Send us your Movie Memories
Has there been a film in 2000-09 that made a significant impact on you? Something that has made you laugh, cry, or spurred you into action? Or was it the time and context, rather than the film, that was memorable: in a certain country, with (or without) a special someone, at a particular stage in your life?
This is a space for films that may not have helped redefine cinema – it is much more personal: it’s about films that have, in some small way, helped define you.
Profound or random, funny or serious, we want to know. Share your memory with us below and we’ll enter it into our monthly draw to win a clutch of special Decalogue prizes. Good luck!
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Watching this with my friend Shaun the film was both utterly gripping and utterly horrendous. Some people behind were sobbing, one or two people left. Even though you knew how it would go it was compelling. And it had a real emotional kick. It was brilliant and awful; a landmark.
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I went to see this film with my Grandpa. It was an afternoon of torrential rain and I had a broken foot at the time, so a cosy matinee and one to one time with my Grandpa felt a perfect way to pass the time.
Neither of us expected the stunningly moving, gripping and emotive piece of cinema that we were presented with. This film combines incredible performance, enthralling plot, tension, passion, shock, exposure and truth. It has yet to be surpassed 4yrs and many films later! Definitely one I recommend to anyone who wants a film that causes plenty of rumination.
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Mickey Rourke IS the wrestler.
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Loved the film for its indie coolness, amazing score and incredible acting. Then started to work with heroin addicts, saw the film again and not even the shock ending could compare to real life. Every scene, each character had a real life equivalent. That’s the power of the movie, behind its polished exterior,there is all the pain, anguish, suffering with the occasional high exhibited in real life.
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Wall.E was the first time a major animation studio truly produced a work of Art. I grew up with Pixar, and its consistently beautiful, thoughtful and entertaining animation, but Wall.E surpassed all the films of my childhood. The film boldly opens with half an hour without any dialogue, and purely through body language, no audience can help but fall in love with the quirky robot, Wall•E. That is the beauty of Wall•E: the way a thought provoking message, child-suitable entertainment and true artistic merit are combined skillfully. The audience comes out of the cinema feeling nostalgic about the world – which as they emerge into the light, they find themselves in. It truly takes the audience to another world, and brings a new perspective on our own.