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greygirlbeast. I'm not actually much of a film person, or at least I wasn't for years; and what I had seen was generally not recent. Before high school, I think I had seen maybe a dozen movies made later than the 1950's, and they were mostly Disney animated musicals. But I'm catching up.
(Cut for spatial issues.)
1) First movie you saw in a theater?
The earliest I remember is Batteries Not Included (1987).
2) First R-rated film you bought a ticket for by yourself?
Absolutely no idea. I don't think it was a major rite of passage for me.
3) Favorite movie snack?
Clementines. I smuggle them in, usually in my coat pockets, and chain-eat them until I run out; I got through Titanic this way.
4) Favorite filmgoing experience?
In high school, I saw Lawrence of Arabia at the Brattle Theater in Harvard Square, and that was pretty magnificent. Television does not do justice to that desert.
5) Stupidest thing you did that you saw in a movie?
I'm not sure I was ever inspired to do something stupid because of a movie, although I wonder occasionally whether I can trace my fondness for shrimp with the shells still on back to Splash, but I did once jump out of a tree in imitation of my uncle who had been army-trained as a paratrooper and knew how to land—and did not inform me of this before he dropped lightly from the branch, brushed himself off, and walked away. I thought, "Heh. I can do that." I fell about fifteen feet. Landed on my feet. By the good graces of dumb luck, I did not break both my ankles: I seriously thought I had for a couple of minutes, though.
6) First film to inspire carnal thoughts for the opposite sex?
I think my carnal inspirations were primarily literary. That said, Cyd Charisse in Singin' in the Rain definitely rewired a few neurons.
7) Have you ever paid for one movie and snuck into another?
I'm sure the answer is "yes," but I can't think of an example.
8) Have you ever seen a movie in a drive-in?
Never. I think I grew up in the wrong decade.
9) Have you ever had sex in a car while watching a movie?
Well, I've never watched a movie in a car. That tends to create some impediment.
10) If so, what film?
See above!
11) Ever had sex in a movie theater?
I don't think so.
12) If so, what film?
What part of "I don't think so" does this meme not take into account?
13) Favorite John Hughes film?
While I frantically consult IMDb to find out what John Hughes has directed . . . My choices are The Breakfast Club and Uncle Buck. Yes, I know, this puts me in the incomprehensibly small fraction of the population that has not seen Ferris Bueller's Day Off. I still think I'll go with Uncle Buck, if only because it has John Candy.
14) Favorite Quentin Tarantino film?
I've only ever seen Pulp Fiction, so I suppose by default that's it.
15) Favorite Hitchcock film?
Either Notorious or Vertigo.
16) Favorite Spielberg film?
Given a choice, I would watch Raiders of the Lost Ark before anything else, but I remember really liking Duel.
17) Favorite zombie film?
I'm not sure I've ever seen a zombie film. I'm depraved on account of I'm deprived.
18) Favorite actor (dead)?
Ronald Colman, Claude Rains, Robert Preston, Jack Lemmon, Alec Guinness, Ernest Thesiger, James Mason, James Stewart, Peter Lorre, Leslie Howard . . . This is an impossible choice. Pick one of those yourself.
19) Favorite actor (living)?
Derek Jacobi, Harvey Keitel, Gene Wilder, Ian McKellen, Michael Caine, Peter O'Toole, Geoffrey Rush, John Hurt . . . Slowly I am adding Johnny Depp to this list. (I saw Benny and Joon and The Corpse Bride last week.)
20) Favorite character actor ever?
I'm inordinately fond of Edward Everett Horton, but there's room for Hume Cronyn too.
21) Favorite actress (dead)?
Katherine Hepburn. Or Audrey Hepburn. Or Marilyn Monroe. Look, I'm not good at decisions.
22) Favorite Actress (living)?
Daryl Hannah. Okay?
23) Favorite character actress ever?
On the sole strength of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, I'm willing to give this one to Tilda Swinton.
24) Favorite theatrical animated character?
Madame Souza, the indomitable grandmother from Belleville Rondez-Vous (The Triplets of Belleville), rocks my world.
25) Favorite film score?
I am a philistine: I do not take much notice of film scores outside the theater. The score to The Luzhin Defence did contain the second waltz from Shostakovich's Jazz Suite No. 2, however, and I love that piece of music: so there was automatic fondness. I have good memories of Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, too.
26) Favorite piece of film music?
It's a tie between the above and Nina Simone's "Sinnerman" as used perfectly in the 1999 remake of The Thomas Crown Affair. (Can I add Steve McQueen to my list of favorite dead actors? Le Mans. The Great Escape. Bullitt. Come on.)
27) Favorite film song?
"I'm Your Man" in Secretary. That song started me listening to Leonard Cohen.
28) Favorite Christmas movie?
We always watched A Claymation Christmas Celebration (1987), which no one else I know has ever seen. But it contains walruses ice-dancing to a tuba instrumental of "Angels We Have Heard On High." Who could not love this?
29) Favorite film genre?
I don't think I have one. Most of the films I personally own have some fantastic or science-fictional slant, but that's also a matter of what I've been able to con friends and family into giving me.
30) Favorite porn film?
I don't think I've ever seen a traditional porn film.
31) First porn film you saw?
(sigh)
32) Favorite Disney film?
It's a tie between Beauty and the Beast (1991) and Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959). I always forget the latter is a Disney film, because it doesn't butcher the mythology.
33) Favorite Western?
High Plains Drifter. Yul Brynner notwithstanding, The Magnificent Seven was not well served by seeing The Seven Samurai the previous week.
34) Favorite musical?
If animated, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast. If adapted from a stage version, My Fair Lady. If original to the screen, Singin' in the Rain.
35) Favorite horror film?
Flip a coin between Alien and Bride of Frankenstein, assuming either of them actually counts. Das Kabinett des Doktor Caligari (The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari) didn't scare me either, but I was fascinated by it.
36) Favorite comedy?
This is unanswerable . . . I'm very fond of Victor/Victoria, Arsenic and Old Lace, and Some Like It Hot.
37) Favorite science-fiction film?
Blade Runner or Metropolis. But I was also pleasantly surprised by François Truffaut's Fahrenheit 451 (1966).
38) Favorite suspense film?
The Usual Suspects, The Manchurian Candidate (1962), or whatever I answered for the Hitchcock question.
39) Favorite romantic film?
The Cuckoo, The Apartment, or The Goodbye Girl.
40) Favorite epic?
At the moment, Chunhyang.
41) Least favorite thing about seeing films in a theater?
The sound system. If I don't remember to bring earplugs, I stuff Kleenex into my ears, otherwise I walk out with a headache and my ears ringing for days.
42) Favorite thing about seeing films in a theater?
The screen, even if I do always sit as far as back as possible.
43) If you could be any film character, who?
I have to think about this. I don't tend to imprint on characters that I would actually want to be . . . Let's say Cassiel from Der Himmel über Berlin (Wings of Desire), Jof from Det sjunde inseglet (The Seventh Seal), or Cosmo Brown from Singin' in the Rain.
44) If you could have sex with any film character, who?
This is also not a question I ask myself much of the time . . . Viktor Bychkov as Psholtii (Ivan) in The Cuckoo.
45) If you could live happily ever after with a film character?
. . . All right, don't look at me funny: Ronald Colman as Sydney Carton in A Tale of Two Cities (1935).
46) If you could be any movie monster, who?
I don't watch a lot of films with monsters, but Mr. Scratch in The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941) is marvelous.
47) Favorite film critic?
They're like cinematic monsters: I don't read many, but I'm fond of MaryAnn Johanson.
48) Favorite screenwriter?
Heh. I don't think I can answer this question. I barely know directors. But I mightily respect Preston Sturges for The Lady Eve.
49) Favorite director?
See previous waffle. But either Billy Wilder or—if considered as a unit—Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro.
50) Chaplin or Keaton?
Keaton. But I still haven't seen The Great Dictator.
greygirlbeast. I'm not actually much of a film person, or at least I wasn't for years; and what I had seen was generally not recent. Before high school, I think I had seen maybe a dozen movies made later than the 1950's, and they were mostly Disney animated musicals. But I'm catching up.(Cut for spatial issues.)
1) First movie you saw in a theater?
The earliest I remember is Batteries Not Included (1987).
2) First R-rated film you bought a ticket for by yourself?
Absolutely no idea. I don't think it was a major rite of passage for me.
3) Favorite movie snack?
Clementines. I smuggle them in, usually in my coat pockets, and chain-eat them until I run out; I got through Titanic this way.
4) Favorite filmgoing experience?
In high school, I saw Lawrence of Arabia at the Brattle Theater in Harvard Square, and that was pretty magnificent. Television does not do justice to that desert.
5) Stupidest thing you did that you saw in a movie?
I'm not sure I was ever inspired to do something stupid because of a movie, although I wonder occasionally whether I can trace my fondness for shrimp with the shells still on back to Splash, but I did once jump out of a tree in imitation of my uncle who had been army-trained as a paratrooper and knew how to land—and did not inform me of this before he dropped lightly from the branch, brushed himself off, and walked away. I thought, "Heh. I can do that." I fell about fifteen feet. Landed on my feet. By the good graces of dumb luck, I did not break both my ankles: I seriously thought I had for a couple of minutes, though.
6) First film to inspire carnal thoughts for the opposite sex?
I think my carnal inspirations were primarily literary. That said, Cyd Charisse in Singin' in the Rain definitely rewired a few neurons.
7) Have you ever paid for one movie and snuck into another?
I'm sure the answer is "yes," but I can't think of an example.
8) Have you ever seen a movie in a drive-in?
Never. I think I grew up in the wrong decade.
9) Have you ever had sex in a car while watching a movie?
Well, I've never watched a movie in a car. That tends to create some impediment.
10) If so, what film?
See above!
11) Ever had sex in a movie theater?
I don't think so.
12) If so, what film?
What part of "I don't think so" does this meme not take into account?
13) Favorite John Hughes film?
While I frantically consult IMDb to find out what John Hughes has directed . . . My choices are The Breakfast Club and Uncle Buck. Yes, I know, this puts me in the incomprehensibly small fraction of the population that has not seen Ferris Bueller's Day Off. I still think I'll go with Uncle Buck, if only because it has John Candy.
14) Favorite Quentin Tarantino film?
I've only ever seen Pulp Fiction, so I suppose by default that's it.
15) Favorite Hitchcock film?
Either Notorious or Vertigo.
16) Favorite Spielberg film?
Given a choice, I would watch Raiders of the Lost Ark before anything else, but I remember really liking Duel.
17) Favorite zombie film?
I'm not sure I've ever seen a zombie film. I'm depraved on account of I'm deprived.
18) Favorite actor (dead)?
Ronald Colman, Claude Rains, Robert Preston, Jack Lemmon, Alec Guinness, Ernest Thesiger, James Mason, James Stewart, Peter Lorre, Leslie Howard . . . This is an impossible choice. Pick one of those yourself.
19) Favorite actor (living)?
Derek Jacobi, Harvey Keitel, Gene Wilder, Ian McKellen, Michael Caine, Peter O'Toole, Geoffrey Rush, John Hurt . . . Slowly I am adding Johnny Depp to this list. (I saw Benny and Joon and The Corpse Bride last week.)
20) Favorite character actor ever?
I'm inordinately fond of Edward Everett Horton, but there's room for Hume Cronyn too.
21) Favorite actress (dead)?
Katherine Hepburn. Or Audrey Hepburn. Or Marilyn Monroe. Look, I'm not good at decisions.
22) Favorite Actress (living)?
Daryl Hannah. Okay?
23) Favorite character actress ever?
On the sole strength of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, I'm willing to give this one to Tilda Swinton.
24) Favorite theatrical animated character?
Madame Souza, the indomitable grandmother from Belleville Rondez-Vous (The Triplets of Belleville), rocks my world.
25) Favorite film score?
I am a philistine: I do not take much notice of film scores outside the theater. The score to The Luzhin Defence did contain the second waltz from Shostakovich's Jazz Suite No. 2, however, and I love that piece of music: so there was automatic fondness. I have good memories of Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, too.
26) Favorite piece of film music?
It's a tie between the above and Nina Simone's "Sinnerman" as used perfectly in the 1999 remake of The Thomas Crown Affair. (Can I add Steve McQueen to my list of favorite dead actors? Le Mans. The Great Escape. Bullitt. Come on.)
27) Favorite film song?
"I'm Your Man" in Secretary. That song started me listening to Leonard Cohen.
28) Favorite Christmas movie?
We always watched A Claymation Christmas Celebration (1987), which no one else I know has ever seen. But it contains walruses ice-dancing to a tuba instrumental of "Angels We Have Heard On High." Who could not love this?
29) Favorite film genre?
I don't think I have one. Most of the films I personally own have some fantastic or science-fictional slant, but that's also a matter of what I've been able to con friends and family into giving me.
30) Favorite porn film?
I don't think I've ever seen a traditional porn film.
31) First porn film you saw?
(sigh)
32) Favorite Disney film?
It's a tie between Beauty and the Beast (1991) and Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959). I always forget the latter is a Disney film, because it doesn't butcher the mythology.
33) Favorite Western?
High Plains Drifter. Yul Brynner notwithstanding, The Magnificent Seven was not well served by seeing The Seven Samurai the previous week.
34) Favorite musical?
If animated, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast. If adapted from a stage version, My Fair Lady. If original to the screen, Singin' in the Rain.
35) Favorite horror film?
Flip a coin between Alien and Bride of Frankenstein, assuming either of them actually counts. Das Kabinett des Doktor Caligari (The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari) didn't scare me either, but I was fascinated by it.
36) Favorite comedy?
This is unanswerable . . . I'm very fond of Victor/Victoria, Arsenic and Old Lace, and Some Like It Hot.
37) Favorite science-fiction film?
Blade Runner or Metropolis. But I was also pleasantly surprised by François Truffaut's Fahrenheit 451 (1966).
38) Favorite suspense film?
The Usual Suspects, The Manchurian Candidate (1962), or whatever I answered for the Hitchcock question.
39) Favorite romantic film?
The Cuckoo, The Apartment, or The Goodbye Girl.
40) Favorite epic?
At the moment, Chunhyang.
41) Least favorite thing about seeing films in a theater?
The sound system. If I don't remember to bring earplugs, I stuff Kleenex into my ears, otherwise I walk out with a headache and my ears ringing for days.
42) Favorite thing about seeing films in a theater?
The screen, even if I do always sit as far as back as possible.
43) If you could be any film character, who?
I have to think about this. I don't tend to imprint on characters that I would actually want to be . . . Let's say Cassiel from Der Himmel über Berlin (Wings of Desire), Jof from Det sjunde inseglet (The Seventh Seal), or Cosmo Brown from Singin' in the Rain.
44) If you could have sex with any film character, who?
This is also not a question I ask myself much of the time . . . Viktor Bychkov as Psholtii (Ivan) in The Cuckoo.
45) If you could live happily ever after with a film character?
. . . All right, don't look at me funny: Ronald Colman as Sydney Carton in A Tale of Two Cities (1935).
46) If you could be any movie monster, who?
I don't watch a lot of films with monsters, but Mr. Scratch in The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941) is marvelous.
47) Favorite film critic?
They're like cinematic monsters: I don't read many, but I'm fond of MaryAnn Johanson.
48) Favorite screenwriter?
Heh. I don't think I can answer this question. I barely know directors. But I mightily respect Preston Sturges for The Lady Eve.
49) Favorite director?
See previous waffle. But either Billy Wilder or—if considered as a unit—Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro.
50) Chaplin or Keaton?
Keaton. But I still haven't seen The Great Dictator.