A Re-Encounter 70 Years After 'Brief Encounter'
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- David Lean’s “Brief Encounter” has been re-released to celebrate it’s 70th anniversary. Mark Kelly looks back at the iconic movie which stars Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard and was written by Noel Coward. Image: Park Circus
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I’m sure that Celia Johnson, in retrospect, would have been acknowledged with an Oscar for this. She richly deserved it. She was probably extremely intelligent!
A Film For The Ages. Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard remain beyond praise. Timeless.
I loved this Movie. I sometimes wonder if Todd Haynes (Carol) was inspired by this Scene when she and Therese Belivet (played by Rooney Mara) meet at a Restaurant for Tea. They "want" to say so much but they are interrupted by a Friend of Therese's named Jack.
Howard Johnson? I stayed at one of their hotels years ago!
I watched this movie for the first time on Valentines day 2018. I've been wanting to see it again for a long time and then found it just yesterday. It is a wonderful movie!
An achingly beautiful film.
This movie is a masterpiece!!!!
I just saw this movie and it made me teary eyed you see when I was engaged to my wife I met a girl she was single but she knew I was to be married. I was away in the military at the time had about 6 months left to our wedding and I fell in love with that girl we never got physical like movie we would just hang out I had to make a decision before the wedding. I flew back for a week to see my fiancé back then to make sure I still wanted to married her. I asked God to give me a sign and I remember that we got along great that week not even a fight. When I returned I had to tell the girl that I would be returning home after The Army. I said goodbye to her cause I didn’t want her to go to the Airport and see me off. She showed up anyway. She waited with me at the gate. I hugged her goodbye she collapsed in my arms crying like I never felt a woman do in my arms before since my Dad’s passing . I got in the plane and I realized I made a mistake I wanted to run out of the into her arms and tell I loved her but I had made my decision. About a year later my wife found out and she was really hurt. I hurt two women I cared out. I only wished that my wife would say to me what the lady’s husband told her at some point. Sometimes things just happen people make a connection and it gets complicated you know it’s wrong and you can’t help yourself. This movie really hit close to home. Definitely will watch it again. Great romantic movie.
Yes, it is, thanks to Celia Johnson & Trever Howard, and of course the great David Lean. They don't make them like this, or can't anymore.
Isn’t Trevor Howard’s friend in the film bizarre?
Brilliant film,hard to believe it was snubbed at the Oscars,superbly directed and Celia Johnson was sublime.
It failed simply because it was TOO British, I guess. It had all the right ingredients: Lean, Coward, Johnson and Howard, and also Holloway and Carey for a subplot. I think Hollywood was totally unable to grasp the cultural nuances it depicted so beautifully. And I even suspect that few British people now under 60 could understand the intensely portrayed subtext.
The Academy has missed badly over the years. During this time, foreign movies (this one from the UK) weren't threats to American made films - a nomination wasn't even guaranteed! About 40 years later (in the '80's) it trended the opposite direction, with the UK's Merchant Ivory netting Oscars for period films (although Brief Encounter was a contemporary film upon release). If it was going to be foreign, The Academy felt more comfortable awarding a Best Picture award to Hamlet two years later... Shakespeare and Olivier were much safer choices.
I'm a fan of Olivia de Havilland (The Heiress!!), but she had no business beating Celia Johnson this year. It's really not even close. But many years, the Oscar goes to the most popular star, and Olivia was tops.
De Havilland was championed by her fellow actors because of her legal fight, and win, against the studio system, effectively ending an era by preventing harsh contractual obligations for artists.
Brief Encounter is one of the best movies of all time. Perhaps Lean's best, it could be argued.
Who won the Oscar and Academy Awards that year?
Mac C. This year? You mean nearly 8 decades ago?
And de havilland was nominated 4 years before Celia
More than heart wrenching when you see the "Britain" we have today...
I agree it must have been lovely to have lived then. But of course you wouldn’t have realised it at the time.
So true
Bravo 🙌 I've watched this fabulous movie over 20 times !!! If you haven't seen it please do
I just adore this perfect film.
timeless movie....Trevor Howard was very attractive and elegant in this film
Hot
A glimpse of England that is tragically gone. Good manners, perfectly spoken English, and peopled by that 'Golden generation' for whom decency and sense of duty and caring for others were paramount in their lives. Rose tinted specs or heart on sleeve nostalgia? Well, maybe a bit of both, but here in 2022 as a 67 year old, I feel a deep sense of loss as the shadows begin to lengthen, and as my father once said, ''The best of this world has been and gone'' and I can't help feeling he was right..
👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼you are so right
Not every English person spoke in this accent. You must be American.
Beautiful stage play too. My late friend Gordon Charles Evans took me to see it at the Globe Theater in Dunedin, New Zealand. I loved it. ❤️🎭 I love this movie 🎬🎥❤️ well done Noel Coward & actors 👏 X It's September 2019 now.
One of the best movies of all time
Brilliant!
Classic GENIUS... WORTHY OF AN OSCAR...
Should have received an Oscar minimally Celia Johnson.
A wonderful actress and a timeless film
Showing at my local Picturehouse cinema on 15th November!
A wonderful film
I love this movie
One of my favourite films
Wonderful. Film. Watched it. Several. Times. Always go. Ah. At The. End.
Great movie
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love this film!
so many echoes of Anna Karenina, with the train and all, beautiful film
The only thing left of the station is the clock
Where can one watch the movie ?
I recognize the narrator’s voice from my favorite CZcams channel -- “Unexplained Mysteries”. How did he end up here ????
I liked the movie the colour yellow with Howard. I wonder if it is available on dvd?
The movie is The Clouded Yellow also stars Jean Simmons, yes its on dvd.
Is he related to Ronald Howard of Sherlock Holmes fame? They look alike
coffeehubby, Apparently not.
No, Ronald Howard is Leslie Howard's son and they are very much alike indeed.
It's simply wonderful in my top Ten memorable films, just don't make them like that anymore.! or Can't.!!
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pee pee
seen a bit wasn't too mad on it 😣
I don't think these people were really in love. They were going through a mid-life crisis. Women often go through hormonal changes during this time. It will pass, clasp onto your darling spouses and don't succumb to youthful passions.