1) Classic film you most want to experience that has so far eluded you.
If this is in reference to any classic films I just haven't got around to yet, well, there are just too many to name. Most of Eric Rohmer's filmography, Alain Resnais' Last Year at Marienbad, many film noir classics. If instead this is to be taken as a classic film loved by critics and audiences that I haven't enjoyed nearly as much, then I'd have to say Stayajit Ray's Pather Panchali. I watched this very recently and enjoyed its humble slice of life India, but I thought the heaviness toward the end of the film was just too much.
2) Greatest Criterion DVD/Blu-ray release ever
Either Jean-Pierre Melville's Army of Shadows, because the film is so great and it had some great extras; or their "Eisenstein: The Sound Years", featuring Ivan the Terrible, Parts 1 and 2 and Alexander Nevsky. 2 of the most visually arresting films ever made from one of the greatest of all directors, all packed into one, cool looking box? It's almost too much
3) The Big Sleep or The Maltese Falcon?
The Big Sleep is the better novel, but The Maltese Falcon wins the movie battle. Marlowe is funnier than Spade.
4) Jason Bateman or Paul Rudd?
Both are so funny. Both appear in some terrible films. Rudd was in Knocked Up, Clueless, and a surprise guest appearance in "Veronica Mars." The guy knows what's up.
5) Best mother/child (male or female) movie star combo
Ummmm.... Goldie Hawn and Kate Hudson. Am I right, or what?
6) Who are the Robert Mitchums and Ida Lupinos among working movie actors? Do modern parallels to such masculine and no-nonsense feminine stars even exist? If not, why not?
I'm not the film historian it takes to explain why, but they definitely do not exist today.
7) Favorite Preston Sturges movie
The Lady Eve. Sullivan's Travels is a close second.
8) Odette Yustman or Mary Elizabeth Winstead?
Winstead is just so darn purdy.
9) Is there a movie that if you found out a partner or love interest loved (or didn't love) would qualify as a Relationship Deal Breaker?
Personally, I believe we're all entitled to our own opinions, and whether someone is a good person or not does not, in any way, hinge on whether or not they like In The Mood for Love or not. Not all of my girlfriends have felt the same way....
10) Favorite DVD commentary
This might be a surprising pick, but I love Joe Wright's thoughts on his own Pride and Prejudice. He openly criticizes his flawed film, acknowledging choices that would have helped the film, and bringing a wonderful sense of humor to the proceedings that makes it incredibly enjoyable.
11) Movies most recently seen on DVD, Blu-ray and theatrically
DVD - Anthony Asquith and Leslie Howard's Pygmalion; Blu-ray - Friday the 13th; Theatically - Winter's Bone.
12) Dirk Bogarde or Alan Bates?
Bates
13) Favorite DVD extra
Usually anything on a Criterion disc.
14) Brian De Palma’s Scarface— yes or no?
Holy fucking God, no.
15) Best comic moment from a horror film that is not a horror comedy (Young Frankenstein, Love At First Bite, et al.)
Anytime Jackie Earle Hailey says anything in The Nightmare on Elm Street remake.
16) Jane Birkin or Edwige Fenech?
Gotta go with Jane Birkin here. Not an easy decision.
17) Favorite Wong Kar-wai movie
In the Mood for Love. Always.
18) Best horrific moment from a comedy that is not a horror comedy
Anything Jackie Earle Hailey says in the Nightmare on Elm Street remake.
19) From 2010, a specific example of what movies are doing right…
Mother is the only perfectly told film I've seen this year, so not story. Inception and Scott Pilgrim vs. The World make a case for a new era of visual excellence.
20) Ryan Reynolds or Chris Evans?
Chris Evans showed some serious chops in Sunshine, and some crack comic abilities in Scott Pilgrim vs. The World.
21) Speculate about the future of online film writing. What’s next?
It will continue. It will become increasingly less knowledgeable and grammatically incorrect. Am I the future of film writing?
22) Roger Livesey or David Farrar?
Neither. Sorry.
23) Best father/child (male or female) movie star combo
Kirk and Michael Douglas
24) Favorite Freddie Francis movie (as Director)
25) Bringing Up Baby or The Awful Truth?
Bringing Up Baby
26) Tina Fey or Kristen Wiig?
Wiig is proving annoying on SNL. Fey wins.
27) Name a stylistically important director and the best film that would have never been made without his/her influence.
Hitchcock. In the Mood for Love.
28) Movie you’d most enjoy seeing remade and transplanted to a different culture (i.e. Yimou Zhang’s A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop.)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
29) Link to a picture/frame grab of a movie image that for you best illustrates bliss. Elaborate.
Speak of the devil....
There's a reason you see this so much.
I like to take out Ruffalo and put myself in his place.
30) With a tip of that hat to Glenn Kenny, think of a just-slightly-inadequate alternate title for a famous movie. (Examples from GK: Fan Fiction; Boudu Relieved From Cramping; The Mild Imprecation of the Cat People)
I'm no Glenn Kenny, or funny person, but I'll try. In the Mood for Sex. Neighborhood of God. Peeping John.
The END!
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