What is your favourite film in this depressing weather?

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

The Russia House is my favourite comfort movie .... leCarre/Stoopard; Pfeiffer?Connery; Moscow/lisbon ... all this and Branford Marsalistoo!

a great version of 'What is this thing called love'


miserable weather here fog icy underfoot and nearly slushy

[eighthobstruction]

I recommend this film [not just because it has Sunshine in the title....]

It's a very chuckle worthy road film. : Little Miss Sunshine....

second choice....Bringing up Baby : Hepburn and Grant....

[Nick Armstrong]

I've not seen this so will seek it out

Oh yes ammy, you should. I think it manages to be laugh-out loud funny and poignant (it seems to me Dickens might have written it had he been working in Hollywood in the late 20th C... big claim I know, but it's a great script!) Please come back with a full review

[Nick Armstrong]

... or if we were in for a long cold spell - 1900 ...

Second time someone's mentioned that in the last few days. I shall betake myself to amazon post-haste....

[anotherbob]

As a 19 year-old (some years ago) I worshipped the book and I have since deliberately avoided the film(s). Would I enjoy the film? Someone once gave me the DVDs, which remain untouched.

I read the books in the '60s, enjoyed the Brian Sibley BBC Radio 4 dramatisation, but the films were a disappointment.

Whenever I need a boost it's "The Happiest Days of Your Life" for me.

[Mary Chambers]

I'm not much of a film person, but like Anna I love Brief Encounter, and never get tired of it. The Railway Children is another I can watch over and over again (the original one, with Jenny Agutter as Bobby). I used to love The Red Shoes, but when I watch it now I think the Moira Shearer character is a wimp who needs to learn to speak up for herself.

[salymap]

I'm not much of a film person, but like Anna I love Brief Encounter, and never get tired of it. The Railway Children is another I can watch over and over again (the original one, with Jenny Agutter as Bobby). I used to love The Red Shoes, but when I watch it now I think the Moira Shearer character is a wimp who needs to learn to speak up for herself.

Mary I love Brief Encounter too, the restraint and things not said! The garish tehnicolour in The Red Shoes rather spoilt it for me though. Calamity Jane is a good film for a bad day, love singing along with it

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Some wonderful films have been mentioned: memories flooding back with many suggestions.

A couple of weeks ago, when I was under the weather and feeling very sorry for myself, C4/5 showed one of the old Miss Marple films with Am51 starring - totally cheered me up, as does anything with Margaret Rutherford or Alistair Simm (so bob2's suggestion of The Happiest Days of Our Lives is doubly welcome).

As for Musicals, my vote is for Guys & Dolls: flawless!

[Nick Armstrong]

Some wonderful films have been mentioned: memories flooding back with many suggestions.

A couple of weeks ago, when I was under the weather and feeling very sorry for myself, C4/5 showed one of the old Miss Marple films with Am51 starring - totally cheered me up, as does anything with Margaret Rutherford or Alistair Simm (so bob2's suggestion of The Happiest Days of Our Lives is doubly welcome).

I had a rotten cold between Xmas and New Year a few years back, there was one of the BBC Joan Hickson 'Marple' films on each afternoon, I coughed and spluttered through each of them for a week. Great stuff

"1900" now ordered £4.39 for 5 hours-worth

[handsomefortune]

i love miss marples too.

(we could do with her help at the leveson inquiry)!

[Mahlerei]

Recently watched the director's cut of Picnic at Hanging Rock, last seen when the Oz New Wave was still new. Looks and sounds fab in HD, Zamfir's pan pipes especially evocative. Whatever happened to Dominic Guard, the earnest young aristo who had a thing for Miranda?

[Anna]

A couple of months ago I watched The Misfits (Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe) I'd never seen it before and was totally gripped. I also watched (after a gap of many years) The Third Man and Brighton Rock (the original, not the recent remake) I confess never having seen 1900 or As Good as it Gets

[salymap]

For me Miss Marple must be played by Joan Hickson and I have them all on video. Good as Margaret Rutherford and Geraldine McEwen are in other things they are NOT Miss Marple, whom I believe Christie herself liked.

[anotherbob]

"1900" now ordered, £4.39 for 5 hours-worth

My preferred film critic panned it.....

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19770101/REVIEWS/701010301/1023

[Mary Chambers]

I agree - Miss Marple must be Joan Hickson.

At this moment I am (sort of) watching Lassie Come Home on Channel 4. I've never it seen before. Elizabeth Taylor when she was a little girl, and some hilarious attempts at a Yorkshire accent from most of the cast.