This is about the most perfect film and one I watch any time i come across it. The ending always makes me sob like a baby. I wonder what happens to those characters after the movie ends. I believe she would carry around that broken heart forever. It makes me so sad still to think about it. But I guess she made the best choice for the times as they were.
Brief Encounter (1945)
| by Anonymous | reply 18 | October 28, 2024 7:40 AM |
I felt the same way watching The Bad Seed (1956) this afternoon on TCM. Oh, Rhoda.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | October 27, 2024 9:31 PM |
DAMN IT^^^^^!!!!!!!!!!!!!
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | October 27, 2024 9:45 PM |
^^^DAMN YOU MURIEL....and I'll thank you to keep your hands OFF my light refreshments, Joe Buttersthorpe
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | October 27, 2024 9:54 PM |
Hate to sound like a mean girl but Celia Johnson did NOT have a face for the big screen.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | October 27, 2024 9:57 PM |
The very ending shows how her husband knew.
(Maybe everybody sees this, and I'm late to the party!)
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | October 27, 2024 10:26 PM |
It IS Brief Encounter!
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | October 27, 2024 10:28 PM |
This has a Criterion cut, too. I'm watching now. I'd never heard of it before.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | October 27, 2024 10:30 PM |
I was reading one of those cheesy Murder, She Wrote books last year and Jessica mentions a “dreadful remake of Brief Encounter with Richard Burton and Sophia Loren.” I knew I had to watch it. It’s easily found on YouTube, but don’t bother unless you want to see Burton drunk while acting.
It did get me to rewatch and appreciate the original even more though. Criterion is a godsend.
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | October 28, 2024 2:00 AM |
R6 but she was very good and also in This Happy Breed. Keira Knightley seems to have based her performance in Atonement on Celia Johnson’s performances
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | October 28, 2024 2:39 AM |
She was later employed as Miss Brodie’s boss, Miss Mackay:
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | October 28, 2024 3:05 AM |
"It’s easily found on YouTube, but don’t bother unless you want to see Burton drunk while acting."
I do, actually.
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | October 28, 2024 4:57 AM |
Shouldn't it be "acting while drunk"?
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | October 28, 2024 5:32 AM |
Did we ever see Burton acting while sober?
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | October 28, 2024 5:38 AM |
[quote]Hate to sound like a mean girl but Celia Johnson did NOT have a face for the big screen.
Because she was an actress, not a movie star. She also starred in the Christmas classic, "The Holly and the Ivy," with Ralph Richardson and Margaret Leighton. I'm not sure it's actually a classic, and I may be in the minority, but I love this movie.
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | October 28, 2024 5:52 AM |
R17 I'm a big fan of The Holly and the Ivy (I'm a sucker for films set in cosy English villages) but Johnson was definitely the weak link in it - for starters, she was 44 at the time (and looked even older) when her character is supposed to be 31. Plus she was pretty hammy in it. Miss Leighton definitely blew her off the screen in that one.
| by Anonymous | reply 18 | October 28, 2024 7:40 AM |