tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21463545.post1284959263530135481..comments2024-03-25T15:38:16.880-07:00Comments on Surrender to the Void: Thursday Movie Picks: Nostalgiathevoid99http://www.blogger.com/profile/03055459287396592446noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21463545.post-8865356684008921522018-03-31T15:16:50.855-07:002018-03-31T15:16:50.855-07:00@vinnieh-I haven't seen either of those films ...@vinnieh-I haven't seen either of those films but I will certainly take a look.thevoid99https://www.blogger.com/profile/03055459287396592446noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21463545.post-75420591456773353982018-03-31T12:42:41.865-07:002018-03-31T12:42:41.865-07:00My Father’s Glory and My Mother’s Castle are both ...My Father’s Glory and My Mother’s Castle are both gorgeous and heartfelt examples of nostalgia. Lovingly shot and rendered. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21463545.post-66414118960292280592018-03-29T12:42:05.765-07:002018-03-29T12:42:05.765-07:00@joel65913-Radio Days is definitely one of Woody&#...@joel65913-<i>Radio Days</i> is definitely one of Woody's best films as it would've been easy to do a theme on nostalgia based on films by Woody Allen but I felt that's not challenging enough.<br /><br />@Sonia-See <i>Wild Strawberries</i>, everyone who loves films have to see at least one film by Ingmar Bergman.<br /><br />@Brittani-It is as he's also made films that are funny. I'd suggest <i>Smiles of a Summer Night</i> which is pretty funny.<br /><br />@Sati-Yay!<br /><br />@Birgit-Guy Maddin is bizarre but he is truly an original by using old film stock and methods and making it feel new again.thevoid99https://www.blogger.com/profile/03055459287396592446noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21463545.post-81868311752159508282018-03-23T11:17:52.422-07:002018-03-23T11:17:52.422-07:00I still have to see Wild Strawberries and it has b...I still have to see Wild Strawberries and it has been on my list for so long. It takes a lot for me to view a Fellini film and that last one sounds a bit bizarre. Birgithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09439720285857050428noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21463545.post-318373450207953392018-03-23T10:55:26.267-07:002018-03-23T10:55:26.267-07:00Wild strawberries! Definitely my favorite Bergman ...Wild strawberries! Definitely my favorite Bergman movies.https://www.blogger.com/profile/13987831438787776712noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21463545.post-70173899730718604312018-03-23T04:34:16.855-07:002018-03-23T04:34:16.855-07:00I've only seen Wild Strawberries, which I real...I've only seen Wild Strawberries, which I really liked. I remember thinking it was probably the closest thing Bergman would get to a road trip comedy. Brittani Burnhamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07975067259283007280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21463545.post-29130999033608916092018-03-22T12:52:24.596-07:002018-03-22T12:52:24.596-07:00I also picked Amarcord. I saw it years ago and I l...I also picked Amarcord. I saw it years ago and I loved it. I think I'm going to rewatch it. <br /><br />I can't believe I still haven't seen Wild Strawberries. That movie has been on my list for ages! Sonia Cercahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07313734872038610058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21463545.post-69122731757671977582018-03-22T12:35:18.518-07:002018-03-22T12:35:18.518-07:00Wild Strawberries is my favorite Bergman film of t...Wild Strawberries is my favorite Bergman film of those I've seen. Gentle and elegiac with marvelous performances by Sjostrom and Ingrid Thulin. <br /><br />Amarcord is a very recent view for me (within the last month) and I liked it quite a lot, not as much as some other Fellini's but it does have the proper nostalgic feeling for the week.<br /><br />I haven't seen your last but it sounds interesting.<br /><br />Being an old softie at heart I guess I love this sort of film so it took some doing to get down to just three but I'm very fond of all of these.<br /><br />Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)-A year in the life of the upper middle class Smith family (including second daughter Esther played by Judy Garland) as they and their hometown prepare for the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair. For the most part charming, sweet and bandbox pretty full of great songs-The Trolley Song, The Boy Next Door, Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas (which was written expressly for Judy) etc.-this is interwoven with dark undertones most courtesy of borderline psychotic (though she’s meant to be seen as innocently eccentric) youngest daughter Tootie (Margaret O’Brien-who won a special Oscar). Wonderfully produced by the Freed unit and directed by Vincente Minnelli. <br /><br />On Moonlight Bay (1951)-Based on stories by Booth Tarkington we are once again at the turn of the 20th century. In bucolic small town Indiana the upwardly mobile Winfield family has just moved into a bigger house that only the father likes until tomboyish daughter Marjorie (Doris Day) meets handsome neighbor, college student Bill Sherman (Gordon MacRae). Suddenly she gets in touch with her feminine side and she and Bill start a romance which goes along fine until her father finds out Bill is a nonconformist who doesn’t believe in marriage or other traditional values. But after many songs, several mishaps and lots of warm and fuzzies all ends happily. Followed by a sequel “By the Light of the Silvery Moon”<br /><br />Radio Days (1987)-Told as a remembrance Joe (Woody Allen) recalls his youth (played by Seth Green) growing up in the 30’s and 40’s with his colorful and somewhat crazy family (including his parents who will argue about anything including which is the greater ocean-Atlantic or Pacific!) and people he encounters including the story of radio personality Sally White (a quite brilliant performance by Mia Farrow). Filled with beautiful period detail this captures both the period and a sense of youth.joel65913https://www.blogger.com/profile/14526657073681774683noreply@blogger.com