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Post by lonesomepolecat on Sept 9, 2024 21:24:23 GMT
It’s September which is the beginning of Fall for some of you. Here in LA we are having a record breaking heat wave — 115 on Friday, 106 today — so please let’s pretend it’s cool!!! Even when it’s not over 100, the leaves don’t change here til Christmas, so I have to depend on classic movies and you guys for my fall foliage fix. The most beautiful fall foliage movie I can think of is THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY, one of my all time favorites:      Just looking at those images makes me feel cooler. Please post your fav Fall/Autumn movies and any foliage outside your window! |
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Post by jamesjazzguitar on Sept 9, 2024 21:33:22 GMT
Yea, Lonesomepolcat, I'm 6 miles from the Pacific Ocean and it has been near 100 the last few days. Should end tonight!
As for Fall: Well based on those photos fall is a good time to bury a body. All those leaves will cover any signs of digging and then the snow will cover the ground for another 3 months.
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Post by I Love Melvin on Sept 9, 2024 21:55:49 GMT
I love the great establishing shot under the titles of All That Heaven Allows (1955), with a wide pan from the clock tower to the treelined street with that blue station wagon then pulling into the driveway amid all the fallen leaves. There are several scenes in the yard, with neighbors burning piles of leaves in the background. Fall always makes me feel nostalgic and that's the way the opening scenes in that movie, perfectly curated by the set and prop departments I'm sure, make me feel as well.    |
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Post by lonesomepolecat on Sept 9, 2024 22:49:17 GMT
 There’s some lovely fall scenes in Disney’s THOSE CALLOWAYS (1965)  |
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Post by I Love Melvin on Sept 10, 2024 13:29:21 GMT
There's a wonderful scene in The World of Henry Orient (1963) in which the two teenage stars (though Peter Sellers officially gets that credit) go on their adventures in Central Park, which looks beautiful in its fall colors and low sun. I love the game of "splitzing" they play, jumping on and over anything in their path. It's all accompanied by Elmer Bernstein's theme for the movie, one of my favorites ever. I was hoping to find the title sequence, which features a school bus moving through New York City, a remarkable enough sight in itself, passing familiar landmarks surrounded by fall colors as it brings the kids to their school by the river, but no dice. The full movie is on YouTube, so anyone who's interested enough could just watch the titles if they want.  |
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Post by I Love Melvin on Sept 10, 2024 14:20:05 GMT
Peyton Place (1957), the exteriors of which were filmed primarily in Camden, Maine, has some beautiful New England fall scenes, and beautiful scenes of other seasons as well. I especially love the description of the seasons in the voice-over narration by Allison right after the credits: "Autumn was that bittersweet time of regret for moments that had ended and for things that were yet undone." I couldn't track down really good representative stills or footage, so here's the title sequence, followed by that narration about the seasons, which, for a basically unsophisticated writer like Metalious, is nicely poetic.
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Post by christine on Sept 10, 2024 16:19:25 GMT
I agree 100% with you lonesomepolecat - THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY 1955 is filmed in some delightful Autumn surroundings!
Here's another 'Harry' film that I've always liked, that has a glamorous Fall background.
WHEN HARRY MET SALLY 1989. Directed by Rob Reiner and starring Billy Crystal, Meg Ryan, Carrie Fisher and Bruno Kirby. There is some unforgettable dialog in this movie too.
Love this scene in the delicatessen!
 
LOL!!!
I've always liked the premise of this story - two people meeting - then becoming friends, and then getting romantically entwined.
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Post by lonesomepolecat on Sept 10, 2024 18:01:45 GMT
Love the fall segment in MEET ME IN ST LOUIS — my how Halloween has changed!   |
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Post by I Love Melvin on Sept 10, 2024 18:40:29 GMT
I'm a New Englander, so I have a predisposition to think of fall as colorful foliage, etc., but it's different in other parts of the country. One of most visually impressive films I can think of, Terrence Malick's Days of Heaven (1978), begins in the Texas panhandle at harvest time. The stunning location photography contrasts the darker themes, with an itinerant couple scheming to inherit the estate of the grain farmer they go to work for. I'm not used to seeing the horizon, except at the beach, so I'm always in awe of "wide open spaces" like these.    |
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Post by BunnyWhit on Sept 10, 2024 19:32:50 GMT
I'm a New Englander, so I have a predisposition to think of fall as colorful foliage, etc., but it's different in other parts of the country. One of most visually impressive films I can think of, Terrence Malick's Days of Heaven (1978), begins in the Texas panhandle at harvest time. The stunning location photography contrasts the darker themes, with an itinerant couple scheming to inherit the estate of the grain farmer they go to work for. I'm not used to seeing the horizon, except at the beach, so I'm always in awe of "wide open spaces" like these.
FYI -- On a day with a gentle breeze, a wheat field nearing readiness for harvesting sounds not unlike the ocean. I can hear this photo. |
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Post by BunnyWhit on Sept 10, 2024 19:37:40 GMT
The Europeans (1979) -- near Boston
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Post by I Love Melvin on Sept 10, 2024 19:45:42 GMT
FYI -- On a day with a gentle breeze, a wheat field nearing readiness for harvesting sounds not unlike the ocean. I can hear this photo. That's a sound I'd love to hear. The grass is always greener, I guess, when it comes to what we know and what we don't know. |
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Post by lonesomepolecat on Sept 10, 2024 20:31:36 GMT
I'm a New Englander, so I have a predisposition to think of fall as colorful foliage, etc., but it's different in other parts of the country. One of most visually impressive films I can think of, Terrence Malick's Days of Heaven (1978), begins in the Texas panhandle at harvest time. The stunning location photography contrasts the darker themes, with an itinerant couple scheming to inherit the estate of the grain farmer they go to work for. I'm not used to seeing the horizon, except at the beach, so I'm always in awe of "wide open spaces" like these. I have always wanted to see New England in the fall! I hope you share some local foliage pix! Still 100 degrees here in LA but I am going to the Hollywood Bowl tomorrow so I can’t really complain.  |
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Post by lonesomepolecat on Sept 10, 2024 20:37:02 GMT
 Another fall movie about New York is YOU GOT MAIL which starts in the autumn. Tom Hanks writes to Meg Ryan how much he loves autumn in New York — “it makes me want to buy school supplies!”  |
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Post by christine on Sept 11, 2024 1:45:44 GMT
Another movie that comes to mind is AUTUMN IN NEW YORK 2000.
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