Another movie list
Over at Sergio Leone and the Infield Fly Rule they have another quiz. So if anyone wants to fill this out in the comments section feel free. I'll have mine posted sometime over the weekend.
1) Favorite quote from a filmmaker
2) A good movie from a bad director
3) Favorite Laurence Olivier performance
4) Describe a famous location from a movie that you have visited (Bodega Bay, California, where the action in The Birds took place, for example). Was it anything like the way it was in the film? Why or why not?
5) Carlo Ponti or Dino De Laurentiis (Producer)?
6) Best movie about baseball
7) Favorite Barbara Stanwyck performance
8) Fast Times at Ridgemont High or Dazed and Confused?
9) What was the last movie you saw, and why? (We’ve used this one before, but your answer is presumably always going to be different, so…)
10) Whether or not you have actually procreated or not, is there a movie you can think of that seriously affected the way you think about having kids of your own?
11) Favorite Katharine Hepburn performance
12) A bad movie from a good director
13) Salo: The 120 Days of Sodom-- yes or no?
14) Ben Hecht or Billy Wilder (Screenwriter)?
15) Name the film festival you’d most want to attend, or your favorite festival that you actually have attended
16) Head or 200 Motels?
17) Favorite cameo appearance(Try visiting here and here for some good ideas! This question was inspired by Daniel Johnson at Film Babble)
18) Favorite Rosalind Russell performance
19) What movie, either currently available on DVD or not, has never received the splashy collector’s edition treatment you think it deserves? What would such an edition include?
20) Name a performance that everyone needs to be reminded of, for whatever reason
21) Louis B. Mayer or Harry Cohn (Studio Head)?
22) Favorite John Wayne performance
23) Naked Lunch or Barton Fink?
24) Your Ray Harryhausen movie of choice
25) Is there a movie you can think of that you feel like the world would be better off without, one that should have never been made?
24) Favorite Dub Taylor performance
25) If you had the choice of seeing three final movies, to go with your three last meals, before shuffling off this mortal coil, what would they be?
26) And what movie theater would you choose to see them in?
1) Favorite quote from a filmmaker
2) A good movie from a bad director
3) Favorite Laurence Olivier performance
4) Describe a famous location from a movie that you have visited (Bodega Bay, California, where the action in The Birds took place, for example). Was it anything like the way it was in the film? Why or why not?
5) Carlo Ponti or Dino De Laurentiis (Producer)?
6) Best movie about baseball
7) Favorite Barbara Stanwyck performance
8) Fast Times at Ridgemont High or Dazed and Confused?
9) What was the last movie you saw, and why? (We’ve used this one before, but your answer is presumably always going to be different, so…)
10) Whether or not you have actually procreated or not, is there a movie you can think of that seriously affected the way you think about having kids of your own?
11) Favorite Katharine Hepburn performance
12) A bad movie from a good director
13) Salo: The 120 Days of Sodom-- yes or no?
14) Ben Hecht or Billy Wilder (Screenwriter)?
15) Name the film festival you’d most want to attend, or your favorite festival that you actually have attended
16) Head or 200 Motels?
17) Favorite cameo appearance(Try visiting here and here for some good ideas! This question was inspired by Daniel Johnson at Film Babble)
18) Favorite Rosalind Russell performance
19) What movie, either currently available on DVD or not, has never received the splashy collector’s edition treatment you think it deserves? What would such an edition include?
20) Name a performance that everyone needs to be reminded of, for whatever reason
21) Louis B. Mayer or Harry Cohn (Studio Head)?
22) Favorite John Wayne performance
23) Naked Lunch or Barton Fink?
24) Your Ray Harryhausen movie of choice
25) Is there a movie you can think of that you feel like the world would be better off without, one that should have never been made?
24) Favorite Dub Taylor performance
25) If you had the choice of seeing three final movies, to go with your three last meals, before shuffling off this mortal coil, what would they be?
26) And what movie theater would you choose to see them in?
posted by Bryan Summers at 10:13 AM
2 Comments:
1. When asked by the actress in The Birds what her motivation is for a certain scene. "It doesn't matter. It's just a movie," -A. Hitchcock
2. Pulp Fiction. Also, American Graffiti
3. Haven't seen any! I'll rectify that next week.
4. Rosalyn, WA, which poses as Sicily, Alaska for the show "Northern Exposure".
5. Dino De Laurentiis. I've heard of him/her.
6. The Natural
7. The Lady Eve
8. n/a
9. Ratatouille. Because it needs to be seen twice.
10. Quiz Show. Charlie: "I can't imagine ever being that happy again." pause. Mark VanDoren: "Not unti you have a son."
11. Bringing up Baby
12. A Clockwork Orange
13. no. please no.
14.
15. Chicago International Childrens Film Festival. There are probably cooler ones in Europe that I don't know of...
16. what?
17.
18.
19. Raise the Red Lantern. The DVD of this must've come straight from China, has terrible picture and tons of mistranslations and spelling errors.
25a. Pulp Fiction and A Clockwork Orange
25b: There's no way in hell I'm watching a movie (let alone three) on my last day to live. But, let's say I could only watch three more films and then go cold turkey and never watch another one: It's a Wonderful Life, Babette's Feast, The Hudsucker Proxy.
26. Movies8, baby!
1) Favorite quote from a filmmaker
A good movie is three good scenes and no bad scenes. - Howard Hawkes
2) A good movie from a bad director
Bad Boys 2 - Michael Bay. (Sorry, I liked it.)
3) Favorite Laurence Olivier performance
Richard the third
4) Describe a famous location from a movie that you have visited (Bodega Bay, California, where the action in The Birds took place, for example). Was it anything like the way it was in the film? Why or why not?
The beach from the Goonies. It looked the same except their wasn't an old ramshackled building.
5) Carlo Ponti or Dino De Laurentiis (Producer)?
Dino De Laurentiis
6) Best movie about baseball
Bull Durham
7) Favorite Barbara Stanwyck performance
Double Indemnity
8) Fast Times at Ridgemont High or Dazed and Confused?
Fast Times kind of, but I'm not a big fan of episodic teenage films.
9) What was the last movie you saw, and why? (We’ve used this one before, but your answer is presumably always going to be different, so…)
Rio Bravo, because the new special edition was my birthday gift.
10) Whether or not you have actually procreated or not, is there a movie you can think of that seriously affected the way you think about having kids of your own?
Jet Li's The Enforcer made me want to have a child. Then my wife and I decided to have one.
11) Favorite Katharine Hepburn performance
Bringing up Baby
12) A bad movie from a good director
Lady in the Water
13) Salo: The 120 Days of Sodom-- yes or no?
I don't know anything about it.
14) Ben Hecht or Billy Wilder (Screenwriter)?
Ben Hecht but just barely.
15) Name the film festival you’d most want to attend, or your favorite festival that you actually have attended
South by Southwest. I really want to go.
16) Head or 200 Motels?
Haven't seen either.
17) Favorite cameo appearance
Charlie Sheen in Being John Malcovich
18) Favorite Rosalind Russell performance
His Girl Friday
19) What movie, either currently available on DVD or not, has never received the splashy collector’s edition treatment you think it deserves? What would such an edition include?
Babe 2 Pig in the City. It would have a documentary explaining how Universal treated the film.
20) Name a performance that everyone needs to be reminded of, for whatever reason
Robert Deniro and Charles Grodin in Midnight Run. Because they need to do a comedy together again.
21) Louis B. Mayer or Harry Cohn (Studio Head)?
Harry Cohn
22) Favorite John Wayne performance
Rio Bravo. I saw that at the BYU library. He owned the audience.
23) Naked Lunch or Barton Fink?
Barton Fink
24) Your Ray Harryhausen movie of choice
Clash of the Titans
25) Is there a movie you can think of that you feel like the world would be better off without, one that should have never been made?
The Grinch that Stole Christmas. I hated that movie.
24) Favorite Dub Taylor performance
Bonnie and Clyde (although I can't remember him in it. I liked that movie. I'll pay attention from now on.)
25) If you had the choice of seeing three final movies, to go with your three last meals, before shuffling off this mortal coil, what would they be?
I'm with Brandon. My last day on earth would not be spent watching movies, but I want my last three movies to be:
To be or Not To Be (1942)
Babe 2 Pig in the City
The first season of Freaks and Geeks.
26) And what movie theater would you choose to see them in?
Some theater in Cambodia because I've always wanted to go to Southeast Asia
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