October 20, 2008
tearjerkers
I had been planning on being done with this today, but no such luck. I won't even think about the hourly rate this project is paying me, the horror. And about horror. Help us out here. Michiel has decided to watch tearjerkers. To test himself, he wants to know if he can still cry over movies. Don't ask. Now the internet is full of tearjerker top tens and top hundreds (here's a Washington Post one), but he doesn't like any of them. So that's where you guys come in, give us tearjerkers. Artistically responsible ones. Preferably about dead or lost children. We found Oliver Twist on YouTube, full version. Quite wonderful, but it doesn't make us cry. Michiel fell asleep.
Posted by eliane at October 20, 2008 10:22 PMTry the Italian Neorealists. The other day
I saw Sciuscià (Vittorio de Sica, 1947).
Just try NOT to cry...
Try the Italian Neorealists. The other day
I saw Sciuscià (Vittorio de Sica, 1947).
Just try NOT to cry...
Try the Italian Neorealists. The other day
I saw Sciuscià (Vittorio de Sica, 1947).
Just try NOT to cry...
i'll cry about anything the moviemakers want me to cry about, i'm afraid. i cried about 'about a boy' recently, it has a boy in it that is not strictly dead, although you could argue he's dead in some deep psychological sense.
Posted by: ellen at October 21, 2008 05:59 AMArtistically responsible? Hm. I used to cry about Casablanca, especially the scene where they play the Marseillaise. Didn't manage to get the "waterlanders" out though last time I saw it. But that isn't really artistic enough, I'm afraid, and no dead children. I'll see what else I can come up with, if anything, I'll let you know.
Posted by: Joost Brummelkamp at October 21, 2008 09:03 AMtwo Americans-both by Steven Spielberg, the worlds number 1 lost child expert-Empire of the Sun and A.I.
Posted by: Ineke at October 21, 2008 02:56 PMArtistiek, a dead child, so how that made me think about:
Les trois couleurs : Blue
Maar, ik weet niet meer of ik bij deze film heb moeten huilen. Ik denk het niet.
Posted by: saskia at October 21, 2008 08:57 PMThe Sweet Hereafter
City of Lost Children
My Life as a Dog(Hallstrom) These last two may be more strange than weepy but I dare you to keep a dry eye through
Grave of the Fireflies
and don't forget that American perennial
Old Yeller and the French classic
The 400 Blows.
Oh yeah, and there's no children here exactly but I am always moved by Fellini's La Strada (yes, even to tears and I have seen it five times).
