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ON FILM: Romance Films

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Charles talks with NMSU graduate student and cinephile, Jack Fields, about some of the great romance films of the past, including some on the American Film Institute's "100 Years, 100 Passions" list (www.afi.com/100Years/passions.aspx), and some on Jack's personal list:

The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (1927)

Smilin' Through (1932)

Maytime (1937)

Love Affair (1939)

Waterloo Bridge (1940)

The Clock (1945)

The Story of Three Loves (1953)

Carousel (1956)

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)

The Sterile Cuckoo (1969)

My Brilliant Career (1979)

Somewhere in Time (1980)

Children of a Lesser God (1986)

Shadowlands (1993)

Only You (1994)

**Chuck's list includes the films of Wong Kar Wai, Brief Encounter, Summertime, and Amour.

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