HS movies - Valley Girl?
Oh, I wish those council guys would let me have an hour alone in the room with her, if I was larger and had grenades.
Willow ,'Storyteller'
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Toddson - Jun 13, 2011 6:05:24 am PDT #14844 of 30000
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Theodosia - Jun 13, 2011 6:13:23 am PDT #14845 of 30000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
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.
P.M. Marc - Jun 13, 2011 6:31:50 am PDT #14846 of 30000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
My drop everything movies are Velvet Goldmine and Bring it On.
I don't think there's anything else on the list.
Kathy A - Jun 13, 2011 6:34:07 am PDT #14847 of 30000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
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.
Fred Pete - Jun 13, 2011 6:45:22 am PDT #14848 of 30000
Ann, that's a ferret.
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.
Amy - Jun 13, 2011 7:02:30 am PDT #14849 of 30000
Because books.
I think Clueless was mentioned above, but it's also based on Austen's Emma, in which Emma does get matchmaking completely wrong.
quester - Jun 13, 2011 8:46:46 am PDT #14850 of 30000
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
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.
Strega - Jun 13, 2011 9:11:22 am PDT #14851 of 30000
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."
DavidS - Jun 13, 2011 9:16:44 am PDT #14852 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
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.
DavidS - Jun 13, 2011 9:22:30 am PDT #14853 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
The image they lead that article with is from Dementia which is this fantastic beat-noir-jazz-surreal oddity. I used to have the DVD for that.
And, of course, it's framed against that famous arcade in Venice, CA which has been used for so many movies (most notably Touch of Evil).