Curl up on a depressed weekend

List creator: sethbecky Created on: August 3, 2004 - 9:49 PM PDT Description: You're in a bad mood, it's a rainy Saturday, and you just want to curl up with your jammies, some hot tea, and a movie. Here's some to match, alter, or complement your mood.

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	movie title	related list	average rating	MPAA rating	watch	rent	buy
	You Can't Take It With You (1938)			Not Rated
Sweet and funny. You want to get lost in Grandpa Vanderhof's crazy, cozy, safe world.
	And Then There Were None (1945)			Not Rated
Safety. A cozy mystery, with twists and turns and odd characters to pull you away from whatever is bothering you for a little while.
	White Christmas (1954)			Not Rated
Sentimental and touching. The snow at the end always makes me feel warm and snuggly.
	The Little Prince (1974)
Open to interpretation. Might be sad for some, wonderful for others. If you want, you can just watch the scene of Gene Wilder in the field over and over again, but the ending--with the Snake giving the Prince his freedom--is almost as good.
	The Thief of Bagdad (1924)
Romance. Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., dances through this silent fantasy. Romance, stunts, and much derring is do'd. The great escapism.
	Dark Shadows vol.01 (Disc 1 of 4) (1967)			Not Rated
Speaking of escapism, there's enough of this gothic soap opera to fill weeks of your life.
	The Snake Pit (1948)
Touching redemption. Virginia Cunningham's journey out of the asylum. She's alone, frightened, and sad, and the doctor trying to help her feels as lost as she does.
	Lost in Translation (2003)
Loneliness. Two disaffected, emotionally unavailable people discover the joys of meaningless, shallow friendship. Sweet and sad. And another great ending.
	Beauty and the Beast (Criterion Collection) (1946)
Love. He loves her; she hates and fears him. He risks everything to help her and her family tries to kill him. A love story not unlike many others.
	Doctor Zhivago (1965)
Romance. Impossible love, everyone betrays everyone else, and everyone regrets it. Again, a great final scene for a bad day.
	Wings of Desire (Criterion) (1987)
Discovery. The greatest love story ever filmed. And no two characters ever needed love more.
	The Year My Voice Broke (1987)
Coming of age. Danny loves the wrong girl. She's the only girl, which just makesit harder. And it all ends, if not badly, at least not well. Just remember that it's someone else's ernest adolescence, not yours.
	Ordinary People (1980)
Catharsis. The first time I saw this movie, I felt like someone had just stopped beating me in the stomach. Conrad struggles to rejoin his life after a suicide attempt and no one but his therapist will talk about why he tried to kill himself.
	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
Anger and love. When George and Martha go to pieces, other people get hit by the shrapnel.
	Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962)			Not Rated
Family. Sad, hurtful family politics. Again, a story not unlike many others. But better.
	All That Jazz (1979)
Sad catharsis. Joe Gideon drinks, screws, and works his life away while his daughter, girlfriend, and businss partners try to save him. Bob Fosse's musical account of his own death--years before it happened--is touching, funy, sad, and angry.
	Big Fish (2003)
Accepting loss. Waiting or the father to die, reliving the life the son never bothered to pay attention to. So, not quite as upbeat as Pee Wee's Big Adventure.
	Requiem for a Dream (2000)			Not Rated
Devastation. Junkies *so* much in love, they completely collapse.
	What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993)
Loss, acceptance, and moving on. Maybe this affects me more than most. A movie about family, hiding from the world, and loss.
	Love Story (1970)
Speaking of ends.... We all know about this wonderfully calculated tear-jerker.
	The Man Who Wasn't There (2001)
Noir. This one ends badly, of course.
	The Seventh Seal (Criterion Special Edition) (1957)
Death. Trying to get home before he dies. Does anything that happens along the way matter?
	Babette's Feast (1987)
Loving sacrifice. There may be people who don't cry at the end of this. If so, don't tell me about them. Babette gives up a life of beauty and sumptuousness to escape the French revolution and joins a family in the frozen north.