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Wedding Movie Of The Week!

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My Best Friend’s Wedding, starring Julia Roberts is a fine late 20th century example of an old Hollywood favorite: the wedding centered romantic comedy starring Hollywood’s “it” girl. that formula has been in existence almost as long as moving pictures themselves. Fine early examples “It Happened One Night” and “The Philadelphia Story” have previously appeared on the blog, one in our series one for its fashion (and soon in our series now that I realized its absence!)

My Best Friend’s Wedding is funny, colorful, poignant and stands out among the flimsy cardboard wedding movie copies that attempt to follow in its footsteps. Julia Roberts shines. And she’s still an “it” girl people, even living in Montana with her handsome lighting guy husband. Check out My Best Friend’s Wedding.

WEDDING MOVIE OF THE WEEK: WINE COUNTRY ROAD MOVIE – SIDEWAYS

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Sideways is probably the best written, most brilliantly acted version of the classic “bachelor party gone awry” plot you‘ll ever see. Set in the beautiful wine country around Santa Barbara, CA, two men muddle through discovering themselves before one of them gets married.  Hugely popular when it came out, Sideways won an Academy Award for screenwriting, and was nominated for a handful of others. This is one wedding movie everyone will enjoy. Best served with a chardonnay.

Cheers!

Wedding Movie of the Week! 1939 Epic Drama – Gone With The Wind

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Although 1939’s Gone With The Wind, takes place at the start of the civil war, Scarlett O’Hara’s wedding dress would have fit right into the assortment of giant confectionery creations that went down the aisle in the 1980s.

Scarlett O'Hara's wedding dress
Scarlett O’Hara’s wedding dress

But other than that, this film is the type of motion picture they just don’t make anymore*.  Grand and sweeping, this civil war epic will seem familiar- but only because every film that’s been made since has borrowed something from it.  If you’ve seen it before, see it again.  It’s a revelation how much they were able to do in 1939, and a little depressing that we’ve not lived up to the great promise of the medium.  OK, film school lecture over.  Dismissed!