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Magnolia - great ensemble film which leaves you emotionally exhausted at the complexity of life and yet manages to capture the wonderful notion of serendipity in a shower of frogs! (Does that sentence make sense only to me?)


Good call on Beautiful Girls Sean - that gorgeous exchange on the ice rink - And I'll be Winnie The Pooh

to your Christopher Robin." Garden State, also starring Natalie Portman also managed to get me.


But it is theatre that usually gets me - most things by Owen McCafferty - particularly Scenes from a Big Picture; Conor McPherson's Port Authority... Laura Wade's Colder Than Here... wonderful quiet plays. And books - Augusten Burrough's Dry had tears running down my face, as did Jonathan Saffran Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.


And sadly... On Golden Pond works every time too!

spadetownboy Wrote:

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> the saddest scene in a film for me, in the name of

> the father, when guiseppi dies and they throw all

> the burning tissue paper from the cell windows in

> to the prison yard to the sound of some irish

> lament, powerful scene.



Good call! One of the saddest things about the whole sad affair!

mockney piers Wrote:

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> Land & Freedom (Tierra y libertad) at the funeral

> where they sing the international. Brings a lump

> to my throat and I confess the room can get quite

> dusty.


that one gets me too - the whole sorry affair of Spain in the Thirties in general, really

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