'Nostalgic' feeling movies

clusk007

Okay forget about the obvious movies you watched as a child like back to the future, ET, Indiana Jones etc. I'm talking more about movies that when you watched the first time gave you that 'nostalgic' feeling. I think flashbacks and home movies when done in the right way gives a real nostalgic sense, like in Raging Bull for example when the only colour part of the movie was the home movies. The end of 'vanilla sky' the first time I watched it gave me that feeling as did 'Almost famous' (in fact Cameron Crowe seems quite good at it!). 'Blow' with the relationship between father and son, Once upon a Time in America with that whole sense of growing up.

Anyone any other suggestions, in the mood for something like that tonight. (It was this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cE6wxDqdOV0&sns=fb that put me in the mood!)

Mickeroo

Richard Linklater's Dazed & Confused should be right up your alley. It all takes place in one day, school breaking up for the summer, follows several different characters over the course of the day.

The recent Muppets movie was very nostalgic too, especially if you ever watched it the show you were growing up, that might not be the nostalgia you're looking for though. Would also recommend Super 8, nostalgia is nearly the whole point of that movie.

clusk007

Great suggestions with the exception of super 8 (thought it was terrible!) but unfortunately I've seen them all! Dazed and confused is brilliant, exactly along the lines of what I was thinking..

Mickeroo

clusk007 wrote: »

Great suggestions with the exception of super 8 (thought it was terrible!) but unfortunately I've seen them all! Dazed and confused is brilliant, exactly along the lines of what I was thinking..

Ah yeah, lots of people didn't like it! Adventureland is a more recent one that might fit, similar kind of thing to Dazed & Confused but with more of a plot.

Another few older ones would be Pleasantville(underrated classic imo) about a brother and sister that get stuck in a 1950s TV show. Before Sunrise, same director as Dazed & Confused, a guy and gal spend a day in Vienna. Fast Times at Ridgemont High, high school comedy with a young Sean Penn. High Fidelity is another one too, you've probably seen all those of course.

paky

predator one :rolleyes:

...ah yes, that old nostalgic feeling of being back in the jungle

clusk007

I've seen fast times, Adventureland and high fidelity but just looked at the trailer for Before Sunrise, think I'll give that a go. Pleasantville looks okay but just coming to the end of a four season marathon of mad men so might give the 60s a rest for a while!

Speaking of genuine nostalgia, back to the future part two is on ITV2 atm. thanks Mickeroo

johnny_ultimate

My Neighbour Totoro conjures warm and achingly nostalgic memories about my childhood in rural Japan, having a laugh with imaginary creatures.

Sad Professor

The Tree of Life is very nostalgic. Even if your childhood was nothing like Malick's, I think there's something universal about the film's dream-like recollections of youth. Same goes for Terence Davies's The Long Day Closes, which is extremely evocative of childhood, although there's a darkness as well.

Dermighty

Barneys Version

kitakyushu

Stand By Me.

I didn't grow up in small-town America or even in the time period that the movie is set it. What's more I didn't even see the movie as a child. But despite all that I can relate the story to my own life and it does give me nostalgic feelings for events and people from my own childhood. I mean nostalgia is essentially what this movie is, as summed up by its final line :

"I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, does anyone? "

WatchWolf

kitakyushu wrote: »

Stand By Me.

I didn't grow up in small-town America or even in the time period that the movie is set it. What's more I didn't even see the movie as a child. But despite all that I can relate the story to my own life and it does give me nostalgic feelings for events and people from my own childhood. I mean nostalgia is essentially what this movie is, as summed up by its final line :

"I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, does anyone? "

I was just about to write the same thing.

livinsane

For me it has to be Labyrinthe. I first watched it as a young child and, like most movies of my youth, it was on bad quality vhs copies taped from tv. I have it on dvd now, and watching it seems to put me in a dreamlike state. Of all the fantasies/sci fi/fictional worlds I have seen portrayed on the screen, nothing compares to its unsettling weirdness.

Oh and does anyone remember a film called The Screaming Woman? When I was really young, I had a taped copy one of the Late Late Toy Shows that I used to watch over and over and at the end this awful film cut in, and it used to scare the hell out of me. I didnt realise it was so old, and also never knew it was based on a Ray Bradbury story. I'd love to watch it again.