In the Mood for Love - Too beautiful. There are no words to describe this scene.
Before Sunrise - How I would kill to have my personal love story patterned after this movie. Endless conversations with someone impossibly intelligent and spontaneous and who I genuinely connect with (kindred spirit! That's the word). Traipsing around Europe together. Spending an entire day with that person and not having the slightest idea what to do and where to go next. Anyway this scene is so deeply meaningful to me because you will only understand it if you actually saw the movie (and paid real attention). When I leave a certain place that I have developed some attachment to, my mind creates its own montage of photographs of significant spots and spaces (also set to music...I am artistic like that).
Say Anything - Please let me know where I could score a DVD of this. The movie has the simplest storyline but it's still Cameron Crowe's finest work, methinks. John Cusack plays the cutest loser evah whilst Ione Skye is an overachiever. A critical piece of information - the movie is set in high school, so how can that not make you nostalgic? Check out how John Cusack holds up a boom box (80's jargon alert) playing Peter Gabriel's In Your Eyes whilst standing outside Ione Skye's window.
El Lado Oscuro del Corazón (The Dark Side of the Heart) - This scene is precious. A poet is at a bar reciting my favourite favourite Mario Benedetti poem (Táctica y Estrategia) to a hooker, and surprisingly, she finishes off the poem for him. This movie is replete with surrealist elements and Benedetti's heartbreakingly beautiful poetry.
**There's actually heaps more but unfortunately they're not up on Youtube (Los Amantes del Círculo Polar, Dream for an Insomniac, Cinema Paradiso, etc.).
***Check out what Valentine's really means. Definition brought to you by the brilliant geniuses of urbandictionary.com, the site I run to whenever I need a good laugh.
The phrase "Valentine" was coined sometime after July of 1947, by either the Ebe Alien culture or Chuck Norris himself, as a technological trade that would allow corporations to scam millions of lonely hearts like Paris Hilton. It is understood these technologies, and holiday ideas are just some of the many things that the Aliens have provided us in exchange for the thousands of helpless abductees, cows and crops who are assaulted each year.
Valentines day has become as much of a worldwide epidemic as people who expect you to remember and much less care when it is their birthdays. On valentines many ladies will perform favors for flowers and candy versus the old rent payment, it gives the many guys who'd never would have had a chance otherwise, a break.
Valentines day has become as much of a worldwide epidemic as people who expect you to remember and much less care when it is their birthdays. On valentines many ladies will perform favors for flowers and candy versus the old rent payment, it gives the many guys who'd never would have had a chance otherwise, a break.
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