list http://www.spout.com/ Recent community activity around Brief Encounter on Spout Copyright 2005-9 Spout, LLC Spout RSS http://www.spout.com/images/SpoutLogoRSS.jpg http://www.spout.com/ 136 30 http://www.spout.com/films/Brief_Encounter/4453/default.aspx Title: Brief Encounter
Year: 1946
Director: David Lean
Plot: Based on Noël Coward's play "Still Life," Brief Encounter is a romantic, bittersweet drama about two married people who meet by chance in a London railway station and carry on an intense love affair. Sentimental yet down-to-earth and set in pre-World War II England, the film follows British housewife Laura Jesson (Celia Johnson), who is on her way home, but catches a cinder in her eye. By chance, she meets Dr. Alec Harvey (Trevor Howard), who removes it for her. The two talk for a few minutes and strike immediate sparks, but they end up catching different trains. However, both return to the station once a week to meet and, as the film progresses, they grow closer, sharing stories, hopes, and fears about their lives, marriages, and children. One day, when Alec's train is late, both become frantic that they will miss each other. When they finally find each other, they realize that they are in love. But what should be a joyous realization is fraught with tragedy, since both care greatly for their families. Howard and Johnson give flawless performances as two practical, married people who find themselves in a situation in which they know they can never be happy. ~ Don Kaye, All Movie Guide
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]]>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 02:26:52 GMTBrief Encounter1946David LeanBased on <a href="/players/P____86099/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Noël Coward</a>'s play "Still Life," Brief Encounter is a romantic, bittersweet drama about two married people who meet by chance in a London railway station and carry on an intense love affair. Sentimental yet down-to-earth and set in pre-World War II England, the film follows British housewife Laura Jesson (<a href="/players/P____35792/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Celia Johnson</a>), who is on her way home, but catches a cinder in her eye. By chance, she meets Dr. Alec Harvey (<a href="/players/P____33529/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Trevor Howard</a>), who removes it for her. The two talk for a few minutes and strike immediate sparks, but they end up catching different trains. However, both return to the station once a week to meet and, as the film progresses, they grow closer, sharing stories, hopes, and fears about their lives, marriages, and children. One day, when Alec's train is late, both become frantic that they will miss each other. When they finally find each other, they realize that they are in love. But what should be a joyous realization is fraught with tragedy, since both care greatly for their families. Howard and Johnson give flawless performances as two practical, married people who find themselves in a situation in which they know they can never be happy. ~ Don Kaye, All Movie Guide4Slightly Tagged (1-5)1534http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/t46580d65c3.jpghttp://www.spout.com/films/Brief_Encounter/4453/default.aspxFilm http://www.spout.com/blogs/risselada/archive/2009/9/11/43878.aspx Post By: Risselada
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Body: I have asked certain users on Spout to recommend a movie to me. I will be blogging about these films as I watch them. This film was recommended to me by joem18b Brief Encounter The next David Lean film I was planning on seeing was Great Expectations, because I loved his adaptation of Oliver Twist so much, I thought checking out his other Dickens adaptation would be a good idea. But then joem18b (who I sometimes call Joe but have never actually confirmed that is his real name) recommended to me Brief Encounter. They say on the special features of this DVD that this is the ultimate classic women's movie. What might now be referred to as the genre of "chick flick". Why is it the ultimate? Because apparently most men also like it as much as women. Now I personally am often put off right away in a film when characters who are supposed to be sympathetic start getting caught up in an affair. I guess the point of this one is that you can see how unexpectedly something like that can start. Neither of them were planning to have an affair. At least we know that with the woman Laura. We know because David Lean expanded the original play by Noel Coward into a film by adding several scenes of Laura at home and with her husband and children. This means everything is looked at from her point of view. We never see the man Alec apart from Laura (except for one strange scene with him and his friend/coworker). Sometimes I felt like Alec was being a bit pushy and wondered if he might be lying about some things. I don't think the intention of the filmmaker was for him to be lying, but it would have been nice to see what he was like with his own wife and at his own home as well. However I may be argueing against the thing that really makes this movie work. The subjective point of view experience we get through Laura is probably what makes this the ultimate women's film and also what established David Lean as a strong independent personality in the world of filmmaking. David Lean:Total feature length films seen: 3Previous average film score: 7New average film score: 7.3333 Rating: 8/10
]]>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 22:26:00 GMTRisseladaRisselada Blog9/11/2009 6:26:00 PMI have asked certain users on Spout to recommend a movie to me. I will be blogging about these films as I watch them. This film was recommended to me by joem18b Brief Encounter The next David Lean film I was planning on seeing was Great Expectations, because I loved his adaptation of Oliver Twist so much, I thought checking out his other Dickens adaptation would be a good idea. But then joem18b (who I sometimes call Joe but have never actually confirmed that is his real name) recommended to me Brief Encounter. They say on the special features of this DVD that this is the ultimate classic women's movie. What might now be referred to as the genre of "chick flick". Why is it the ultimate? Because apparently most men also like it as much as women. Now I personally am often put off right away in a film when characters who are supposed to be sympathetic start getting caught up in an affair. I guess the point of this one is that you can see how unexpectedly something like that can start. Neither of them were planning to have an affair. At least we know that with the woman Laura. We know because David Lean expanded the original play by Noel Coward into a film by adding several scenes of Laura at home and with her husband and children. This means everything is looked at from her point of view. We never see the man Alec apart from Laura (except for one strange scene with him and his friend/coworker). Sometimes I felt like Alec was being a bit pushy and wondered if he might be lying about some things. I don't think the intention of the filmmaker was for him to be lying, but it would have been nice to see what he was like with his own wife and at his own home as well. However I may be argueing against the thing that really makes this movie work. The subjective point of view experience we get through Laura is probably what makes this the ultimate women's film and also what established David Lean as a strong independent personality in the world of filmmaking. David Lean:Total feature length films seen: 3Previous average film score: 7New average film score: 7.3333 Rating: 8/10 http://www.spout.com/groups/Weekly_Theme/Re_Weekly_Theme_for_September_7_Infidelity/625/43857/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: Risselada
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Post Date: 9/10/2009 2:06:12 PM
Body: [quote user="mercurial"] Awesome topic. Probably my favorite film about cheating / having an affair is Dressed to Kill. The first twenty, thirty minutes of the film is so insane, so mind blowingly intense - a woman in an unhappy marriage is hooked into a quickie with a stranger and . . . I can't say anymore because it's just so awesome you have to watch for yourself. True Lies had fun with the typical affair plot with Jamie Lee Curtis wanting more from her marriage and toying with the idea of having an affair with sleazy Bill Paxton. Of course there is Fatal Attraction which made every man think twice before committing adultery. Dave is a great film about the president of the United States having an affair and his staff having to cover it up in an absurd yet amusing way. Monsoon Wedding dealt with a woman dealing with an arranged marriage and the other man she is madly in love with. American Beauty was another film about a bored suburban marriage falling apart. Rushmore had that great little love triangle with Bill Murray and Jason Schwartzman duking it out. More when I think of 'em. [/quote] Oh boy. It would seem weird for me to say something like "my favorite film about cheating / having an affair is..." because I realize a lot of times any kind of affair / infidelity / promiscuity in movies turns me off. At least when I am supposed to be sympathetic to the characters. That's just me. And I realize it's a thing that really turns me off to a lot of movies that some peopel otherwise thing are great. But that's why we are all different I guess! Two movies I saw recently that both have "brief" in the title came to mind. David Lean's Brief Encounter and Vittorio De Sica's A Brief Vacation. They are also both similar in that they deal with good women with no so perfect husbands (but who do love them) getting sucked into affairs with much more appealing men, but not going as far as they could have before retracting. I liked them both well enough. They say that Brief Encounter is still the best classis "chick flick" that a lot of guys seem to like as well. The Coen brothers first movie Blood Simple deals with an affair which results in some death and violence like a lot of their subsequent films. And Kubrick's final film Eyes Wide Shut seems to be a warning against even taking the first steps towards the world of infidelity. Emery, I see you mention Romance & Cigarettes so often I don't know why I haven't seen it yet. But I trust you, and I'm curious to see what Turturro did with these great actors too. Hopefully it will rise to the top of my Netflix queue soon.
]]>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 18:06:12 GMTRisseladaWeekly Theme9/10/2009 2:06:12 PM[quote user="mercurial"] Awesome topic. Probably my favorite film about cheating / having an affair is Dressed to Kill. The first twenty, thirty minutes of the film is so insane, so mind blowingly intense - a woman in an unhappy marriage is hooked into a quickie with a stranger and . . . I can't say anymore because it's just so awesome you have to watch for yourself. True Lies had fun with the typical affair plot with Jamie Lee Curtis wanting more from her marriage and toying with the idea of having an affair with sleazy Bill Paxton. Of course there is Fatal Attraction which made every man think twice before committing adultery. Dave is a great film about the president of the United States having an affair and his staff having to cover it up in an absurd yet amusing way. Monsoon Wedding dealt with a woman dealing with an arranged marriage and the other man she is madly in love with. American Beauty was another film about a bored suburban marriage falling apart. Rushmore had that great little love triangle with Bill Murray and Jason Schwartzman duking it out. More when I think of 'em. [/quote] Oh boy. It would seem weird for me to say something like "my favorite film about cheating / having an affair is..." because I realize a lot of times any kind of affair / infidelity / promiscuity in movies turns me off. At least when I am supposed to be sympathetic to the characters. That's just me. And I realize it's a thing that really turns me off to a lot of movies that some peopel otherwise thing are great. But that's why we are all different I guess! Two movies I saw recently that both have "brief" in the title came to mind. David Lean's Brief Encounter and Vittorio De Sica's A Brief Vacation. They are also both similar in that they deal with good women with no so perfect husbands (but who do love them) getting sucked into affairs with much more appealing men, but not going as far as they could have before retracting. I liked them both well enough. They say that Brief Encounter is still the best classis "chick flick" that a lot of guys seem to like as well. The Coen brothers first movie Blood Simple deals with an affair which results in some death and violence like a lot of their subsequent films. And Kubrick's final film Eyes Wide Shut seems to be a warning against even taking the first steps towards the world of infidelity. Emery, I see you mention Romance &amp; Cigarettes so often I don't know why I haven't seen it yet. But I trust you, and I'm curious to see what Turturro did with these great actors too. Hopefully it will rise to the top of my Netflix queue soon. http://www.spout.com/blogs/gerosimov/archive/2009/6/3/42513.aspx Post By: Gerosimov
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Post Date: 6/3/2009 4:41:57 AM
Body: The train station works as the perfect set up for this classic love story about forbidden romance. Celia Johnson was absolutely wonderful.
]]>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 08:41:57 GMTGerosimovGerosimov Blog6/3/2009 4:41:57 AMThe train station works as the perfect set up for this classic love story about forbidden romance. Celia Johnson was absolutely wonderful. http://www.spout.com/blogs/spoutblog/archive/2008/2/20/25370.aspx Post By: SpoutBlog
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Post Date: 2/20/2008 1:00:34 PM
Body: Today we’re taking a look at Brandon Linden’s Bootleg Wisconsin, which is screening in the Emerging Visions section at the SXSW Film Festival. It’s a drama about the summer relationship between Katherine, a married woman from Chicago who spends her summer vacation visiting outlet malls, and Billy, a younger guy who works in the Wisconsin mall that Katherine visits. There’s a trailer above, as well as tons of clips on YouTube. Brandon answers the 4 Questions We’re Askign Everybody below. Tell us about your movie. Who did you work with, why did you make it? Give us the reductive, 25-word or less, “It’s like [pop culture reference a] meets [pop culture reference b]!” pitch, then explain what the quick and dirty sell leaves out. Bootleg Wisconsin is the story of a young man who works at an outlet mall outside Kenosha. The store he works at is about to be closed. He starts up a relationship with a woman from Chicago who shops there and we see how it effects the two of them, and his friends and family. My concept of it would read something like this: “If a Swedish director watched too many Naruse films drunk and then decided to do a near silent remake of Brief Encounter in a Midwest outlet mall you would have my film.” I wanted to make the film after visiting the outlet mall with my wife, who was shopping. I got bored and started to talk to some of the kids who worked at the brand new hotel next door. They told me how the hotel was supported by people visiting the mall. I started to think about the differences, social and economic, between the people who worked at the mall and those who visited it, and why anyone would stay overnight at a place just to shop. I wanted to make a film about this that was quiet, compassionate, and real. (more…) Originally posted on:SpoutBlog
]]>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:00:34 GMTSpoutBlogSpoutBlog on spout.com2/20/2008 1:00:34 PM Today we’re taking a look at Brandon Linden’s Bootleg Wisconsin, which is screening in the Emerging Visions section at the SXSW Film Festival. It’s a drama about the summer relationship between Katherine, a married woman from Chicago who spends her summer vacation visiting outlet malls, and Billy, a younger guy who works in the Wisconsin mall that Katherine visits. There’s a trailer above, as well as tons of clips on YouTube. Brandon answers the 4 Questions We’re Askign Everybody below. Tell us about your movie. Who did you work with, why did you make it? Give us the reductive, 25-word or less, “It’s like [pop culture reference a] meets [pop culture reference b]!” pitch, then explain what the quick and dirty sell leaves out. Bootleg Wisconsin is the story of a young man who works at an outlet mall outside Kenosha. The store he works at is about to be closed. He starts up a relationship with a woman from Chicago who shops there and we see how it effects the two of them, and his friends and family. My concept of it would read something like this: “If a Swedish director watched too many Naruse films drunk and then decided to do a near silent remake of Brief Encounter in a Midwest outlet mall you would have my film.” I wanted to make the film after visiting the outlet mall with my wife, who was shopping. I got bored and started to talk to some of the kids who worked at the brand new hotel next door. They told me how the hotel was supported by people visiting the mall. I started to think about the differences, social and economic, between the people who worked at the mall and those who visited it, and why anyone would stay overnight at a place just to shop. I wanted to make a film about this that was quiet, compassionate, and real. (more…) Originally posted on:SpoutBlog http://www.spout.com/blogs/karina/archive/2008/2/20/25368.aspx Post By: Karina
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Post Date: 2/20/2008 12:00:48 PM
Body: Today we’re taking a look at Brandon Linden’s Bootleg Wisconsin, which is screening in the Emerging Visions section at the SXSW Film Festival. It’s a drama about the summer relationship between Katherine, a married woman from Chicago who spends her summer vacation visiting outlet malls, and Billy, a younger guy who works in the Wisconsin mall that Katherine visits. There’s a trailer above, as well as tons of clips on YouTube. Brandon answers the 4 Questions We’re Askign Everybody below. Tell us about your movie. Who did you work with, why did you make it? Give us the reductive, 25-word or less, “It’s like [pop culture reference a] meets [pop culture reference b]!” pitch, then explain what the quick and dirty sell leaves out. Bootleg Wisconsin is the story of a young man who works at an outlet mall outside Kenosha. The store he works at is about to be closed. He starts up a relationship with a woman from Chicago who shops there and we see how it effects the two of them, and his friends and family. My concept of it would read something like this: “If a Swedish director watched too many Naruse films drunk and then decided to do a near silent remake of Brief Encounter in a Midwest outlet mall you would have my film.” I wanted to make the film after visiting the outlet mall with my wife, who was shopping. I got bored and started to talk to some of the kids who worked at the brand new hotel next door. They told me how the hotel was supported by people visiting the mall. I started to think about the differences, social and economic, between the people who worked at the mall and those who visited it, and why anyone would stay overnight at a place just to shop. I wanted to make a film about this that was quiet, compassionate, and real. (more…) Originally posted on:SpoutBlog » karina
]]>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:00:48 GMTKarinaKarina on SpoutBlog2/20/2008 12:00:48 PM Today we’re taking a look at Brandon Linden’s Bootleg Wisconsin, which is screening in the Emerging Visions section at the SXSW Film Festival. It’s a drama about the summer relationship between Katherine, a married woman from Chicago who spends her summer vacation visiting outlet malls, and Billy, a younger guy who works in the Wisconsin mall that Katherine visits. There’s a trailer above, as well as tons of clips on YouTube. Brandon answers the 4 Questions We’re Askign Everybody below. Tell us about your movie. Who did you work with, why did you make it? Give us the reductive, 25-word or less, “It’s like [pop culture reference a] meets [pop culture reference b]!” pitch, then explain what the quick and dirty sell leaves out. Bootleg Wisconsin is the story of a young man who works at an outlet mall outside Kenosha. The store he works at is about to be closed. He starts up a relationship with a woman from Chicago who shops there and we see how it effects the two of them, and his friends and family. My concept of it would read something like this: “If a Swedish director watched too many Naruse films drunk and then decided to do a near silent remake of Brief Encounter in a Midwest outlet mall you would have my film.” I wanted to make the film after visiting the outlet mall with my wife, who was shopping. I got bored and started to talk to some of the kids who worked at the brand new hotel next door. They told me how the hotel was supported by people visiting the mall. I started to think about the differences, social and economic, between the people who worked at the mall and those who visited it, and why anyone would stay overnight at a place just to shop. I wanted to make a film about this that was quiet, compassionate, and real. (more…) Originally posted on:SpoutBlog » karina http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/love/MemberTagFilms.aspxlove
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