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- DirectorStanley DonenGene KellyStarsGene KellyDonald O'ConnorDebbie ReynoldsA silent film star falls for a chorus girl just as he and his delusionally jealous screen partner are trying to make the difficult transition to talking pictures in 1920s Hollywood.
- DirectorAng LeeStarsJake GyllenhaalHeath LedgerMichelle WilliamsEnnis and Jack are two shepherds who develop a sexual and emotional relationship. Their relationship becomes complicated when both of them get married to their respective girlfriends.
- DirectorMichael CurtizStarsHumphrey BogartIngrid BergmanPaul HenreidA cynical expatriate American cafe owner struggles to decide whether or not to help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape the Nazis in French Morocco.
- DirectorBilly WilderStarsJack LemmonShirley MacLaineFred MacMurrayA Manhattan insurance clerk tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts, but office politics and his own romantic hopes complicate matters.
- DirectorJerome RobbinsRobert WiseStarsNatalie WoodGeorge ChakirisRichard BeymerTwo youngsters from rival New York City gangs fall in love, but tensions between their respective friends build toward tragedy.
- DirectorFederico FelliniStarsMarcello MastroianniAnita EkbergAnouk AiméeA series of stories following a week in the life of a philandering tabloid journalist living in Rome.
- DirectorWoody AllenStarsWoody AllenDiane KeatonTony RobertsAlvy Singer, a divorced Jewish comedian, reflects on his relationship with ex-lover Annie Hall, an aspiring nightclub singer, which ended abruptly just like his previous marriages.
- DirectorKar-Wai WongStarsLeslie CheungTony Leung Chiu-waiChang ChenA couple take a trip to Argentina but both men find their lives drifting apart in opposite directions.
- DirectorF.W. MurnauStarsGeorge O'BrienJanet GaynorMargaret LivingstonA sophisticated city woman seduces a farmer and convinces him to murder his wife and join her in the city, but he ends up rekindling his romance with his wife when he changes his mind at the last moment.
- DirectorMark SandrichStarsFred AstaireGinger RogersEdward Everett HortonAn American dancer comes to Britain and falls for a model whom he initially annoyed, but she mistakes him for his goofy producer.Timeless musical screwball comedy classic
Good: Rogers and Astaire's chemistry and dancing scenes (the thunder one), Cheek to Cheek song and the scene (Astaire and "She loves me!"), fantastic screenplay for a 1930s romantic musical, all favorable characters (feminine Horace, broad-minded Madge, sassy Bates, cute Beddini), all comedy lines are so well-written and timelessly funny (all Horace/Madge/Bates parts, "silence!" opening, "hornet's nest", "birdhouse stork", "early worm gets the bird", "Bates's English insulting", "only one with the mouth closed",etc), The "top hat" dancing scene (gunshot), Rogers's final solo singing, Rogers's costume design
Bad: the steak scene, French/English scene could have ended in a better way
Compared to Singing in the Rain: better screenplay, less memorable musical and dancing scenes - DirectorRobert WiseStarsJulie AndrewsChristopher PlummerEleanor ParkerA young novice is sent by her convent in 1930s Austria to become a governess to the seven children of a widowed naval officer.
- DirectorDamien ChazelleStarsRyan GoslingEmma StoneRosemarie DeWittWhile navigating their careers in Los Angeles, a pianist and an actress fall in love while attempting to reconcile their aspirations for the future.
- DirectorJames L. BrooksStarsJack NicholsonHelen HuntGreg KinnearA single mother and waitress, a misanthropic author, and a gay artist form an unlikely friendship after the artist is assaulted in a robbery.
- DirectorRob MarshallStarsRenée ZellwegerCatherine Zeta-JonesRichard GereTwo death-row murderesses develop a fierce rivalry while competing for publicity, celebrity, and a sleazy lawyer's attention.
- DirectorFrank CapraStarsClark GableClaudette ColbertWalter ConnollyA rogue reporter trailing a runaway heiress for a big story joins her on a bus heading from Florida to New York and they end up stuck with each other when the bus leaves them behind at one of the stops along the way.
- DirectorJim SharmanStarsTim CurrySusan SarandonBarry BostwickA newly-engaged couple have a breakdown in an isolated area and must seek shelter at the bizarre residence of Dr. Frank-n-Furter.
- DirectorFrancis LeeStarsJosh O'ConnorAlec SecareanuGemma JonesSpring. Yorkshire. Young farmer Johnny Saxby numbs his daily frustrations with binge drinking and casual sex, until the arrival of a Romanian migrant worker for lambing season ignites an intense relationship that sets Johnny on a new path.
- DirectorKar-Wai WongStarsTony Leung Chiu-waiMaggie CheungSiu Ping-LamTwo neighbors form a strong bond after both suspect extramarital activities of their spouses. However, they agree to keep their bond platonic so as not to commit similar wrongs.繡花鞋:《花样年华》中出现了四次的苏丽珍的一双绣花拖鞋,在影片中有着重要的象征意义。房东的突然回来,苏丽珍被控在周慕云家里,为了避嫌,她穿着周妻的皮鞋假装成刚下班回家,于是就把他的绣花拖鞋留在了周慕云的家里。周慕云一直把这双绣花拖鞋珍藏,就连离开香港去到新加坡,他也带着这双鞋。这就为赋予这双绣花鞋特殊的寓意。它象征着周慕云对苏丽珍纯洁而真挚的爱,是二人之间美好爱情的象征。后来,苏丽珍去了一次周慕云在新加坡住所,她并没有见周慕云,在周的房间里默默地停留了片刻就走了,临走时她悄悄的带走了那双绣花拖鞋
- DirectorJames IvoryStarsJames WilbyRupert GravesHugh GrantTwo English school chums find themselves falling in love at Cambridge. To regain his place in society, Clive gives up Maurice and marries. While staying with Clive and his wife, Maurice discovers romance in the arms of the gamekeeper Alec.
- DirectorBob FosseStarsLiza MinnelliMichael YorkHelmut GriemA female girlie club entertainer in Weimar Republic era Berlin romances two men while the Nazi Party rises to power around them.
- DirectorClaude LelouchStarsAnouk AiméeJean-Louis TrintignantPierre BarouhA widow and a widower find their relationship developing into love, but their past tragedies prove hard to overcome, causing them to proceed with utmost delicacy.-Inspiration: After a few hours sleep in the car, LeLouch was awakened by the sunrise and saw a woman walking on the beach with her daughter and a dog.
-mixture of black-and-white and full color: the primary reason was that he was running out of money
-The climactic scene at a train station was not scripted so Aimée did not know the two main characters would reunite at the end.
Good: score/music, cinematography, direction, acting of the two leads, editing, flashback about past husband and train station reunion ending, the man and the dog scenes, dialogue
Could be better: the thin plot - DirectorPawel PawlikowskiStarsJoanna KuligTomasz KotBorys SzycIn the 1950s, a music director falls in love with a singer and tries to persuade her to flee communist Poland for France.-A subtle suicide ending
-Cold War: literal war and the romance
Good: cinematography, direction (music/dance sequences), Joanna Kulig acting and the chemistry with Tomasz Kot, beautiful pacing and scenes for feeling (music, dance, light), editing, subtle screenplay (not cliche as most romantic war films) - DirectorKar-Wai WongStarsBrigitte LinTakeshi KaneshiroTony Leung Chiu-waiTwo melancholic Hong Kong policemen fall in love: one with a mysterious female underworld figure, the other with a beautiful and ethereal waitress at a late-night restaurant he frequents.墮落天使姊妹片,前半黑暗如<墮>,後半明亮,皆講述忙碌現代香港城市生活下小人物的感情故事與孤獨、愛與被愛。
優: 王菲與後半電影劇本、攝影、音樂、剪輯、overall feeling比<墮>強
缺: 前半劇本過貧乏、金城武和林青霞口條 - DirectorLuca GuadagninoStarsTimothée ChalametArmie HammerMichael StuhlbargIn 1980s Italy, romance blossoms between a seventeen-year-old student and the older man hired as his father's research assistant.
- DirectorMasayuki SuôStarsKoji YakushoTamiyo KusakariNaoto TakenakaA successful but unhappy Japanese accountant finds the missing passion in his life when he begins to secretly take ballroom dance lessons.