What is your favourite film in this depressing weather?

[Anna]

anything starring Bette Davis or Humphrey Bogart..............

All About Eve, also, love Bogart In a Lonely Place

[Pianorak]

West Side Story - and, of course, All about Eve as well.

[EdgeleyRob]

The Good the Bad and the Ugly.

[salymap]

All About Eve, also, love Bogart In a Lonely Place

Name drop...when Bette Davis stands on the stairs and says "Fasten your seatbelts, it's going tobe a bumpy ride" there is a painting of her on the wall behind her painted by my cousin, W.H Pinyon. I was thrilled by that as a kid. He was a commercial draughtsman and artist.

love Humphrey Bogart too.

[Stanley Stewart]

#67 "State Fair" (1945), saly. As Vivian Blaine sang, "That's for me". ("I know what I like, and I liked what I saw, and I said to myself - that's for me." The 1962 remake wasn't in the same league, although it was filmed in Cinemascope but it did have Alice Faye, late in her career, as the mother (Fay Bainter in the 1945 version. I was glad to get several cheapie R2 DVDs on Amazon, a year or two ago, which contained both versions and they became very popular presents. A hilarious scene in the mincemeat competition with the great character actor, Donald Meek, pecking his way through each entry. "A Grand Night for Singing" and "It Might as Well Be Spring" still survive to lift our spirits - and don't we need it now.

[jayne lee wilson]

Something surreal, cold, distant, strange, insidious, provoking disturbing dreams and fantasies, something to haunt all the next day, all week...

SOLARIS...
Tarkovsky a heavenly, lengthy masterpiece, Soderbergh/Clooney ...cool and stylish devastation.

[pmartel]

Just got through watching 'Happy Feet.

This is one of THE BEST animated movies of it's type.

For the grey weather here a real 'feel good'

[Mahlerei]

anything starring Bette Davis or Humphrey Bogart..............

Ooh yes, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? is one of my faves, Bette Davis the lush with a mouth as sour as her whiskey and Joan Crawford as her crippled sis. Deliciously dark.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

As one who greatly prefers winter to summer (hay fever season) my favourite film in that overbearingly muggy period is Scott of the Antarctic, with that wondefully "cold" VW score.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Scott of the Antarctic, with that wondefully "cold" VW score.

Oh yes! The first (and AFaIK, only "mainstream") film where the producers and editors added more footage in order to accommodate more of the Music that the composer had written.

[Ferretfancy]

Oh yes! The first (and AFaIK, only "mainstream") film where the producers and editors added more footage in order to accommodate more of the Music that the composer had written.

I've got the movie in the Ealing box set, and remember being allowed to see it when I was at boarding school, it was "educational" of course!

Later I worked quite often at Ealing Studios, and much later still I was able to stand on the deck of an icebreaker going through the pack ice and trying to whistle the Antartica as I viewed the scene. The music is unsurpassed in its portrait of that astonishing and desolate place.

[Serial_Apologist]

Something surreal, cold, distant, strange, insidious, provoking disturbing dreams and fantasies, something to haunt all the next day, all week...

"Don't Look Now" would fill the bill

[doversoul1]

Something surreal, cold, distant, strange, insidious, provoking disturbing dreams and fantasies, something to haunt all the next day, all week...

Bergman (not Ingrid but that's another story) But in this weather?

[vinteuil]

... well, I have just watched, on the telly, Hitchcock's Rope (which I had never seen before) - and it was an excellent way of spending a drear cold afternoon. James Stewart and Farley Granger both splendid. I liked the obsessive use of Poulenc's first Perpetuum Mobile being played over and over again by the other murderer...

This time I didn't catch the Hitchcock cameo - I assume it must have been in the opening street scene before the main film, all shot in the same apartment.

[Mahlerei]

... well, I have just watched, on the telly, Hitchcock's Rope (which I had never seen before) - and it was an excellent way of spending a drear cold afternoon. James Stewart and Farley Granger both splendid. I liked the obsessive use of Poulenc's first Perpetuum Mobile being played over and over again by the other murderer...

This time I didn't catch the Hitchcock cameo - I assume it must have been in the opening street scene before the main film, all shot in the same apartment.

Actually he 'appears' twice, as a pedestrian in the opening and as a neon caricature visible from the apartment.

This is fun:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=iv&src_vid=gTPGcl4OORI&annotation_id=annotation_155050&v=c9SnK1cXuDA