Niki Tehranchi

Before Sunrise

My all-time favorite movie is Before Sunrise.  Not sure it counts as a chick flick, but it's definitely very romantic and dreamy.  I enjoyed the sequel, Before Sunset, too, though not as much as the original.

My favorites: Caramel is a

My favorites:

Caramel is a 2007 Lebanese film, the first feature film by the lebanese director Nadine Labaki. 'Caramel' tells the story of five Lebanese women from different generations
and religious backgrounds who meet in a Beirut beauty salon. They use the
'Caramel' in the title to wax their legs.

In the Middle East, a blend of lemon juice, water, and sugar is boiled to
make a caramel mixture that is then cooled on marble. In beauty salons, it
is used to remove unwanted hair. This was the titular inspiration for
Lebanese director Nadine Labaki's Caramel, a bittersweet story of five women
of varying ages who meet or work in a Beirut beauty salon and help each
other overcome the problems they encounter in their lives with regard to
love, marriage, and sex.

2. The Syrian Bride;

//www.calendarlive.com/movies/turan/cl-et-syr...

on the subject of chick flicks

A few years I usually wouldn't have watched them I was really into thrillers and psychopaths but one of my daughters introduced to them  and I found them light relief .... now Im pretty much addicted to them.

My top ten goes like this:

1. All the Bridget Jones films .. love anything with Hugh Grant and Colin Firth movies great combination.

2. The Holiday ... real feel good factor

3. Love actually .... what a cast! and Hugh baby dancing

3, Music and lyrics

4. The wedding Singer

5. Dirty Dancing ..... I watched it a million times from teenage yrs, I think I should have put this first on my list.

6. The Devil wears Prador ... myrl streep is great in this

7. PS i love you

8. When Harry met Sally

9. You've got Mail

10. The French Leautenants woman

Oh my there are many more .. nothing better than a night at the movies with your girl friends.

Javaneh

Thank you all

I had so much fun reading your posts and glad to know I am not the only one out there, in the closet chick flick-er :-)))

Chick Flick, eh?!!

Thank you Niki Jan. I hope you are well and thriving my friend!

A couple of movies have touched me profoundly.

One is The Bridges of Madison County. 

Another is a 2001 Australian movie named Lantana. There is married people dialogue in this movie which has a "zeer-o-zebar" effect on me! Too bad when I tested it on men, the effect was not the same. So, I guess this is a very intelligent chick flick, even though it is regarded as a "thriller/drama."

One rather obscure movie I liked was the 19984 movie Intersection.  I liked it not for its top actors and actresses or even the story itself, but for the last few minutes of the movie, where a man's wife and mistress meet for the first and last time and the way the plot had these two women interact under very difficult circumstances.  Heeh!  Makes me aspire for all women to act so generously and poetically all the time!

The ultimate chick flick movie for me, the one I never get tired of watching by myself or with my young nieces and anybody who would sit through it with me (!) is a British/Indian movie named "Monsoon Wedding."  Something in this movie appeals to my Eastern senses and sensibilities, I guess!  This same director also made the beautiful movie Kama Sutra, which I think it is one of the most coloroful and beautiful visual treats I have ever had in a movie.

Last, I would like to say my most favorite (Two thumbs up, standing on the chair, cheering, and clapping) film EVER, remains Cinema Paradiso.  Now there's a movie I would see again, and again, and again, while looking at some of its scenes and listening to its musical score in between!

Love you Niki!

aww AF

That movie is about life. Real life! It's beyond chick flick. It's epic. Women, mothers, wives do run the world. Not "william wallace" and "the godfather". Yekh. By the way, the entire movie is on youtube. 

marge

the accents are grossly exaggeraged but i can vouch for the authenticity of the premise of steel magnolias. 

you ARE Clairee.  Souri would be M'lynn... I'm Ouiser when i'm grouchy...lol

who else from iranian.com?

I don't what I'd be without Steel Magnolias

Just seeing the title or hearing it makes my eyes well up.

You know what though, that awful sex and the city is coming back with a sequel. Like anyone wants to see a bunch of women spending 800 dollars on shoes and fur while people are stockpiling soup and cereal. Ugh! 

blockbuster... here i come

so many wondeful movies... i want to see them all again.  we're slowly building a video library and i might be able to squeeze a couple of these in.  i bought "sex and the city" (for $9!) but haven't watched it yet.  it will have to wait for a guy's night out.  the husband HATED the series and the music alone will drive him insane.  hmmm.  might invite the step-son over... he loved it!  or better yet, the "ex"...  now THAT would be a chick flick worthy of seeing right there.

but i agree that "weepies" are a catagory of their own. 

arbamard.  you have a brave man.  a very brave man.   :-)  read the book, didn't watch the movie even though i love clint eastwood.  movies are rarely as good as the book.  although "ya-ya sisterhood" did a good job.

I love Cinema/Theater too....

Among all the movies that I love and I can't name all here, because there are so many....There are two movies that will be whole life time with me! I just can't detach myself from them. They are both old, very old movies that are no more available for rent or sale.

My husband  had to order one of them "BUGSY" at ebay for my BD some years ago!! Every time this movie pass on TV, it's a nightmare for my children!! because not only I let everything I was doing, to go sit down in front of TV and watch the movie up to the end-3 hours-, but I also pre-tale!! everything that will happen next!!

They have counted, this happened 7 times :O)) Actually I watched it more, but children know only the 7 times they have been witnessing it. That movie  //www.imdb.com/title/tt010151/  with Warren Beatty and Annette Bening is hunting my life forever.

Annette Bening is the greatest actress in my opinion. The movie (1991) was the start of a delicious love affair between Beatty (the playboy of the time) and Bening and they got married despite the age gap and are still living happily together. I always say, that love between them, happend because they both, lived their characters very intensely on that movie.

And the other movie I always love is played by my favorite singer Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford "The way we were" 1973!! //www.imdb.com/title/tt0070903/   

I believe, what is common in both movies, is the long lasting love and the loaylty between the two lovers.....and I'm from the old school :O))

I love all those movies too

I especially love Hugh Grant in Four Weddings and a Funeral, Love, Actually, and Music and Lyrics. Some people make quite a career out of being in chick flicks.  With varying degrees of success.  I like most of the chick flicks featuring Drew Barrymore, Adam Sandler, or Hugh Grant. I don't like much of anything starring Sandra Bullock, any of the Wilson brothers, Ben Stiller or Kate Hudson (though Le Divorce had its moments, thanks mostly to Leslie Caron). And musicals... I forgot all the musicals! Gigi, Grease, West Side Story, Sound of Music, My Fair Lady.  Yes, some of those musicals are quite horrible, but at the same time delightful y'know whatta mean?

Best,

N.

Cool idea!

Thanks Niki jan for your cool idea for this blog! So much better than those other blogs out there...those that make us angry, frustrated and shocked (in a bad way)!!

The last great romantic comedy I saw (and loved it) was Wedding Date (Thanks Irandokht-e aziz for your recommendation)! Otherwise I like Hugo Grant and all his "chick" movies!!

Of course my all time favorite tearjerker movie is Sophie's choice.

Azarin

other favorites of mine

Serendipity  huh? how 'bout that John cusack? 

I actually like a few more: Mammamia, Divine secrets of Yaya sisterhood and the sisterhood of traveling pants! 

OK I really don't dig chick flicks though ;-)

IRANdokht

Fanny and Alexander.

Fanny and Alexander.

I left out so many, glad to hear some of your favorites

It is so hard to chose just ten out of the hundreds of chick flicks out there.  All about Eve for example.  Or Thelma and Louise, though I can't stand both leads and even that short scene with a young Brad Pitt is not enough to convert me.  Speaking of Gina Davis, she had a small part in a wonderful chick flick, Tootsie, where Dustin Hoffman quite literally has to transform himself into a woman in order to get close to the object of his affection.   Any movie that takes place around a soap opera set deserves an honorable mention, like Soapdish (Sally Field, Kevin Kline) or Delirious (John Candy). To continue on this slippery slope, there is an actual movie called
"the object of my affection" a so so chick flick written by the otherwise
excellent, late Wendy Wasserstein. Any film starring Barbra Streisand can qualify as a chick flick from Funny Girl, to The Way We Were, to Yentl.  Woody Allen's films could possible be likened to arty chick flicks, like Hannah and her Sisters. 

By the way, chick flicks don't have to be romantic comedies or weepies.  The chick flick phenomenon is so far reaching it has even managed to create its own sub genre.  For example in the horror genre, we have Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, depicting the awful things that sisters Joan Crawford and Bette Davis do to each other.  Or Black Christmas, which takes place in a sorority house.  Or even Dario Argento's Suspiria, which takes place entirely in a creepy ballet school for girls. 

Since Irandokht likes more of action thrillers, may I recommend the chick flicks like Black Widow, where the FBI cop played by Debra Winger had a sizzling love hate relationship with psychotic serial killer Theresa Russell, long before Hannibal Lecter set eyes on Clarice Starling.Or La Femme Nikita.  You have to call it a chick flick when, among all the mayhem and violence and action, the directot manages to squeeze in that staple of chick flicks, THE BIG MAKEOVER.  Women loooooove their make-overs don't they?  One of the most tender scenes in that movie is when Jeanne Moreauteaches Anne Parillaud how to choose the right shade of lipstick when you are going for a night out on the town and to blow someone's head off simultaneously.Or the female blaxploitation films of the seventies, most of them starring Pam Grier.  Heck, the recent Tarantino-Rodriguez bloodfest Grindhouse was a chick flick as far as I am concerned.

Did I miss anything here ? :)

Out of all the ones you have

Out of all the ones you have mentioned I've seen these 4: Breakfast at Tiffany's, Bridget Jones' diary, When Harry met Sally and Pretty Woman.
--This Last one I believe I've seen a thousand times!! Not by choice, but by persuasion of people who had not seen it but had heard about it. Seeing it the last time, I really wanted to pull all my hair out.... Althugh originally when it came out I found it to be amusing.

Niki jan

I am not too fond of chick flicks either but I was clicking through the stations not long ago and found myself watching Sleepless n Seattle (again) and I couldn't pry myself off the couch until the very end.

There is even one scene in there when they make fun of chick flicks  :0)

Give me a comic book movie any day though...  those are my favorites!

Thanks for the blog

IRANdokht

How about

Bridges of madison county?

That was a beautiful movie, a great chick flick that I love. 

Weepies vs. chick flicks

Oh my, that song from Beaches (Wind beneath my wings).  It was everywhere like a rash you can't get rid of :-)

I think weepies or tearjerkers or melodramas whatever you may want to call it deserve a category of their own.  Although I agree some of them qualify as both chick flicks and weepies.  As I said, since Valentine Day is stressful enough, I tried to leave out flicks that off one of the main characters and stick to comedies (well for the most part). But it gives me a good idea to follow this up with the ten best weepies of all time. Oh, how I used to love crying at the movies...(to be continued)

oh, girlfriend

you done good... :-)

what about "beaches" with barbera hershey and bette midler?  a ten-hanky movie if ever!!!  my son, my beautiful sensitive son, would watch it with me to hold the tissues while i balled my eyes out.  oh no.  i promised that i would never tell anyone that!!