Film
Many critically acclaimed movies have been set in the cultural background of the South. A partial list of these films follows – for a more complete listing of Southern cinema, see list of films set in the Southern United States.
- Gone with the Wind (1939)
- The Yearling (1946)
- Song of the South (1946)
- All the King's Men (1949)
- A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
- The Miracle Worker (1962)
- To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
- Deliverance (1972)
- Scarface (1983)
- The Color Purple (1985)
- Mississippi Burning (1988)
- Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
- Steel Magnolias (1989)
- Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)
- Forrest Gump (1994)
- Ghosts of Mississippi (1996)
- A Time To Kill (1996)
- Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997)
- O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
- Big Fish (2003)
- The Notebook (2004)
- Ray (2004)
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
- The Blind Side (2009)
- The Help (2011)
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Famous quotes containing the word film:
“A film is a petrified fountain of thought.”
—Jean Cocteau (1889–1963)
“All film directors, whether famous or obscure, regard themselves as misunderstood or underrated. Because of that, they all lie. They’re obliged to overstate their own importance.”
—François Truffaut (1932–1984)
“Perhaps our eyes are merely a blank film which is taken from us after our deaths to be developed elsewhere and screened as our life story in some infernal cinema or despatched as microfilm into the sidereal void.”
—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)