It’s Valentine’s Day and love is in the air. So what better way to celebrate the holiday for lovers than to dedicate this week’s Circuit 3 to romance?! So easy enough, just list your three favorite films about love, romance, and all that other mushy stuff in the comments.
My Circuit 3 for Romance Films:
- Casablanca (1942)
- Gone With the Wind (1939)
- Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
List your favorite/best films from the romance genre after the jump!
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Tags: Casablanca, circuit 3, Circuit 3: Romance Films, Gone with the Wind, Romantic movies, Singin' in the Rain, Valentine's Day
Tags: Casablanca, circuit 3, Circuit 3: Romance Films, Gone with the Wind, Romantic movies, Singin' in the Rain, Valentine's Day
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These are my most recent choices. I won’t do all-time because I need to really sit down and think for that.
1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2. Leaving Las Vegas
3. Stranger than Fiction
Clayton Davis(Quote) (Reply)
If I did most recent, I would choose:
1. Slumdog Millionaire
2. (500) Days of Summer
3. Once
Mark Johnson(Quote) (Reply)
I’d hardly consider Gone with the Wind a romance, considering Scarlette could care less about Rhett. The romances I like are usually either (A. Ones where the couple starts out in love and then falls out of it, (B. One-day-flings, or (C. Depressing deconstructions of genre cliches and archetypes. So in other words, I’m hardly romantic. I’ll pick one of each without ranking them.
One Day Fling: Before Sunrise
Falling Out of Love: The Wings of the Dove
Deconstruction: (500) Days of Summer OR Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
OK, I cheated on that last one. Don’t make me pick.
koook160 (Robert MacFarlane)(Quote) (Reply)
You probably haven’t seen GWTW in a long time if you think Scarlett doesn’t care about Rhett.
Mark Johnson(Quote) (Reply)
She didn’t care about him UNTIL THE END.
koook160 (Robert MacFarlane)(Quote) (Reply)
She didn’t REALIZE she cared about him until the end.
Mark Johnson(Quote) (Reply)
Have to go a little bit star crossed here:
1. Casablanca
2. Same Time Next Year
and for recent
3. Moonrise Kingdom
Jamie(Quote) (Reply)
I’ll do a mix of recent and all-time and range from extremely depressing to lighthearted and joyous:
Deep Blue Sea (the Davies movie)
The Shop Around the Corner
Vertigo
Jim Bob(Quote) (Reply)
1) Lost in Translation
2) The Time Traveler’s Wife
3) Garden State
Mike Boyd(Quote) (Reply)
For pure romance value:
1. Beauty and the Beast
2. West Side Story
3. Breakfast at Tiffanys
Joseph Braverman(Quote) (Reply)
1. Stranger Than Fiction
2. Once
3. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Charade, or Beauty and the Beast anyone?
Steve Glansberg(Quote) (Reply)
Egahd! I can’t believe I forgot Marty! An egregious omission on my part. One of the greatest love stories ever told on film.
Steve Glansberg(Quote) (Reply)
Classics
1 Gone with the Wind
2 The Sound of Music
3 Roman Holiday
This time
1 The Notebook
2 (500) Days of Summer
3 Moulin Rouge!
paula gajardo(Quote) (Reply)
1. Casablanca
2. Beauty And The Beast
3. Brokeback Mountain
John Rivera(Quote) (Reply)
1. Amour
2. Moonrise Kingdom
3. Silver Linings Playbook
Does Vertigo count?
Josh(Quote) (Reply)
Vertigo definitely counts! Lots of passion and romance in that one, though it is a darker, more obsessive love story.
Mark Johnson(Quote) (Reply)
Recent ones that come straight to mind:
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Sideways
Silver Linings Playbook
Classics:
Ninotchka
Singin’ in the Rain
Bull Durham
Jeremy DC(Quote) (Reply)
I have to cheat and do a 10, that way I can include both the happy endings and the bittersweet ones…
1. Chasing Amy
2. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
3. Annie Hall
4. Garden State
5. Leaving Las Vegas
6. Blue Valentine
7. Once
8. The Notebook (sue me)
9. Casablanca
10. (500) Days of Summer
Honorable mention because they’re just too new: Ruby Sparks and Silver Linings Playbook
Joey Magidson(Quote) (Reply)
1. Funny Face (Fred Astaire & Audrey Hepburn)
2. Before Sunset (Julie Delpy & Ethan Hawke)
3. The Illusionist (Edward Norton & Jessica Biel)
Caddie(Quote) (Reply)
1. Vertigo
2. Annie Hall
3. Moulin Rouge!
Evan(Quote) (Reply)
Romantic
1. Bringing Up Baby
2. A Walk to Remember
3. Forrest Gump
Anti Romantic (for those of us that hate Valentine’s Day)
1. American Beauty
2. Young Adult
3. Closer
Taylor(Quote) (Reply)
1. Amelie
2. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
3. 500 Days of Summer
Troy F(Quote) (Reply)
1. When Harry Met Sally
2. Love Actually
3. Jerry Maguire
Anna Young(Quote) (Reply)