Say What? Over at Sergio Leone and the Infield Fly Rule , a "quiz" was announced, asking for your answers to a series of questions. I decided to add my two cents. What follows are the questions and my answers. If you are interested in participating, just head on over and post your questions/answers in the comment section, or if you have a blog, post to it and direct readers to the SLIFR site to see the other responses.
Here are my responses.
1) Second-favorite Stanley Kubrick film.
The Killing
2) Most significant/important/interesting trend in movies over the past decade, for good or evil.
Festival growth and more outlets for young filmakers.
3) Bronco Billy (Clint Eastwood) or Buffalo Bill Cody (Paul Newman)?
Cody
4) Best Film of 1949.
All The King's Men. A best film.
5) Joseph Tura (Jack Benny) or Oscar Jaffe (John Barrymore)?
Oscar, but close.
6) Has the hand-held shaky-cam directorial style become a visual cliché?
Y S
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7) What was the first foreign-language film you ever saw?
Yojimbo or Shoot the Piano Player...I think, but at the Bleeker Street for sure.
8) Charlie Chan (Warner Oland) or Mr. Moto (Peter Lorre)?
Lorre, but have more fun with the Chan series overall. And I leave the racial stereotyping to the time.
9) Favorite World War II drama (1950-1970).
Pork Chop Hill
10) Favorite animal movie star.
Bugs Bunny
11) Who or whatever is to blame, name an irresponsible moment in cinema.
Sanitizing death.
12) Best Film of 1969.
Easy Rider - saw it in the theater in 69 and it overwhelmed me. A best film.
13) Name the last movie you saw theatrically, and also on DVD or Blu-ray.
Public Enemies (theater), Sita Sings the Blues (DVD)
14) Second-favorite Robert Altman film.
Gosford Park
15) What is your favorite independent outlet for reading about movies, either online or in print?
IMDB as a jump off point. And any number of blogs.
16) Who wins? Angela Mao or Meiko Kaji? (Thanks, Peter!)
I only know Angela Mao, but as someone mentioned, I'd take Yeoh overall, in the action genre.
17) Mona Lisa Vito (Marisa Tomei) or Olive Neal (Jennifer Tilly)?
Marisa
18) Favorite movie that features a carnival setting or sequence.
Strangers on a Train, though it scared the hell out of me seeing it as a seven year old - my aunt and uncle are to blame for that one.
19) Best use of high-definition video on the big screen to date.
No clue.
20) Favorite movie that is equal parts genre film and a deconstruction or consideration of that same genre.
Not a good film IMHO, but perhaps Lady in the Lake would fit here - not sure.
21) Best Film of 1979.
Apocalypse Now
22) Most realistic and/or sincere depiction of small-town life in the movies.
A Family Affair, the first in the Andy Hardy series, and several others in the series.
23) Best horror movie creature (non-giant division).
The creepy dummy in Magic.
24) Second-favorite Francis Ford Coppola film.
The Conversation
25) Name a one-off movie that could have produced a franchise you would have wanted to see.
Nothing jumping out.
26) Favorite sequence from a Brian De Palma film.
Sorry Brian, I've seen a number of your films, but nothing really stands out. Like lots in Blow Out.
27) Favorite moment in three-strip Technicolor.
Gene Tierney on the train in Leave Her to Heaven - luminous
28) Favorite Alan Smithee film. (Thanks, Peter!)
As in least awful, or most awful, not sure, but Hellraiser would be a favorite to hate for being butchered.
29) Crash Davis (Kevin Costner) or Morris Buttermaker (Walter Matthau)?
Buttermaker.
30) Best post-Crimes and Misdemeanors Woody Allen film.
Deconstructing Harry
31) Best Film of 1999.
All About My Mother
32) Favorite movie tag line.
Well one of my favorite noir films is The Narrow Margin so I'm going with "That Bullet's Meant For Me".
33) Favorite B-movie western.
Anything with Bob Steele in the 30's.
34) Overall, the author best served by movie adaptations of her or his work.
Dashiell Hammett
35) Susan Vance (Katharine Hepburn) or Irene Bullock (Carole Lombard)?
Carole
36) Favorite musical cameo in a non-musical movie.
Debbie Harry in Union City (1980). Defined by me as a musician in non-musical role in non-musical film.
37) Bruno (the character, if you haven’t seen the movie, or the film, if you have): subversive satire or purveyor of stereotyping?
sigh.
38) Five film folks, living or deceased, you would love to meet. (Thanks, Rick!)
Fritz Lang, Martin Scorcese, Max Fleischer, Alec Guiness, Peter Sellers. Can I name another 50?
4 comments:
Interesting answers! Dashiell Hammett, damn it... why didn't I come up with that answer?
Liking your list as well, Lolita. Go visit it, folks.
Pork Chop Hill...Korea, not WWII
Correct, I was looking at the dates, not the war.
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