Eva and I have been doing a film study of sorts

[conuly]

Mostly this is because we needed something to study so I can get a few months of writing work with her before she hies off to high school, and she wasn't interested in anything conventional.

Not that she's terribly interested in movies, but if I remember I can make popcorn.

Thus far we've watched Sweeney Todd, Billy Elliot, The Sound of Music, and (tonight) West Side Story. At her behest I think we're going to end up with Black Panther next week. She strongly didn't like West Side Story....

Any other suggestions?

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[hudebnik]

She's presumably got enough classic-Disney background to get the references and twists in "Enchanted". Although "Enchanted", as shalmestere points out, for all its positive messages, shares the too-common trope of male lead ditching his older, boring girlfriend for a younger model.

There are an awful lot of grownup pop-culture references that she won't get without having seen "Monty Python and the Holy Grail".

The animated "Watership Down" from 1978 is charming and faithful to the book, with an interesting mix of adventure and dark terror and a happy ending in which the central character dies.