tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69246682681437577162024-03-19T04:48:08.043-04:00A Mythical Monkey writes about the moviesEverything you ever wanted<br>to know about the movies<br>—and then some!Mythical Monkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11330587602682498820noreply@blogger.comBlogger1495125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6924668268143757716.post-69631086600776593322024-03-04T12:00:00.009-05:002024-03-04T14:46:09.666-05:001987 Alternate Oscars<span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">
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Much like <i>The Shawshank Redemption</i> a few years later, <i>The Princess Bride</i> didn't find an audience until it reached the rental aftermarket ...<br />
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If you haven't seen it, <i>The Princess Bride</i> is a swashbuckling romance/comedy (as distinct from a roman<i>tic</i> comedy) of the first order. Told as a story within a story, the movie opens with a doddering grandfather (the hilarious Peter Falk) insisting on reading a book to his skeptical grandson (Fred Savage) who is home from school with the sniffles.<br />
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"When I was your age, television was called <i>books</i>."<br />
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So what's in this book? Glad you asked.<br /><br />
"Fencing, fighting, torture, revenge, giants, monsters, chases, escapes, true love, miracles ..."<br />
"Doesn't sound too bad. I'll try to stay awake."<br />
"Oh, well, thank you very much, very nice of you. Your vote of confidence is overwhelming."<br />
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After that, the story — stuffed with the aforementioned swashbuckling, romance and raucous comedy — unfolds on screen, although Peter Falk helpfully pops in from time to time:<br />
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"She doesn't get eaten by the eels at this time."<br />
"<i>What?!?</i>"<br />
"The eel doesn't get her. I'm explaining to you because you look nervous."<br />
"I wasn't nervous. Maybe I was a little bit <i>concerned</i>, but that's not the same thing."<br />
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Stars Cary Elwes and Robin Wright as the young lovers, Chris Sarandon as the evil Prince Humperdinck, Wallace Shawn as an assassin for hire, Mandy Patinkin and Andre the Giant as his morally-conflicted henchmen, and Billy Crystal and Carol Kane as, respectively, a down-on-his-luck wizard and his no-nonsense wife.<br />
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Based on the book of the same name by legendary screenwriter William Goldman, <i>The Princess Bride</i> is endlessly quotable:<br />
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"Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die."<br />
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"We'll never survive."<br />
"Nonsense. You're only saying that because no one ever has."<br />
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"<i>Inconceivable!</i>"<br />
"You keep saying that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."<br />
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"You fell victim to one of the classic blunders — the most famous of which is 'never get involved in a land war in Asia' — but only slightly less well-known is this: 'Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line!'"<br />
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"Have fun storming the castle!"<br />
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And many others.<br />
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<i>The Princess Bride</i> was directed by Rob Reiner in the middle of one of the greatest runs of great movies any director has ever had — <i>This Is Spinal Tap</i>, <i>The Sure Thing</i>, <i>Stand by Me</i>, <i>The Princess Bride</i>, <i>When Harry Met Sally</i>, <i>Misery</i> and <i>A Few Good Men</i>. The train came off the tracks after that and I really have no idea what Rob Reiner's been up to the last thirty years. But for a while there, he was as good as anybody ever.<br />
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So. If you haven't seen <i>The Princess Bride</i>, see it. And if you have, treat yourself and see it again. One of the Monkey's all-time faves.<br />
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My choices are noted with a ★. A tie is indicated with a ✪. Historical Oscar winners are noted with a ✔. Best foreign-language picture winners are noted with an <b>ƒ</b>. A historical winner who won in a different category is noted with a ✱.</span></span>Mythical Monkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11330587602682498820noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6924668268143757716.post-77522923890642614702024-02-08T12:00:00.010-05:002024-02-08T17:20:47.787-05:001986 Alternate Oscars<span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">
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Okay, back to our regularly scheduled program ...<br />
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I had Woody Allen's <i>Hannah and Her Sisters</i> down as the best picture of the year pretty much from the day I first saw it thirty-eight years ago. But now I'm not so sure. It's still a pretty good movie with great performances by Michael Caine and Dianne Wiest, and I think of one line — "I don't sell my art by the yard!" — every time I walk into an art gallery and cough up for another painting.<br />
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But, well, it just doesn't stick to my ribs the way it used to. Times change. Tastes change.<br />
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You're still free to vote for it, of course.<br />
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Me, I'm going with <i>A Room with a View</i>, a romantic-comedy about stuffy Brits who fall in love during a vacation in Florence, Italy. Katie-bar-the-door and I saw it during a vacation in, yes, Florence, Italy, at the Cinema Astro across the street from the best gelato joint in town. Fun times. Good movie.<br />
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But as always, the final choice is yours.<br /><br />
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My choices are noted with a ★. A tie is indicated with a ✪. Historical Oscar winners are noted with a ✔. Best foreign-language picture winners are noted with an <b>ƒ</b>. A historical winner who won in a different category is noted with a ✱.</span></span>Mythical Monkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11330587602682498820noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6924668268143757716.post-2385890407918186092024-01-24T13:00:00.005-05:002024-01-24T14:38:37.348-05:00The Barbenheimers<span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh25qM7QUKkO00mENMG07xmlRtMg-binanxwGWpQpaps6wHzLCTGWP4c3QjB3zs8DnBjOR3gEn1mJXcmwu3tkbDEIQUWiVZC2e2F15i_MgIqSqzNBcdnJQNKQdOx7Vo1Sl4FHOStZWEhLpXp_eiyUXiWKqec2gKyjquVnv81wQJhr_41x0UaNEF6KTp5ZOl/s800/oscars%20broken%201.webp" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="400" data-original-height="548" data-original-width="800" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh25qM7QUKkO00mENMG07xmlRtMg-binanxwGWpQpaps6wHzLCTGWP4c3QjB3zs8DnBjOR3gEn1mJXcmwu3tkbDEIQUWiVZC2e2F15i_MgIqSqzNBcdnJQNKQdOx7Vo1Sl4FHOStZWEhLpXp_eiyUXiWKqec2gKyjquVnv81wQJhr_41x0UaNEF6KTp5ZOl/s400/oscars%20broken%201.webp"/></a></div>
Let's get right to it. The Oscar nominations came out yesterday and I am so steamed that Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie didn't get nominations, you have no idea. I'll probably start an alternate Oscars blog in protest ...<br />
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Oh, wait, I already write one.<br />
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Look, I can't honestly say I'm surprised the clowns at the Academy failed to nominate Gerwig and Robbie — after all, Alfred Hitchcock never won an Oscar, and Edward G. Robinson was never even nominated! — but nevertheless, the Oscars are fundamentally broken. Come Oscar time, these idiots routinely belittle the tastes of the ticket-buying public then claim to be mystified that no one watches the ceremony. Of course not! Why would we?! If we wanted to watch the Independent Spirit Awards, we'd watch the ... Independent Spirit Awards!<br />
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But no matter. I'm starting a new subcategory of the alternate Oscars. We'll call them the Barbenheimers with the nominees limited to the only serious choices I had in my mind when I was making out lists of possible nominees for the 2023 alternate Oscars. I've set it up so you can vote once an hour in perpetuity which is how frequent and durable my <i>Barbie</i>-loving rage is.<br />
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Have at it.<br />
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And when you're done, I would appreciate it if you would follow the link at the bottom of the page and vote on the 1985 alternate Oscars. Thank you in advance ...<br />
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The Academy picked <i>Out of Africa</i> as the year's best movie but I think <i>Back to the Future</i> is the one that has become a permanent part of the culture ... <br />
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My choices are noted with a ★. A tie is indicated with a ✪. Historical Oscar winners are noted with a ✔. Best foreign-language picture winners are noted with an <b>ƒ</b>. A historical winner who won in a different category is noted with a ✱.</span></span>Mythical Monkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11330587602682498820noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6924668268143757716.post-6182896320753126842024-01-11T17:00:00.008-05:002024-01-12T09:57:08.791-05:00A Very Old Sergio Leone Quiz<span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWtLltXkjDUsHxJ_ATVlAqZvPYF0kSG_QNgXYavqxkzhk9KynZlfCGI5k6amYYUXSKProRCHur-aQcH_WXJGxpkNsnU8M7nvl7BcI7Jaf8AAD4uxXb2BET1f_F65msag37yYrGtfbLW4Fc9ZGVKcksojTSTH942Gop3Xg_LdLEbvRu-PCzYVHRQjVJKhcO/s598/sergio%20film%20quiz%20june%202011%20edit.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="400" data-original-height="254" data-original-width="598" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWtLltXkjDUsHxJ_ATVlAqZvPYF0kSG_QNgXYavqxkzhk9KynZlfCGI5k6amYYUXSKProRCHur-aQcH_WXJGxpkNsnU8M7nvl7BcI7Jaf8AAD4uxXb2BET1f_F65msag37yYrGtfbLW4Fc9ZGVKcksojTSTH942Gop3Xg_LdLEbvRu-PCzYVHRQjVJKhcO/s400/sergio%20film%20quiz%20june%202011%20edit.jpg"/></a></div>
It's a gray, rainy day here in Monkeyland and nothing chases away those rainy day blues like a ridiculously long quiz from Sergio Leone and the Infield Fly Rule. <a href="https://sergioleoneifr.blogspot.com/2010/04/professor-fates-spring-loaded-great.html" target="_blank">This one</a> appeared on his blog fourteen years ago but I only just stumbled across it today while searching for other things.<br /><br />
With the rain running in rivers down the street and the dog refusing to set one pristine paw outside (no matter how badly she needs to go), I've got nothing better to do than answer pointless questions about my movie-watching habits. So I'm going long — three thousand words if I write a comma! Settle in or come back in a couple of days, we're gonna be here a while. (Feel free to play along in the comments section below — or via text, if we text.)<br /><br />
<b>1) William Demarest or Broderick Crawford?</b><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidG4Wlvb8rx8mY8DQnR3FWY89oGUs9Lj7yakKdqByRTHySqjbys11gZ0g0E2skAHMzpESXSO1S3uMC1I-gXvIFGeSUUS5rivtvEOMcRHiNTVW6iD7q4KxMje52nC16Hr4sjagia65dOyQZf6fclkTf2YEklUiOyYCIoItYixl5APbI-sKecmwg2uXCkGdF/s700/william%20demarest%20broderick%20crawford%201.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="400" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="700" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidG4Wlvb8rx8mY8DQnR3FWY89oGUs9Lj7yakKdqByRTHySqjbys11gZ0g0E2skAHMzpESXSO1S3uMC1I-gXvIFGeSUUS5rivtvEOMcRHiNTVW6iD7q4KxMje52nC16Hr4sjagia65dOyQZf6fclkTf2YEklUiOyYCIoItYixl5APbI-sKecmwg2uXCkGdF/s400/william%20demarest%20broderick%20crawford%201.jpg"/></a></div>
I know Broderick Crawford won an Oscar (for <i>All the King's Men</i>), but of the two, I prefer William Demarest who was hilarious in a pair of Preston Sturges comedies, <i>The Lady Eve</i> and <i>The Miracle of Morgan's Creek</i>.<br /><br />
<i>The Lady Eve</i> stars Henry Fonda as a rich schnook and Barbara Stanwyck as the con artist who falls in love with him; <i>The Miracle of Morgan's Creek</i> is a censor-defying screwball farce about a pregnant virgin (Betty Hutton) named — get this — Trudy Kockenlocker.<br /><br />
If you haven't seen them, check them out. I promise you won't be disappointed.<br /><br />
<b>2) What movies improve when seen in a state of altered consciousness? (Patrick Robbins)</b><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI6DwqEN29kWyC2R5L36KX0lWGOz70sdFIcqntWcnlVTQxZCK_T6nAfGtM2uZxtJpeYs0G6yzEQfw6HBoMvbO-FTQxUQcCH93ebotp71ggY_JSM8VhVtoDKuh7SI8H1cKtqo0BqFM8ys5CX3TDZmA0RExxo5agLpp2Ik8H61wcYJqORrbA8u54OGaiZArJ/s640/Just%20Say%20No%202.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" height="400" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI6DwqEN29kWyC2R5L36KX0lWGOz70sdFIcqntWcnlVTQxZCK_T6nAfGtM2uZxtJpeYs0G6yzEQfw6HBoMvbO-FTQxUQcCH93ebotp71ggY_JSM8VhVtoDKuh7SI8H1cKtqo0BqFM8ys5CX3TDZmA0RExxo5agLpp2Ik8H61wcYJqORrbA8u54OGaiZArJ/s400/Just%20Say%20No%202.jpg"/></a></div>
None. The Monkey doesn't do drugs! And alcohol generally only dulls the experience for me. I like my movies sober!<br /><br />
On the other hand, if by altered consciousness we can also include not conscious at all (i.e., asleep) then there are a handful of films that make good "nap" movies — not too loud, dialogue Katherine and I know by heart so that if we drift into semi-consciousness, we immediately know what's going on and can fall back asleep again. These would include <i>The Thin Man</i>, <i>The Maltese Falcon</i>, <i>The Thing From Another World</i> and <i>Rio Bravo</i>, four of my all-time favorites.<br /><br />
<b>3) Favorite studio or production company logo?</b><br /><br />
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These days probably the Warner Brothers logo of the 1940s — generally means a good movie will follow — but when I was a kid, the United Artists / Transamerica logo reminded me of the four periscopes on the Yellow Submarine. I kinda miss it.<br /><br />
<b>4) Celeste Holm or Joan Blondell?</b><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwvV9E_VjN5MhzLakLBkqdpLPLOIUlgtkW6f9TNr7d-akzFEg1bONPpUYwKFGxNtqYihurood2CvKDg7bgBkjEcJBV-e8DpAmo8qkvatvQDHkKIVCMGf4KXtDOIvJrLQZqDjIDRCHD5QF3bwXJxkB-6biNd0b5MCAyitdkRkqKy5V1UHlmQDUyeg0xw1uN/s1408/joan%20blondell%2010.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" height="400" data-original-height="1408" data-original-width="1103" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwvV9E_VjN5MhzLakLBkqdpLPLOIUlgtkW6f9TNr7d-akzFEg1bONPpUYwKFGxNtqYihurood2CvKDg7bgBkjEcJBV-e8DpAmo8qkvatvQDHkKIVCMGf4KXtDOIvJrLQZqDjIDRCHD5QF3bwXJxkB-6biNd0b5MCAyitdkRkqKy5V1UHlmQDUyeg0xw1uN/s400/joan%20blondell%2010.jpg"/></a></div>
Joan Blondell. I guess you could link the two in your head if you only know their supporting work in the late '40s / early '50s, but if you're a pre-Code man, then Joan Blondell all the way.<br /><br />
<b>5) What is the most overrated "classic" film? (Tony Dayoub)</b><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAG3GC2RaN09VAm1dkInemZ9rJHlU8gRspVIKxR_KlwZBndtwPMhJ6fHLCB0Ka5nDZAEa4z93LM4iNJ8hR_Cfn7jvr2Xbsvsa4cR0wsf6ffOBIY6jgv5bBa6de3sf4eLCXokrcFsf2D-ADHpbogAJ_pO6YINrOoiqaeb-kupliArYo0jwGoj6b2utggaLR/s1612/a%20clockwork%20orange%20movie%20poster%201.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" height="400" data-original-height="1612" data-original-width="1116" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAG3GC2RaN09VAm1dkInemZ9rJHlU8gRspVIKxR_KlwZBndtwPMhJ6fHLCB0Ka5nDZAEa4z93LM4iNJ8hR_Cfn7jvr2Xbsvsa4cR0wsf6ffOBIY6jgv5bBa6de3sf4eLCXokrcFsf2D-ADHpbogAJ_pO6YINrOoiqaeb-kupliArYo0jwGoj6b2utggaLR/s400/a%20clockwork%20orange%20movie%20poster%201.jpg"/></a></div>
I wrote about this fairly recently. For me, it's <i>A Clockwork Orange</i>. I've seen it all the way through at least three times, including once in the theater, and it leaves me cold.<br /><br />
<a href="https://mythicalmonkey.blogspot.com/2023/10/1971-alternate-oscars.html" target="_blank">Allow me to quote myself</a>:<br /><br />
<i>It's not that the film expects me to root for an empty-headed sociopath like Alex (Malcolm McDowell) or that I object to the film's muddled message — that in a free society, individual liberty should trump collective responsibility even when the individual in question is cheerfully guilty of rape and murder — it's the film's slack narrative pace. Somehow Stanley Kubrick has stuffed three hours of boredom into a two hour package. I never fail to check my watch, something you should never feel the need to do when watching a movie.</i><br /><br />
<b>6) What movie do you know for sure you saw, but have no memory of seeing? (Patricia Yokoe Cozzalio)</b><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG96OpFR93PVw8zUUn6VHOlwPtRie2tih2EvY32osYs8tSFwp4zyf310tYHIh97Vvs74LRw5dL0rEqZiqVolVq_APaSg1MlfTUFu44tDFxn9tiiZhqG8ZqTkMmXXvJfRvBY-50hqpZaBuTZS9cS-aVL19TW18aUG2NxyXXjOMhjaajb8YQD2sC30iW-7CO/s1068/the%20little%20things%20movie%20poster%201.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" height="400" data-original-height="1068" data-original-width="720" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG96OpFR93PVw8zUUn6VHOlwPtRie2tih2EvY32osYs8tSFwp4zyf310tYHIh97Vvs74LRw5dL0rEqZiqVolVq_APaSg1MlfTUFu44tDFxn9tiiZhqG8ZqTkMmXXvJfRvBY-50hqpZaBuTZS9cS-aVL19TW18aUG2NxyXXjOMhjaajb8YQD2sC30iW-7CO/s400/the%20little%20things%20movie%20poster%201.jpg"/></a></div>
It happens every now and then, I sit and watch a movie and two-thirds of the way through, I realize I've seen it. Last happened watching a 1943 experimental short called <i>Meshes of the Afternoon</i>.<br /><br />
Scrolling back through my movie list, I find I saw something called <i>The Little Things</i> (2021) back in May of last year. Stars Denzel Washington and Rami Malek — one Mount Rushmore level actor, one very good one. Gave it 2 stars out of 4. Rings exactly no bells at all.<br /><br />
<b>7) Favorite Hammer Film?</b><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAZJJ3PbJOjD55rMFfvtnVNDK7kxGI_2H222jBkq9Q4PEey5m7XFU5LYOgxT5xd8osYcWk_-0-kws44d1qeir0qpW5utuHJFhdVJljcl6qsdk8p7WByq2XKsm7ooo1eAMkiZNGOVV0wzXoLqn8bqKYAyRDrttzvt1TNcckqEMKC4Bfz1_T3vQ9H2s4Ph9q/s2156/the%20hound%20of%20the%20baskervilles%20movie%20poster%201.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" height="400" data-original-height="2156" data-original-width="1527" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAZJJ3PbJOjD55rMFfvtnVNDK7kxGI_2H222jBkq9Q4PEey5m7XFU5LYOgxT5xd8osYcWk_-0-kws44d1qeir0qpW5utuHJFhdVJljcl6qsdk8p7WByq2XKsm7ooo1eAMkiZNGOVV0wzXoLqn8bqKYAyRDrttzvt1TNcckqEMKC4Bfz1_T3vQ9H2s4Ph9q/s400/the%20hound%20of%20the%20baskervilles%20movie%20poster%201.jpg"/></a></div>
<i>The Hound of the Baskervilles</i> with Peter Cushing as Sherlock Holmes and Christopher Lee as Henry Baskerville. A faithful adaptation of the classic Arthur Conan Doyle novel and more grounded than the usual Hammer horror film.<br /><br />
<b>8) Gregory Itzin or Joe Pantoliano?</b><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBfS_7yBhpSQBcCuDn6313AUZdnEGbelLZoBsgsTNjeHjeIQVpq7851NLfn2ghp1w4fnnO8ooZiygumK9k9YklA1NH1uIw6wIWh-y7sghdDhVr9HAmd0kbAFiT-WcLzOSyINalxO83-SXw1FFVHjR3O9yOIwWium1LZJE3M5DXZgUOT-S87eQL2eP5eBdQ/s1074/Joe%20Pantoliano%204.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" height="400" data-original-height="1074" data-original-width="679" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBfS_7yBhpSQBcCuDn6313AUZdnEGbelLZoBsgsTNjeHjeIQVpq7851NLfn2ghp1w4fnnO8ooZiygumK9k9YklA1NH1uIw6wIWh-y7sghdDhVr9HAmd0kbAFiT-WcLzOSyINalxO83-SXw1FFVHjR3O9yOIwWium1LZJE3M5DXZgUOT-S87eQL2eP5eBdQ/s400/Joe%20Pantoliano%204.jpg"/></a></div>
Gregory Itzin generally plays officious asshats in TV shows I don't watch. Joe Pantoliano, on the other hand, has played memorable weasels in several movies I like — <i>Memento</i>, <i>The Matrix</i>, <i>Bound</i>. And for a change of pace, he played a very likeable U.S. Marshal in <i>The Fugitive</i> ...<br /><br />
<b>9) Create a double feature with two different movies with the same title. No remakes. (Peter Nellhaus)</b><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4ASYsHPwhWCP1tFeJWJEfhH34KFCmoLo8kGF3hkpQs5DdmW87EEooLcIvxXQqMvkYIyp2KwtY3Z9puhI5nrUDwYRVzhIyUqu_v6pWDrjbqLwjzQ3Q38zQJJ9UB2k_0HnHZBMG9mHSjVpqJjztAr7ez1Jx9ibwsKz0fudovd6ZFZzCPPMO4YFyCUAOMVuj/s664/heaven%20can%20wait%201.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="400" data-original-height="496" data-original-width="664" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4ASYsHPwhWCP1tFeJWJEfhH34KFCmoLo8kGF3hkpQs5DdmW87EEooLcIvxXQqMvkYIyp2KwtY3Z9puhI5nrUDwYRVzhIyUqu_v6pWDrjbqLwjzQ3Q38zQJJ9UB2k_0HnHZBMG9mHSjVpqJjztAr7ez1Jx9ibwsKz0fudovd6ZFZzCPPMO4YFyCUAOMVuj/s400/heaven%20can%20wait%201.jpg"/></a></div>
There are hundreds of choices but generally one is good, the other bad (e.g., <i>The Avengers</i> — the very good Marvel movie from 2012, and a dreadful 1998 spy comedy starring Ralph Fiennes and Uma Thurman based on the ultra-cool British television show of the 1960s).<br /><br />
As far as I know, though, <i>Heaven Can Wait</i> — 1943 and 1978 — are the only ones that were both nominated for a best picture Oscar. The one is an Ernst Lubitsch comedy about a loveable scamp (Don Ameche) sharing a drink with the devil after a life of stylishly genteel debauchery. The other is a Warren Beatty remake of 1941's <i>Here Comes Mr. Jordan</i> about a star athlete who is killed in an accident only to discover that he wasn't supposed to have died at all.<br /><br />
In addition to both being very good comedies, both have interesting takes on the afterlife. Beatty's heaven is an empty, arbitrary and capricious void run by officious bureaucrats. Lubitsch's hell, on the other hand, features a surprisingly compassionate, understanding and forgiving Satan. If those are my choices, give me hell every time. As Billy Joel once sang, "the sinners are much more fun / darling, only the good die young."<br /><br />
<b>10) Akiko Wakabayashi or Mie Hama? (Ray Young)</b><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsRECoagRpp6OBAXuTCoQxxzBQPxHtET4paGVEATjLX9kasUGRVOHctsLREGrlh0ILjbbTHMQskywqSjo7-YsVmf8qXZtR7lCAGDu7Nt-vWqHKdYIKSuO6tJIwHhuK8Pe1eOsJjQo2SDJkKycJ8k1G69WBYOyv5oZw3k7VFj6aF90BpLCS-CMnk3xKe8Pi/s910/Sean%20Connery%20with%20actresses%20Mie%20Hama,%20left,%20and%20Akiko%20Wakabayashi,%20right.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="400" data-original-height="568" data-original-width="910" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsRECoagRpp6OBAXuTCoQxxzBQPxHtET4paGVEATjLX9kasUGRVOHctsLREGrlh0ILjbbTHMQskywqSjo7-YsVmf8qXZtR7lCAGDu7Nt-vWqHKdYIKSuO6tJIwHhuK8Pe1eOsJjQo2SDJkKycJ8k1G69WBYOyv5oZw3k7VFj6aF90BpLCS-CMnk3xKe8Pi/s400/Sean%20Connery%20with%20actresses%20Mie%20Hama,%20left,%20and%20Akiko%20Wakabayashi,%20right.jpg"/></a></div>
The Bond girls in <i>You Only Live Twice</i> (that's Mie Hama on the left, Akiko Wakabayashi on the right) (and God help us if I have to tell you that's Sean Connery in the middle). I hate to say it, but I don't remember them at all. Honor Blackman and Diana Rigg, they ain't.<br /><br />
But then let's be honest: <i>You Only Live Twice</i> is the worst of the Sean Connery Bond films. That's the dirty secret of the Bond franchise — the last three Connery films, <i>You Only Live Twice</i>, <i>Diamonds Are Forever</i> and <i>Never Say Never Again</i> — were all pretty bad. He was phoning it in for sure.<br /><br />
On the other hand, the Nancy Sinatra theme song is among my favorites, behind only Shirley Bassey's "Goldfinger" and Paul McCartney's "Live and Let Die</i>.<br /><br />
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<b>11) Can you think of a (non-porn) movie that informed you of the existence of a sexual act you had not known of prior? (Bob Westal)</b><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJMwNxVu5VOpGtaoix5bfJLgvWp8UkE12bwN5y7AuUyGzLW0ohrRNOf1BD8wGqEOOU1n8VGtkG4btc-zB5lHgh3op345VExeFQLzPJYBWYBhMTudqsEA37EILM5r4-HdZzW5qUGb67xZt4-Go5Fn3KVg5gmU4UmmoZEFuLsTnhCF3AQ15idP-NKEBhV9hw/s626/manhattan%207%20cropped.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="400" data-original-height="486" data-original-width="626" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJMwNxVu5VOpGtaoix5bfJLgvWp8UkE12bwN5y7AuUyGzLW0ohrRNOf1BD8wGqEOOU1n8VGtkG4btc-zB5lHgh3op345VExeFQLzPJYBWYBhMTudqsEA37EILM5r4-HdZzW5qUGb67xZt4-Go5Fn3KVg5gmU4UmmoZEFuLsTnhCF3AQ15idP-NKEBhV9hw/s400/manhattan%207%20cropped.jpg"/></a></div>
I remember when I was eighteen Woody Allen saying something about "trading fours" in <i>Manhattan</i> which I assumed from context was some exotic sex act direct from the pages of the Kama Sutra. Turns out it's actually a jazz term referring to musicians alternating four-bar solo's, but for a while I felt pretty sophisticated if thoroughly clueless.<br /><br />
<b>12) Can you think of a black & white movie that might actually improve if it was in color? (Patrick Robbins)</b><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpgcTnzPVVto20XBbFHPTsd6ndSyadjE00As-2-uzThFbmMIM7s7eR-VV_msl8BnXQzhqwujZDcUweaTPBd5Z2nGOAAkwbd9TjRZm4dy1YnDzaRFpn-gq0bqyvoL5HQkLWf_HW-7TJemMsEqf84ohTyVeFCRYQm86DzRj8zKE8zOEc6WckxDPXR9mtAvo5/s1864/the%20night%20of%20the%20iguana%201.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" height="400" data-original-height="1864" data-original-width="1332" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpgcTnzPVVto20XBbFHPTsd6ndSyadjE00As-2-uzThFbmMIM7s7eR-VV_msl8BnXQzhqwujZDcUweaTPBd5Z2nGOAAkwbd9TjRZm4dy1YnDzaRFpn-gq0bqyvoL5HQkLWf_HW-7TJemMsEqf84ohTyVeFCRYQm86DzRj8zKE8zOEc6WckxDPXR9mtAvo5/s400/the%20night%20of%20the%20iguana%201.jpg"/></a></div>
After shooting <i>The Night of the Iguana</i> — Tennessee Williams's tale of a defrocked preacher stranded in the tropics with three women — director John Huston decided that instead of black-and-white, he should have used color. He was probably right. The black-and-white in this case is flat and lifeless while color might have emphasized the hothouse nature of the storyline.<br /><br />
That's the only one I can think of off the top of my head.<br /><br />
<b>13) Favorite Pedro Almodovar Film?</b><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMDDfXFSO-Rv5lQTfwrY0BTWANfzovJ9TZZIEct42KqxPkHqjUAQfOddntJrxMEukPqEVh5OCVvpBwWnf8OyDUc-otIw-atgp9teT5_I6mJveFuxUZzM3Hnt-By3VT5hYmHqvaLOJcaiEoG-YLFab4Hze4_xMaZ4hAtIYZVPW6HfaFpJlKYUaZfGDiMLcu/s1000/women%20on%20the%20verge%20of%20a%20nervous%20breakdown%20movie%20poster%201.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" height="400" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="700" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMDDfXFSO-Rv5lQTfwrY0BTWANfzovJ9TZZIEct42KqxPkHqjUAQfOddntJrxMEukPqEVh5OCVvpBwWnf8OyDUc-otIw-atgp9teT5_I6mJveFuxUZzM3Hnt-By3VT5hYmHqvaLOJcaiEoG-YLFab4Hze4_xMaZ4hAtIYZVPW6HfaFpJlKYUaZfGDiMLcu/s400/women%20on%20the%20verge%20of%20a%20nervous%20breakdown%20movie%20poster%201.jpg"/></a></div>
<i>Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown</i>.<br /><br />
<b>14) Kurt Raab or Udo Kier?</b><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuVsRM5RlfFguizLwfRTQjQiqiZZetLeYw5VCSOueTngPJQ3U7WcxqWaf1JwGmKQnQ-nl0nQMspQEiug0UGKrCe7E2tW0bbz4oA0lzaEPM942W1Wz_qkAGk45nEPwV3OcsV_trs35bWdvyCmwNQ_xRCKXPRhX5pWAhyB02zirOWVbJ6TZo0RjPkakxIcVy/s400/donald%20sutherland%20dirty%20gif.gif" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="400" data-original-height="176" data-original-width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuVsRM5RlfFguizLwfRTQjQiqiZZetLeYw5VCSOueTngPJQ3U7WcxqWaf1JwGmKQnQ-nl0nQMspQEiug0UGKrCe7E2tW0bbz4oA0lzaEPM942W1Wz_qkAGk45nEPwV3OcsV_trs35bWdvyCmwNQ_xRCKXPRhX5pWAhyB02zirOWVbJ6TZo0RjPkakxIcVy/s400/donald%20sutherland%20dirty%20gif.gif"/></a></div>
A couple of European supporting actors. I don't know either of them.<br /><br />
<b>15) Worst main title song (Peter Nellhaus)</b><br /><br />
Criminy, don't get me started — "Burning Bridges" from <i>Kelly's Heroes</i>. A great war caper comedy marred by a ludicrously inappropriate (and lousy) title song.<br /><br />
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<b>16) Last movie you saw in a theater? On DVD, Blu-ray or other interesting location/format?</b><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikLsm8mj8pgjD2IWPq0g1FhBSgkQ-3Y_qXm6OWtn5jOjOOPRzLYRoihWFFKBxjifza2qOzL1I1HdwXSkZvWBmvr3oAouo_seaKdJ4qcM7T8ddRdcEZMJAU6XPfnvQD7OSM8duvn4WV0_ZpECBN7ZyO7cESUotxf1CDJoPfdyYd2Pi3nFFCWRuDDnOMMWUm/s700/the%20boy%20and%20the%20heron%20le%20cercle%20rouge%20party%20girl%201.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="400" data-original-height="347" data-original-width="700" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikLsm8mj8pgjD2IWPq0g1FhBSgkQ-3Y_qXm6OWtn5jOjOOPRzLYRoihWFFKBxjifza2qOzL1I1HdwXSkZvWBmvr3oAouo_seaKdJ4qcM7T8ddRdcEZMJAU6XPfnvQD7OSM8duvn4WV0_ZpECBN7ZyO7cESUotxf1CDJoPfdyYd2Pi3nFFCWRuDDnOMMWUm/s400/the%20boy%20and%20the%20heron%20le%20cercle%20rouge%20party%20girl%201.jpg"/></a></div>
Last we saw in a theater: <i>The Boy and the Heron</i>, by Hayao Miyazaki, Japan's legendary master of animation. I've got to be honest with you, I've liked a number of his other movies better: <i>Porco Rosso</i>, <i>My Neighbor Totoro</i>, <i>Spirited Away</i>, among others. But still, it's worth a look.<br /><br />
On DVD? Jean-Pierre Melville's <i>Le Cercle Rouge</i>, a caper flick by the master of French noir. Highly recommended.<br /><br />
Streaming? <i>Party Girl</i>, the 1995 indie comedy that launched Parker Posey's career. I'm a fan of both the movie and the actress.<br /><br />
<b>17) Favorite movie reference within a Woddy Allen movie? (Larry Aydlette)</b><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJjHb3mFasPhWW2pnuAP5q1l3Ej-9mXnN1xJYtz9cmUM43VYU6IfyVn78aR31hQYz7RUxZWqNIDZhexR71pV0spKu7q8XP8-u_j9kk7ZQ8RPWlw8v0Au5YjrEoJu7HAVsN6RDtCGpos_hA-qBDXpDkQpawB0zcaUqa32gYY0oz8YqlLGTjR_QjpCw74zVP/s1313/midnight%20in%20paris%20movie%20poster%201.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" height="400" data-original-height="1313" data-original-width="890" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJjHb3mFasPhWW2pnuAP5q1l3Ej-9mXnN1xJYtz9cmUM43VYU6IfyVn78aR31hQYz7RUxZWqNIDZhexR71pV0spKu7q8XP8-u_j9kk7ZQ8RPWlw8v0Au5YjrEoJu7HAVsN6RDtCGpos_hA-qBDXpDkQpawB0zcaUqa32gYY0oz8YqlLGTjR_QjpCw74zVP/s400/midnight%20in%20paris%20movie%20poster%201.jpg"/></a></div>
I'm going to assume he means "Woody" Allen. If he really means "Woddy" Allen, my apologies.<br /><br />
My favorite is this bit from <i>Midnight in Paris</i> in which the time traveling Gil Pender (Owen Wilson) pitches the plot of <i>The Exterminating Angel</i> to its eventual director Luis Buñuel (Adrien de Van) — with a sly nod at the end to Buñuel's <i>Un Chien Andalou</i>:<br /><br />
"Oh, Mr. Buñuel! I had a nice idea for a movie for you."<br /><br />
"Yes?"<br /><br />
"Yeah. A group of people attend a very formal dinner party and at the end of dinner when they try to leave the room, they can't."<br /><br />
"Why not?"<br /><br />
"They just can't seem to exit the door."<br /><br />
"But why?"<br /><br />
"Well, momento. When they're forced to stay together, the veneer of civilization quickly fades away and what they're left with is who they really are — animals."<br /><br />
"But I don't get it. Why don't they just walk out of the room?"<br /><br />
"All I'm saying is just think about it. Who knows — maybe when you're shaving one day, it'll tickle your fancy."<br /><br />
<b>18) Mary Astor or Claudette Colbert?</b><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSWFVlgeJMJFkYYBGv_-GPIe4eqTTAvF081t7FUff1_qkJx9Jc-3aflxfBmbKTHyoDgsfleBZfhZmebDn8fPQsUGYBtZT1ggVm9kOdeGfaqtZkfzSOQpZSTTYC3g35KJxr1E0SfNdznOO_MksDy6-8WxUlsF6gA49yoF_HdKo5S_lteljPmlDtVmoiDrNf/s1514/mary%20astor%2030.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" height="400" data-original-height="1514" data-original-width="1170" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSWFVlgeJMJFkYYBGv_-GPIe4eqTTAvF081t7FUff1_qkJx9Jc-3aflxfBmbKTHyoDgsfleBZfhZmebDn8fPQsUGYBtZT1ggVm9kOdeGfaqtZkfzSOQpZSTTYC3g35KJxr1E0SfNdznOO_MksDy6-8WxUlsF6gA49yoF_HdKo5S_lteljPmlDtVmoiDrNf/s400/mary%20astor%2030.jpg"/></a></div>
For me, this is easy: Mary Astor for <i>The Maltese Falcon</i>, <i>Red Dust</i>, <i>Act of Violence</i>, <i>Across the Pacific</i>, <i>The Prisoner of Zenda</i>, <i>The Kennel Murder Case</i>, <i>Dodsworth</i>, <i>Meet Me in St. Louis</i>, <i>The Palm Beach Story</i>. Among others.<br /><br />
<b>19) Favorite trailer (provide YouTube link if possible)?</b><br /><br />
Trailers go in one eyeball and out the other as far as I'm concerned but I do remember one. Katie-bar-the-door and I were in the theater grinding through the endless previews when a map of the New York City subway system appeared — that, and nothing more — and she looked at me and said "Did somebody remake <i>Pelham 1-2-3</i>?"<br /><br />
One of the thousands of moments that underscores for me why we belong together.<br /><br />
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By the way, how does the remake compare to the original 1974 version starring Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw and Martin Balsam? It doesn't. See the exciting, sublime original, skip the bombastic remake.<br /><br />
<b>20) Oddest double bill you either saw or saw listed in a theater </b><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLVTFAduGPGAo2UFhAgkM7cW1cliy-ISiwSBXI7-Wsysa_reW7LsrJdHUcWWuY9FL0jIJag-IusR_1Wlwzg22UM13RImCXLM9fRjMEAJb8WEJ2zFSqyGrOPEKXGfmbcATtZ-jXiUfL34Q2oEsOHbg01cYme7QuvEdGXALhgo6C6OwEAP5QC5rMWCtBkl63/s650/double%20features%201.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="400" data-original-height="488" data-original-width="650" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLVTFAduGPGAo2UFhAgkM7cW1cliy-ISiwSBXI7-Wsysa_reW7LsrJdHUcWWuY9FL0jIJag-IusR_1Wlwzg22UM13RImCXLM9fRjMEAJb8WEJ2zFSqyGrOPEKXGfmbcATtZ-jXiUfL34Q2oEsOHbg01cYme7QuvEdGXALhgo6C6OwEAP5QC5rMWCtBkl63/s400/double%20features%201.jpg"/></a></div>
I'm 62 but the era of the double feature — at least in that part of the country where I grew up — was long past by the time I was old enough to take myself to the movies. Probably the only double feature I've ever seen that was exhibited as a double feature was <i>Duck Soup</i> and <i>A Night at the Opera</i> and that was at the student center at Vanderbilt more than forty years ago. I mean seriously, who shows double features anymore?<br /><br />
<b>21) Favo[r]ite Phil Karlson film?</b><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLGkCpVRsVf3eENVqlHWw_zuVLj729elHMaLmvJKKlpqiDLak2tuuoLbH5KOfZkJ8Lm4Bph4OwOLrq2mlHvpKlwiDSv-Ee6j-A2yz04Jxp-zzqFkgX_53OZRrxwkmvG79egsKX1VrCogYgxC2o57flLjZoIo08TfR7eHbzkkTVFOHyvTYb1krFDqVQzzce/s640/phil%20karlson1.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="400" data-original-height="278" data-original-width="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLGkCpVRsVf3eENVqlHWw_zuVLj729elHMaLmvJKKlpqiDLak2tuuoLbH5KOfZkJ8Lm4Bph4OwOLrq2mlHvpKlwiDSv-Ee6j-A2yz04Jxp-zzqFkgX_53OZRrxwkmvG79egsKX1VrCogYgxC2o57flLjZoIo08TfR7eHbzkkTVFOHyvTYb1krFDqVQzzce/s400/phil%20karlson1.jpg"/></a></div>
I was going to say I'd never heard of Phil Karlson but I looked him up and it turns out he directed a number of movies I've seen, including <i>The Phenix City Story</i> (and yes, I spelled that correctly) — a true crime film noir from 1955 about corruption in a small Alabama town on the Georgia border about 45 minutes from Auburn. Good movie, filmed on location under difficult circumstances.<br /><br />
Karlson also directed the classic noir <i>Kansas City Confidential</i> as well as 1973's <i>Walking Tall</i>, another true crime drama about a crusading Tennessee sheriff (played by the wonderful Joe Don Baker).<br /><br />
I recommend them all.<br /><br />
<b>22) Favorite "social problem" picture?</b><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwTQS8ojFMJMe5ZrDccRCJ7Frh7Ban3rlPsjh59TKrEFOHFT-OP8_VrI9c99zkqoZb93rxatE7P4aqcygE9a1stbd4_y8VrXeO5Ka8GJC3Xrr9WND9sebfR3Ez6BmCaxyxNgdqfm6VCp9SbCF5O0_xm324qLW6T9S3ZZo8Sw4SdLmsXydM3706Z9gKBZvG/s1024/apollo%2013%20houston%20we%20have%20a%20problem%201.webp" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="400" data-original-height="535" data-original-width="1024" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwTQS8ojFMJMe5ZrDccRCJ7Frh7Ban3rlPsjh59TKrEFOHFT-OP8_VrI9c99zkqoZb93rxatE7P4aqcygE9a1stbd4_y8VrXeO5Ka8GJC3Xrr9WND9sebfR3Ez6BmCaxyxNgdqfm6VCp9SbCF5O0_xm324qLW6T9S3ZZo8Sw4SdLmsXydM3706Z9gKBZvG/s400/apollo%2013%20houston%20we%20have%20a%20problem%201.webp"/></a></div>
Wikipedia defines a social problem picture as "a narrative film that integrates a larger social conflict into the individual conflict between its characters."<br /><br />
This sort of thing in its pure form almost always bores me stiff (think of those old After School Specials or Stanley Kramer at his preachy-est) but there are a few notable exceptions (assuming the ever-reliable Wikipedia is correct in asserting these are social problem pictures): <i>I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang</i>, <i>Modern Times</i>, <i>The Grapes of Wrath</i>, <i>The Best Years of Our Lives</i>, <i>The 400 Blows</i>.<br /><br />
Personally, I don't think of any of those as "social problem" pictures ... but if they are, boy, are they great!<br /><br />
<b>23) Your favourite Harryhausen film/monster? (Ali Arikan)</b><br /><br />
The skeleton soldiers in <i>Jason and the Argonauts</i>, far and away the best Ray Harryhausen monsters in the best Ray Harryhausen movie.<br /><br />
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<b>24) What was the first movie you saw with your significant other? (Patrick Robbins)</b><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKIwUpQW1HCbhjQoSoRCc1-AT855aWm6S0L5HLp1bOyBaM-I_KsLFjgXIwa2Z5uX2AaM0MI01CP2Ears0r1OncFGEtMuXiLYWi22B-y6GaxQxEoyvu988PF2u6GIjMzvT2E-bJ91BelJU05I6uDSf7Z_PvJDwEObZMc_4fdoOCjTR7OZiU9OJ5OyeBor6I/s747/significant%20other%201.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" height="400" data-original-height="747" data-original-width="572" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKIwUpQW1HCbhjQoSoRCc1-AT855aWm6S0L5HLp1bOyBaM-I_KsLFjgXIwa2Z5uX2AaM0MI01CP2Ears0r1OncFGEtMuXiLYWi22B-y6GaxQxEoyvu988PF2u6GIjMzvT2E-bJ91BelJU05I6uDSf7Z_PvJDwEObZMc_4fdoOCjTR7OZiU9OJ5OyeBor6I/s400/significant%20other%201.jpg"/></a></div>
Back in college when we were colleagues on the school paper, Katie-bar-the-door and I were in the same theater but not sitting together for <i>The Wrath of Khan</i> and <i>The Rocky Horror Picture Show</i>.<br /><br />
The first we saw together side-by-side, just the two of us, was 1985's <i>Witness</i>, the very good Harrison Ford cop thriller romance (which still holds up, by the way). That was two years before we were dating.<br /><br />
The first as a couple was <i>Animal Crackers</i> on video tape in her apartment. She fell in the floor (literally) laughing at the Groucho Marx line "Signor Ravelli's first selection will be 'Somewhere My Love Lies Sleeping' with a male chorus." Not so much because the line is inherently that funny but because I had to repeat it three times before she caught the double entendre. And that from the quickest witted woman I've ever had the pleasure of knowing.<br /><br />
<b>25) John Payne or Ronald Reagan?</b><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicvOzr42OG9rVbW9X7C6i_4p1g0J7HDCCsHMTMY7C3pmuTfFanbPQgI9Bjf_w7VyOoCnxkEOCXSVCJfBrPvgswgmO34s1wbHjWVm6K-vCZZvdkX8Hc7LHc4nyB2CaCklVd7k76UAH6fP6y49AWAgOzdJxUVK1jNRmgi4NwxkSro4ThvGk5GPr5dGeVdiSm/s1200/john%20payne%20edmund%20gwenn%20miracle%20on%2034th%20street%202.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="400" data-original-height="630" data-original-width="1200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicvOzr42OG9rVbW9X7C6i_4p1g0J7HDCCsHMTMY7C3pmuTfFanbPQgI9Bjf_w7VyOoCnxkEOCXSVCJfBrPvgswgmO34s1wbHjWVm6K-vCZZvdkX8Hc7LHc4nyB2CaCklVd7k76UAH6fP6y49AWAgOzdJxUVK1jNRmgi4NwxkSro4ThvGk5GPr5dGeVdiSm/s400/john%20payne%20edmund%20gwenn%20miracle%20on%2034th%20street%202.jpg"/></a></div>
I'm assuming we mean as actors because unless I fell asleep in a history class somewhere, John Payne was never president of these here United States.<br /><br />
That said, while I think Reagan is a bit underrated as an actor (see <i>Kings Row</i> and 1964's <i>The Killers</i>), only one of them made a movie I go out of my way to see every year — John Payne in <i>Miracle on 34th Street</i>. Payne plays the idealistic young lawyer determined to prove that Kris Kringle (Edmund Gwenn) is the one and only Santa Claus.<br /><br />
Payne was also very good in the noir classic <i>Kansas City Confidential</i> and had a supporting role in the 1946 version of <i>The Razor's Edge</i> based on my favorite Somerset Maugham novel of the same name.<br /><br />
<b>26) Movie you feel a certain pressure or obligation to see that you have not yet actually seen </b><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGPda6DXHtlmfcDYnvwYfOFEvwxjcJoWkQ1v6QG4spWuZNxPslvsttHHONPDXa1xM4aFAlPYUtJpxNHGZXae8WEU3uulzh7KpG21aAz7m6dsrfemIXjXMvc8tZGQH_42x0qJyeLrr0owg6emfoRqZ1Cp3XxsHWrAwh867-a93-87MLVu2yDL4XZu9xM18-/s1500/roma%20movie%20poster%201.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" height="400" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1013" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGPda6DXHtlmfcDYnvwYfOFEvwxjcJoWkQ1v6QG4spWuZNxPslvsttHHONPDXa1xM4aFAlPYUtJpxNHGZXae8WEU3uulzh7KpG21aAz7m6dsrfemIXjXMvc8tZGQH_42x0qJyeLrr0owg6emfoRqZ1Cp3XxsHWrAwh867-a93-87MLVu2yDL4XZu9xM18-/s400/roma%20movie%20poster%201.jpg"/></a></div>
Eventually I'm going to get to 2018 in my alternate Oscars polls. I still haven't seen <i>Roma</i>. I should probably get around to it at some point. Problem is, I don't wanna ...<br /><br />
<b>27) Favorite "psychedelic" movie (Hey, man, like, define it however you want, man…)</b><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjAyEXKGQyub4w6J_IaT3NUoWLRqlfuJjAluwPHGSOFehYfvya-dZlZlRbPqLw51nqVd1dOL-lrcem3KrPdc0Z0aftUV2-KhDX8YfiEsN5BEG-eTyeG2Y7tlDoxknHDBs-0stK0wE88LXF8JXZpnlWxAHzpLMjh7RO667MtQh3Gmf5zV9GD8e1_X69wlts/s3220/yellow%20submarine%20movie%20poster%206.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" height="400" data-original-height="3220" data-original-width="2101" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjAyEXKGQyub4w6J_IaT3NUoWLRqlfuJjAluwPHGSOFehYfvya-dZlZlRbPqLw51nqVd1dOL-lrcem3KrPdc0Z0aftUV2-KhDX8YfiEsN5BEG-eTyeG2Y7tlDoxknHDBs-0stK0wE88LXF8JXZpnlWxAHzpLMjh7RO667MtQh3Gmf5zV9GD8e1_X69wlts/s400/yellow%20submarine%20movie%20poster%206.jpg"/></a></div>
<i>Yellow Submarine</i>. The overly-long wormhole sequence at the end of <i>2001: A Space Odyssey</i> was regarded as a psychedelic experience by the stoned hippies who saw it in 1968, but <i>Yellow Submarine</i> was designed as psychedelia (in the British sense of harkening back to the Edwardian era in a colorful and poetic way) based on the music of the masters of British psychedelia, the Beatles. A wonderful movie. Highly recommended.<br /><br />
<b>28) Thelma Ritter or Eve Arden?</b><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdP1dPzNotugTnta-BDG2WNP008Nf3aIWCMAovyi95cPkAd2MM-ga4qH4HwZul0YX8MmrMg3DJfqPT42ttOjlGbRlwt0SVmxa6WI2i0OPiu-YZB4xfPLGli-vMZRNLJhwpHXc28o0YFXAxizyQmgC9hy2TsAyCFM85fdX0nVexMEBgqapMlhxl1hRlR-J_/s678/thelma%20ritter%20eve%20arden%201.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="400" data-original-height="438" data-original-width="678" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdP1dPzNotugTnta-BDG2WNP008Nf3aIWCMAovyi95cPkAd2MM-ga4qH4HwZul0YX8MmrMg3DJfqPT42ttOjlGbRlwt0SVmxa6WI2i0OPiu-YZB4xfPLGli-vMZRNLJhwpHXc28o0YFXAxizyQmgC9hy2TsAyCFM85fdX0nVexMEBgqapMlhxl1hRlR-J_/s400/thelma%20ritter%20eve%20arden%201.jpg"/></a></div>
Boy, this is a tough one. I love them both, a pair of acid-tongued broads, one old and crusty, the other young and sassy. If you're going to see one Thelma Ritter picture, watch <i>Rear Window</i>. One Eve Arden movie? <i>Mildred Pierce</i>. They're both wonderful. I refuse to choose between them.<br /><br />
<b>29) Favorite iconic shot or image from a film?</b><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYWnNx4Nzmofr8VSVzFAkLg9m4doV4yZwEXvbfwvcVdJ-U5mxB2aSJatT7h2XCqS9eK5fMEmXwVBaZXu75v1OUPQvEFjDH28FhNYD1iCGjjp6xhLvwsLfOESxhkdxiMCvbjN1-O-1lEI4uMFlhxJvXQWtVosIVaCdPDYAevZOof6qQhMLlsxPU6B0r07bp/s1322/AFI%20game%201.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="400" data-original-height="788" data-original-width="1322" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYWnNx4Nzmofr8VSVzFAkLg9m4doV4yZwEXvbfwvcVdJ-U5mxB2aSJatT7h2XCqS9eK5fMEmXwVBaZXu75v1OUPQvEFjDH28FhNYD1iCGjjp6xhLvwsLfOESxhkdxiMCvbjN1-O-1lEI4uMFlhxJvXQWtVosIVaCdPDYAevZOof6qQhMLlsxPU6B0r07bp/s400/AFI%20game%201.jpg"/></a></div>
Just one? I could probably describe at least one iconic shot from every great movie I've ever seen. In fact, every day Katherine and I play a quiz from the American Film Institute where you guess the movie from a single frame.<br /><br />
<b>30) What is the movie that inspired the most memorable argument you ever had about a movie?</b><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6M-X6yWzltJhV_plc4OrfeiR_EQR7JU9BL7Dq3JWsYXBcREkhakowhc9IvfVWnB-4kcSmawbuFB0W1N7PcAGBQaNHAT73vUzGz3mkbxrQStJdZqBYEV3AlbnSY3n_9jD0exTBPEkW9GPa9sB_CmofnKCdfpofzLiFbahUgvOtVScGFRrBKc83pq5oSsgx/s902/a%20little%20princess%20movie%20poster%201.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" height="400" data-original-height="902" data-original-width="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6M-X6yWzltJhV_plc4OrfeiR_EQR7JU9BL7Dq3JWsYXBcREkhakowhc9IvfVWnB-4kcSmawbuFB0W1N7PcAGBQaNHAT73vUzGz3mkbxrQStJdZqBYEV3AlbnSY3n_9jD0exTBPEkW9GPa9sB_CmofnKCdfpofzLiFbahUgvOtVScGFRrBKc83pq5oSsgx/s400/a%20little%20princess%20movie%20poster%201.jpg"/></a></div>
The longest-running certainly ...<br /><br />
<i>A Little Princess</i> (the 1995 version directed by Alfonso Cuarón long before he won Oscars for directing <i>Gravity</i> and <i>Roma</i>). I wouldn't call it an argument. More of a simple difference in what Katie-bar-the-door and I brought to the theater when we saw the movie.<br /><br />
Do you know the story? A rich girl, Sara Crewe, is sent to boarding school while her widower father heads off to war. When he is listed as missing in action and the money dries up, the headmistress of the school turns on Sara, consigns her to the attic to live as a servant, and pretty much does everything but beat her with an iron rod.<br /><br />
Great stuff, my favorite Alfonso Cuarón movie.<br /><br />
Katherine loves the book by Frances Hodgson Burnett, grew up with it as a kid, read it many times. I didn't. None of the major versions of <i>A Little Princess</i> (1917 with Mary Pickford, 1939 with Shirley Temple, the 1995 version) follow the book ... in which [SPOILER ALERT] the father is actually dead (!), an outcome I contend is unfilmable in a 90-minute children's movie. Katherine doesn't disagree but nevertheless ... <i>it's not the book!</i><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdOXbS8oCMduP5is2qmBK_oPqyL6YyQ-8UNf5OTP3r8PtqSBItlpcPTcas1tMIL815EgbA96iKmHX__PldbL7IxFviE6kixAC6j-1Eht21du8bDeuOi4UtAsf6EtYkBsyHX16V5GCKXbdKut0JK6XFSrcZfvISn_jIhGhm8aAWxSFrU2QzxtciujfQZMeY/s2272/love%20birds.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="400" data-original-height="1704" data-original-width="2272" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdOXbS8oCMduP5is2qmBK_oPqyL6YyQ-8UNf5OTP3r8PtqSBItlpcPTcas1tMIL815EgbA96iKmHX__PldbL7IxFviE6kixAC6j-1Eht21du8bDeuOi4UtAsf6EtYkBsyHX16V5GCKXbdKut0JK6XFSrcZfvISn_jIhGhm8aAWxSFrU2QzxtciujfQZMeY/s400/love%20birds.jpg"/></a></div>
No blood was spilled, no harsh words spoken and we quickly reached a respectful impasse. But we'll never see eye-to-eye.<br /><br />
And let me tell you, if after 34 years of marriage this is our biggest point of contention, we're doing pretty well.<br /><br />
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<b>31) Raquel Torres or Lupe Velez?</b><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEdS30Ix-kqV7M_VLF_YaTzN588Ub5km8dkfmHpXYLja8EhLl5HEA5KRofhtsQjTA_ZLCy2V14Qr1zU5e3v6AriLjISgTbv-zKWpi6qTNmilMU0ZC_BvwYUUSzbvkUl4Y-a9c3gAwJYQ0ma7i4_jlyS_Z1XJv3f9rx2nL_K-z0C5pGplP2Dl3EW08okA8z/s700/raquel%20torres%20lupe%20velez%201.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="400" data-original-height="496" data-original-width="700" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEdS30Ix-kqV7M_VLF_YaTzN588Ub5km8dkfmHpXYLja8EhLl5HEA5KRofhtsQjTA_ZLCy2V14Qr1zU5e3v6AriLjISgTbv-zKWpi6qTNmilMU0ZC_BvwYUUSzbvkUl4Y-a9c3gAwJYQ0ma7i4_jlyS_Z1XJv3f9rx2nL_K-z0C5pGplP2Dl3EW08okA8z/s400/raquel%20torres%20lupe%20velez%201.jpg"/></a></div>
A pair of Mexican actresses who had brief Hollywood careers in the 1930s.<br /><br />
Raquel Torres was in the Marx Brothers movie <i>Duck Soup</i>. Groucho says to her, "I could dance with you until the cows came home. On second thought, I'd rather dance with the cows until you came home."<br /><br />
Lupe Vélez was known as "the Mexican Spitfire." She starred with Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. in <i>The Gaucho</i>; sang on Broadway for Florenz Ziegfeld; and found success in a series of comedies playing a fish-out-of-water in stuffy American society. She died of an intentional overdose of barbiturates at the age of thirty-six.<br /><br />
Beyond what I've just told you, I really don't know much about them. But I'd sure like to see those <i>Mexican Spitfire</i> movies ...<br /><br />
<b>32) Favorite adaptation of Shakespeare to a film?</b><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi0RDJQctCGRF7G1z5ePUbZb5dArv2OHzFBURamxa2rSzCMVBfE8QffyIlVPbfMzyq2CJUnfZDVZT1UKqrsPnbWHhD7eU4o9Ko1MqcTSB2rnO6qhMOXPvK-wABrnZhLnvgtAWTkjFwD0Igdh4rmzUp7iru8yDc0K8tVm15hw5ddz-knj87apQNQShS06tD/s700/henry%20v%20much%20ado%20about%20nothing%201.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="400" data-original-height="496" data-original-width="700" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi0RDJQctCGRF7G1z5ePUbZb5dArv2OHzFBURamxa2rSzCMVBfE8QffyIlVPbfMzyq2CJUnfZDVZT1UKqrsPnbWHhD7eU4o9Ko1MqcTSB2rnO6qhMOXPvK-wABrnZhLnvgtAWTkjFwD0Igdh4rmzUp7iru8yDc0K8tVm15hw5ddz-knj87apQNQShS06tD/s400/henry%20v%20much%20ado%20about%20nothing%201.jpg"/></a></div>
Either Laurence Olivier's 1944 version of <i>Henry V</i> or Joss Whedon's modern-dress version of <i>Much Ado About Nothing</i> from 2012. The first is a rousing war picture (featuring the famous "band of brothers" speech), the second is a classic rom-com about a man and a woman whose intense mutual loathing can only mean that they're crazy about each other. I recommend both.<br /><br />
<b>33) Andy Warhol’s Frankenstein (in 3D) — yes or no?</b><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcBr-X_lts4ikd_ZrJROeS5gAma9o95tBevJCo3DsIizAm4-6hxoC5_ich91Lcyzgid_ngriiZ9l7gh2caQLM-qHfMN_BQSa1hrfFULj9300-LWzIEVt6XKJnk80Mel-iI_myquGDfASqXL8Ko1vqVX5W5woLw0OtWysBEt31Ow21d0pWgSV-Aj6xpnrQN/s3264/andy%20warhol%201.png" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="400" data-original-height="1702" data-original-width="3264" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcBr-X_lts4ikd_ZrJROeS5gAma9o95tBevJCo3DsIizAm4-6hxoC5_ich91Lcyzgid_ngriiZ9l7gh2caQLM-qHfMN_BQSa1hrfFULj9300-LWzIEVt6XKJnk80Mel-iI_myquGDfASqXL8Ko1vqVX5W5woLw0OtWysBEt31Ow21d0pWgSV-Aj6xpnrQN/s400/andy%20warhol%201.png"/></a></div>
I haven't seen it and don't intend to. I think Andy Warhol might be the most overrated artist in history, a hack of limited talent with a gift for self-promotion. But your mileage may vary.<br /><br />
<b>34) Favorite movie rating?</b><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcD0Wx_oZP9iJN5S_qpDzbt3RkA4QPFauDjFsprNKLZRJSBma5g45F9An24-8j76lMjqQPBIL2BBM1GnsgA5-aAvxjCooTEoKvYQHDJrCTNuAB3jTgLVzkUbmXdovXNKJPlXvB8-N2_qb6Eoxvedlyihl0i6SibjPYQ_3Hu3RMEFX4Kk-vHC2vW8T-Ds8w/s1024/m%20rating%201.png" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="400" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="1024" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcD0Wx_oZP9iJN5S_qpDzbt3RkA4QPFauDjFsprNKLZRJSBma5g45F9An24-8j76lMjqQPBIL2BBM1GnsgA5-aAvxjCooTEoKvYQHDJrCTNuAB3jTgLVzkUbmXdovXNKJPlXvB8-N2_qb6Eoxvedlyihl0i6SibjPYQ_3Hu3RMEFX4Kk-vHC2vW8T-Ds8w/s400/m%20rating%201.png"/></a></div>
M. Is anyone here old enough to remember when "M" (for mature) was a rating? It was later replaced by GP, then PG, then PG-13. Make up your mind!<br /><br />
<b>35) Olivia Barash or Joyce Hyser?</b><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8v4BDk5fhCIez4zKDPDaItSU3g3d915O2myGJUo2Ayb7VEnDMmID7QYJc9Dri1nbKI4PYmYKlM1tnkkRylOwJGY4REAcLstVjTL9hjlwxuavW-uX0bTSuc8MhpjkQhguSyrFPiJqiYW6hp22dmOPoB34Y_hKjJPprde8AyUicChWdO58Mzi4X9j0WRGbo/s498/tom%20hiddleston%20gif%201.gif" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="400" data-original-height="498" data-original-width="498" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8v4BDk5fhCIez4zKDPDaItSU3g3d915O2myGJUo2Ayb7VEnDMmID7QYJc9Dri1nbKI4PYmYKlM1tnkkRylOwJGY4REAcLstVjTL9hjlwxuavW-uX0bTSuc8MhpjkQhguSyrFPiJqiYW6hp22dmOPoB34Y_hKjJPprde8AyUicChWdO58Mzi4X9j0WRGbo/s400/tom%20hiddleston%20gif%201.gif"/></a></div>
A couple of supporting players on television in the 1970s/1980s. I've got nothing. Sorry.<br /><br />
<b>36) What was the movie that convinced you your favorite movie genre was your favorite movie genre?</b><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU_GLc02yiYZIqoscYqBZAMHXUyKNyIwx9rQTDZ7QSaC1TxTRHtEpGGnKb_9a6YkEMwhAlXjatU01gQdn-FSNK6oaYlmwAZSpTaJOTu88TRhV2UdU5FQkxU4ouQpxH3byAmQ0GwZqhEiW-LnooFpd01ljS5-ypV9EUGdhUzr3pmL3-bdQQiEsjkxQdD9G0/s3264/World%20Book%20Encyclopedia%20Year%20Book%201969.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="400" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU_GLc02yiYZIqoscYqBZAMHXUyKNyIwx9rQTDZ7QSaC1TxTRHtEpGGnKb_9a6YkEMwhAlXjatU01gQdn-FSNK6oaYlmwAZSpTaJOTu88TRhV2UdU5FQkxU4ouQpxH3byAmQ0GwZqhEiW-LnooFpd01ljS5-ypV9EUGdhUzr3pmL3-bdQQiEsjkxQdD9G0/s400/World%20Book%20Encyclopedia%20Year%20Book%201969.jpg"/></a></div>
What is my favorite genre. Hmm. Usually whatever is playing in front of me, provided it moves me, whether to laughter or tears doesn't really matter.<br /><br />
So if my favorite movie genre is the movies themselves, I would have to say seeing <i>2001: A Space Odyssey</i> in the theater in 1968 at the age of seven was the movie that put the hooks in me.<br /><br />
When the World Book Encyclopedia put out a long essay about movies a year later in its supplemental "Year Book," I was a goner. I wonder how many eight year olds were reading think-pieces about movies and the culture in 1969 ...<br /><br />
And yes, that's my copy of the 1969 World Book Encyclopedia Year Book.<br /><br />
<b>37) Favorite Blake Edwards movie?</b><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4NpryaBQfGiYNFt9iTFBRfZdDN0Zjxl4j85_VA6M7AE0gLrmqvLj0S1fLLN6zjVsT5StM6cTHTWq6tU2N9FAb6FUHZYiGj9xbnxYIXVH0vAJs7NuL9_5SiK2g_psSV3VV5eJbS82KGpWfHOIy296WxMkHl2GGOkSnMBTfzWefjsp4k5RwOfE1Q3FQsCkY/s1358/blake%20edwards%202.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" height="400" data-original-height="1358" data-original-width="1125" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4NpryaBQfGiYNFt9iTFBRfZdDN0Zjxl4j85_VA6M7AE0gLrmqvLj0S1fLLN6zjVsT5StM6cTHTWq6tU2N9FAb6FUHZYiGj9xbnxYIXVH0vAJs7NuL9_5SiK2g_psSV3VV5eJbS82KGpWfHOIy296WxMkHl2GGOkSnMBTfzWefjsp4k5RwOfE1Q3FQsCkY/s400/blake%20edwards%202.jpg"/></a></div>
<i>Victor/Victoria</i>, hands down. Julie Andrews sings, Robert Preston is hilarious, and James Garner is James Garner! One of my all-time favorites.<br /><br />
Okay, that's it. I don't know about you, but I certainly had fun.
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Having lived through 1984 in real time, I remember there being three obvious choices for the best picture award come Oscar time — <i>A Passage to India</i>, <i>The Killing Fields</i> and the eventual winner, <i>Amadeus</i>, which features a sublime film score by some guy named Mozart.<br />
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But for me, the best movies of the year were and still are a couple of offbeat low-budget indie films that have become part of the popular culture in a way the Oscar contenders have not.<br />
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<i>The Terminator</i> was James Cameron's low-budget sci-fi film about a spunky waitress and the robot sent back from the future to kill her. What at first blush looked like the makings of a cheesy B-picture thriller turned out to be a moving love story, a tautly-told action picture and an interesting think-piece.<br />
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It was also the beginning of a lucrative film franchise and featured a career-making turn for weightlifter-turned-actor Arnold Schwarzenegger, who was never better.<br />
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The other, <i>This is Spinal Tap</i>, was Rob Reiner's hilarious mockumentary about a fading heavy metal band. Not only is it choke-on-your-own-breath funny, it also spawned an entire genre, both Christopher Guest mockumentaries and such television shows as <i>The Office</i> and <i>Modern Family</i>.<br />
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Movies like these two classics never seem to win any awards, but they've won legions of loyal fans over the intervening decades. Count me among them.<br />
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My choices are noted with a ★. A tie is indicated with a ✪. Historical Oscar winners are noted with a ✔. Best foreign-language picture winners are noted with an <b>ƒ</b>. A historical winner who won in a different category is noted with a ✱.</span></span>Mythical Monkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11330587602682498820noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6924668268143757716.post-82370478727343846372023-12-23T18:00:00.002-05:002023-12-23T20:43:16.502-05:00Is Die Hard A Christmas Movie?<span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyOSb1glTVSqXYUmmf5luaXPQ0C3Usez91AzDLbSh1HMEF8cyqcs7ZNUUKT3n-XZiIIWPm0MpyuD3kV6HOQNdzhohi7rcbpLXIBfKlmGaclRIyIg6OEYAEVKYm-2jbNLRNGi8lf_vfKMmgP2TDfZggMDJBoXBOaMHS0fYjVzb7jYnemzu9YcgcQXbzFNak/s2904/die%20hard%20movie%20poster%205.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" height="400" data-original-height="2904" data-original-width="1904" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyOSb1glTVSqXYUmmf5luaXPQ0C3Usez91AzDLbSh1HMEF8cyqcs7ZNUUKT3n-XZiIIWPm0MpyuD3kV6HOQNdzhohi7rcbpLXIBfKlmGaclRIyIg6OEYAEVKYm-2jbNLRNGi8lf_vfKMmgP2TDfZggMDJBoXBOaMHS0fYjVzb7jYnemzu9YcgcQXbzFNak/s400/die%20hard%20movie%20poster%205.jpg"/></a></div>
Right up there with how many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Roll tootsie pop (between 144 and 1000 <a href="https://www.tootsie.com/core/files/tootsie/uploads/files/Bellarmine_University.pdf" target="_blank">according to science</a>, three per <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZtbCOpx8Sk" target="_blank">the wise ol' owl</a>), the longest running, most divisive debate in the American culture is: <i>Die Hard</i> — Christmas movie or not?<br />
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Easy answer: Of <i>course</i> it's a Christmas movie! Debate solved, we return you to your regularly scheduled program.<br />
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Look, stripped of the filigree, <i>Die Hard</i> is just <i>How The Grinch Stole Christmas</i>, only instead of the Grinch returning all the presents to the Who's down in Whoville, John McClane throws Hans Gruber off the Nakatomi Tower. What could be more Christmas than that? Because, you know, where three are gathered together for the holidays, somebody's gonna wanna throw somebody else off a really tall building.<br />
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Although to tell you the truth, for all its violence, <i>Die Hard</i> is more joyful than most Christmas tales, and if there's a good argument against it being a Christmas movie, that's it.<br />
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Christmas, more than any other holiday, tends toward the melancholy and bittersweet. Every version of a <i>Christmas Carol</i> centers on that consummate bastard Scrooge, <i>It's a Wonderful Life</i> is about suicide and despair, <i>Miracle on 34th Street</i> puts Santa Claus on trial for lunacy, Charlie Brown is depressed, Rudolph is ostracized, and the Grinch is, well, the very definition of a grinch.<br />
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Even the pure comedies involve a lot of angst: will Barbara Stanwyck lose her job, will Buddy the Elf find his dad, will Ralphie Parker shoot his eye out?<br />
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But then what can you expect when the original Christmas story is about a virgin who gives birth in a barn? We're dealing with a lot of [stuff], man!<br />
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My point, though, is that uh is that ... is that actually I don't know what my point is. I climbed aboard this train of thought without a ticket and no clear destination in mind and now I'm parked on a siding with no idea where I am or how I got here. Well, it's not the first time and it surely won't be the last. (And don't call me Shirley!)<br />
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And now the dog is whining at me so I'll wrap this up by saying that wherever you are and whatever you're doing, I hope you're safe and warm and with the people you love. And now I've got to take the dog out or I'm going to have a bigger problem than Christmas on my hands.<br /><br />A merry Christmas to all and to all a good night.<br />
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(Fun fact: Reginald VelJohnson who played John McClane's cop buddy Sgt. Al Powell in <i>Die Hard</i> plays the Ghost of Christmas Future in my favorite Hallmark Christmas movie, the completely bonkers <i>Ghosts of Christmas Always</i>, about three ghosts who successfully scrooge some poor schmuck only to discover they scrooged the wrong guy. If you haven't seen it, check it out.)<br />
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My choices are noted with a ★. A tie is indicated with a ✪. Historical Oscar winners are noted with a ✔. Best foreign-language picture winners are noted with an <b>ƒ</b>. A historical winner who won in a different category is noted with a ✱.</span></span>Mythical Monkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11330587602682498820noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6924668268143757716.post-724819336032538732023-12-17T09:00:00.000-05:002023-12-17T09:17:21.852-05:001982 Alternate Oscars<span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">
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Is Meryl Streep in <i>Sophie's Choice</i> my favorite performance of 1982?<br /><br />Uh, no, that would be Julie Andrews in <i>Victor/Victoria</i>, which along with <i>Mary Poppins</i>, <i>The Sound of Music</i> and <i>The Americanization of Emily</i> belongs on the Mount Rushmore of Dame Julie movies.<br /><br />But I've already voted Julie Andrews two alternate Oscars (and you've agreed with me), so I'm bypassing her for Streep's most iconic performance.<br /><br />Gotta give her one, right?<br />
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My votes for the five best action sequences in movie history would include (1) any of Buster Keaton's death-defying stunts in his Civil War classic, <i>The General</i>, but especially the train wreck scene, (2) the chariot race in the 1959 version of <i>Ben-Hur</i>, (3) the helicopter attack in <i>Apocalypse Now</i>, (4) the Omaha Beach sequence of <i>Saving Private Ryan</i>, and (5) every minute of <i>Raiders of the Lost Ark</i>, my pick for the best picture of 1981.<br />
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I voted for <i>Raging Bull</i> as the year's best picture (along with actor and director) which is not exactly the same as saying I enjoy watching it. Just between me and thee, the ratio of times I've watched <i>The Blues Brothers</i>, <i>Airplane!</i> and <i>Caddyshack</i> to times I've watched <i>Raging Bull</i> is roughly infinity to one.<br />
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As portraits of unlovable losers go, <i>Raging Bull</i> is without peer. Real-life boxer Jake LaMotta (Robert De Niro) did exactly one thing well — beat people up — and he parlayed that into a spectacular career in the ring. That this talent for uncontrolled rage proved to be a liability in every other walk of life came as a complete surprise to no one but himself.<br />
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Which makes him a pitiable figure, maybe even a tragic one, and director Martin Scorsese makes you feel in your bones LaMotta's desperation and humiliation as he careens from one self-inflicted disaster to another. It's absolutely top-notch filmmaking.<br />
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But, boy, is it hard to watch. I've <i>really</i> got to be in the mood ...<br />
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My choices are noted with a ★. A tie is indicated with a ✪. Historical Oscar winners are noted with a ✔. Best foreign-language picture winners are noted with an <b>ƒ</b>. A historical winner who won in a different category is noted with a ✱.</span></span>Mythical Monkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11330587602682498820noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6924668268143757716.post-5324774176761860182023-12-11T12:00:00.007-05:002023-12-11T12:37:18.360-05:001979 Alternate Oscars<span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">
I wrote <a href="https://mythicalmonkey.blogspot.com/2019/04/1979-alternate-oscars.html" target="_blank">this</a> nearly five years ago about the films of 1979:<br /><br />
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As I look at my list of movies from 1979, I find it interesting just how many of them — <i>Apocalypse Now</i>, <i>Manhattan</i>, <i>North Dallas Forty</i>, <i>All That Jazz</i>, even the robot in <i>Alien</i> — were about the destructive nature of what we now call toxic masculinity. So, of course, the Academy (always with a finger on the pulse of its own product) gave all the Oscars to the movie about toxic feminism, <i>Kramer vs. Kramer</i>. Pee-yew!<br />
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Okay, I exaggerate. But <i>Kramer vs. Kramer</i> is, at its heart, comfort food for men in need of reassurance when what they desperately needed was a cold, hard slap in the face.<br />
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To that I would add:<br />
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The story of a seventeen year old girl seduced by an older man could be a fine movie (see, e.g., 2009's <i>An Education</i>, starring Carey Mulligan and Peter Sarsgaard in the Mariel Hemingway and Woody Allen roles, respectively) <i>if</i> the movie knew that's what it was about. Which I'm 99% sure <i>Manhattan</i> doesn't. Which is perhaps why Woody Allen was horrified when he saw the first cut of it, begging the studio to bury it.<br />
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<a href="https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1979/08/16/letter-from-manhattan/" target="_blank">Joan Didion</a> saw through <i>Manhattan</i> immediately. That's why she was a genius. Me, it took a little longer.<br />
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These days I prefer Francis Ford Coppola's <i>Apocalypse Now</i> (the original theatrical release, not the bloated director's cut <i>Apocalypse Now Redux</i>). Based on Joseph Conrad's brilliant novella <i>Heart of Darkness</i>, this tale of the Vietnam War is a violent, funny, profane, and always exciting study of the dark underbelly of our best intentions.<br />
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I, too, love the smell of napalm in the morning, especially if it smells like waffles and bacon.<br />
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You might also try <i>Alien</i>, the sci-fi horror classic which introduced one the all-time great monster villains, as well as the greatest kickass heroine of movie history, Sigourney Weaver's Ripley.<br />
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Or how about a pair of my favorite comedies, Monty Python's irreverent satire of religion, <i>Life of Brian</i>, and the screwball odd couple comedy, <i>The In-Laws</i>. <a href="https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/4130-serpentine-serpentine-the-impeccable-madness-of-the-in-laws" target="_blank">Don't forget to serpentine!</a><br />
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But whatever you pick, you can't go wrong. It was a great year for movies!
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At the risk of distracting you from voting on the lastest Monkey movie poll (<a href="https://mythicalmonkey.blogspot.com/2023/12/1978-alternate-oscars.html" target="_blank">here</a>), I wanted to tell you to check out the Beatles online advent calendar at They May Be Parted, my favorite blog not just about the Beatles but about anything.<br />
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For those of you who don't know, They May Be Parted is devoted to blogging in chronological order what are known as "the Nagra Tapes" — i.e., the Get Back sessions that led to the Beatles' famous concert on the roof and eventually the <i>Let It Be</i> album. For those of you who, like me, feel like Peter Jackson's 9-hour documentary Get Back skimped on the details, this is the blog for you!<br />
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Starting today (<a href="https://theymaybeparted.com/2023/12/09/get-back-advent-calendar-countdown-to-the-sessions/" target="_blank">here</a>), the advent calendar counts down the 25 days to the beginning of the Get Back sessions (January 2, 1969). Check it out!
</span></span>Mythical Monkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11330587602682498820noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6924668268143757716.post-71573397707187714092023-12-08T12:00:00.006-05:002023-12-08T15:25:32.334-05:001978 Alternate Oscars<span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoSi7RcwVpVhQMZ_AqHG6BOmlGE9Fg1UfcCJ6qLXxsp7PBDLcTB-DdrydUyLrLRNT0t8i-hYYaay70jJDqbJa_T25vkFGnNT2OBVcVc1BHAAnlR91bRrp0vux4rb4p1uXFCBRiD4RE56QhkGviZA9JBNj1LnNj0dVYzda_A8vOWqBd3hbsRwTFUZTU_tII/s500/john%20belushi%20animal%20house%20gif%202.gif" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="400" data-original-height="215" data-original-width="500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoSi7RcwVpVhQMZ_AqHG6BOmlGE9Fg1UfcCJ6qLXxsp7PBDLcTB-DdrydUyLrLRNT0t8i-hYYaay70jJDqbJa_T25vkFGnNT2OBVcVc1BHAAnlR91bRrp0vux4rb4p1uXFCBRiD4RE56QhkGviZA9JBNj1LnNj0dVYzda_A8vOWqBd3hbsRwTFUZTU_tII/s400/john%20belushi%20animal%20house%20gif%202.gif"/></a></div>I tweaked some of the categories for the 1978 alternate Oscars which I originally posted two weeks before a surgeon cut me in half and stapled me back together again (with literal staples!). To say I had other things on my mind at the time would be a vast understatement ...<br />
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I'm doing fine by the way, thanks for asking. Closing in on five years of cancer-free living ...<br />
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Mythical Monkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11330587602682498820noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6924668268143757716.post-55219975619147014282023-11-26T12:00:00.008-05:002023-11-26T12:00:52.697-05:001977 Alternate Oscars<span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIfK7fdyShUVQ3JjWuo1-3fatZriP7z62ApfYY5825AOF0Jz1RsE3CScZflidaTg_3P0m9S64VPPaUCCcO75c3NpLiKhfKsjRkguwATZVj5O2CNFG154e7gf-YqvVHhFv8knpQU0Gx9NYa4EUlDobxpD9tWAEtVkDGncn9eyvg53ITW7GMIARsoGLIZQSq/s969/star%20wars%20movie%20poster%201.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" height="400" data-original-height="969" data-original-width="655" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIfK7fdyShUVQ3JjWuo1-3fatZriP7z62ApfYY5825AOF0Jz1RsE3CScZflidaTg_3P0m9S64VPPaUCCcO75c3NpLiKhfKsjRkguwATZVj5O2CNFG154e7gf-YqvVHhFv8knpQU0Gx9NYa4EUlDobxpD9tWAEtVkDGncn9eyvg53ITW7GMIARsoGLIZQSq/s400/star%20wars%20movie%20poster%201.jpg"/></a></div>I'm told the kids today have never seen the original theatrical version of what in my youth was known simply as <i>Star Wars</i>.<br />
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In case you don't remember <i>Star Wars</i>, that was the out-of-nowhere surprise indy hit of 1977 that knocked the movie world on its ear, launching a thousand movie franchises and driving the final nail in the coffin of what Quentin Tarantino refers to as hippie auteur cinema. I myself haven't missed the likes of Bob Rafelson and Paul Mazursky but I sure do miss the original cut of <i>Star Wars</i>.<br />
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<i>Han shot first!</i> And if you're under thirty and don't know what that means, I weep for you. Trying to describe the impact of that version of the movie in 1977 is like trying to describe filet mignon to somebody who's only ever eaten Soylent Green.<br />
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(If you're over thirty and don't know what I'm talking about, consider yourself lucky.)<br />
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THE ORIGINAL SCENE:<br />
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AND GEORGE LUCAS'S MULTIPLE RE-EDITS:<br />
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Raymond Chandler wrote in his introduction to <i>Trouble Is My Business</i>: "There are things in my stories which I might like to change or leave out altogether. To do this may look simple, but if you try, you find you cannot do it at all. You will only destroy what is good without having any noticeable effect on what is bad. You cannot recapture the mood, the state of innocence, much less the animal gusto you had when you had very little else."<br />
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George Lucas didn't get the memo ...<br />
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I think the consensus pick for best drama of 1976 is <i>Taxi Driver</i>, Martin Scorsese's classic tale of a violent, paranoid loner who's spent far too long with the himself as the hero of the movie playing in his head. I recognize its importance in film history, and I have chosen its star, Robert De Niro, as the year's best actor, but just between you and me, I've always had a bit of trouble connecting with it. Maybe I'm not supposed to.<br />
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Another good pick would be <i>All The President's Men</i>, a really nifty mystery about Nixon, Watergate, and the two intrepid reporters, Woodward and Bernstein, who blew the lid off the biggest political scandal of my lifetime (well, until the neverending scandal that is Donald Trump arrived on the scene. I mean, the man single-handedly tanked the USFL in 1986, a disaster that would have croaked most careers. But does anybody care? Apparently not ...). And given that I met Katie-Bar-The-Door while working for the college newspaper, not to mention that I worked for years in downtown Washington, D.C., <i>All The President's Men</i> really resonates for me on a personal level.<br />
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And then there's <i>Rocky</i>, which won the Oscar and sold a lot of tickets and which might have a better reputation today if Sylvester Stallone had taken an early retirement.<br />
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Or how about <i>Network</i>, a scathing look at television and our obsession with celebrity and novelty which was considered pretty far out back in the day but which plays more like a documentary now.<br />
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But I'm going with <i>The Outlaw Josey Wales</i>, Clint Eastwood's post-Civil War tale of a Southern guerilla fighter who refuses to be re-assimilated into society only to find himself playing caretaker to a motley assortment of losers and underdogs, and rediscovering his humanity in the process.<br />
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Orson Welles had this to say about it: "When I saw that picture for the fourth time, I realized that it belongs with the great Westerns. You know, the great Westerns of Ford and Hawks and people like that." It's full of action, yes, and at first seems like it's going to be a re-run of the Man With No Name spaghetti westerns, but it unexpectedly turns warm and funny and finally quite touching. Personally, I like it better than <i>Unforgiven</i> which won the Oscar and tons of praise as a revisionist Western. This one, which I came to late during my taping frenzy of the mid-90s, is plenty revisionist for me.<br />
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I know, I know, <i>Josey Wales</i> is not a consensus pick at all — what pollsters these days would call an "outlier" — and normally, I value consensus above nearly everything. But I'm sticking with it.<br />
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I've seen <i>Jeanne Dielman</i> and I've gotta tell you, its appeal mystifies me. But if by some miracle it really is the best movie ever made, then Delphine Seyrig definitely deserves the Oscar for best actress because she's on screen every single minute — the movie lives or dies on her performance.<br />
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Me, I'm going with Ann-Margret in <i>Tommy</i>. I can't say with 100% confidence that it's the best performance of 1975 but she had a great career, was a wonderful singer-dancer and deserves some kind of award for letting that lunatic of a director, Ken Russell, hose her down with a swimming pool's worth of Heinz baked beans.<br />
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As always, though, the choice is yours.<br />
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The mystery (centered on a real-life scheme to profit from L.A.'s water rights) is labyrinthine; the payoff, legendary. And personally, I think this, rather than <i>One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest</i>, is Jack Nicholson's best performance.<br />
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Too often people associate the word "masterpiece" with the spinach your tenth grade English teacher made you eat. <i>Chinatown</i> is a masterpiece in the <i>best</i> sense of the word — enthralling, thrilling, moving, and yes, even occasionally thought-provoking. Highly recommended.<br />
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Of course, now the end of <i>The Sting</i> is predictable and the nihilism of postwar noir feels fresh. These things run in cycles.<br />
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But here at the Monkey, we base our nominations not on billing or fame or wishful thinking but on what showed up on the screen. And anyone who has ever seen <i>The Godfather</i> knows that Al Pacino — a virtual unknown in 1972 — was the star of the show. So he gets the nod for best actor and Brando, who will no doubt decline the award anyway, is dropped to the supporting actor category where he belongs.<br />
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My choices are noted with a ★. A tie is indicated with a ✪. Historical Oscar winners are noted with a ✔. Best foreign-language picture winners are noted with an <b>ƒ</b>. A historical winner who won in a different category is noted with a ✱.</span></span> Mythical Monkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11330587602682498820noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6924668268143757716.post-29753512267549150652023-10-07T09:00:00.147-04:002023-10-07T09:00:00.146-04:001971 Alternate Oscars<span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYMEUp_g8NC4VrH-lAtNrEw6vkmIUSCY9dY_oJgFzug30kykiBYixPLHY_vUKnl2ECyLLQwMrZopmsXSB_C21ebtDFqeflC1HSJf0cCDZP6_PPbzquh7VBKQSE1bDZb775s51KzHHvwdp8JtIKHN8qrOQjdDnIzcODCtclpznpB9SRZcX3AjhqD2iQZXuV/s719/malcolm%20mcdowell%20a%20clockwork%20orange%202.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="400" data-original-height="430" data-original-width="719" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYMEUp_g8NC4VrH-lAtNrEw6vkmIUSCY9dY_oJgFzug30kykiBYixPLHY_vUKnl2ECyLLQwMrZopmsXSB_C21ebtDFqeflC1HSJf0cCDZP6_PPbzquh7VBKQSE1bDZb775s51KzHHvwdp8JtIKHN8qrOQjdDnIzcODCtclpznpB9SRZcX3AjhqD2iQZXuV/s400/malcolm%20mcdowell%20a%20clockwork%20orange%202.jpg"/></a></div>I know some of you are big fans of <i>A Clockwork Orange</i>. <a href="https://mythicalmonkey.blogspot.com/2023/09/sergio-leone-and-infield-fly-rule.html" target="_blank">I wish I shared your enthusiasm.</a><br />
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It's not that the film expects me to root for an empty-headed sociopath like Alex (Malcolm McDowell) or that I object to the film's muddled message — that in a free society, individual liberty should trump collective responsibility even when the individual in question is cheerfully guilty of rape and murder — it's the film's slack narrative pace. Somehow Stanley Kubrick has stuffed three hours of boredom into a two hour package. I never fail to check my watch, something you should never feel the need to do when watching a movie.<br />
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And this from a guy who thinks <i>2001: A Space Odyssey</i> — a virtually silent film that moves so slowly, it practically runs in reverse — is one of the most exciting movies ever made.<br />
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As <a href="https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/a-clockwork-orange-1972" target="_blank">Roger Ebert wrote</a> in panning <i>A Clockwork Orange</i> during its original run, the film commits an "unforgivable, artistic sin. It is just plain talky and boring. You know there's something wrong with a movie when the last third feels like the last half."<br />
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But maybe that's just him and me.<br />
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Far and away director Peter Bogdanovich's best work. Stars Jeff Bridges, Ellen Burstyn, Eileen Brennan, Cybill Shepherd, Timothy Bottoms. Features Oscar-winning turns by Ben Johnson and Cloris Leachman. Great movie, highly recommended.<br />
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Finally, I also want to mention the Academy's choice for best picture, <i>The French Connection</i>. It's the story of Popeye Doyle (Gene Hackman), a deeply-flawed cop obsessed with nailing a dapper French importer of high-grade heroin (played, thanks to a famous casting blunder, by Fernando Rey, a Spanish actor who spoke no French).<br />
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It's a good movie and boasts Hackman's most iconic performance, but if you haven't seen it (or haven't seen it lately), I strongly urge you to skip the version of it currently streaming within U.S. borders. The film's owner, Disney, is only showing a <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/the-french-connection-disney-criterion-b2353180.html" target="_blank">censored copy</a> (even on the Criterion Channel!) excising a scene establishing Popeye's undeniable racism.<br />
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I suggest you get thee hither to your local library and check out an old-school Blu-ray or even older school DVD. If your town still has a library, that is. The Puritans are everywhere — and they're coming for you!<br />
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I don't know anybody over the age of fifty who isn't a little startled, dismayed and embarrassed to realize that the upward trajectory of the life that they so took for granted in their youth has nosed over and is now on a permanent downward spiral toward the grave. For Pike Bishop (William Holden), the aging leader of a gang of Old West desperados, it's not just that he no longer understands the world that has changed around him; it's the realization that even if he <i>did</i> understand it, he no longer has the energy, stamina or reflexes to do anything about it.<br /><br />But as Dylan Thomas pointed out, there's more than one way to grow old: you can go quietly into the night, or you can rage, rage against the dying of the light.<br /><br />Pike chooses to rage. And oh how he rages.<br />
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At the AFI showing, the film's star, Keir Dullea, spoke, signed autographs, posed for pictures and chatted one-on-one with the audience.<br />
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When my moment to talk to Dullea rolled around, I skipped the usual question about the ending of <i>2001</i> and instead asked him what he thought of as his best work, the performances he hoped people would seek out.<br />
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He blinked and said, "Nobody's ever asked me that before!" And he gave it some thought and then really got into it. These are the four movies he recommended:<br />
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But, that said, if you're only going to watch one Keir Dullea movie in your life, it has to be <i>2001: A Space Odyssey</i>, right? The story of man's ascent from ape to god (with a timely assist from a mysterious monolith), <i>2001</i> is still the most beautiful, mind-blowing — and challenging — science fiction film ever made. And Keir Dullea is the calm eye at the center of this cinematic storm. Highly recommended, a film so iconic, Greta Gerwig spoofed it at the beginning of this year's smash hit <i>Barbie</i>.<br />
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My choices are noted with a ★. A tie is indicated with a ✪. Historical Oscar winners are noted with a ✔. Best foreign-language picture winners are noted with an <b>ƒ</b>. A historical winner who won in a different category is noted with a ✱.</span></span>Mythical Monkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11330587602682498820noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6924668268143757716.post-71386112566221374982023-09-29T07:00:00.011-04:002023-09-29T07:00:00.140-04:001967 Alternate Oscars<span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_8VA43eKfPN-Zn1CxAh0ChgiH1NLeltiZhfOkl-vTZJSVBq7tBdDFEjkUwEEDx8L-Lk15m_s1wXQ1yEvivY37Geejbxr-Dr1XgJ51rZ9yQ6YzcOurFqcq-Ci-PRzT3T-JJL852dCncnehENDfHNJzw-iPY4Gf5FpT7gyi9q9l1_sWam7q5YaPOpWDUcs3/s800/nostalgia%204.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="400" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="800" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_8VA43eKfPN-Zn1CxAh0ChgiH1NLeltiZhfOkl-vTZJSVBq7tBdDFEjkUwEEDx8L-Lk15m_s1wXQ1yEvivY37Geejbxr-Dr1XgJ51rZ9yQ6YzcOurFqcq-Ci-PRzT3T-JJL852dCncnehENDfHNJzw-iPY4Gf5FpT7gyi9q9l1_sWam7q5YaPOpWDUcs3/s400/nostalgia%204.jpg"/></a></div>Last week, in response to my alternate Oscar polls, my old law school roommate texted me to the effect that <i>they sure don't make movies like that anymore.</i> I'm translating for your benefit — his comment was earthier and far more succinct.<br />
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But I got to thinking about it and decided there's a lot of truth in them thar hills. The 1960s saw the demise of the studio system, the end of the production code (whereby filmmakers self-censored their product), the rise of the French then American New Wave directorial styles with their handheld cameras, improvised dialogue and, more to the point, explicit themes, as well as the drift away from classical Hollywood continuity editing. Tastes changed, mores changed.<br />
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Not to mention Hollywood's Mount Rushmore of postwar directors — Alfred Hitchcock, John Ford, Howard Hawks and Billy Wilder — all lost their way, artistically and commercially, in the mid-1960s, allowing a new crop of directors less beholden to the old ways (Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, etc) to take their place.<br />
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But to a degree, the notion that they don't make em like that anymore is also an illusion. Sturgeon's Law states that "90% of everything is crap" and believe me, if Turner Classic Movies with its deep-dives into the past has proved anything, Hollywood made more than their fair share of lousy movies back in the day.<br />
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No point beyond that. Just (1) they don't make em like that anymore, but (2) keep your eyes peeled and your mind open for the good ones they do make.<br />
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