AIBU to go off a friend because she's never heard of the film 'Brief Encounter'?

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I do not expect my friends to know every piece of classical music, or to know the Latin names of every plant - but jeez, I expect them to have heard of Brief Encounter!

Precious have you seen the Margaret Rutherford Miss Marples?

Oh I love those too

I love Brief Encounter. The station in the film is called Milford (Junction, I think) and it was filmed at Carnforth.

I've seen the Margaret Rutherford MM, I'm
sure Joan Hickson plays a maid in one of them.

She did shake!

The one based on 4.50 from Paddington.

Why is there no film board on MN?

I LOVE Brief Encounter 'thank you for coming back to me' gets me every time, however I'd be amazed if many of my friends had heard of it. (I don't mean that in a snobby way, it's just it's not a film you'd accidentally come across I don't think)

I LOVE brief encounter. I am with you op. Does she think the 39 steps is a self-help programme? Does she think the Lavender Hill mob is a reality show about hairdressers? That North by North West is something to do with the Kardashians?

Cross posted with the flabbered gast..

There is,or at least was,a film section in Mumsnet,but not many people use it. Most tend to start a thread in chat if they want to discuss films.

haha hellymelly, possibly - I wouldn't have been surprised.

Im not really a snob, but I have more of a connection with people who like the sort of films I like ( that's natural I suppose ) - & whilst I appreciate Brief Encounter might not be to everyone's taste - I'd expect people to have heard of it?

I used to love Brief Encounter, sobbed my heart out watching it and thought they had a great romantic passion.

Then I got married and watched it with my husband and it dawned on me that my DH is rather like the husband in the film who actually doesn't do anything wrong and is clearly devoted to her, and if their lives had become boring it was half her fault as well, at which point the whole affair looked jolly sordid and I went off the whole film.

It's a great film, but its from 1945. Why should everyone know about a 70 year old film?

That's all of Shakespeare down the drain then. Why should everyone know about a 500 year old play?

I always think of 'Indecent Exposure' when this film is mentioned (don't think I'm the only one, judging by the porno comment)

I got a ten dvd David Lean box set for £20

I was looking for This Happy Breed but it was better value to buy the box set.

Its blissful.

Does anyone like Great Expectations, the David Lean version with John Mills and Vivian Leigh in?

Vivien Leigh?

There is a bargain box set of the Miss Ms available www.amazon.co.uk/Agatha-Christies-Miss-Marple-Collection/dp/B00012SYQY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1405889360&sr=8-1&keywords=margaret+marple+rutherford

Where from DeVere?

I love Brief Encounter. One of my all time favourite films. It scores 8.1 on IMDB and was nominated for 3 Oscars.
Always makes me cry.

I like Great Expectations but prefer the David Lean Oliver Twist - utterly chilling at the end.

DH is an old film buff - watching something from the 1960s would be quite modern for us!

Jean Simmons, not Vivien Leigh.

Meh. One Christmas I bought the DVD of 'It's a Wonderful Life' because it was supposed to be so Amazing and Christmassy.

It was horribly dated, just went on and on and we all fell asleep.

It's one of my favourite films, I always think that it wasn't that long ago but its a completely different world.

Jean Simmons played the young Estella, I can't remember who played her as an adult but I know it wasn't Vivian Leigh, she was busy with gone with the wind. & I agree with you thirteenhorses - it's a wonderful life is a bit meh.