ABCs at the Movies: The Doubles Round!

[Ellemeno]

From IMDb: Modernization of Charles Dickens classic story finds the hapless Finn as a painter in New York pursuing his unrequited and haughty childhood love.

True, it's been about 35 years since I read Great Expectations as a kid in school, but I do NOT remember anything about the book that could be associated with a languid, nudie picture of Gwyneth Paltrow!

    

[Ellemeno]

Four intertwined episodes on the joys and sorrows of love.

[memento]

From IMDB: Unlike most romantic comedies that get distributed, Next Stop Wonderland is neither star-peopled nor entirely plot-driven. Although the film was marketed as another Nora Ephron knockoff, it is very different from the slick, syrupy Meg Ryan vehicles viewers were led to believe it would resemble. Brad Anderson's beautiful, shimmering treatment of light, and his pleasingly idiosyncratic manner of filming the Boston urban landscape (and the lovely Hope Davis), well serve the sympathetic honesty with which he treats the search for love in the modern American city. A magnificent film.

[Fran]

[oilgun]

==COMMENT==
I never really thought of THE FLY and ONE MILLION BC as being love stories   

[Fran]

==COMMENT==
I never really thought of THE FLY and ONE MILLION BC as being love stories   

Me neither.  It's surprising what pops up on some of these Google lists.   

[memento]

From IMDB:
Delightful comedy of errors. Pheobe (Hepburn) is in love with the dashing Dr. Brown, but alas her love is unrequited. They meet again 10 years later on his return from the Napoleonic Wars. She has wilted under the strain of teaching little children and is self-conscious about her age. On a whim she decides to dress in her former radiant style, and ends up being mistaken by Dr. Brown for Pheobe's niece. They start to court, and from there it's all silly and predictable, but... sparkling dialogue, great acting and wonderful supporting parts (especially the nosy old spinsters at the windows.)

[Fran]

From IMDb: A bored and sheltered princess escapes her guardians and falls in love with an American newsman in Rome.

[Ellemeno]

I love this sentence from IMDb: ""Selvi Boylum Al Yazmalim" is further than a milestone for Turkish cinema history."

[oilgun]

From IMDb: In a desolate and colorless landscape stands a dilapidated bathhouse run by a puffed-up blind man, his long-suffering wife, and their son Anton, who does all the work. He's lonely and unsophisticated, and he falls in love with the beautiful Eva, who comes to bathe with her father. When Eva and her father lose their home, they come to the bathhouse to stay, but bits of the ceiling fall on the old man and he dies. Eva blames Anton, and she seems to seek the arms of the brute Gregor. Can Anton win back her heart, get the bathhouse through a rigorous government inspection, and help keep his parents employed? Waiting out there somewhere is the paradise isle of Tuvalu.