New Year’s Eve is a time to ring out the old year and welcome in the new. It is a time to make new resolutions, many of which will be forgotten by the time January comes to a close. It is also a holiday that has some impressive movie connections. Here is a look at some of the best movies centered on New Year’s Eve to watch as you ring in 2013.
Kathryn Bigelow became the first female to win an Oscar for Best Director for “The Hurt Locker,” and what is impressive is that she refuses to be pigeonholed into a specific genre. She has made horror movies (“Near Dark”), action thrillers (“Point Break”) and this cyberpunk New Year’s Eve thriller. Ralph Fiennes stars as a former LAPD police officer in a dystopian 1999, as the world attempts to welcome in the new millennium. Juliette Lewis, Tom Sizemore and Michael Wincott also star in this underrated sci-fi thriller.
“When Harry Met Sally”
When Harry Met Sally” remains one of cinema’s greatest romantic comedies, as it asks the long-standing question about whether or not friends can ever become lovers. Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan star as friends who drift through various relationships, passing through each other’s lives every five years. The entire situation finally comes to a head at a New Year’s Eve party, where the two finally declare their love for each other.
“The Apartment”
There is a Hollywood legend that Steven Spielberg will ask any new collaborators to talk to him about Billy Wilder’s “The Apartment” before agreeing to work with them. If they have not seen the movie, he won’t work with that person. That is how highly Spielberg holds the movie. Jack Lemmon stars as an office worker who allows his managers to use his apartment for their extramarital affairs. When he falls for a fellow office worker, he finds himself outplayed by one of his managers, until the fateful New Year’s Eve when he stands up to his bosses and tells her how he really feels.
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