lune7000
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Post by lune7000 on Mar 6, 2021 20:28:12 GMT
I have become interested in "slice of life" (my term) type movies. These usually revolve around a place where various people's lives play out different story lines in roughly equal weight. By the end of the movie, some stories have come to conclusion, other's not, and new people may arrive- signaling the cycle starting all over again. This type of movie may be an adaptation from a play. The overall feeling of "slice of life" films is that there is something bigger than just one person's story- that we are all in a river shared by others. I have only found three of this kind of movie so far and am interested in others you may know about. Here are the three I have viewed:
1. Grand Hotel (1932)- centered on a luxury hotel
2. Stage Door (1937)- centered around a boarding house for aspiring actresses
3. Dead End (1937)- centered around a poor NY neighborhood
I seem to remember some William Warren films that might fit this description but I can't remember the titles
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Post by mattgarth on Mar 6, 2021 20:30:29 GMT
STREET SCENE (1931)
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Post by manfromplanetx on Mar 6, 2021 22:23:59 GMT
The L-Shaped Room (1962) UK directed by Bryan Forbes. This excellent "slice of life" work is considered part of the kitchen sink realism school of British drama. A young expecting French woman, Jane, arrives alone at a run down boarding house in Notting Hill, London, moving into the small upstairs L-shaped room. Beautiful but withdrawn, she encounters & interacts with the residents of her house, each a social outsider in his or her own way...   |
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Post by OldAussie on Mar 6, 2021 22:36:32 GMT
Terence Rattigan wrote some like this....   |
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Post by manfromplanetx on Mar 6, 2021 22:46:07 GMT
Dom, v kotorom ya zhivu , The House I Live In (1957) Soviet Dir. Lev Kulidzhanov. A new boarding house on the outskirts of Moscow is inhabited by various newcomers, families, people from different professions and backgrounds. The setting begins in 1935, the story follows the residents through the pre war years and after. Love, solidarity, separation , grief and loss, aspiration & dreams, new beginnings a tremendous slice of life... A beautifully composed touching human story ! ....  
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Post by bravomailer on Mar 6, 2021 22:54:36 GMT
Nomadland
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Post by london777 on Mar 7, 2021 1:56:49 GMT
You had no need to devise a new name for this sub-genre (of the genre drama). It already has one: "soap". I would of course first offer It Always Rains on Sunday (1947) dir: Robert Hamer. Intertwined stories over a 24-hour period of the inhabitants of a district in London's East End. One of the finest and most influential English films ever made, yet nicknamed the "mother of soaps" (and, in particular, of the long-running BBC soap "Eastenders").  |
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Post by london777 on Mar 7, 2021 2:10:33 GMT
Bande de Filles (2014) dir: Céline Sciamma shows the progress (or otherwise) of a group of black and arabic girls and their families living in a Parisian housing estate. 
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Post by bravomailer on Mar 7, 2021 2:16:10 GMT
John Ford's The Long Voyage Home might fit the bill.
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Post by london777 on Mar 7, 2021 2:21:31 GMT
Empire Falls (1974) dir: Fred Schapisi follows various residents of a run-down New England town. It was a TV mini-series (though later released as a feature film) and the only thing that stops it being plain "soap" is the star-studded cast. 
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Post by london777 on Mar 7, 2021 2:30:48 GMT
Sunshine State (2002) dir: John Sayles is about various people in a decaying Floridan fishing town. I usually like Sayles for his social observations but this is his weakest effort. Very "soapy" and saccharin, with an outrageous Hollywood ending. 
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Post by Rufus-T on Mar 7, 2021 2:37:35 GMT
I love watching slice of life movies during the height of my movie watching.
Some classics I consider slice of life come to mind are
The Best Years of Our Lives
The Last Picture Shows
Mrs.Miniver
How Green Was My Valley
The Grapes of Wrath
The more modern ones:
Ulee's Gold
Coal Miner's Daughter
Tender Mercies
What's Eating Gilbert Grapes
You Can Count on Me
The Visitor
Frozen River
Manchester by the Sea
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Post by jervistetch on Mar 7, 2021 2:47:16 GMT
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Post by jeffersoncody on Mar 7, 2021 6:29:56 GMT
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Post by jeffersoncody on Mar 7, 2021 6:31:33 GMT
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Post by Rufus-T on Mar 7, 2021 19:48:50 GMT
Peyton Place  Picnic  |
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lune7000
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Post by lune7000 on Mar 7, 2021 20:17:03 GMT
Thanks to all for these suggestions- I'll check them out
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Post by bravomailer on Mar 7, 2021 20:23:04 GMT
Car Wash
Sullivan's Travels
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Post by timshelboy on Mar 7, 2021 21:01:20 GMT
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Post by Fox in the Snow on Mar 7, 2021 21:51:13 GMT
The films of Yasujiro Ozu
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