November 2006
This is perhaps an unusual mix with a noticeable absence of sci-fi!
- Life is Beautiful - I could never understand any criticism of this film
- The Banger Sisters
- Beaches
- Big
- Casablanca
- The Castle
- Chocolat
- Doctor Zhivago
- Drop Dead Fred
- Fiddler on the Roof
- Four Weddings and a Funeral
- French Lieutenant's Woman
- Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
- Ghost
- Grease
- Heide (Shirley Temple) - always wanted a pet monkey!!!
- High Road to China
- How to Make an American Quilt
- It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World - watched this a number of times with my Grandfather - how we laughed!
- The King & I
- Kindergarten Cop
- Little Women - 1949 version
- Looking for Alibrandi
- The Man from Snowy River
- Moonstruck
- Muriel's Wedding
- My Big Fat Greek Wedding
- Muriel's Choice
- The Notebook - another box of tissue
- Out of Africa
- Overboard
- Pane e tulipani (Bread and tulips)
- Paperback Hero
- Pirates of the Caribbean
- Pretty Woman
- Rebecca
- Robin Hood - Prince of Thieves
- The Secrets of Roan Inish
- Shirley Valentine
- Sophie's Choice
- Sound of Music
- The Sting
- This is My Father
- Tuesdays with Morrie
- The Witches of Eastwick
- The Weeping Camel
- You've got Mail
And Television Series & Comedies
- Ally McBeal
- Brides of Christ
- Faulty Towers
- Grey's Anatomy
- Keeping Up Appearances
- Little House on the Prairie
- Sea Change
- Simone de Beauvior's Babies
- Some Mother's do 'ave 'em
- Vicar of Dibley
January 2008
These additions listed below could equally be label obsessions and love affairs!
This love affair started on the plane from Heathrow to Tulla - Daniel Auteuil is a brilliant actor and the humor in these is also brilliant.
- The Closet
- The Valet
- My Best Friend
Ditto this next love affair - though English humour this time!
- Booze Cruise - Series 1 to 3
Inspired by the English countryside and a love of food and self-sufficiency; all things Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
The newer American TV series
- Brothers and Sisters (calista again)
- Ugly Betty
and to balance across the Atlantic