What movie do you most associate with autumn? Maybe it’s a film set in the autumn, or maybe there’s some other association for you.
Mine is Todd Haynes’s gorgeous 2002 film Far from Heaven, which might be the most autumn movie ever made. The fall-colors palette are impossibly rich and lush, the autumnal costumes are to die for, and you can practically feel the fallen leaves crunching under your feet. And the story is all about emotional chilliness and the end of a relationship… and of the delusions that accompanied it.
Your turn…
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I suppose mine is Dead Poets Society. I remember lots of golden autumn leaves, scarves, misted breath—pretty cool to see, as a kid who watched the film in Manila.
That’s a close runner-up for me.
Hm, not a movie, but it’s movie-length: Over the Garden Wall is so good and has extreme Fall Energy.
The Paper Chase, for obvious reasons.
The film I associate most with autumn is actually The Conformist – because of THAT scene
– even though I think the scene in question may actually happen in the winter – I haven’t been able to watch it for a long time, so I don’t remember exactly
– but my memory of the film overall is infused with autumn
Wayne’s TRUE GRIT.