Tag: Grief and Loss

Grief is the price of attachment, and fiction keeps trying to make the invoice legible. This tag collects reviews and essays on stories about loss: mourning rendered honestly, and the strange comfort of watching it done well.

1970s

Don’t Look Now (1973)

May 19, 2026

Nicolas Roeg's 1973 Venice grief drama. Donald Sutherland, Julie Christie.

1940s

Remember the Night (1940)

May 19, 2026

A prosecutor takes a shoplifter home to Indiana for Christmas after her trial is delayed, and they fall in love. Remember the Night is Mitchell Leisen's 1940 American romantic drama about a Manhattan prosecutor who postpones a shoplifter's trial until…

2000s

Love Actually (2003)

May 19, 2026

Multiple intertwined London relationships unfold across the five weeks leading up to Christmas, from the Prime Minister to schoolchildren. Love Actually is Richard Curtis's 2003 British romantic comedy depicting multiple interconnected London relationships unfolding across the five weeks leading up…

1980s

Lethal Weapon (1987)

May 19, 2026

A suicidal LAPD detective is partnered with a family-man veteran during a Christmas drug investigation that turns into open warfare. Lethal Weapon is Richard Donner's 1987 American action film about a suicidal Los Angeles Police Department narcotics detective who is…

1980s

Pet Sematary (1989)

May 19, 2026

A family discovers an ancient burial ground behind their Maine home that returns the dead to life, but wrong. Pet Sematary is Mary Lambert's 1989 American horror film adapted from Stephen King's 1983 novel, depicting a Boston physician who moves…

2010s

Won’t You Be My Neighbor? (2018)

May 19, 2026

Made viewers cry in theaters. The production combines archival footage from the program with new interviews and exploration of Rogers's larger cultural significance.