This was the year Liza's mother died. She's really brave to be able to draw from that in this scene. That kind of thing seems horrible to have to relive.
I was lucky to study with the director of this film and to be friends for 35 years with the writer. And yet, the part that really makes me sad every time I see this is my memory of how I felt the first time I saw this. So much awkward truth here.
@@deckard97 Alan Pakula was a very smart and focused guy. I was lucky to do a kind of master class with him in which he screened several of his films, stopping them in key moments to discuss his intentions. The screenwriter of this particular film was someone I knew much better than Alan Pakula. Like Alan, Alvin Sargent was very intuitive with respect to character. I haven't read the source novel, but I suspect this scene was largely created in the screenplay. Wonderful man who died three years ago. Alan Pakula, sadly, was killed in a car incident maybe 25 years ago.
Reminds me of her mom. Both Judy and Liza taught the world u didn't have to be Lana Turner or Marylyn Monroe to be sexy and beautiful. They smashed that concept.. Liza to me even as a Tom boy is so beautiful.
Chills. She was so insanely perfect for this part and it is her finest hour as an actress. The telephone scene?! My God... to die for. You should post that one next!
About 20 years ago, I was passing near Hamilton College, which is near the cemetery, on US 20. and stopped to see the graveyard. It looked very much the same then as in the 1969 movie. The wind was stirring, as in the movie, and it felt pretty strange and left me with some nice memories.
🎈 It looks so peaceful. I thought the cemetery was a prop and wasn't real. Maybe they used some fake headstones because I couldn't imagine Liza actually laying down on somebody's grave as it would be disrespectful to the family
@@SUGAR_XYLER The cemetery IS real as are the headstones some of which date back to revolutionary war days. That part of NY State is pretty old and somewhat populated from colonial days. James Fennimore Cooper lived near there and wrote some of the classics of American/NY books like "Drums Along the Mohawk", "The Deerslayer" and others. Cooper lived in Cooperstown!! (where else?) where the Baseball Hall of Fame is. When you're in that ancient graveyard it "feels" a little "different"...at least to me.
@@SUGAR_XYLER The tombstone that Pookie lays down in front of - "God Take Arabella" is not there and must have been a prop. I stop by there every year or so and just ponder. Last year I took a few pictures of the very spot where the scene was filmed. A very peaceful place indeed. The only thing you hear is the wind.
I went to this cemetery near Hamilton College about 10 years ago. It started me thinking about 1969 and what it was like back then. Took me back to the 1960's. Kinda strange.
Pookie seemed torn apart because of her mom's death when having her and then and her dad's distance... She didn't fit in...felt like an outsider, until she found Jerry, here.. I don't like the way he treated Pookie.
I know this cemetery and stop by occasionally. Its a very peaceful place. On a sad note, John Nichols, author of The Sterile Cuckoo died in November at age 83. He was 24 when he wrote the book.
My girlfriend in college in the early 70s looked and dressed just like Liza M. and I looked and dressed just like Jerry; and we visited cemeteries, and she did all the talking. Is that weird?
Mikey Trahant You must not have seen "Prime of Miss Jean Brodie", then you would know why She, calamity Jane Fonda, Jean Simmons & Geneieve Bujold didn't
Have always loved this movie. Can't watch it now. It is too sad. Most movies about young love are goofy or silly. This hits home with reality. Happily ever after doesn't always happen.
I've always wanted to see this film! And watching these CZcams clips, it seems to have a "Harold & Maude" feel (one of my all-time faves), so I'm really drawn in! Man, Liza is fantastic.
oh wow, ive never seen this, but im i love with it already! i love the character she plays. i hope when i die, some girl will run around and be joyful around my grave too, its a comforting thought :) xx
Love this film. Been looking for it for years and years. Saw it once when I was a kid and always remembered it. Now it looks like I've missed it again. Damn.
I just found it on Paramount. Saw it at the theater and searched since then. The song was my mantra and I'd sing it what seem every Saturday since I was 10. Nobody knew this song and I felt I was the only one out there that knew it. So glad to see there is a family of us. 🥴😳😘
@@JennysJukeboxdew I saw it 4 weeks ago. I downloaded it ages ago but was genuinely too nervous to watch it one case it wasn't as good as I remembered. I shouldn't have worried, it was just was beautiful and moving as when I watched it as a teenager. Liza Minelli"s performance was heartbreaking, and the theme song, haunting. Yep, the discerning people here who love this film are certainly my people.
Liza was stunning in this movie and her performance would have won the Oscar if not up against the equally brilliant Dame Maggie Smith in "Prime of Miss Brodie" Liza's phone scene toward the end of the picture is a masterpiece!
This movie was classified as a "romantic comedy." I don't see anything comic about it. That poor little gal with nothing to hold onto! That just wasn't funny at all. I'll now be forever wondering what became of her! I"M SAD!
@IlaughedIcried I had to check IMDB, but Liza was nominated for Best Actress and the song Come Sat Morn for Best Original Score (Song). Noteworthy that Judy Garland died June 22 '69, and this was released Oct 22 '69. Judy probably never saw much, if any, of it.
3:40 that throat contraction, she did that all her life. It's part of most people's imitations of her. I thought she started doing that only after age 50-60.
it's so weird to see LM outdoors in nature. makes her seem normal. he was super cute. i know i've seen him in something else but i can't remember what. something that pushed the limits of something. AAAAAAAAAH YES!! Fortune and Men's Eyes.
Amanda - Its on Skyline Drive where it meets Cemetery Rd. in Clinton, NY. I was just up there a few weeks ago. Its idyllic, looks just as it did in the movie. The only change is the tombstone that Pookie lays down in front of is gone and there is a small tree next to where it was. I've lived around here all my life and never knew about this movie until recently.
Это такое гармоничное самоощущение. Для неё самой комфортно видеть себя именно с такими волосами. Да, можно было бы и женственнее, я вас понимаю. Но Лайза это Лайза. Мир полюбил её именно такой.
My entire life I've been a Pookie, but I never have found my Jerry 😞
One of the finest acting pieces in cinema. Liza is nothing short of brilliant in this GREAT movie.
This was the year Liza's mother died. She's really brave to be able to draw from that in this scene. That kind of thing seems horrible to have to relive.
I was lucky to study with the director of this film and to be friends for 35 years with the writer. And yet, the part that really makes me sad every time I see this is my memory of how I felt the first time I saw this. So much awkward truth here.
@@deckard97 Alan Pakula was a very smart and focused guy. I was lucky to do a kind of master class with him in which he screened several of his films, stopping them in key moments to discuss his intentions. The screenwriter of this particular film was someone I knew much better than Alan Pakula. Like Alan, Alvin Sargent was very intuitive with respect to character. I haven't read the source novel, but I suspect this scene was largely created in the screenplay. Wonderful man who died three years ago. Alan Pakula, sadly, was killed in a car incident maybe 25 years ago.
@@skyweimar I've always loved this movie. Liza is the only surviving cast member
This is one of the most beautiful scenes in one of the best movies of all time. I'm haunted by it. Lovely.
Liza Minnelli should have won that oscar for this!!!!! BRILLIANT!
She's trying to tell him "we are mortal, let's live, and Love." She's right. Some people never go crazy. What terrible lives they must lead.
Charles Bukowski
Reminds me of her mom. Both Judy and Liza taught the world u didn't have to be Lana Turner or Marylyn Monroe to be sexy and beautiful. They smashed that concept.. Liza to me even as a Tom boy is so beautiful.
A Bittersweet film - happy and sad at the same time. And the Theme Song...
"COME SATURDAY MORNING" by the Sandpipers - is Hauntingly Beautiful...
Young Liza was so cute and perfect in that role.
Chills. She was so insanely perfect for this part and it is her finest hour as an actress. The telephone scene?! My God... to die for. You should post that one next!
I remember seeing this at the theater when I was a kid. The images kind of haunt me with that song. It's so wistful.
About 20 years ago, I was passing near Hamilton College, which is near the cemetery, on US 20. and stopped to see the graveyard. It looked very much the same then as in the 1969 movie. The wind was stirring, as in the movie, and it felt pretty strange and left me with some nice memories.
🎈 It looks so peaceful. I thought the cemetery was a prop and wasn't real. Maybe they used some fake headstones because I couldn't imagine Liza actually laying down on somebody's grave as it would be disrespectful to the family
@@SUGAR_XYLER The cemetery IS real as are the headstones some of which date back to revolutionary war days.
That part of NY State is pretty old and somewhat populated from colonial days. James Fennimore Cooper lived near there and wrote some of the classics of American/NY books like "Drums Along the Mohawk", "The Deerslayer" and others. Cooper lived in Cooperstown!! (where else?) where the Baseball Hall of Fame is.
When you're in that ancient graveyard it "feels" a little "different"...at least to me.
@@SUGAR_XYLER The tombstone that Pookie lays down in front of - "God Take Arabella" is not there and must have been a prop. I stop by there every year or so and just ponder. Last year I took a few pictures of the very spot where the scene was filmed. A very peaceful place indeed. The only thing you hear is the wind.
@@andyk7763 sounds like a peaceful place. Yeah, I thought she was in front of props
I went to this cemetery near Hamilton College about 10 years ago. It started me thinking about 1969 and what it was like back then. Took me back to the 1960's. Kinda strange.
Pookie seemed torn apart because of her mom's death when having her and then and her dad's distance... She didn't fit in...felt like an outsider, until she found Jerry, here.. I don't like the way he treated Pookie.
I know this cemetery and stop by occasionally. Its a very peaceful place. On a sad note, John Nichols, author of The Sterile Cuckoo died in November at age 83. He was 24 when he wrote the book.
The cemetary is located at N 43° 01.985' W 075° 26.961'. This is near Clinton N.Y.
Jerry was a real stick in the mud.
My girlfriend in college in the early 70s looked and dressed just like Liza M. and I looked and dressed just like Jerry; and we visited cemeteries, and she did all the talking. Is that weird?
Yes.😊
The whole movie used to be available here on CZcams.
Liza should have won the Oscar
Mikey Trahant You must not have seen "Prime of Miss Jean Brodie", then you would know why She, calamity Jane Fonda, Jean Simmons & Geneieve Bujold didn't
Last night I first saw this movie, and I was in love with Liza Minelli, is so beautiful.
I still have a crush on Pookey.
Who wouldn't.
Have always loved this movie. Can't watch it now. It is too sad. Most movies about young love are goofy or silly. This hits home with reality. Happily ever after doesn't always happen.
Just bought the DVD of this wonderful Film...I've watched it about 3 times now! LOL..wonderful.. wonderful film
I've always wanted to see this film! And watching these CZcams clips, it seems to have a "Harold & Maude" feel (one of my all-time faves), so I'm really drawn in! Man, Liza is fantastic.
I'll take your recommendation and look for Harold and Maude.
Find the film. Watch it
oh wow, ive never seen this, but im i love with it already! i love the character she plays. i hope when i die, some girl will run around and be joyful around my grave too, its a comforting thought :) xx
Love this film. Been looking for it for years and years. Saw it once when I was a kid and always remembered it. Now it looks like I've missed it again. Damn.
I just found it on Paramount. Saw it at the theater and searched since then. The song was my mantra and I'd sing it what seem every Saturday since I was 10. Nobody knew this song and I felt I was the only one out there that knew it. So glad to see there is a family of us. 🥴😳😘
@@JennysJukeboxdew I saw it 4 weeks ago. I downloaded it ages ago but was genuinely too nervous to watch it one case it wasn't as good as I remembered. I shouldn't have worried, it was just was beautiful and moving as when I watched it as a teenager. Liza Minelli"s performance was heartbreaking, and the theme song, haunting. Yep, the discerning people here who love this film are certainly my people.
Liza was stunning in this movie and her performance would have won the Oscar if not up against the equally brilliant Dame Maggie Smith in "Prime of Miss Brodie" Liza's phone scene toward the end of the picture is a masterpiece!
This scene was shot in a rural cemetary just up the road from Hamilton College, Clinton, NY where the bulk of the film was set.
OMG i absolutly adore this scene, liza is just brilliant!?! all u fans out there add me
This movie was classified as a "romantic comedy." I don't see anything comic about it. That poor little gal with nothing to hold onto! That just wasn't funny at all. I'll now be forever wondering what became of her! I"M SAD!
I agree....so sad!
Not everything is either one thing or another. There's humor in this film, it's just underscored by the real emotions it reveals.
3:25 I would look into her eyes and not worry all day
Rip Wendell Burton.
I came here to remember him too
The last time I saw this movie was on CZcams.
@IlaughedIcried I had to check IMDB, but Liza was nominated for Best Actress and the song Come Sat Morn for Best Original Score (Song).
Noteworthy that Judy Garland died June 22 '69, and this was released Oct 22 '69. Judy probably never saw much, if any, of it.
She was actually pretty cute back then. When she wears the glasses in this movie, she looks like Anne Hathaway.
Anne Hathaway looks like her.
@@teresacatherine3811 depends on your point of reference.
You can buy it cheap on amazon . Its worth having
I had a girlfriend who used to ask me, "Do you want to peel a tomato?"
Your mom told me that last night.
After Wendell Burton's rest in peace, since Team Padilla's mournfully gone. Especially, Minnelli's life urgent miserable in 2018.
YEAH you are SO right youve got me praying for it now! xx
same year that liza's mother died, wow
Reminds me of Natalie Wood in This Property is Condemned filmed three years earlier.
@jckfmsincty Judy died on June 22, 1969.
AGREED!!
Howard Stern brought me here
3:40 that throat contraction, she did that all her life. It's part of most people's imitations of her. I thought she started doing that only after age 50-60.
it's so weird to see LM outdoors in nature. makes her seem normal.
he was super cute. i know i've seen him in something else but i can't remember what. something that pushed the limits of something.
AAAAAAAAAH YES!! Fortune and Men's Eyes.
I could see Jerry being played by Topher Grace.
💝💝💝💝
This is the first movie I took my first girlfriend to see!!
So, was pookie borderline??😂
About talking!!!...:)O(:..
not Mr Simpson!!
Does anyone know where this cemetary is
Amanda - Its on Skyline Drive where it meets Cemetery Rd. in Clinton, NY. I was just up there a few weeks ago. Its idyllic, looks just as it did in the movie. The only change is the tombstone that Pookie lays down in front of is gone and there is a small tree next to where it was. I've lived around here all my life and never knew about this movie until recently.
It's real.. The "Bessie Rawlins" and "God take Arabella" tombstones are not there - those must have been props. A very peaceful place indeed.
why would any girl do that to her hair?
Это такое гармоничное самоощущение. Для неё самой комфортно видеть себя именно с такими волосами. Да, можно было бы и женственнее, я вас понимаю. Но Лайза это Лайза. Мир полюбил её именно такой.
@yougottagetagimmick Judy died in 1967.
Check Wikipedia... June, 1969. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy_Garland
Judy Davis should have won over Marissa. Marrisa should have wond for in the bedroom