We recently gathered to share scenes from our favourite films, as we do every so often. The theme this time was ‘romance’. Slightly late for Valentine’s day, we have compiled a list of our choices:
- Rod chose Harold & Maude, USA, directed by Hal Ashby, 1971
- Robin chose La boulangère de Monceau, France, directed by Éric Rohmer, 1963
- Mike chose The Long Goodbye, USA, directed by Robert Altman, 1973
- James chose Together, Sweden, directed by Lukas Moodysson, 2000
- Duncan chose Don’t Look Now, UK/Italy, directed by Nicolas Roeg, 1973
- Jonathan chose The Trouble with Love and Sex, UK (a short animation he’d been working on for Relate, 2010)
- Dan chose Team America: World Police, USA/Germany, directed by Trey Parker, 200)
- Peter chose The Passenger, Italy/Spain/France, directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, 1975
- Olly chose three shorts: Meat Love, UK/USA/West Germany, 1989; Darkness/Light/Darkness, Czechoslovakia, 1989; Dimensions of Dialogue, Czechoslovakia, 1982. All directed by Jan Svankmajer
- Becky chose The Graduate, USA, directed by Mike Nichols, 1967
- Robert Bradbrook chose Up, USA, directed by Pete Docter, Bob Peterson, 2009
- Lisa chose Le goût des autres, France, directed by Agnès Jaoui, 2000
- Unbeknownst to each other Dan and Peter both chose Brief Encounter, UK, directed by David Lean, 1945
- Cleo chose Gregory’s Girl, UK, directed by Bill Forsyth, 1981
- Vanora chose Dr Zhivago, USA/Italy, directed by David Lean, 1965
- Mike chose (a colour-tinted version of) The Big Sleep, USA, directed by Howard Hawks, 1946