Happy Valentine’s Day: “A River runs through it” is a great film

How many times have I seen “A river runs through it”?   I don’t know for sure.   I always do whenever they run it on TV.     Sometimes I catch just a few scenes.     Once or twice a year, I watch all of it.

And I’ve got the VHS or DVD somewhere in my small movie collection.

Recently, I read a NY Times review and it spoke for me:

“By the time the film arrives at its lyrical, elegiac end, it has earned all the feeling that comes pouring out. Mr. Redford’s narration is straight forward and calm, allowing the poetry of Norman Maclean’s written words to carry the emotion: “Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it.”