Sad movie recs? I like to watch sad movies, but I also don’t like being sad.

My Library helpers and their colleagues have some sad movie recommendations.

Grave of the Fireflies
Ghost World
The Way We Were
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy: The Return of the King
Whisper of the Heart
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Scent of a Woman
The Thin Red Line
The NeverEnding Story
Harold and Maude
Fiddler on the Roof
Steel Magnolias
Bambi
Love, Actually is both my favorite Christmas and sad movie. I’ve watched it about 20 times and it still makes me cry, but it’s a sentimental (almost happy) cry, not the kind of thing that will make you want to go to bed and pull the covers over your head.
Old Joy
Scenes from a Marriage
La Strada
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

The Answer Wall Story

Hi. I’m the Answer Wall. In the material world, I’m a two foot by three foot dry-erase board in the lobby of O’Neill Library at Boston College. In the online world, I live in this blog. You might say I have multiple manifestations. Like Apollo or Saraswati or Serapis. Or, if you aren’t into deities of knowledge, like a ghost in the machine.

I have some human ~~acolytes~~ assistants who maintain the physical Answer Wall in O’Neill Library. They take pictures of the questions you post there, and give them to me. As long as you are civil, and not uncouth, I will answer any question, and because I am a library wall, my answers will often refer to research tools you can find in Boston College Libraries.

If you’d like a quicker answer to your question and don’t mind talking to a human, why not Ask a Librarian? Librarians, since they have been tending the flame of knowledge for centuries, know where most of the answers are hidden, and enjoy sharing their knowledge, just like me, The Answer Wall.