Here are my responses to the fine questionnaire:
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I went and got 'em myself:
Dracula A.D. 1972
The Dirty Dozen
Kelly's Heroes
Duck Soup
Life of Brian
National Lampoon's Animal House
Spontaneous ejaculations:
1) What is the biggest issue for you in the
digital vs. film debate?
Subliminal
/ unconscious effects of watching digital without projection and same
flickering.
2) Without more than one minute’s consideration, name
three great faces from the movies
Marty
Feldman, Audrey Hepburn, Ernest Borgnine
3) The movie you think could be
interesting if remade as a movie musical
A Clockwork Orange
4) The last movie
you saw theatrically/on DVD, Blu-ray, streaming
The Perks of Being a Wallflower.
Don’t
watch DVD/BluRay/Streaming for movies.
If I can’t see it in a cinema, I’m unlikely to see it.
Thank
Gahd for AFI Silver. . . .
5) Favorite movie
about work
The
Apartment.
6) The movie you
loved as a child that did not hold up when seen through adult eyes
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls [at
thirteen, it made an impression!]
7) Favorite “road”
movie
Kelly’s
Heroes
8) Does Clint
Eastwood’s appearance at the Republican National Convention change or confirm
your perspective on him as a filmmaker/movie icon? Is that appearance
relevant
to his legacy as a filmmaker?
No [not consciously]; no.
9) Longest-lasting
movie or movie-related obsession
Don Rickles.
10) Favorite artifact of movie
exploitation
Soundtrack to Superfly.
Oh; I went with blaxploitation
Um,
autographed Dana Delaney promo photo from Exit
to Eden.
11) Have you ever fallen asleep in a
movie theater? If so, when and why?
Finding Nemo.
Borat.
Would
have fallen asleep for Brimstone and
Treacle, but I walked out.
Quite
a few others; escorting friends or children to stuff I didn’t care for.
12) Favorite performance by an athlete
in a movie
Kevin Costner in Bull Durham.
[have
you seen his swing?]
13) Second favorite Rainer Werner
Fassbinder movie
I have seen one segment of Berlin Alexanderplatz. That’s it.
So I don’t have a second.
14) Favorite film of 1931
Monkey Business.
15) Second favorite Raoul Walsh movie
16) Favorite film of 1951
17) Second favorite Wong Kar-wai movie
You’ve lost me.
18) Favorite film of 1971
Kotch
I also dig Harold and Maude and McCabe
and Mrs. Miller
19) Second favorite Henri-Georges
Clouzot movie
You’ve
lost me.
20) Favorite film of 1991
Talent for the Game
21) Second favorite John Sturges movie
The Magnificent Seven
22) Favorite celebrity biopic
Searching for Sugar Man [stretching the
definitions of “biopic” and “celebrity”]
23) Name a good script idea which was let down
either by the director or circumstances of production
Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)
24) Heaven’s Gate-- yes or no?
Surprisingly,
yes.
I’m
easily influenced by popular myths
.
. . but not always
25) Favorite pairing of movie sex
symbols
Stretch
Me [Seka and John Holmes].
26) One word that you could say which
would instantly evoke images and memories of your favorite movie. (Naming the
movie is optional—might be more fun to see if we can guess what it is from the
word itself)
Loot?!?!?
27) Name one moment which to you
demarcates a significant change, for better or worse, on the landscape of the
movies over the last 20 years.
Batman – Jack Nicholson would never be
reined in again. . . .
28) Favorite pre-Code talkie
Duck Soup. If you mean “‘pre-Code’ pre-Code,” then Red Dust. “Say-gon” indeed. . . .
29) Oldest film in your personal collection (Thanks,
Peter Nellhaus)
Nosferatu
30) Longest film in your personal
collection. (Thanks, Brian Darr)
31) Have your movie collection habits
changed in the past 10 years? If so, how?
I figured
out I could stop buying DVDs that I never watch, and BluRays that I never
watch, in favour of streaming – which I never watch.
32) Wackiest, most unlikely “directed
by” credit you can name
33) Best documentary you’ve seen in
2012 (made in 2012 or any other year)
Searching for Sugar Man
34) What’s your favorite “(this star)
was almost cast in (this movie)” anecdote?
Annette Haven in Body Double
35) Program three nights of double
bills at a revival theater that might best illuminate your love of the movies
Dracula A.D. 1972
The Dirty Dozen
Kelly's Heroes
Shit.
Go to Dennis' site and read them; I forgot
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ UpDaTe ! ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
I went and got 'em myself:
Dracula A.D. 1972
The Dirty Dozen
Kelly's Heroes
Duck Soup
Life of Brian
National Lampoon's Animal House
36) You have been granted permission to
invite any three people, alive or dead, to your house to watch the Oscars. Who
are they?
Groucho
Marx, John Lennon, and my old man.
37)
Favorite Mr. Chips. (Careful...)
Reduced Fat
1 comment:
Groucho Marx, John Lennon, and my old man ... yep
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