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$\"\"$ <\/a>Just in time for Valentine\u2019s Day, the Arts & Faith<\/a> community \u2014 which I\u2019ve been a member of since before the A&F website was created ten years ago \u2014 has released a list of the Top 25 Films on Marriage<\/a>. This is the third Top 25 list that the A&F community has produced in the last few years, as a supplement to our occasional Top 100 films-of-all-time<\/a> lists \u2014 but it is the first Top 25 that I myself took part in. The first was devoted to horror films<\/a>, of which I am not a particularly big or well-informed fan, and the second was devoted to road movies<\/a>, which was so broadly defined that some movies on that list \u2014 such as 2001: A Space Odyssey<\/a><\/i> \u2014 don\u2019t even feature any roads! (But the movie still portrays a \u201cpilgrimage\u201d of sorts, so.) However, I did very much want to take part in the marriage-movie list, and I was pleasantly surprised to find that one of my favorite movies of all time \u2014 a very obscure (on this continent) British flick called The Family Way<\/a><\/i> \u2014 came in at #8. I wrote the blurb on that film, as well as the blurb on Hobson\u2019s Choice<\/a><\/i>, a David Lean comedy (yes, they do exist!) which came in at #22. To learn more about the list, and the community that produced it, check out this introductory essay<\/a> by M. Leary at Good Letters, the blog hosted by Image<\/i> magazine.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"