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Post by topbilled on Dec 26, 2022 15:03:26 GMT
A few that come to mind:
Carole Lombard & James Stewart ring in the new year during a big party scene in MADE FOR EACH OTHER (1939).
Barbara Stanwyck & George Brent embark on a new romance and a new year in MY REPUTATION (1946).
It's Auld Lang Syne for Bob Hope & Lucille Ball in a scene from THE FACTS OF LIFE (1960).
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Post by Fading Fast on Dec 26, 2022 16:55:32 GMT
The last scene in the Christmas movie "Holiday Affair" is on a train where they are having a New Year's Eve celebration. It a great finale for the movie, but it also gives one a sense of the spontaneous community that happened on trains back then.
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Post by dianedebuda on Dec 27, 2022 10:24:38 GMT
Bachelor Mother (1939) and the remake, Bundle of Joy (1956). Faux-Swedish gibberish at the NYE party.
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Post by Newbie on Dec 28, 2022 1:48:01 GMT
Godfather II -- "I know it was you, Fredo. you broke my heart."
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Post by topbilled on Dec 31, 2022 15:20:49 GMT
Happy New Year everyone.
I live on the side of a hill here in north Phoenix. People on the hill (what I call my neighbors) started setting off fireworks last night, 29 hours ahead of schedule!
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Post by BingFan on Jan 1, 2023 4:51:10 GMT
In addition to the fine choices above, here are some more movies that I like to watch around New Year’s:
After the Thin Man (1936) - In the second movie in the series, Nick and Nora return on New Year’s Eve to their San Francisco home after their New York adventure, only to find that her family needs help finding her cousin’s missing husband. A young James Stewart plays the man who carries a torch for Nora’s cousin. This is one sequel that comes very close to the original in quality.
Diner (1982) - Six Baltimore friends in their 20s struggle to find their way into the adult world, with one of them about to get married on New Year’s Eve 1959. A very funny and heartfelt movie.
Repeat Performance (1947) - In this fantasy-noir, a Broadway star (Joan Leslie) is given the chance to re-live the past year, starting on New Year’s Eve, so that she and her husband (Louis Hayward) can avoid the grave mistakes that led to tragedy the first time around.
Radio Days (1987) - A nostalgic and very funny look back on the golden age of radio, seen through the eyes of a young boy and his family in 1940s Brooklyn. The movie ends with fictional radio stars bidding goodbye to 1943 on a Manhattan rooftop.
Holiday (1938) - Cary Grant learns that his fiancée comes from one of New York’s wealthiest families when he first visits their palatial mansion. After their engagement is announced by her father at a lavish New Year’s Eve party, Grant begins to wonder whether his fiancée or her offbeat sister (Katharine Hepburn) is more suited for the life he wants to lead. There’s a great supporting cast featuring Lew Ayres, Edward Everett Horton, and Jean Dixon.
The Moon’s Our Home (1936) - A bestselling novelist and adventurer (Henry Fonda) falls in love with a movie star (Margaret Sullavan), but because they live in such different worlds, and because they get to know each other by their real names instead of their professional noms de plume, neither realizes the other is famous. Beulah Bondi, Charles Butterworth, Walter Brennan, and Margaret Hamilton are in the very funny cast. (Interestingly, by the time this movie was made, Fonda and Sullavan had been married to each other in real life and then divorced. Nonetheless, they seem to be having a great time together here.)
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Post by ando on Jan 2, 2023 3:42:51 GMT
Right off the top...
 the last scene in Strange Days as the new millennium starts. Nice copy on sflix.
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