This is circulating on a mailing list I belong to, so I thought I could use it to make up for the non-traffic here.
1. Name a movie that you have seen more than 10 times.In my teenaged years,
The Third Man and
Citizen Kane, for certain. In recent years, probably only The
Young Girls of Rochefort.
2. Name a movie that you've seen multiple times in the theater.Pulp Fiction, A Fish Called Wanda, 8 Women, All About My Mother, and those
Young Girls are the only ones that leap to mind. I know there are others, though no others in the last decade.
3. Name an actor that would make you more inclined to see a movie.C. Deneuve, F. Dorleac, I. Huppert, S. Bonnaire, D. Auteuil.
4. Name an actor that would make you less likely to see a movie.Mapother, Thomas Cruise.
5. Name a movie that you can and do quote from.Midnight Cowboy, a lot. So much so that most of my quotes are really mundane, so few people spot them as such.
Lost in America, usually unconsciously.
6. Name a movie musical that you know all of the lyrics to all of the songs.None.
7. Name a movie that you have been known to sing along with.The
Young Girls again.
Umbrellas of Cherbourg, too, but only in spots.
8. Name a movie that you would recommend everyone see.This is not a question to ask a video store denizen, because the one thing I can tell you is that there is not a single movie that everybody likes. Not even close.
9. Name a movie that you own.I can recite my entire movie collection!
Young Girls, Umbrellas, Donkey Skin, Seven Samurai, Amarcord, Bicycle Thieves, 8 Women, and the Almodovar box set.
10. Name an actor that launched his/her entertainment career in another medium but who has surprised you with his/her acting chops.Just watched the new
Sopranos so I really want to say Sydney Pollack, but he started as an actor, didn't he? I'll lame out and say Dexter Gordon.
11. Have you ever seen a movie in a drive-in? If so, what?Mais oui. Two visits stand out strongest in my mind.
Raiders of the Lost Ark and
Star Trek II in Saskatchewan. Here in Waterloo, a quadruple bill of
Back to the Future, The Money Pit, something else, and... of all things...
Brazil.
12. Name a movie that you keep meaning to see but just haven't yet gotten around to it.Most of John Ford.
13. Ever walked out of a movie?No, but there are practical reasons for that. When I see a movie by myself, it's usually because I reeeeeeeeally want to see it and don't give a damn if anyone comes with me. These I am highly unlikely to bail out on. I have wanted to leave many times, but I have always been with someone else, so I don't want to leave before my ride home. I would have walked on
Magnolia.
14. Name a movie that made you cry in the theater.All About My Mother, Dancer in the Dark, most Demys.
15. Popcorn?Not my snack of choice. Those would be Nibs (the packaging is too noisy, though) or nachos (but those always make me feel like a fool).
16. How often do you go to the movies (as opposed to renting them or
watching them at home)?I've been taking Dee Dee about once a month of late, but as for movies of my own choice... it was a long time between
King Kong and
Grindhouse.
17. What's the last movie you saw in the theater?Grindhouse.
18. What's your favorite/preferred genre of movie?Cerebral foreign thrillers.
19. What's the first movie you remember seeing in the theater?Bambi, though my memory of my Dad asking me if I wanted to go is much stronger than the actual moviegoing.
20. What movie do you wish you had never seen?My Big Fat Greek Wedding. People always think I'm kidding but it is the actual mark of the end of my cinephilia.
21. What is the weirdest movie you enjoyed?Gee, weird is such a hard thing to qualify. I'd say
Dumbo almost qualifies. Many would say
Mulholland Drive is weird, but I think they're wrong. I don't know. I honestly can't think of any movie of which I couldn't make some kind of sense.
22. What is the scariest movie you've seen?Southern Comfort.
23. What is the funniest movie you've seen?The Fatal Glass of Beer.
