Jayne ,'Jaynestown'
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I totally enjoyed Super 8. Yeah, it's derivative, but it still worked. I thought you might have to know Spielberg's work to really get it, but we went with friends and their actual 13-year-old boy, who was convulsed with laughter by the kids' dialogue. He thought the whole thing was really good.
And definitely stay through the credits.
HS movies - Valley Girl?
High School movies: Teen Wolf is a favorite.
My can't-not-watch movie is Singin' in the Rain despite the fact that I can recite the dialogue and probably dance (badly) most of the choreography.
My drop everything movies are Velvet Goldmine and Bring it On.
I don't think there's anything else on the list.
Aww, Alan Rubin died of lung cancer. If you don't recognize that name, he was the trumpeter for the Blues Brothers and in that movie, his character was Mr. Fabulous, the maitre'd at Chez Paul before the brothers came in and humiliated him into rejoining the band.
Does Clueless count as a high school movie? Because it could be the anti-Auntie Mame movie in that Cher Knows What's Best for everyone, but Cher gets it wrong where Auntie Mame gets it right.
I think Clueless was mentioned above, but it's also based on Austen's Emma, in which Emma does get matchmaking completely wrong.
My can't-not-watch movie is Singin' in the Rain despite the fact that I can recite the dialogue and probably dance (badly) most of the choreography.
A particular favorite of mine as well. I always get sucked into the Harry Potter movies and LOtR movies and stuff like Van Helsing and Underworld. Chronicles of Riddik, too.
A fun interview with the film programmer for the Roxie in SF:
"The Blue Dahlia’s (1946) not even on DVD, and that’s an interesting movie if for no other reason than because Raymond Chandler wrote it. Everything I’ve read about the making of that film, it sounds like it really got compromised by the director who kept improvising dialog on the set. You can’t do that with Chandler. You should go to prison for something like that! That’s why I don’t like Billy Wilder — he fucked with Chandler."
Heh. The Blue Dahlia's not on DVD but they show it on TCM all the time. (And I usually watch it 'cuz I'm hot for Ann Sothern and Anne Baxter like that. eta: Oops, they're in The Blue Gardenia. Whole other noir blue flower movie.)
Back in the 90s the Roxie put on these huge Noir festivals that would run for six weeks every year and they'd just sell out the run. It was great!
But that was when most of those movies weren't otherwise available. Plus they had shows of rarities like Noir TV including John Cassavetes ubercool jazz-pianist-private-eye show Staccato (finally out on DVD last year) or Lee Marvin's TV show M Squad.