Between the winter weather forecast and the lingering COVID-19 pandemic, there might never be a better Valentine's Day than this one for cozying up and streaming a sweetheart of a movie.
Since every pair of lovebirds has its own unique feathers, this list covers all types of cinematic love stories, from romantic comedies and bittersweet dramas to family-friendly fairy tales and steamy action flicks.
1. ‘Emma.’ (2020)
Before she wowed in her breakout role as a troubled chess prodigy in Netflix's smash series "The Queen's Gambit," Anya Taylor-Joy turned in a stellar titular performance as the spoiled but well-meaning Regency Era matchmaker Emma Woodhouse in the latest cinematic take on Jane Austen's oft-adapted novel,
Wearing a blindfold and holding a divining rod, Oklahoma City actor Ben Hall paces steadily across a field of tall, lush grass somewhere outside of Tulsa.
Successfully demonstrating his water-witching skills, his smiling character removes the cloth covering his eyes to meet the skeptical ones of Steven Yeun's aspiring farmer in an early scenes of "Minari."
"We love Dowsing Dan. He was great," said producer Christina Oh with a chuckle. "I feel like we were telling a unique story in a unique way but that still felt like it would resonate with people. I think we couldn't be more thrilled and more appreciative of the Oklahoma film community. They were really, really welcoming, and we're ever grateful.
Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne spent much of March 11, 2020, enveloped in one of his signature "Space Bubbles" and walking across an Oklahoma field to film a music video.
On March 11, 2021, he will be back in his oversized inflatable orb and so will his bandmates and a few hundred of their fans.
"It'll be exactly a year on March 11. That was the night that, you know, the Thunder game (that was canceled) happened here, and Tom Hanks announced that he had (COVID-19). . The very next day on March 12, we went into quarantine," Coyne recalled.
"So, it's funny that it'll be a year to the exact date that we play the next Space Bubble Concert that this all started. Unbelievable.
Two Tulsa-based organizations - Chamber Music Tulsa and the Philbrook Museum of Art - are receiving NEA grants to fund projects marking the upcoming centennial of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.