotionally involved the the beautiful music, with his hand right next to his head obviously playing the instrument. Only it wasn't his hand . . .

John Peekstok

Subject: RE: Favourite Romantic/Romantic Comedy Movie
From: GUEST,fred Miller
Date: 15 Apr 04 - 06:21 PM

Broadcast news, strictly ballroom, overboard--I didn't see above. And The Return Of Martin Guerre (sp?). And um, nevermind, can't think of it.

The only thing I liked in Shakespeare In Love was the Shavian loan shark. The jokes were stale even compared to the Gilliigan's Island musical Hamlet. I don't get it.

Subject: RE: Favourite Romantic/Romantic Comedy Movie
From: Donuel
Date: 15 Apr 04 - 05:34 PM

Groundhog day

Subject: RE: Favourite Romantic/Romantic Comedy Movie
From: Peter T.
Date: 15 Apr 04 - 05:31 PM

"Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" -- which I have now seen twice -- is a new addition to my list. It is very sad, very romantic -- don't go and see it with anyone you are in the process of breaking up with, however.


yours,

Peter T.

Subject: RE: Favourite Romantic/Romantic Comedy Movie
From: Amergin
Date: 15 Apr 04 - 01:11 PM

Behind the Green Door

Subject: RE: Favourite Romantic/Romantic Comedy Movie
From: Bobert
Date: 15 Apr 04 - 01:06 PM

Ellenpoly,


Good one, I forgot all about "Harold and Maude" and I own the video of it somewhere around here...

Bobert

Subject: RE: Favourite Romantic/Romantic Comedy Movie
From: steve in ottawa
Date: 15 Apr 04 - 12:04 PM

For reference, the Internet Movie Data Base List. Interesting that nobody here has mentioned Casablanca. Great, but for me, not the definition of romance by any means.

I'd have to second It Happened One Night; I still haven't seen Bringing Up Baby.

Involving music: Little Voice and Hear My Song

Older folks: Nobody's Fool.

Older women: Bull Durham and While Palace

The sci-fi crowd: Groundhog Day and Late For Dinner (just noticed, but haven't seen Happy Accidents.)

John Candy: Only the Lonely and Delerious.

Someone mentioned The Thin Man as one of the few comedies involving a cheerfully romantic married couple. Can anyone else recall any really good movies along similar lines? I loved Tender Mercies, but it was more about perseverance and love than romance.

Arguments:
Truly Madly Deeply is superb, but the romance seems like a subplot compared with the grieving.
Local Hero is one of my top twenty favorite flicks, but I wouldn't call it a romance either.

Subject: RE: Favourite Romantic/Romantic Comedy Movie
From: Art Thieme
Date: 15 Apr 04 - 11:56 AM

Deep Shoat

abbout a boy and his pig...

Art

Subject: RE: Favourite Romantic/Romantic Comedy Movie
From: clueless don
Date: 15 Apr 04 - 10:10 AM

"Local Hero" is one of my favorite movies of all time, but I didn't consider it for this thread because I don't classify it as Romantic. Of course, there certainly is romance in it, so maybe I should re-think.

Lots of good candidates already mentioned, plus some that I have never heard of. I notice that the Tracy/Hepburn movies are getting lots of votes, so I will add one that I haven't seen mentioned yet: "Without Love".

And yes, "What's Up, Doc?" was a great movie!

Don

Subject: RE: Favourite Romantic/Romantic Comedy Movie
From: freda underhill
Date: 15 Apr 04 - 06:53 AM

..and Muriel's Wedding!

Subject: RE: Favourite Romantic/Romantic Comedy Movie
From: el ted
Date: 15 Apr 04 - 06:52 AM

The Long Good Friday with bob hoskins.
Eraserhead.
Dune.

Subject: RE: Favourite Romantic/Romantic Comedy Movie
From: freda underhill
Date: 15 Apr 04 - 06:39 AM

Romuald et Juliette (1989), written and directed by Coline Serreau, with Daniel Auteuil as Romuald.

Auteil plays Romauld, a company president (yoghurt, what else) who gets framed by ambitious colleagues with a food-poisoning scandal. He's demoted, his wife leaves him, and the only person who can help him is the evening cleaning-woman, who always checks out the contents of all the garbage bins and knows who's been ratting on who. this film has a romance which crosses boundaries of race, class, and kilograms. The cleaning lady is a large African French woman with several kids who supports them by cleaning at night, her ex husbands all turn up at various points to borrow money.

Romuald goes through a total breakdown, and ultimately the only person he can trust is Juliette, the cleaning lady. I laughed hysterically, cried, and felt inspired by this movie. This love breaks the boardroom corruption and the ending is great.

this movie is as much about trust as love, take it out on video, its brilliant!

freda

Subject: RE: Favourite Romantic/Romantic Comedy Movie
From: Jeanie
Date: 15 Apr 04 - 03:49 AM

My all time favourite has to be "Truly, Madly, Deeply", with Alan Rickman and Juliet Stevenson: a story about loving, grieving and moving on. Superb real, believable acting, very clever little touches of visual echoes that you maybe don't notice consciously the first time you see it. If you don't know this film, I recommend it wholeheartedly for anyone who has grieved for anyone, ever. Although billed as a "romantic comedy", it is a profoundly healing film. Have giant box of tissues ready and, preferably, a good friend with you to hug !

- jeanie

Subject: RE: Favourite Romantic/Romantic Comedy Movie
From: RangerSteve
Date: 14 Apr 04 - 03:19 PM

Moonstruck.

Subject: RE: Favourite Romantic/Romantic Comedy Movie
From: Amergin
Date: 14 Apr 04 - 01:49 PM

Indiscreet.

Subject: RE: Favourite Romantic/Romantic Comedy Movie
From: Ellenpoly
Date: 14 Apr 04 - 12:33 PM

And we mustn't forget "Harold and Maude", one of the strangest love affairs on screen, and one of the sweetest...xx..e

Subject: RE: Favourite Romantic/Romantic Comedy Movie
From: Don Firth
Date: 14 Apr 04 - 12:12 PM

M. Ted, What's Up Doc? a remake of Bringing Up Baby? Certain similarities of plot, but a remake? I don't think so. A major missing element would be the leopard.

I haven't seen BUB for a long time, so I could be wrong.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: Favourite Romantic/Romantic Comedy Movie
From: maire-aine
Date: 14 Apr 04 - 11:57 AM

Arsenic & Old Lace

Subject: RE: Favourite Romantic/Romantic Comedy Movie
From: John P
Date: 14 Apr 04 - 02:24 AM

I recently re-watched Parenthood. Funny, romantic, poignant, warm, all that great stuff. Mary Steenburgen, Dianne Wiest, Steve Martin, Keanu Reeves, Martha Plimpton, Tom Hulce, Rick Moranis, and Jason Robards all doing what they do best.

John

Subject: RE: Favourite Romantic/Romantic Comedy Movie
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 14 Apr 04 - 01:32 AM

The Owl and the Pussycat, with George Segal, was the Streisand one where she played the hooker. Another one, where she does lots of odd jobs to pay off a gambling debt, was For Pete's Sake with Michael Sarrazin.

SRS

Subject: RE: Favourite Romantic/Romantic Comedy Movie
From: M.Ted
Date: 14 Apr 04 - 12:58 AM

"What's Up Doc?" was basically a remake of "Bringing Up Baby"--I think "The Palm Beach Story" is great, too, John, but I think it is a screwball comedy. I liked the Weenie King--

Subject: RE: Favourite Romantic/Romantic Comedy Movie
From: John Hindsill
Date: 14 Apr 04 - 12:11 AM

Hands down, "The Palm Beach Story". Claudette Corbert on the train to Palm Beach with the gentlemen of the Hunt Club is, perhaps, the funniest scene in any movie. For those of you who don't know this film, CC and Joel McCrea play young marrieds living way beyond their means. She decides to divorce McCrea so that she can marry rich and support him. Rudy Vallee is the target of her scheme, Mary Astor plays his oft-married sister. Needless to say that things don't go exactly as CC plans.

Second choice, "My Favorite Wife". Cary Grant's double take while the elevator door closes is worth the whole movie.

Subject: RE: Favourite Romantic/Romantic Comedy Movie
From: JenEllen
Date: 13 Apr 04 - 07:28 PM

For a hearbreakingly weird romantic movie, try "Happy Accidents". It was an IFC release, but I think you can get it on video. Wow.

Subject: RE: Favourite Romantic/Romantic Comedy Movie
From: Don Firth
Date: 13 Apr 04 - 05:41 PM

GUEST,Jaze, you're probably thinking of Nuts (1987), with Richard Dreyfuss. The one I'm referring to is What's up, Doc? (1972), with Ryan O'Neal and directed by Peter Bogdanovich. O'Neal plays a handsome but geeky musicologist with a theory about banging stones together being the origin of music attending a conference in San Francisco and trying to get a grant to further his studies. He runs into a ditsy female (Streisand) who manages to spread "havoc and chaos" wherever she goes, and so far has managed to get herself expelled from five different colleges. She latches onto O'Neal. Madaline Kahn plays O'Neal's prim and proper, socially prominent, tight-assed fiancée.

The initial set-up involves several people checking into a hotel with identical red plaid traveling bags, one of which contains O'Neal's musical rocks, another contains a fortune in jewels, and I can't recall what the others contain. People pick up or steal the wrong ones, of course, then try to find the one they really want. The cast is complete with government agents, jewel thieves, and guy competing with O'Neal for the grant, plus a judge who, with good reason, eats antacids like popcorn. A magnificently drawn out chase takes place up and down the hilly streets of San Francisco, often without benefit of brakes. Among many other things, this includes a man on a ladder and two guys carrying a big pane of glass. Great white-knuckle stuff. And some people miss the ferry. The tag-line of the movie requires that you be familiar the famous line from O'Neal's previous movie, Love Story. A combination of romance, farce, and sophisticated slapstick, it's full of wonderfully complicated and opaque (most of the time, you can't see it coming) set-ups for side-splitting gags. I have run into a couple of people who thought it was incredibly stupid, but these are people never smile and don't seem to know how to laugh. I consider it one of the three or four funniest movies I've ever seen. It should be rentable.

The funniest line in any movie was in When Harry Met Sally, delivered by Estelle Reiner, Rob Reiner's (the director) mother playing a bit part—the lady in the restaurant.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: Favourite Romantic/Romantic Comedy Movie
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 13 Apr 04 - 04:39 PM

"Vanilla Sky"

"Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind"

Romance, and romatic comedy for the 21st Century

"Chasing Amy"

The best ALMOST romance ever...

:-)

Subject: RE: Favourite Romantic/Romantic Comedy Movie
From: Art Thieme
Date: 13 Apr 04 - 04:20 PM

I Knoow Where I'm Going
w. Wendy Hiller & Roger Livesy

Art Thieme

Subject: RE: Favourite Romantic/Romantic Comedy Movie
From: GUEST
Date: 13 Apr 04 - 04:19 PM

Continental Divide
Something About Mary
An Affair to Remember
Casual Sex (yes, despite the horrible title)
The Wedding Singer

Subject: RE: Favourite Romantic/Romantic Comedy Movie
From: Bobert
Date: 13 Apr 04 - 04:11 PM

Hey, how 'bout "Somewhere in Time" as one heavy duty romance movie. Chistopher Reeves and Jane Seymour...

Sniff...

Bobert

Subject: RE: Favourite Romantic/Romantic Comedy Movie
From: M.Ted
Date: 13 Apr 04 - 03:57 PM

No one has mentioned "Trouble in Paradise", which some critics claim is the most to perfect movie ever made. I haven't seen 'em all, but Lubitsch was one of the greatest directors, and this is one of his best films.

Subject: RE: Favourite Romantic/Romantic Comedy Movie
From: Snoozer
Date: 13 Apr 04 - 03:51 PM

A hearty second vote for "The Philadelphia Story"
The original, of course, with Katherine Hepburn, Cary Grant and Jimmy Stewart. The best scene was when a drunk Jimmy Stewart visits Cary Grant after the party. Brilliant!!

Subject: RE: Favourite Romantic/Romantic Comedy Movie
From: GUEST,Jaze
Date: 13 Apr 04 - 03:34 PM

Don Firth, was that the one where Barbra Streisand played a hooker? That was hysterical.

Subject: RE: Favourite Romantic/Romantic Comedy Movie
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 13 Apr 04 - 11:36 AM

The Graduate, especially the happy ending, and blocking the church door with a cross, symbolic or what?
John

Subject: RE: Favourite Romantic/Romantic Comedy Movie
From: Ellenpoly
Date: 13 Apr 04 - 11:34 AM

All-time favorite= "The Philadelphia Story".

I'm a sucker for this film genre. It always works to lift my spirits if I've been reading and watching the news too much. I often think life would be so much better if we all had the chance to dive into our own romantic comedies with assured happy endings, just occasionally..xx..e

Subject: RE: Favourite Romantic/Romantic Comedy Movie
From: JenEllen
Date: 13 Apr 04 - 11:25 AM

Not a very comedic movie, but for oddly romantic, "The Whole Wide World" wins hands down for the best movie kiss ever. Not just A kiss, THE kiss, the kind that other movie kisses would like to be when they grow up. (You want to know why Renee Zellwegger thanked Vincent D'Onofrio in her "Cold Mountain" Oscar speech? My money says it's been 8 years and her knees are still wobbly.)

Subject: RE: Favourite Romantic/Romantic Comedy Movie
From: GUEST,Claymore
Date: 01 Nov 03 - 08:57 PM

Add

1."Il Postino" - The Postman with Italian subtitles

2. "Officer and a Gentleman"

3. "Local Hero"

4. "The Englishman Who Walked Up a Hill and Down a Mountain"

5. and not until the ending, my favorite movie of all time, " The Waking of Ned Devine". ( I stood alone in the theater screaming "Yes, Yes" at the end). That was love and comedy at its best...

Subject: RE: Favourite Romantic/Romantic Comedy Movie
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 01 Nov 03 - 07:15 AM

Chocolate was good too.

Subject: RE: Favourite Romantic/Romantic Comedy Movie
From: LadyJean
Date: 01 Nov 03 - 12:39 AM

I agree that "Bringing Up Baby" is the greatest of all romantic comedies, with "My Favorite Wife" a close second.
I reccomend Kate and Leopold as a date movie. I left it thinking very well of men.