A Matter of Life and Death (1947)

"Tell me, do you believe in the survival of human personality after death?" "I don't know, I'd never thought about it, do you?" "I don't know, I've thought about it too much."

David Sims

The decision to make all of the fantasy sequences black and white while the "real life" sequences are technicolor speaks so much to the unorthodox philosophy of this movie. The afterlife may not be such a bad place, but there's something more appealing, more romantic about…

laird

One of the greatest moments in all of cinema is when Marius Goring looks at the camera and says “one is starved for technicolor up there.”

Bre

David Niven’s so perfect and so is the use of color and lighting here (obviously!) A super impressive movie in its scope; so many of these shots look downright modern. Was not expecting the third act to become that “why is America the greatest country in the world” scene…

demi adejuyigbe

It would be funny if someone remade this for the umpteenth time but threw out all the love story stuff and made it ENTIRELY about an American ghost lawyer who hates British people.

David Weigel

Absolutely charming and extremely British romance about a love so powerful it defies the laws of the universe. Lots to treasure here, but to me, nothing beats the opening scene, which establishes a deep connection between a pilot and a dispatcher as the former's plane is…

Scott Tobias

🎵🎵 ooooh heaven is a place on earth 🎵🎵

sydney

The real magic of cinema is taking something that is in essence a plot of a Tom and Jerry cartoon and stretching it to a two hour magnum opus.

Netscape

I find it hard to write about this without gushing. It was so emotionally satisfying. And what I really appreciated was that it tempered that patriotism with subtle critiques of both Britain and America (much more low key with the American ones, mostly in the form of how…

Sally Jane Black