Wow, that's a lot of questions. Let me see...
1) The Searchers. (On the first viewing, I couldn't get over my dislike of Ethan; on subsequent viewings, it's grown into one of the handful of westerns I love)
2) Braveheart
3) The reference to "Seventh Seal" in Woody Allen's "Love and Death"
4) A Matter of Life and Death (which is yet to come out on region 1 DVD. WHHHYYYYY??)
6) Guy Pearce
10) Groundhog Day. (What? It's like comfort food to me.)
12) Excalibur
13) Bruce Dern, mostly because I can't remember who Warren Oates is.
14) *eyeroll*
15) It's Friday 5 PM and I do not have enough brain cells left over to answer this question.
16) Aguirre: The Wrath of God.
17) Aliens
20) YES! Gratuitous heart removal! Monkey brain! What's not to love?
21) Who?
22) CHILDREN OF MEN. (Yes, I'm still bitter it didn't win any Oscar.)
24) Bruno Ganz
25) Touching the Void
26) ....
27) Wings of Desire
28) Elizabeth Pena
1) What movie did you have to see multiple times before deciding whether you liked or disliked it?
Tombstone
2) Inaugural entry into the Academy of the Overrated
Spiderman
6) Hugo Weaving or Guy Pearce?
Guy Pearce.
7) Movie that you feel gave you the greatest insight into a world/culture/person/place/event that you had no understanding of before seeing it
Jeez. The Right Stuff. Princess Mononoke. Amadeus.
9) Monica Bellucci or Maria Grazia Cucinotta?
Bellucci. Or her costumes.
15) Before he died in 1984, Francois Truffaut once said: “The film of tomorrow will resemble the person who made it.” Is there any evidence that Truffaut was right? Is it Truffaut’s tomorrow yet?
I think that FF Coppola's movies resemble him as do Terry Gilliam's.
However, I think the better answer to this is more along the "Garage Kubrick" or YouTube lines, because when only one person is making a movie (including making the actors, making the sets, everything) you get a lot closer to the id.
17) Favorite movie featuring a rampaging, oversized or otherwise mutated beast, or beasts
18) Sandra Bernhard or Sarah Silverman?
Neither, but Bernhard if I have to.
19) Your favorite, or most despised, movie cliché
Running away from the car down the middle of the road, while looking back.
20) Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom-- yes or no?
No.
22) Inaugural entry into the Academy of the Underrated
Grosse Pointe Blank
23) Your favorite movie dealing with the subject of television
Videodrome
25) Your favorite documentary, or non-fiction, film
Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control
28) Elizabeth Pena or Penelope Cruz? Pena
EXTRA CREDIT: Do movies still matter?
Did they ever? I think they matter a lot more now than at any point before the 70s.
I can't even think of responding to the quiz right now, I just wanted to ask David if he meant
Pépé le Moko
instead of
Algiers.
Isn't
Algiers
the remake with Charles Boyer? Or do they call them both
Algiers?
In which case, that's confusing. Either way, Jean Gabin=cool (and yet at the same time, also hawt).
Favorite Non-fiction Film:
Hoop Dreams, Boys of Baraka, This Film Is Not Yet Rated, Roger & Me(Michael Moore actually told me in e-mail he ran into Rabbit Skinning Lady just before the mid-terms and she is all right, besides working at Wal-Mart.)
Favorite film about TV:
Am I a hopeless wannabe if I say "Network?" Because it really is a great film, but I almost didn't want to see it because I heard how good it is, if that makes any sense. And I really like television, and I think some people bash it just to look deep.
And I really like television, and I think some people bash it just to look deep.
I agree. I would link to the original column, but it's not available on the site anymore. I'm glad I skirted copyright laws and reposted it without permission.
That said, "Network" is a great film and is very clever about the whole "Infotainment" thing.
And who doesn't want to open her window wide and say "I'm mad as hell and I'm not gonna take it anymore!"
And I really like television, and I think some people bash it just to look deep.
You get this all the time in academia and it drives me crazy. At Bennington they are so proud of the fact that there are only two televisions on campus. I was constantly telling my students that, if they wanted to be writers (and half of them do), maybe they should try exploring one of the most popular mediums for that vocation.
There's a LOT of it going around Montessori, too. I link it to the crunchy granola tendencies.
I can name several shows I'd rather the kids be watching than some of the stuff they're reading.
Either way, Jean Gabin=cool (and yet at the same time, also hawt).
I seem to recall this coming up in a conversation I had with someone cool last week.
Anyway, I put my answers here and already regret a few: [link]
I obviously don't belong in this thread, because I don't know what half those questions are referring to. Monica who?
slinks away
