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Post by spiderwort on Dec 15, 2017 16:58:27 GMT
All kinds of marriages - good, bad, or indifferent, but films that revolve around the marriage itself, whatever subplots may intervene.
A few of my favorites:
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) - Mike Nichols I Remember Mama (1948) - George Stevens Sunrise (1927) - F.W. Murnau The Family Way (1966) - Roy Boulting In America (2002) - Jim Sheridan L' Atalante (1934) - Jean Vigo
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Post by politicidal on Dec 15, 2017 17:19:05 GMT
Of Human Bondage (1934)
Mr. Skeffington (1944)
...really the lesson is 'don't marry Bette Davis'. You're in for a world of hurt.
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Post by teleadm on Dec 15, 2017 18:01:14 GMT
Nick and Nora Charles, I just love to be in their company, with a little help of Asta offcourse. No matter what the detective stories was actually about. The opposite real life marriage in Simon and Laura 1955 (Peter Finch and Key Kendall), a comedy/satire on live television and early reality TV, since they hate each others in real life, but plays the perfect couple as known in tabloids on TV. When the marriage is over, Simone Signoret and Jean Gabin in Le Chat 1971, showed here as they eat on separate tables. the only reason they still live together is the titled cat. The cheating husband marriage, Liv Ullman and Erland Josefsson in Ingmar Bergman's Scenes from a Marriage 1973. (I just realized watching this pic how boring furniture we used to have in Sweden back then in the 1970s)
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Post by mattgarth on Dec 15, 2017 19:32:22 GMT
the Walter Pidgeon/Greer Garson marriages -- especially in MRS. MINIVER.
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Post by wanton87 on Dec 15, 2017 20:09:10 GMT
The post by teleadm prompted me to think of another Liv Ullmann feature, Zandy's Bride, which as I recall, wasn’t a half bad film. Also, Mr and Mrs North came to mind. Initially the mystery radio series, but there was also the 1941 film featuring Gracie Allen, which puts this selection on topic.
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Post by bravomailer on Dec 15, 2017 20:20:46 GMT
Penny Serenade
The War of the Roses
The Marrying Kind (1952)
Giant
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Post by deembastille on Dec 15, 2017 20:27:42 GMT
The Awful Truth (Cary Grant)
Mr and Mrs Smith (1941 from Alfred Hitchcock if all people)
Mr and Mrs Smith (2005)
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Post by Deleted on Dec 15, 2017 22:36:51 GMT
La Notte (1961) Marriage Italian Style (1964) The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979) Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974) A Doll's House (1973) Fontane: Effie Briest (1974) Blue Valentine (2010) Barry Lyndon (1975)
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Post by Deleted on Dec 15, 2017 23:05:03 GMT
Amour (2012) A Separation (2011) The Innocent (1976)
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Post by bondfan90 on Dec 15, 2017 23:23:19 GMT
East Is East (1999)
Great film, based on the stage play by Ayub Khan Din. A Pakistani man is married to an English woman and thier marriage is tested,as they have different beliefs. The woman is Irish Catholic and the man is Islamic faith.
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Post by Doghouse6 on Dec 16, 2017 1:45:47 GMT
Rather than retread any ground covered above, I'll mention one of which I'm especially fond: the lacerating and bitterly droll satire of Divorce American Style (1967). Unexpected as it may seem, the creative combination of Norman Lear, Bud Yorkin and Dick Van Dyke was a harmonious one for this film as well as 1971's Cold Turkey, and both display affectionately askance views of modern American life, with DAS's targets encompassing (along with marriage and divorce) suburbia, upward mobility, middle-class morality, attorneys and alimony, television and consumerism, family dynamics, psychiatry and all manner of '60s culture, yet often managing quite touching sincerity.
Beyond principals Van Dyke and Debbie Reynolds (another harmonious combination), the cast is filled out with top-notch players like Jason Robards Jr., Jean Simmons, Van Johnson, Joe Flynn, Shelley Berman, Lee Grant, Emmaline Henry, Tom Bosley, Dick Gautier, Eileen Brennan and Martin Gabel. Even '60s icon Pat Collins, the fast-talking "Hip Hypnotist," gets in on the act (and incorporates hers) for the finale.
Meant at the time as contemporary commentary ranging from gentle to cynical to farcical, it emerges this half-century on as a time capsule: an unintended period piece that remains fresh, thanks to its underlying candor.
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Post by petrolino on Dec 16, 2017 1:49:01 GMT
Rather than retread any ground covered above, I'll mention one of which I'm especially fond: the lacerating and bitterly droll satire of Divorce American Style (1967) . Unexpected as it may seem, the creative combination of Norman Lear, Bud Yorkin and Dick Van Dyke was a harmonious one for this film as well as 1971's Cold Turkey, and both display affectionately askance views of modern American life, with DAS's targets encompassing (along with marriage and divorce) suburbia, upward mobility, middle-class morality, attorneys and alimony, television and consumerism, family dynamics, psychiatry and all manner of '60s culture, yet often managing quite touching sincerity. Beyond principals Van Dyke and Debbie Reynolds (another harmonious combination), the cast is filled out with top-notch players like Jason Robards Jr., Jean Simmons, Van Johnson, Joe Flynn, Shelley Berman, Lee Grant, Emmaline Henry, Tom Bosley, Dick Gautier, Eileen Brennan and Martin Gabel. Even '60s icon Pat Collins, the fast-talking "Hip Hypnotist," gets in on the act (and incorporates hers) for the finale. Meant at the time as contemporary commentary ranging from gentle to cynical to farcical, it emerges this half-century on as a time capsule: an unintended period piece that remains fresh, thanks to its underlying candor. Terrific movie.
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Post by manfromplanetx on Dec 16, 2017 1:56:06 GMT
Suspicions of infidelity triggered by sexual jealousy unhinge Sir Alfred in the dark comedy Unfaithfully Yours (1948)
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Post by movielover on Dec 16, 2017 2:05:45 GMT
The Four Seasons (1981) Two for the Road (1967)
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Post by manfromplanetx on Dec 16, 2017 2:08:10 GMT
The opposite real life marriage in Simon and Laura 1955 (Peter Finch and Key Kendall), a comedy/satire on live television and early reality TV, since they hate each others in real life, but plays the perfect couple as known in tabloids on TV. I love the spirited performances, plucked from obscurity a great recommendation teleadm !
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Post by bravomailer on Dec 16, 2017 2:12:10 GMT
Belle de Jour
Maybe not so memorable:
The Marriage of a Young Stockbroker
Diary of a Mad Housewife
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Post by BATouttaheck on Dec 16, 2017 2:16:33 GMT
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Post by manfromplanetx on Dec 16, 2017 2:28:52 GMT
Dodsworth (1936) Directed by William Wyler the quality screenplay comes from a 1934 stage adaptation of the 1929 novel of the same name by Sinclair Lewis. famous for his insightful vision of contemporary America. This is one of the most thoughtful and touching early classic film studies of a long marriage devolving into crisis. Recently retired auto magnate Samuel Dodsworth and his wife Fran, embark on a grand European tour, while away both discover that they now seek very different things out of life...
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Post by neurosturgeon on Dec 16, 2017 2:51:19 GMT
"Vacation From Marriage" is a very good film with Robert Donat and Deborah Kerr as a couple who "grow up" and apart during WWII.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Dec 16, 2017 2:52:52 GMT
The Four-poster (1952)Adapted from the prize-winning Broadway play that featured two people and a four-poster bed, in which the couple enacts their marriage, from its day in 1897, until he dies, some time after she has died from cancer. It is a "love" that endured wars, an "other" woman, and the death of their favorite son. The episodes are bridged and linked by cartoon sequences done by UPA (United Productions of America.) ON BROADWAY Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy
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