Returning home will be hard, harder than you’d imagine. You’ve eaten and breathed according to the movies. The three-dimensional friends you’ve made will disappear, shrinking back to their still-life avatars on social media. So—you’re very, very tired, but throw on the only clean shirt you have left and take advantage of every minute. If you could just watch three or four of the offerings in this first slot, you’d be living your best life. Unfortunately, there can be only one you and one movie.
Read MoreTake a glimpse into the late Peter Bogdanovich’s filmography, featuring Barbra Streisand in What’s Up, Doc?, Cybill Shepherd in Daisy Miller and The Last Picture Show, and Cher in Paper Moon.
Read MoreA fleet of new drivers got behind the wheel. And with the removal of the old production code at the end of the 1960s, unlimited creative potential opened up before these new voices like the open road. I don’t want to paint the decade with a single, broad brush, however. Not all of these films became “important” American cinema, but so much of this creative freedom trickled down into all genres and modes of filmmaking.
Read MoreThe complex and nuanced psychological and emotional world that daughters move into at an earlier age that makes raising them—and the ensuing adult relationships you have with them—so much more interesting. And it makes for some great story-telling.
Here are five of my favorite movies about father-daughter relationships.
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