a list about romance movies that are actually watchable. (post 1990)

(not all of these follow the conventional romance format).

32.Shakespeare in Love - 1998 - John Madden

iconic couple : Joseph Fiennes & Gwyneth Paltrow

31. Hors de Prix (priceless) - 2006 - Pierre Salvadori

iconic couple: Audrey Tautou & Gad Elmaleh

30.True Romance -1993 - Quentin Tarantino

iconic couple: Christian Slater & Patricia Arquette

29. Knocked up -2007 - Judd Apatow

iconic couple : Seth Rogen & Katherine Heigel

28.Quand j'étais chanteur (when i was a singer) - 2006- Xavier Giannoli

iconic couple: Gerard Depardieu & Cecile de France

27. (500) Days of Summer - 2009 - Mark Webb

iconic couple: Joseph Gordon-Levitt& Zooey Deschanel

26.The Wedding Singer - 1998 - Tim Herlihy

iconic couple - Adam Sandler & Drew Barrymore

25.Punch-Drunk Love - 2002 - Paul Thomas Anderson

iconic couple : Adam Sandler and Emily Watson

24.Vicky Cristina Barcelona - 2008 - Woody Allen

iconic couple: Javier Bardem & Penelope Cruz/Scarlett Johanssen/Rebecca Hall

23.Atonement - 2007 - Joe Wright

iconic couple : Keira Knightley&James McAvoy

22.Chocolat - 2000 - Lasse Hallstrom

iconic couple : Johnny Depp & Juliette Bincohe

21.Il Postino - 1994- Micheal Radford

iconic couple - Massimo Troisi&Maria Grazia Cucinotta

20.Jerry Maguire - 1997 - Cameron Crowe

iconic couple: Tom Cruise & Renee Zellweger

19. Pane e Tulipani (Bread and Tulips) - 2000 - Silvio Soldini

iconic couple -Licia Maglietta & Bruno Ganz

18.Bridget Jones's Diary - 2001 - Sharon Maguire

iconic couple: Renee Zellweger & Hugh Grant/Colin Firth

17. Cyrano de Bergerac - 1990-Jean-Paul Rappeneau

iconic couple: Gérard Depardieu&Anne Brochet

16.Slumdog Millionaire - 2008 - Danny Boyle

iconic couple : Dev Patel & Freida Pinto

15. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - 2004 - Michel Gondry

iconic couple : Jim Carrey & Kate Winslet

14. Groundhog Day -1993 - Harold Ramis

iconic couple- Bill Murray & Andie Macdowell

13.Låt den rätte komma in ( let the right one in) - 2008 - Tomas Alfredson

iconic couple: Kare Hedebrant & Lina Leandersson

12. Garden State - 2004 - Zach Braff

iconic couple: Zach Braff & Natalie Portman

11. Pride and Prejudice - 2005 - Joe Wright

Iconic couple - Matthew Macfadyen and Kiera Knightly

10.Un long dimanche de fiançailles (A Very Long Engagement) - 2004 -Jean-Pierre Jeunet

iconic couple:Audrey Tautou&Gaspard Ulliel

9. Love Actually - 2003 - Richard Curtis

iconic couple : several

8. Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amelie Poulain (Amelie)- 2001- Jean-Pierre Jeunet

iconic couple:Audrey Tautou & Mathieu Kassovitz

7.Wall-e -2008- Andrew Stanton

iconic couple : Wall-e & Eve

6. Pretty Woman - 1990 - Gary Marshall

iconic couple: Richard Gere & Julia Roberts

5.Paris je T'aime (Paris ,I love you) 2006 - Various

iconic couple : several

4.Four Weddings and a Funeral - 1994 - Mike Newell

iconic couple : Hugh Grant & Andie MacDowell

3.Once - 2007 - John Carney

iconic couple:Glen Hansard&Markéta Irglová

2.Before Sunrise - 1995 - Richard Linklater

iconic couple : Ethan Hawke & Julie Delpy

1.Before Sunset - 2004- Richard Linklater

iconic couple : Ethan Hawke & Julie Delpy

Oscar Predictions-Film Awards (i)

Best Director Most likely winner : Steven Spielberg for Lincoln. Leaving out Ben Affleck, Kathryn Bigelow and Quentin Tarantino pretty much made this Spielberg's to lose. And doesn't reflect too well on the Academy either. Backup Pick : David O. Russell for Silver Linings Playbook. The production company of Weinstein have been campaigning hard for this and it's a good film with the acting performances set up well. The thing about best director is it's the easiest award to give to someone the academy likes because it's ambiguous and the academy doesn't really love Russell. Most deserving : Michel Haneke for Amour. Haneke has the most carefully crafted film here. All in all it is definitely his film in every scene. His presence is all around the film and it is an excellent film. If they give it for the greatest impact a director has on the film, this is it. Best Adapted Screenplay Most li...

a list about plays (post 1950)

The general perception is good plays stopped being written. That all the plays being performed which remain popular are classics and there is no place for the playwright in the current dramatic world. The role of the playwright has been diminished but good plays have not become extinct in the 20th and 21st century.This list will attempt to reflect that by giving a selection of excellent plays written (and performed) after 1950. 20. Prelude to a Kiss- Craig Lucas. Premiered in California in 1988. Quick Description: Thought to be a metaphor for AIDS. A story about the switching of bodies between a new bride and an old man and how the husband must find the old man while keeping his love alive. Something of a Sci-fi style and one of the most original works in recent times. 19. Long Day's Journey Into Night - Eugene O'Neill.premiered in Stockholm at the Royal Dramatic theatre in 1956. quick summary: A play about addiction and how it affects everyone around the addict.The characters ...

Travel Writings- Rome (I)

Rome is a cliché. Usually that isn’t a good thing but when the cliché is that a city is cool, full of life and gorgeous, the clichés can stay. Rome is possibly the only European capital that can claim to rival Paris in the popular imagination in terms of having an expectation around it. Even Paris is now succumbing to parallel narratives due to the sheer size of the city (much like London), with the immigrant experience less of an unknown story (to non-immigrants anyway. Immigrants always knew it wasn’t cities paved with gold they’d find). Some combination of smaller population, less immigration and the weight of centuries of civilization being still visible across the city has allowed Rome to actually deserve the tag of “The Eternal City”. My idea of Rome comes to me primarily from Italian films of the 1960s. Rome is black and white in my mind just as it is on Fellini’s film reel. I had low expectations. Months in London had allowed cynicism to set in...

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