The daylight hours are disappearing and nights are closing in (at least in the northern hemisphere). I love the hygge of this time of year: candles, warm drinks, snuggling under a blanket watching films. But which films to watch?
What’s a perfect cosy movie for long dark winter evenings?
My pick is 1995’s Sense and Sensibility [Prime US | Prime UK | Apple TV]. With a script by Emma Thompson, and directed by Ang Lee, this is a compassionate, generous adaptation of Jane Austen’s romantic drama about the kindly Dashwood sisters (Thompson and Kate Winslet) and the suitors tenderly pursuing them (Hugh Grant, Greg Wise, and Alan Rickman). It’s such a lovely, gentle film, bittersweet and emotionally enrapturing.
yknow, I don't really have a go-to cozy movie. I don't tend to rewatch films all that often, in the first place. In the second place, when I do it tends to be happenstance, 'oh look what's on' rather than a deliberate choice.
but that said - for a reason I haven't quite teased out, Master and Commander is the first film that sprang to mind. I absolutely adore it; it's beautiful to look at (and visions of the sunlit sea during these dark days are certainly welcome), and it has so much tenderness and genuine bonding between the men and boys on board, that it provides comfort in these cold days. also, it's been a while since I have seen it, and it just so happens to keep being mentioned in things I have been reading/listening to lately, which I take to be a sign that I should watch it again.
A seasonally appropriate answer though, would be A Muppet Christmas Carol. it's so fun!
yknow, I don't really have a go-to cozy movie. I don't tend to rewatch films all that often, in the first place. In the second place, when I do it tends to be happenstance, 'oh look what's on' rather than a deliberate choice.
but that said - for a reason I haven't quite teased out, Master and Commander is the first film that sprang to mind. I absolutely adore it; it's beautiful to look at (and visions of the sunlit sea during these dark days are certainly welcome), and it has so much tenderness and genuine bonding between the men and boys on board, that it provides comfort in these cold days. also, it's been a while since I have seen it, and it just so happens to keep being mentioned in things I have been reading/listening to lately, which I take to be a sign that I should watch it again.
A seasonally appropriate answer though, would be A Muppet Christmas Carol. it's so fun!