What is your favourite film in this depressing weather?

[salymap]

I recorded the old B/W film, 'I Know Where I'm Going' to watch later. However the stormy seas and cloudy skies were too depressing, although it has a happy ending, I know.

What do you feel like watching, given that most of us have snow, slush and fog at the moment?

B/W or colour, doesn't matter.

[Anna]

If restricting it to old b&w films then either something light and humourous such as Some Like it Hot or unashamedly romantic Brief Encounter or Casablanca Three films I've seen many times but never tire of

[antongould]

As Good As It Gets never fails to cheer up the Goulds but then we have blue skies and no snow........

[amateur51]

Whisky Galore should fit the bill

[Nick Armstrong]

As Good As It Gets

Now you're talking, anton!! I love a great old black and white film, but As Good As It Gets (in the tradition, in fact, of the Tracy-Hepburn dingdongs) never fails to cheer me either. What a cracking script. Melvyn is one of the great film creations ("Like sad stories? Wanna hear mine?!")... Overdue for a watch at Caliban Towers! (Must have been seen 6 or more times already)

[aeolium]

Lindsay Anderson's If.... was on IIRC Film Four a few nights back. Not exactly a cheery film but in places very funny, with Anderson's mordant view of the British establishment. I don't think any of his later films matched this one, even if the scene where the cadet leader turns up in the headmaster's chest of drawers is a peculiar one

[salymap]

Now you're talking, anton!! I love a great old black and white film, but As Good As It Gets (in the tradition, in fact, of the Tracy-Hepburn dingdongs) never fails to cheer me either. What a cracking script. Melvyn is one of the great film creations ("Like sad stories? Wanna hear mine?!")... Overdue for a watch at Caliban Towers! (Must have been seen 6 or more times already)

Ooh, don't know that one. Must look out for it.

[amateur51]

Now you're talking, anton!! I love a great old black and white film, but As Good As It Gets (in the tradition, in fact, of the Tracy-Hepburn dingdongs) never fails to cheer me either. What a cracking script. Melvyn is one of the great film creations ("Like sad stories? Wanna hear mine?!")... Overdue for a watch at Caliban Towers! (Must have been seen 6 or more times already)

I've not seen this so will seek it out

[VodkaDilc]

I recorded the old B/W film, 'I Know Where I'm Going' to watch later. However the stormy seas and cloudy skies were too depressing, although it has a happy ending, I know.

What do you feel like watching, given that most of us have snow, slush and fog at the moment?

B/W or colour, doesn't matter.

One film that always has me laughing is The History Boys. I can almost recite some scenes word for word.

[BBMmk2]

I love Lord of the Rings. Keep me going for the whole day!!

[VodkaDilc]

I love Lord of the Rings. Keep me going for the whole day!!

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.

[Chris Newman]

I am with Anna and Some Like it Hot. So amusing with the best finish and last line in any film.

[vinteuil]

In this weather I think I pine for some colour - give me the 1940s films with Gene Tierney - in Leave Her to Heaven - or, less lurid (and funnier), in Heaven Can Wait.

Or some luminous Italian film making - perhaps Bertolucci - The Spider's Stratagem , say, or if we were in for a long cold spell - 1900 ...

[kernelbogey]

Fans of Casablanca may like to know that it's being reissued in a a new 'print' (actually digital) and is coming to a cinema near you soon.

'We'll always have Paris.'

[Curalach]

I feel a bit of a fraud as the weather here is rather nice today, we missed all the snow, but my favourite film of all time is undoubtedly "Some Like it Hot". As a "feel-good" movie, it ticks all the boxes for me and as Chris says "Nobody's perfect"!!