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[flickchick85]

My rom-com picks:

The Shop Around the Corner (turns 85 this year!)
His Girl Friday (also 85!)
Love Me If You Dare (Jeux d'enfants)
Clueless (turning 30!)
Blast from the Past

 

[blueharvest]

Crazy, Stupid Love
When Harry Met Sally
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Punch-Drunk Love
The Wedding Singer

 

[Link]

Defending Your Life
Bridget Jones franchise (there's a new one coming out in February)
The Shop Around the Corner
When Harry Met Sally
You've Got Mail

I don't think I've nominated an original film and its remake yet, but here we are.

 

[flickchick85]

Whoops, didn't mean to put that at the bottom of the previous page. Repost:

It's that time already! The category y'all might have seen coming for February:


Romantic Comedy


Up to 5 picks, any decade. Voting will be open through the weekend!​

 

[Kane52630]

I'll pick more recent stuff...

Palm Springs
Long Shot
The Big Sick
Rye Lane
Crazy Rich Asians

 

[Luigi]

Blue Valentine (Well the first half lol)
Corpse Bride
Princess Bride
Raising Arizona
Spontaneous

 

[DKDetective]

My rom-com picks:

The Shop Around the Corner (turns 85 this year!)
His Girl Friday (also 85!)
Love Me If You Dare (Jeux d'enfants)
Clueless (turning 30!)
Blast from the Past

Roman Holiday
Some Like It Hot
Bridget Jones's Diary
13 Going on 30
A Good Year

Also, everybody should just watch Groundhog Day today!

 

[Kane52630]

Also, everybody should just watch Groundhog Day today!

 

[Snow Queen]

Saving Face
Palm Springs
His Girl Friday
The Princess Bride
Roman Holiday

 

[emielaen]

I'm gonna experiment and turn on the "Romance" and "Comedy" filters in my Letterboxd watched films, then sort by highest average rating across Letterboxd:

The Apartment
Chungking Express
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (underseen, must watch)
It Happened One Night
Forrest Gump

 

[CaptainWagner]

The Apartment
Broken Hearts Gallery
His Girl Friday
Punch-Drunk Love
Rye Lane

 

[Babillygunn]

Blast from the Past
Sabrina (Harrison Ford/Julia Ormand remake)
Clueless
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
Say Anything

 

[flickchick85]

Ok y'all, I believe we have our first ever need for a tie-breaker vote. Right now, we only have one selection that got more than 2 votes, so that one is already our winner. But we've got way too many 2-vote runner-ups, so we need to choose from those. These are our finalists:


The Apartment
Blast From The Past
The Bridget Jones Series
Clueless
Palm Springs
Princess Bride
Punch-Drunk Love
Roman Holiday
Rye Lane
The Shop Around the Corner
When Harry Met Sally

LIGHTNING ROUND! Everybody gets up to THREE votes from these picks. Voting will be open through tomorrow night, and I'll do my best to post the final selections ASAP so we can get rolling!​

 

[flickchick85]

My votes:

Blast From the Past
Clueless
Palm Springs

 

[Babillygunn]

Blast from the Past
Clueless
Princess Bride

 

[Kane52630]

Rye Lane
Palm Springs
Roman Holiday

 

[blueharvest]

Clueless
Punch-Drunk Love
Roman Holiday

 

[Link]

The Apartment
The Bridget Jones Series
The Shop Around the Corner

 

[emielaen]

The Apartment
Punch-Drunk Love
Rye Lane

 

[Luigi]

The Apartment
Clueless
The Princess Bride

 

[CaptainWagner]

The Apartment
Punch Drunk Love
Rye Lane

 

[flickchick85]

Ok everybody, without further ado, our February selections! First up, our winner of the original round:


His Girl Friday (1940)

Directed By: Howard Hawks
Written By: Charles Lederer, Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur
Starring: Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy & Gene Lockhart
What's It About? A newspaper editor uses every trick in the book to keep his ace reporter ex-wife from quitting and remarrying, using an exclusive interview with a death row convict as an enticement to buy himself some time to win her back.


Our runners-up, with 4 votes each in the lightning round:

The Apartment (1960)

Directed By: Billy Wilder
Written By: Billy Wilder & I.A.L. Diamond
Starring: Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray, Ray Walston & Edie Adams
What's It About? A 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.


Clueless (1995)

Directed By: Amy Heckerling
Written By: Amy Heckerling
Starring: Alicia Silverstone, Paul Rudd, Brittany Murphy, Stacey Dash, Donald Faison & Dan Hedaya
What's It About? Shallow, rich and socially successful Cher is at the top of her Beverly Hills high school's pecking scale. Seeing herself as a matchmaker, Cher first coaxes two teachers into dating each other.

And our final selections, with 3 lightning round votes each:

Punch-Drunk Love (2002)

Directed By: Paul Thomas Anderson
Written By: Paul Thomas Anderson
Starring: Adam Sandler, Emily Watson, Philip Seymour Hoffman & Luis Guzman
What's It About? Socially frustrated Barry Egan calls a phone-sex line to curb his loneliness. Little does he know it will land him in deep trouble and will jeopardize his burgeoning romance with the mysterious Lena.

Rye Lane (2023)

Directed By: Raine Allen-Miller
Written By: Nathan Bryon & Tom Melia
Starring: David Jonsson, Vivian Oparah & Poppy Allen-Quarmby
What's It About? Two youngsters reeling from bad breakups connect over an eventful day in South London.

Lots of variety in these picks. Well done all, and thanks for voting in both rounds!​

 

[CaptainWagner]

Reporting back from the frontlines after the arduous mission of watching all these romances over another very single Valentine's Month

His Girl Friday

It had been so long since I last saw this I forgot that it was where that gif came from and I've never Leo-pointed at a screen harder than when it happened. This flies at such a breakneck pace, you can't hope to catch every line, but they're all so good. Delightful to revisit.

Rye Lane

A really terrific first-watch that I'd heard great things about but hadn't gotten around to yet. It certainly lived up to the hype. On the page, it's a pretty straight-forward RomCom blessed with wonderfully endearing leads, but the direction takes it to the next level. Very cool to see this much creative energy put into a genre that is usually so straight-forward technically.

The Apartment

Masterpiece; a crime it didn't take home the Big Five at the Oscars. Baxter is a bit too relatable, both as a pushover and in his taste in women. Aces across the board, I'm so glad I got the 4K of this so I don't have to deal with hunting it down.

 

[flickchick85]

Apologies for the lateness again y’all, I’ve been on a ship with the worst wifi known to man for the last week. But I’ll be home shortly to post a quick topic/vote for March.

 

[flickchick85]

Ok everybody, March's category:

David Lynch


He only directed 10 feature-length films, so everybody just gets 2 picks this go-round, voting will be open through Friday!​