film favorites.

this week in traverse city is the eighth annual film festival. new films & documentaries are played around local venues in downtown tc, & old favorites are played free on a big, inflatable screen in front of the water. i thought i would share some of my favorite films of all time to celebrate film fest week.

sound of music.

i remember my sister & i always playing this for long car rides to our grandparents house. its the classic musical that i always seem to get sucked into every time its on television.

the parent trap.

my biggest inner debate as a kid was, if i had the choice, would i want to live the life of hallie or annie? the perfect lives of living with your fashion designer mother in london or on a vineyard in napa with your dad? luckily, this movie is packed with lots of laughs & ends up in love. 

grease.

truly the first musical i fell in love (at age 5 to be exact!) & it is still my all time favorite. if only we could sing our way through life...

father of the bride.

i believe this is where my love for all thing weddings evolved from. summers with my cousins & sister were spent watching this over & over again. i love how this movie can make you laugh hysterically & then turn you into a mess of happy tears. all around perfection.

beethoven.

my parents brought me to this in the theaters when i was one year old, & from then on out, i was obsessed with dogs, mostly st. bernards. for christmas, i got a beethoven & missy stuffed animals & carried them everywhere i went (we also named our dog years later missy too!). i still hope someday i'll get a st. bernard of my own too.

the holiday.

a perfect love story with the backgrounds of the english country side & los angeles to obsess over. but nothing tops jude law as a loving, funny & overly adorable father who makes me weak at the knees every time.

rent.

even though i had been a huge fan of musicals, but when i saw "rent," everything changed. broadway obsessed i became & the messages & emotions behind the music are the reason i will never get enough.