Seasonal Movie List: Fall/Autumn

The leaves are turning, the school year is in full swing, the days are getting shorter, and I'm ready to dust off my boots, sweater dresses, & tights. Yep it's Fall. So put on your comfiest sweater, bring out your throw blanket, put some pumpkin spice creamer in that coffee, and warm up some butternut squash soup. Here are some seasonal films to get you in the mood. I've kept off Thanksgiving & Halloween films since those are for other lists.

When Harry Met Sally

Watch for: Walks under the leaves in Central Park 

Quote: "I'll have what she's having."

The Lake House

Watch for; The Lake House during Fall 

Quote: "One man I can never meet. Him, I would like to give my whole heart to."

Good Will Hunting

Watch for: Boston's Fall Backdrop,

Quote: "How do you like them apples?"

Dead Poets Society

Watch for: Back to school. Prep school days. Uniforms. All of which reminds me of Fall.

Quote: "Oh captain. My captain."

Garden State

Watch for: The summer ending , the leaves, and the cool indie soundtrack. A soundtrack that features pretty Fall sounding bands like The Shins, Zero 7, Coldplay, and Nick Drake

Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Watch for: The Von Steuben Day parade which takes place every year in Chicago in September.

Quote: "Bueller?... Bueller?... Bueller?"

500 days of summer

Watch for: a very special autumn scene 

Quote: "The following is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to persons living or dead is purely coincidental. Especially you Jenny Beckman. Bitch."

American Beauty 

Watch for: The plastic bag scene, one of those most beautiful scenes in cinema with such amazing musical score by one of my favorite composers, Thomas Newman.

Quote: "and then it flows through me like rain and I can't feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little life"

You've Got Mail

Watch for: NY in the Fall

Quote: "Don't you just love New York in the fall?"

The Village

Watch for: A blind woman trekking through grey-tinged leafless woods and amazing uses of the color red.

Quote: "Sometimes we don't do things we want to do so that others won't know we want to do them."

Vanilla Sky

Watch for: A pivotal car crash in NY during the Fall

Quote: "Open your eyes."

Election

Watch for: HS election time in the start of Fall, Autumn suburbia, & R.W. in sweater vests.

Quote: "Or don't vote for me! Who cares? Don't vote at all!"

Far from Heaven 

Watch for: a tribute to the 50s melodramas of Douglas Sirk in an iridescent fall palette with the women dressing for the season in pastel shades of rusty reds, greens and browns.

Quote: "So often we fail at that kind of love. The world just seems too fragile a place for it."

One True Thing 

Watch for: Fall fairs & Costume party scenes. 

Quote: " It's so much easier to be happy, my love. It's so much easier to choose to love the things that you have, and you have so much, instead of always yearning for what you're missing, or what it is you're imagining you're missing. It's so much more peaceful."

TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD 

Watch for: Touching Fall scenes like Scout dressed as a ham on Halloween

Quote: "In the name of GOD, do your duty. In the name of God, believe... Tom Robinson."