Something in your eye? It鈥檚 not your fault, some movies are simply designed to be tearjerkers. On this installment of Movies on the Radio, The State of Things heard from listeners about the films that got the tears flowing.
For some listeners it was the tragic truths in films like 鈥淪chindler鈥檚 List鈥� and 鈥淔ruitvale Station鈥� while others cried over the relationship between a dog and her boy in 鈥淟assie Come Home.鈥� A few more needed tissues to get through films about families, like 鈥淭he Joy Luck Club鈥� and 鈥淭erms of Endearment.鈥�
Host Frank Stasio talks with Marsha Gordon, a film professor at North Carolina State University, and Laura Boyes, the film curator for the North Carolina Museum of Art and the curator of the Moviediva series, about silver screen tearjerkers and why some films are so good at making us cry.
Gordon and Boyes will screen and discuss one of the selections, 鈥淭he Umbrellas of Cherbourg,鈥� at The Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in Raleigh at 7 p.m. on Monday, Apr. 22 as the first in their presented by Movies on the Radio. Gordon will also participate in a at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Apr. 18 at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh with WRAL meteorologist Elizabeth Gardner and climate change expert Dr. Jessica Whitehead.
Boyes will at 8 p.m. on Friday, Apr. 19 at the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh, and 鈥淟ove is a Racket鈥� as part of her at The Carolina Theater in Durham at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Apr. 24.
