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So basically while the system is good at predicting if I find a movie good or not, it is bad at figuring out if I will find a movie/tv-serie amazing. Which is a serious flaw. I don't know if it is a serious flaw. I am not a statistical mathematician, but I thought it was very difficult to design a ...

ALPS This film is only indirectly about the grieving (or is it?), so will not detain me too long. It was not on any of my lists. I just stumbled over it while perusing Amazon's free Prime films one day. The 'Alps' in the title is a group of four people who ostensibly provide a service to the bereave...

THE BABADOOK Posts are possibly going to be a bit irregular until the New Year as I am in Colombia to celebrate Christmas/New Year with my sister-in-law. That means my resources for viewing films will be somewhat limited. However, Netflix works here, so I got to see this horror film which features t...

Sorry about your wife. I am however following this thread with interest. Was actually particularly going to recommend "Solaris" until I got to the latest post. Aside from that, I guess you don't have "The World of Apu" [Ray, 1959] ranked, which is what comes to mind next. Maybe ...

THE CHRISTMAS CHRONICLES This 2018 Netflix special is not typical of my choice of viewing, and was not on my grief list. However, grief is the foundation to the plot of this feel-good seasonal film. The family has lost a parent, but this is seen mostly from the eyes of the children, so it is not qui...

PENNY SERENADE This was the earliest 'grief' film, chronologically, I have found using lists compiled by others (which have a massive recency bias). I ordered the DVD from my local library, without realising it is not strictly applicable, as it is about the loss of a child. However, once it arrived,...

SOLARIS (1972) Tarkovsky's slow-paced meditation is not at first apparently about grief; but once we get to the space station, the main character Kelvin becomes consumed by it. This review contains SPOILERS, so stop here if you want the film to remain a surprise on first viewing. This is another exa...

EAT DRINK MAN WOMAN Ang Lee's third film is not directly about grief, except in a small part, but it does include a family that has lost a parent, in this case the mother. Furthermore, there is a death in the film that impacts heavily on the family in question, so there is a small sliver of grief, a...

I am definitely in category 2. I rank my films in a relative order (the 92s are a little bit better than the 91s, which are a lot better than the 21s). Whenever I add a film, I sometimes am confronted with the recognition that my mind has changed somewhat with the passing of time, and I assign diffe...

The fact that anything pre-1980s apparently counts as "(very) old" makes me "(very) old"!

I thought this was going to be about early silents.