In yesterday’s post ruminating about questions whose answers (at least in theory) may be more obvious than they first seem, I included a fifteen-point “meme” about movies; I didn’t actually respond to the meme there. In a comment, Jules asked what my choices would have been.
Here y’go.
1. Movie you love with a passion
“Passion”? Oh, my. Ha ha. You must be thinking of someone else. And the one movie?!?
Asked to name my “favorite movie,” I usually say Citizen Kane. But that’s not really what this question asks; I’ve seen Kane enough times, and read and talked about it enough, that my soul was long ago pretty much drained of all passion for it. But to love a movie with a passion, I believe, one would have to (a) own a copy of it, and watch it periodically, and/or (b) seldom (if ever) click past it when it shows up on TV or a local movie screen, and/or (c) love watching it beyond reason.
Let’s see…
Well, let me put it this way — off the top of my head it would probably be one of the following (in no order to speak of):
- Pulp Fiction
- Alien (preferably on a bill with Aliens)
- The Matrix
- Bringing Up Baby
- My Fair Lady
- The Wizard of Oz
- The Big Lebowski… no, wait, Blood Simple. Or maybe — well, you get the idea.
- Stop Making Sense
- Any of the Lord of the Rings trilogy (especially the first or third installments)
If I took this quiz next week, my choices might be entirely different.
2. Movie you vow to never watch
Gus Van Sant’s 1998 Psycho remake. I mean, I understand the notion of homage. I understand the appeal of tinkering with something already done, given new information, or new technology, or… or whatever. But for a director with a lively, wide-ranging intellect (and the resources to act on it, and an audience willing to go with him in pretty much any direction) — for such a director to undertake a (nearly) shot-for-shot remake of a film with a history and a cultural context like Psycho‘s, well: nuts to that. What a waste.
3. Movie that literally left you speechless
Bad Lieutenant. And we’re not talking speechlessly glad to have seen it, either. Probably the single most repellent film I’ve ever seen; I couldn’t even finish it, and that’s saying something. On the upside, I’d only rented it, so didn’t have to embarrass myself by walking out of a theater.
4. Movie you always recommend
Another tough question, at least not without knowing the context; are you looking for a tearjerker, a laughfest, a film to curdle the blood or break the heart, a film that needs to be seen just, like, because you “should” see this film?
If not allowed to qualify the answer, though, and just aiming to satisfy anyone, it would probably be Young Frankenstein. Or The Princess Bride.
5. Actor/actress you always watch, no matter how crappy the movie
6. Actor/actress you don’t get the appeal of
Huh. Uh… I will say that I’d been hearing about Uma Thurman’s great beauty before I ever saw her myself — and was pretty baffled when I did see her (I think on a talk show). She grew on me, though. (Although I still think her beauty, if that’s even the right word, is highly unconventional.)
This question’s difficulty bothered me, so I actually read down Wikipedia’s list of names in the “20th century actors” category (which starts here) — trying to find someone who made me shake my head in wonder that anyone else cared much about him or her. The candidates which jumped off the screen at me can easily be explained, I think, by generational differences of taste. The classic example, for me: Adam Sandler. I look at him and he seems fogged with question marks. But I know a good number of people who think he’s hilarious.
Likewise, the cast of the Twilight films mostly leaves me cold. (The actress who plays Alice Cullen, though… uh… oh, there she is: Ashley Greene. Her I find appealing.)
But again, I assume my judgment is clouded simply by changing tastes in what makes an actor or actress “appealing” in the first place. (Among “old Hollywood” actors, for instance, I’ve never gotten either Greer Garson or Tyrone Power.)
7. Actor/actress, living or dead, you’d love to meet
Cusack again. And Alec Guinness. And Jeff Bridges.
Actresses, forget it: aside from, oh, say, Tina Fey and Janeane Garofalo — those whose whole personae are built of informality — I’d probably be too tongue-tied to make much of the meeting. (I’ve already blown my chance for simple, innocent conversation with Sigourney Weaver.)
Now that I’m thinking about it, though: Kate Cate Blanchett seems like an actress who’d put me at ease soon enough for me to get past the initial stammer-and-turn-red phase.
8. Sexiest actor/actress you’ve seen
Oh, man. Rachel Ward. And I haven’t seen even many of her films, let alone all of them. But in After Dark, My Sweet, and some others from around then — oh yeah. That.
9. Dream cast
This ought to be the most fun, right? So why did I save answering it until last, yet still have so much trouble coming up with an answer???
Hmm…
I’m going to play the “put the cast in a time machine and shake it up” game, so we get to cross decades in our casting decisions. This would let me match up Cusack, say, with a formidable maneater like Louise Brooks. Or put Orson Welles as a young man into a dark, brooding action film with Leonardo DiCaprio. I wish Dustin Hoffman and Anne Bancroft had been able to work together again after The Graduate.
10. Favorite actor pairing
I guess this means actual pairings, right? As opposed to anything in the “dream cast” category of question #9? My initial vote went to Paul Newman and Robert Redford. They could’ve made another three or four movies as far as I was concerned. But Katherine Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant were pretty darned fun to watch, too… Oh, whoops, also Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan.
11. Favorite movie setting
Probably The Shire, in the Lord of the Rings films.
12. Favorite decade for movies
The ’70s. I mean, come on.
I’m skeptical of this question, though. Prior to the 1970s, my movie-going was pretty much a matter of someone else’s (or a group’s) decision. In the ’70s, I suddenly got a sense of what I’d maybe been missing. And after the ’70s, I never again got the same thrilling sense of discovery. So I’m prepared to believe it’s just another of those generational-taste questions.
13. Chick flick or action movie?
Action movies. Sorry. They speak to the caveman in me. Anything featuring Jason Statham, for instance, seems waaaaay more entertaining to me than it may actually be, considered objectively.
14. Hero, villain or anti-hero?
Probably anti-hero. As in — often — “tortured” hero. Most of the Batman depictions, for instance, appeal to me much more than the Superman incarnations. Han Solo rather than Luke Skywalker (or Darth Vader, for that matter). Much as I liked Tom Hanks in his Meg Ryan pairings, I much preferred him in Castaway, Saving Private Ryan, and Road to Perdition.
Likewise, Annette Bening’s had an interesting range of roles. But the ones where she plays a simple love interest just don’t stack up to those in which she’s got an edge. Her turn in The Grifters, for instance. Or — yes — in American Beauty.
15. Black and white or color?
When I was doing photography of my own — print photography, I mean, not digital — I mostly used black-and-white film. I loved the challenge of finding and framing and lighting the perfect subject, just right, without being able to artificially boost its appeal simply by tinkering with, y’know, chromatic tricks. I kind of feel the same way about black-and-white vs. color cinematography.
Color films I’ve really liked tend to be those which don’t use a lot of color, arbitrarily. For instance, I love the muted look of The Godfather.
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That’s it for me. (Although I may revisit to insert more videos, maybe some stills and so on.)
Your turn!
Update (2012-02-05): Yeah, I know — and meant to mention — this isn’t really a “fifteen movie meme”; more like a “fifteen-point movie meme.” For what it’s worth, it actually mentions about a couple dozen by name (depending on how you want to count references to multi-film series) — not counting the Van Sant Psycho and Bad Lieutenant, obviously. :)
cynth says
Well, I’ll give it a try:
1. Movie I love with a passion: ho, boy! The movie I would watch over and over again, there are like 15 of them! And I watch them for different reasons…I love Heart and Souls with Robert Downey, Jr.: redemption at its best. I love Dogma because really, how could you not love Alanis Morrisette as God. Swing Time with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. Yeah, this is hard!
2. Movie you vow to never watch
I will never, ever watch Pulp Ficton again as long as I live and won’t miss it either.
3. Movie that literally left you speechless
The Deer Hunter, District 9, and in some ways Avatar
4. Movie you always recommend
Your niece would be proud of your choice the Princess Bride. You can’t go wrong with either the Philadelphia Story or Charade
5. Actor/actress you always watch, no matter how crappy the movie
Robert Downey, Jr.
6. Actor/actress you don’t get the appeal of
Scarlett Johannson…just don’t get it.
7. Actor/actress, living or dead, you’d love to meet
Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Judy Garland…are we sensing a theme here?
8. Sexiest actor/actress you’ve seen
George Clooney…OMG! I have to say though, Jack Nickolson in Reds did something to me that I never felt before or since…perhaps it was just sympathy
9. Dream cast
I’d love to see Gwynth Paltrow with someone like Humphrey Bogart, just to see the mix. Or even her with William Holden.
10. Favorite actor pairing
Loved Newman and Redford, best of all!
11. Favorite movie setting
I love the contrasts in “It’s a Wonderful Life” seeing the George Bailey town and the without George Bailey town. I loved the scenery for Sound of Music, too.
12. Favorite decade for movies
The 40’s and 50’s
13. Chick flick or action movie?
Chick Flick all the way
14. Hero, villain or anti-hero?
Hmmm, I’m not sure. There are some villains (such as Snape) who appear villainous but turn out not to be, so there’s a qualifier to that I guess. I do like the anti-hero though, like Clint Eastwood in Gran Torino. I loved Christopher Reeve as Superman, though. So I’m not sure I can say definitively.
15. Black and white or color?
It depends on the movie…and no that is not a cop out. I can’t imagine colorizing those wonderful old black and whites, but what would the Wizard of Oz be with a little color?
John says
To tell you the truth, I don’t think I’ve ever seen Heart and Souls. Just added it to the DirecTV queueueueueue. (It’s on on of the HBO channels this Thursday afternoon.) Downey is great, isn’t he?
I was thinking about the “dream cast” question after posting this. It’d also be fun to see Gene Kelly with Savion Glover.
Froog says
1) Well, I still love Kane with a passion, even after all these years. Less universal favourites that I get dangerously over-enthusiastic about to other people include Dark Star (film school graduation project of John Carpenter), THX 1138 (ditto for George Lucas, and still much the best film he’s made), Harold and Maude, Barton Fink, Being John Malkovich, and Cool Hand Luke.
2) I’ll never watch any of the Harry Potter series – because I suspect they don’t do the books justice; and I suspect the books are overrated anyway; and I’d like to read the books first, but I’ve vowed not to read them until I have kids to share them with (unlikely to be kids of my own now, but might possibly be godchildren or grand-nieces/grand-nephews). So, not quite ‘never’, but a ‘not until’ with conditions that are perhaps rather unlikely to be fulfilled.
3) Speechless in a “my god, what were these people on?!”, but ultimately a good – if slightly guilty – way: Jodorowsky’s Santa Sangre (sort of a Bunuel version of Psycho set in a Mexican circus) and Bajo Ulloa’s Madre Muerta (another Latin take on Hitchcock: very, very dark and perverse). Just in a BAD way: Boxing Helena.
4) Isn’t this a bit of a redundant question? I recommend the movies I’m passionate about: see 1) above.
5) John Cusack is a strong contender; but, despite his charm, I find his acting a bit samey. And, although he might not have made any outright bombs (I haven’t see all his oeuvre either!), there have been quite a few pretty mediocre ones: Con Air, Serendipity, Pushing Tin, Shanghai, 2012. Nicolas Cage, I think, would be a more interesting pick, in that most of what he makes is rubbish, but usually kind of engaging rubbish (I have a bit of a soft spot for the National Treasure series). No, I’ll say Steve Buscemi: he’s prolific, he’s quirky, he’s well connected with all the great directors, and I’ve never seen him in anything that wasn’t wonderful – and he’s so watchable, I’d forgive him the odd turkey (he does seem to have been getting more prolific, and less discriminating, in recent years!).
6) Well, as I confessed the other day, I don’t get Buster Keaton at all – but it’s his comedic style, his screen persona that I can’t stand, not so much a matter of his acting. In the classic era, I understood Bogart’s charisma, but I’ve never got his supposed attractiveness and I find his acting a bit limited. And in more recent times, I think Cameron Diaz is a half-decent comic actress, but the ‘beauty’ I don’t see.
7) Actor I’d most like to meet? Oh, that would have to be Errol Flynn – for the craic. Second choice would be Paul Newman, for a game of pool.
8) Rachel Ward was outrageously beautiful, but not so much sexy, I feel, JES. I mean, she was really more of a model, couldn’t act much; and I think you have to be able to act to be really sexy. Kathleen Turner in Body Heat takes the cake for me.
The chaps I’m not really qualified to comment on – although I’d be inclined towards Jean-Paul Belmondo and Alain Delon.
9) Dream cast? Oh, it gets too darned difficult! (I feel this meme is a bit overlong.) Films with an ensemble cast where everyone was right and everyone performed out of their socks… The Godfather and Pulp Fiction; or, on a more intimate scale, In The Bedroom; or for a three-hander, In Bruges.
10) I suppose Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan might edge out Cary Grant and Kathryn Hepburn on the basis that they’ve repeated the teaming with reasonable success three times now. For guy match-ups…. I don’t like Travolta in almost anything else, but his onscreen chemistry with Samuel L. Jackson in Pulp Fiction is phenomenal. Brendan Gleeson and Colin Farrell in In Bruges are running them close.
11) Favourite setting? POW camps (the dominant genre of my early childhood) or New York City (the dominant genre of my slightly later childhood: Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon, Fort Apache – The Bronx, Prince of the City, etc.).
12) Favourite decade – tough! Much as I love the ’30s and ’40s classics, I think I have to go with the ’70s. There are reasons for it being such a standout decade: colour film processes had been perfected and cinematographers were starting to be able to get really creative with them; the grip of censorship had been broken, and the power of the studio system too, allowing film-makers to be far more edgy and individualistic; there was a great upsurge of anti-establishment sentiment, liberal, idealistic, iconoclastic, coming out of the Civil Rights movement and the Vietnam War; and the age of the ‘event movie’ and the crazy special effects budget hadn’t yet overwhelmed us (although Spielberg and Lucas were ushering it in during the second half of the decade). Even mainstream movies from that decade tend to be far grittier than we’re mostly used to now. And even the decade’s weaker movies tend to be very watchable.
However, I feel bad about passing over some really great movies in the ’60s, in the second half of the ’60s especially. What I’d really like to nominate is a decade beginning with 2001: A Space Odyssey and ending with Apocalypse Now.
13) I like both chick flicks and action movies, and the choice will depend on mood. Not a fair question. I suppose I go for action movies slightly more often, when I feel in need of some brainless exhilaration; but I’m more likely to opt for a rom-com if I feel like engaging the intellect or the emotions a little more. How about the Wachowski brothers’ Bound for a bit of throw-this-question-out-of-the-window genre-mangling: a violent but intelligent thriller with female protagonists and a lesbian romance? No, I suppose it doesn’t qualify as a ‘chick flick’, does it?
14) I’m not sure how clearcut these divisions are. Characters like Han Solo or Cool Hand Luke are more ‘flawed heroes’ than ‘anti-heroes’. Surely an anti-hero is an identifiable protagonist who remains just about likeable despite having almost no positive qualities – like Bukowski’s Henry Chinaski (well played by Matt Dillon in Factotum and Mickey Rourke in Barfly). Anti-heroes tend to be more compelling, because more realistic. But a really good villain is fun, too – like Alan Rickman’s Hans Gruber in the first Die Hard film.
15) The great majority of films, and hence the majority of my favourite films, have been made in colour. And you can do some wonderful things with
black-and-white[?] colour photography, no question. But from an artistic point of view, black-and-white looks better.This craze for ‘colorizing’ old movies baffles me. I’m far more curious to see what my favourite colour films might have looked like in black-and-white. Actually, I got quite a lot of experience of this, because my family didn’t get a colour TV until I was 10, and I continued to watch a lot of black-and-white on an old portable set I’d bought for myself right up until the end of high school.
John says
Wow — I can’t believe I actually now know one other person who’s seen Santa Sangre! Of course, it’s not as surprising that anyone who’s seen it would remember the experience, ha.
With your encyclopedic/omnivorical appetite for all things cinematic, you probably already know this but… I was reading the other day about an upcoming film by Ridley Scott, Prometheus. Not quite a prequel to Alien, but he concedes that the films “share the same DNA.” Anyway, reading about that (plus my having recently done this post) led me to read around about the Alien series. In the course of THAT reading I found that the original script for the first film was from a guy named Dan O’Bannon. He’d previously co-written (with Carpenter) and edited Dark Star, and also had one of the main roles (as Sgt. Pinback). Mildly frustrated by having to work with a sort of cutesy alien — the black beachball thing — O’Bannon wanted to explore some of the same themes, but with more of a monstrous alien presence. And then he stumbled upon the work of H.R. Giger… and then, well, you know.
Thanks for the reminder about In Bruges — need to get that onto the TV somehow.
I’ve used digital cameras (or camera-equipped cell phones, with the right apps) which make black-and-white photos of (obviously) full-color reality. But there’s something vaguely dissatisfying about many of these grayscale images — something limp and pallid next to the crisp “black-and-white” counterparts on analog film (and paper). You and I may be among the dinosaurs on this whole thing.
Froog says
Ha! I can’t recall the last time I met someone who’d even heard of Santa Sangre. I wondered if you’d get that reference!
It was shown once at my favourite indie fleapit cinema in Oxford – the Penultimate Picture Palace – and, I think, over the summer vacation. So, I think only a few dozens of my Oxford contemporaries, and just a couple of my friends, saw it. Everyone else thinks I just made it up. (My dreams get pretty wacky sometimes, but nowhere near that level!).
‘hath snodge’ saith Recaptcha. No I that not. But I wish I knew what it was – splendid word!
Froog says
Darn. Can’t even spell ‘hath’ any more. Worried about the erosion of brain cells by shortage of sleep!
Froog says
Darn! Annoyed at a little typo of mine near the end there: I had – of course – meant to acknowledge that colour photography has lots of artistic scope too, before concluding that I think black-and-white comfortably trumps it.
And I just find an interesting little piece on villains.
John says
I think I fixed that typo in your point 15 — let me know if I didn’t get it right, though.
marta says
You’ve inspired me to write a post of my own.
And I think you’ve misspelled Cate Blanchett’s name.
Whenever I hear a man say something about a Hollywood actress–no matter how nicely!–and how he doesn’t happen to see why people think she’s beautiful, I despair. I’d give quite a bit to look like Uma Thurman! Of course, that may have a lot to do with the general brainwashing of she’s-accepted-by-Hollywood-therefore-she-must-be-beautiful-therefore-I-must-aspire-to-look-like-her.
Oh, I’m going to stop there.
John says
Ack! I think I saw Ms. Blanchett’s name spelled properly in your post first, and immediately realized I’d messed up here. I also misspelled Katharine Hepburn’s name. Both corrected above — thanks!
I think you’re right about wanting to look like Hollywood Star X, Y, or Z, because “Then I’d be good-looking.” With obvious exceptions, what we think of as good-looking is defined by the look of Hollywood stars, so it’s a sort of circular trap, i.e., the sort of trap we all “enjoy” being caught in. (We must enjoy it, ’cause we do it so willingly!)
The Querulous Squirrel says
Passionate: Avatar
The categories are too complicated for me. My favorites as of today (I’m very fickle).
1. Casablanca
2. Rear Window
3. Strangers on a Train
4. North by Northwest
5.Koyaanisqatsi
6.Rashomon
7. Hurt Locker
8.Manhattan
9. Winged Migration
10. Taxi Driver
2. Will never watch a movie by Adam Sandler
3. Movie that left me speechless: Hurt Locker
4. I made sure my children watched Woody Allen early and often
Favorite actresses: Scarlett Johansson, Cate Blanchett, Penelope Cruz
I’ll even give some crappy movies a chance. Sometimes they are so bad they are funny.
John says
Those categories did sort of get out of hand, didn’t they? I have a feeling that the “original” list actually conflated two or more shorter ones into one hideous Frankenstein monstrosity.
I’d never even heard of Winged Migration; this is a pretty wonderful trailer, though:
Another one for the to-be-viewed queue!
whaddayamean says
so my man friend has recently made me watch both ALIEN and ALIENS (the second was just last night). i have to tell you, i VASTLY preferred the former. they almost seem like two completely different stories that just happen to be inspired by the same premise (and, to some degree, aesthetics). my man friend did not agree. but i’m curious about your take.
John says
Glad to hear your man friend is expanding your (already pretty wide) horizons. I hope his film selections aren’t playing havoc with your sleep, though!
Alien (Ridley Scott) vs. Aliens (James Cameron): Scott set out to make a horror film whose story just happened to take place in space. The crew were all older than the norm for science fiction/action films, too, and were depicted more or less as plain-old working schlubs who just happened to wind up in extremis. None of the cast was a big name, although many of their faces were (or would soon become) familiar from other films. (Sigourney Weaver, for one — Alien was her first lead role in a feature.)
Cameron, though, no longer had those cards to play. The story had been elevated to iconic level by the success of the first film, and the audience had been “ruined” for horror (in the sense that they pretty much would know what to expect from Ripley… and of course from the alien). And — hey, he WAS James Cameron — he probably wasn’t all that interested in doing a brooding slow-buildup-of-dread horror film anyhow. His initial work on the Aliens script roughly overlapped with production of the first Schwarzenegger Terminator film, which he was directing. He had ACTION on his brain.
Which one is better/preferable probably depends on your taste. But also to be factored in: how closely together the two viewings occur. Watching Alien and then, within a few days, Aliens probably almost guarantees that a great deal of tension will already be vented by the time you sit down to watch the second film.
But whaddaIknow. :)
Froog says
What people seem to carry away from the second one – after a lapse of years – is the ‘boss fight’ with the alien queen at the end; but I thought the stronger new strand in the story, the really effectively horrific element in amongst all the wham-bam action, was the realisation that these creatures had intelligence, the collective intelligence of an ant colony (it put me in mind of a low-budget ’70s classic called Phase IV). The keynote of the alien threat in the first movie, as a lone antagonist, had been its relentlessness and apparent unstoppability (curiously enough, just like the Terminator!).
I like the concept of the first movie better, but I feel the second is better-made. Frankly (and I sense JES’s hackles rising already) I was rather dissatisfied with the first one, I really didn’t like Ridley Scott’s direction at all. What lingered in the mind about it was the grungy depiction of space travel, and Sigourney Weaver’s charisma as the ballsy heroine, and Ian Holm’s unlikely villainy as the rogue android – not the overall story or its execution. Perhaps this was partly a problem of lack of surprise or suspence: there was such huge hype around the movie, such ubiquitous discussion of its main plot points – in the media and in the schoolyards – that it was impossible to be really shocked by anything in it when it first came out; it was spoiled by ‘spoilers’.
cynth says
On kind of a different tangent…referring back to Marta and your comments about looking like some actor or actress…did you ever see the tabloids which show the stars without their make-up? They really almost look like normal everyday people!
John says
Ha. Those tabloid cover stories are sort of hard to miss when standing in a checkout-counter line behind someone apparently stocking for a Himalayan trek.
Actually, I think the celebs look kinda worse than everyday people… probably because of the contrast between their normal image(s) and the candid-camera ones. They say the camera adds ten pounds to anyone’s normal build, but I think still cameras really pack it on. :)
Jayne says
Oh gosh, how does one narrow it down? Like you, I think my answers might change from week to week. But Kate and Cary, Kate and Spencer, Kate and anybody is a pair I want to watch.
What I like to watch with the kids: Hitchcock. (And other old movies.)
Breakfast at Tiffany’s is probably my favorite of all–for so many reasons: written by one of my favorite writers, starring role by one of my favorite actresses, the story, the scene, the music, the characters, the clothes! Even the cat! Yes, I have the movie. And the book.
It might be tied, though, w/Local Hero. Peter Riegert and Burt Lancaster were fantastic in it.
And Rachel Ward. Well, I had a crush on her, too. I mean, who didn’t?! She inspired my shorter, let the curls go, haircut after watching Against All Odds. And I’m not often inspired by an actress to cut my hair. Actually, Ward was the only one. (That may have been the shortest my hair had ever been, except for the bowl cut when I was five.) ;)
John says
With those cheekbones and jawline and general angularity, Hepburn pretty much tore into any movie she was in (and costar she was with) even without first speaking. :)
Oh gosh, I LOVE Local Hero. Did you ever see any of that director‘s other films? Charmers all. A shame that he seems to have dropped off the screen!
As for Rachel Ward, well, perhaps I should stop going on about her. (Especially now that you’ve gone and mentioned Against All Odds, which is the other one I considered grabbing some frames from.) I don’t know what it was (and probably would still be) about her which so unhinged me. Part of it was the leggy look, no doubt. But there also seemed to be something in her face which hinted at a sort of… well, I don’t know. She — or maybe just her characters (and putting aside whats’s-er-name, Meggie, in Thorn Birds) — seemed to me alluringly worldly-wise.
I’ve probably already embarrassed myself. (Ms. Ward, if you are reading this, I hope you understand I was put up to it by my commenters.) (And Bryan Brown, if YOU are reading this — I think she’s got the perfect guy.)
Jayne says
Oh, you go on. We understand. (I’m sure her hubby does, too.)
Do you think KH had TMJD? ;)
(Maybe that was my obsession w/her!)
Jayne says
Oh! And Forsyth: Yes, I’ve seen several of his films (love Comfort and Joy and Gregory’s Girl. Forsyth is the reason I desperately want to go to Scotland!
Which reminds me–another director I admire from across the pond: Anthony Minghella. Truly, Madly, Deeply. (And so much more.) I can watch that one as much as I watch Local Hero. I love these sweet, little films. Everytime I view them I find, within, something new. :)