Deep South Films You Must Own http://deepsouthfilmsmustown.my-top-10.co.uk Just another My Top 10 weblog Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:40:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 en O Brother Where Art Thou? http://deepsouthfilmsmustown.my-top-10.co.uk/2008/10/06/o-brother-where-art-thou/ http://deepsouthfilmsmustown.my-top-10.co.uk/2008/10/06/o-brother-where-art-thou/#comments Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:40:35 +0000 tinaw http://deepsouthfilmsmustown.my-top-10.co.uk/?p=29 George Clooney leads the Soggy Bottom Boys on a magical tour of Thirties Mississippi, taking in good ol’ Southern traditons such as the KKK, chain gangs, baby-faced bank robbers and alluring sirens.

(2000)

]]> http://deepsouthfilmsmustown.my-top-10.co.uk/2008/10/06/o-brother-where-art-thou/feed/ The Color Purple http://deepsouthfilmsmustown.my-top-10.co.uk/2008/10/06/the-color-purple/ http://deepsouthfilmsmustown.my-top-10.co.uk/2008/10/06/the-color-purple/#comments Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:39:07 +0000 tinaw http://deepsouthfilmsmustown.my-top-10.co.uk/?p=26 Oprah Winfrey and Whoopi Goldberg shine in Spielberg’s moving story about the hardships faced by poor black women in the South.

(1985)

]]> http://deepsouthfilmsmustown.my-top-10.co.uk/2008/10/06/the-color-purple/feed/ Gone With the Wind http://deepsouthfilmsmustown.my-top-10.co.uk/2008/10/06/gone-with-the-wind/ http://deepsouthfilmsmustown.my-top-10.co.uk/2008/10/06/gone-with-the-wind/#comments Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:38:00 +0000 tinaw http://deepsouthfilmsmustown.my-top-10.co.uk/?p=23 As Atlanta burns, Rhett tells Scarlett: ‘You can tell your grandchildren how you watched the old South fall on night’.  That’ll be the South of cavaliers and cotton fields, then.  Fiddle-de-dee.

(1939)

]]> http://deepsouthfilmsmustown.my-top-10.co.uk/2008/10/06/gone-with-the-wind/feed/ Crossroads http://deepsouthfilmsmustown.my-top-10.co.uk/2008/10/06/crossroads/ http://deepsouthfilmsmustown.my-top-10.co.uk/2008/10/06/crossroads/#comments Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:36:35 +0000 tinaw http://deepsouthfilmsmustown.my-top-10.co.uk/?p=20 Teenage Delta blues fan Ralph Macchio, on a quest to find Robert Johnson’s ‘lost song’, teams up with Johnson’s pal Willie Brown and faces down the Devil at the crossroads.

(1986)

]]> http://deepsouthfilmsmustown.my-top-10.co.uk/2008/10/06/crossroads/feed/ Driving Miss Daisy http://deepsouthfilmsmustown.my-top-10.co.uk/2008/10/06/driving-miss-daisy/ http://deepsouthfilmsmustown.my-top-10.co.uk/2008/10/06/driving-miss-daisy/#comments Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:35:17 +0000 tinaw http://deepsouthfilmsmustown.my-top-10.co.uk/?p=17 Oscar-winning feelgood movie set in Georgia starring Morgan Freeman and Jessica Tandy.

(1989)

]]> http://deepsouthfilmsmustown.my-top-10.co.uk/2008/10/06/driving-miss-daisy/feed/ Fried Green Tomatoes http://deepsouthfilmsmustown.my-top-10.co.uk/2008/10/06/fried-green-tomatoes/ http://deepsouthfilmsmustown.my-top-10.co.uk/2008/10/06/fried-green-tomatoes/#comments Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:34:33 +0000 tinaw http://deepsouthfilmsmustown.my-top-10.co.uk/?p=14 Kathy Bates is the bored Alabama housewife inspired by elderly Jessica Tandy in a cross-generational romantic tale about the search for the meaning of life in the perfect sauce.

(1991)

]]> http://deepsouthfilmsmustown.my-top-10.co.uk/2008/10/06/fried-green-tomatoes/feed/ To Kill a Mockingbird http://deepsouthfilmsmustown.my-top-10.co.uk/2008/10/06/to-kill-a-mockingbird/ http://deepsouthfilmsmustown.my-top-10.co.uk/2008/10/06/to-kill-a-mockingbird/#comments Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:33:15 +0000 tinaw http://deepsouthfilmsmustown.my-top-10.co.uk/?p=11 Gregory Peck played a career blinder as principled Southern lawyer Atticus Finch.

(1962)

]]> http://deepsouthfilmsmustown.my-top-10.co.uk/2008/10/06/to-kill-a-mockingbird/feed/ Cat on a Hot Tin Roof http://deepsouthfilmsmustown.my-top-10.co.uk/2008/10/06/cat-on-a-hot-tin-roof/ http://deepsouthfilmsmustown.my-top-10.co.uk/2008/10/06/cat-on-a-hot-tin-roof/#comments Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:32:16 +0000 tinaw http://deepsouthfilmsmustown.my-top-10.co.uk/?p=8 Liz Taylor smoulders in the film of the Tennessee Williams play, charting tensions bubbling beneath polite Mississippi society.

(1958)

]]> http://deepsouthfilmsmustown.my-top-10.co.uk/2008/10/06/cat-on-a-hot-tin-roof/feed/ Mississippi Burning http://deepsouthfilmsmustown.my-top-10.co.uk/2008/10/06/mississippi-burning/ http://deepsouthfilmsmustown.my-top-10.co.uk/2008/10/06/mississippi-burning/#comments Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:31:09 +0000 tinaw http://deepsouthfilmsmustown.my-top-10.co.uk/?p=5 Southern lawman Gene Hackman and northern idealist Willem Dafoe clash over the murder of three civil rights workers.  Based on a true story.

(1988)

]]> http://deepsouthfilmsmustown.my-top-10.co.uk/2008/10/06/mississippi-burning/feed/ Sweet Home Alabama http://deepsouthfilmsmustown.my-top-10.co.uk/2008/10/06/hello-world/ http://deepsouthfilmsmustown.my-top-10.co.uk/2008/10/06/hello-world/#comments Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:27:16 +0000 tinaw Reese Witherspoon is sexy as a sweet Southern belle caught up in a love triangle.

(2002)

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