sergio leone memioral day quiz

1) Best transition from movies to TV (actor, actress, producer/director, movie/show)

Buffy the Vampire Slayer went from a campy one joke mess,to a dark, eroticized and emotionally fine tuned reencapsulation of the gothic.

2) Living film director you most missing seeing on the cultural landscape regularly

kenneth anger, who i think doesnt make films because of capital, rather then anything else (ie if someone gave him a couple hundred grand, we would see a masterpeice)

3) Eugene Pallette or Charles Coburn
Eugene Pallete, for the Bride Came C.O.D.

4) Fill in the blank: “I pray that no one ever turns _____________ into a movie.”

Gravity's Rainbow.

5) Jane Greer or Veronica Lake

Veronica Lake (because of the mystery, and that she turned hair into acting)

6) What was the last movie you saw in a theater? On DVD? And why?

Sarah Marshall (because I think Apatow is a master of heart breaking social manners more then gross out comedies, and jason segal is a masterful actor on How I Met Yr Mother) Shoot Em Up, because i have devoleped a taste for the old ultra violence (90 minutes of anarchic mayhem, fantastic trash)

7) Name an actor you think should be a star

Dan Futterman.

8) Foxy Brown or Coffy

Coffy, with its economic analysis of junk, its luridness, and its melodrama, should have been taxi driver

9) Favorite TV show still without its own DVD box set
Daria

10) Jack Elam or Neville Brand
no answer

11) What movies would top your list of movies you need to revisit, for whatever reason?
southland tales, after i have read the comic, because i am not sure if its a mess or genius, a bunch of the narrative warhol films, looking at narrative, some late nicholas ray

12) Zodiac or All the President’s Men
zodiac.

13) Using our best reviewer-speak, what is an “important” film comedy? And what is to you the most important film comedy of the last 35 years?
a) social realvence
b) acting that modulates moods
c) tight writing not related on gags
d) a certain anayltical spirit
e) of its time but not beholden to it
f) talky, with a nice splash of physicality.
Knocked Up

14) Describe the ideal environment for watching a movie.

15) Michelle Williams or Eva Mendes
Michelle Williams, for her realizing broke back was really a womens weepie, and making all of the domestic,the child rearing, the conjugal bed, tragic and isolated. she also showed a sort of californian, wholesome eroticism in both if these walls could talk and but i'm a cheerleader, which was much smarter then the material will allow.

16) What’s the worst movie title of all time?
Traffic.

17) Best movie about teaching and/or learning
If..., because there is something violent and invasive about knowledge, and also something absurdly freeing--to learn is to engage in a political and social act.

18) Dracula (1931) or Horror of Dracula (1958)
Horror of Dracula

19) Why do you blog? Or if you don’t, why do you read blogs? (Thanks, Girish)
as a way to keep my thoughts straight, for other people's thinking process.

20) Most memorable/disturbing death scene
Marat/Sade

21) Jason Robards or Robert Shaw
I want to fuck Jason Robards more.

22) A good candidate for Most Blasphemous Movie Ever
Lucifer Rising (because to be a Satanist is to reject the standard views of G-d, and because of its conflation of thantos/eros as opposed to the xian one)

23) Rio Bravo or Red River
Red River

24) Werner Herzog is remaking Bad Lieutenant with Nicolas Cage—that’s reality. Try to outdo reality by concocting a match-up of director and title for a really strange imaginary remake.

Peter Jackson remaking Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

25) Bulle Ogier or Charlotte Rampling
Rampling's recent work with Orzon, out Denueve's Denuve.

26) In the Realm of the Senses— yes or no?
yes/

27) Name a movie you think of as your own (Thanks, Jim!)
School Ties


28) Winged Migration or Microcosmos
Winged Migration

29) Your favorite football game featured in a movie
anything directed by Ken Loach.

30) Wendy Hiller or Deborah Kerr
Kerr

31) Dirtiest secret you have that is related to the movies
Esther Williams movies enterain me

32) Name a favorite film and describe how it is illuminated and enriched by another favorite film.
Seeing History Boys, after the sublimated homoeroticism, and class discussions that suround american movies about boarding schools, and making it explicit, and almost being a defense of pedasrty, made me really consider what is unspoken of but believed deeply. i am esp. thinking of the sucide in dead poets society, where charisma is fatal, and school ties, where homosocial polite anti semitism becomes a discussion of both class and sexual ehtics, the class explicit but the sexual ethics much less so.

33) It’s a Gift or Horsefeathers
Horsefeathers

34) Your best story about seeing a movie at a drive-in
midnight,being driven in a thunder bird, in the interior of bc, chuck berry blasting on the stero, and a series of switchbacks/ hair pins, that go up this mountain, at the top, the blue flickr against black sky, some drive in i had never heard of--never went in, never saw a movie,but it was pretty

35) Victor Mature or Tyrone Power
tyrone power

36) What does film criticism mean to you? Where do you think it’s headed
it needs to be more conversational, more willing to point out things that had been missed, less authoritive and more authorial,