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