What movie do you most associate with winter that isn’t a Christmas movie? Maybe it’s a film set in the winter, or maybe there’s some other association for you.
Mine is probably Groundhog Day, because not only is it set during winter, but the relentlessness of the season’s weather is part of the comic horror of it. It’s difficult to imagine the same conceit working quite so well if it were a gorgeous summer’s day that poor Phil was stuck looping through over and over again.
Your turn…
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The Shining.
So, slightly less so because it feels like November to me, too, Winter’s Bone.
Ooh, I need to see Winter’s Bone.
I’m going to be obvious and say the Frozen movies. I also think they’re really, really good.
This song, from the second one, is something that I think a lot of us could use right now. (Even though the imagery in this particular scene is autumnal rather than wintry.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFkClV2gM-s&ab_channel=DisneyMusicVEVO
They really are good movies, and for all their success, I think they’re underrated. There are a lot of pretty deep ideas in these movies, deeper than we usually give kids credit for being able to understand and learn from.
Glad you think so too! If you’re interested, I have a conversation with MaryAnn about it here, where I liked F2 more than she did. :-)
It’s fascinating. I seem to be in the middle of an interactive theatre project with folks pretending to be doctors. They keep serving me food when I ask for it, but they’re also showing a lot of Marvel movies and advertisements, so I can just lie back and listen to the performances if I want to. They are not low key.
I keep forgetting that, while they’re pretending to be medical workers, I’m genuinely ill, and any treatment they provide has to be cleared with my actual doctors. I’m trying to take an Advil, and it’s going to take at least 20 minutes before the decision is approved by first me, then the troupe of actors, and then the actual caregivers making the final decision.
The cast members seem to be paid less for the portions of the performance when they’re watching Spider-Man.
I realized after I posted this that quite a bit of what I’d written wasn’t actually true, but I really wish there were a theatre troupe performing this sort of show.
(((((hugs))))
I saw Frozen II for my fifteenth birthday!
God, I’m old. :-)
Same. :-)
First thing that came to mind was Doctor Zhivago. Even if it doesn’t all take place in winter, my takeaway images are the endless train travel through the snow and the iced-over house that Zhivago and Lara lived in.
oh yes! i loved that scene (and the opposite one of the sunflowers in summer) but a good bit of that movie takes place in cold and bitter weather… just yuri’s trip from his dismissal from the service of the bolsheviks to return to his home… brrrrrr.
My favorite winter movie is probably “Frozen.” My favorite winter song is “Winter” by Tori Amos.
The Thing. Always in the mood to watch when there’s some snow on the ground.
The Thing would be my second choice.
I often watch The Empire Strikes Back on the first big snow day of the season.
LOL.
Die Hard.
*drops mic*
*runs*
*hides*
I don’t think anyone here will disagree with this addition
Cinderella 1997, and I have no idea why.
Also, Frozen.