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m-m-m-ovie quiz

2009-02-10T23:40:51Z

Okay, movie quiz time.

1. Name a movie that you have seen more than 10 times: A Clockwork Orange. Never fails to be absolutely exhilarating.
2. Name a movie that you've seen multiple times in a theatre: Speed Racer, twice on IMAX. I think I've gone to four showings of The Breakfast Club, come to think of it.
3. Name an actor that would make you more inclined to see a movie: Brad Pitt
4. Name an actor that would make you less likely to see a movie: Will Ferrell (Bleh)
5. Name a movie that you can quote from: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? "A kind of noisy relaxed quiet intensity, maybe?"
6. Name a movie musical that you know all the lyrics to all the songs :Singin' In The Rain. I mean, damn.
7. Name a movie that you have been known to sing along with: Singin' In The Rain
8. Name a movie that you would recommend everyone see: North By Northwest
9. Name a unusual movie that you own: The 5,000 Fingers Of Dr. T
10. Name an actor that launched his/her entertainment career in another medium but who has surprised you with his/her acting chops: Adam Sandler in Punch-Drunk Love, though he was just playing a warped, more realistic version of his normal character.
11. Have you ever seen a movie in a drive-in?: Yeah
12. Ever made out in a movie?: Yep.
13. Name a movie that you keep meaning to see but just haven't gotten around to it: Casablanca
14. Ever walked out of a movie?: Alexander. I went next door after half an hour and watched the entirety of The Incredibles, and came back for the last thirty minutes. Longest collective hour of my life.
15. Name a movie that made you cry: Dancer In The Dark. Who knew I liked Bjork so much?
16. Popcorn? YES.
17. How often do you go to the movies?: Not too often. I'd go daily if I lived in a big city, though.
18. What's the last movie you saw in the theater?: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
19. What is your favorite/preferred genre of movie?: Drama
20. What was the first movie you remember seeing in the theater?: Speed, I think. I kind of remember Aladdin, but I'm not sure. My parents took me to a lot of totally not kid-friendly movies, too, like Outbreak, Titanic, and Daylight.

The lights are much brighter there

2008-08-18T07:41:11Z

Well, I've been here in Seattle for a good week and a half now. Done a lot of walking, seen a few movies. Got second-row-in-the-balcony tickets (seasonholder seats, holy shit) from my dad's friend for A Chorus Line, which was fantastic. I wanted to buy the libretto, but I didn't have enough money. It was good anyways. My dad's handed over his huge-ass truck for me and my boyfriend to drive around in, and it's like riding in a boat. We've started taking the bus downtown and back, which is great. Seen three movies so far: Chimes At Midnight, Man On Wire, and A Woman Is A Woman.

Chimes At Midnight

An Orson Welles flick from the 60's, basically a reworking of Shakespeare's King Richard plays, starring Welles as Falstaff. This would have been an interesting movie, had the audio been better: Shakespeare dialogue + scratchy audio = two hours of staring at a fatass Orson Welles.

Man On Wire

A fascinating documentary about a Frenchman who tightroped across the Twin Towers in 1974. It's told through interviews, reenactments, and original footage. It makes good use of Satie's Gymnopedie No. 3. Defenitely worth a viewing; while some of the reenactments are a little shaky at times, the film comes together into one blissful, overwhelming whole.

A Woman Is A Woman

Godard's 1962 film about a striptease dancer who wants a child, and the comedy that follows, is possibly his "lightest" work, if that applies. It's a strange little comedy, in really glorious-looking high-speed Francoscope, with some jarring soundwork (cutting out the background score when somebody starts to sing, for example). It's also pretty funny; the main characters have a wordless argument with book titles ("EVA-cuate your ass out of here" "Woman executioner" "Sardine"). It's not bitter at all, like many of his later works; in fact, it's practically a polar opposite of Week-End. In any case, despite the short running time and the bubbly tone, it drags a few times, and sports a couple false endings. But it's still incredibly wonderful. Side note: P.T. Anderson took obvious cues from it for Punch-Drunk Love, which is one of my favorite films.

Good week and half.

On the road again

2008-08-01T00:10:00Z

So, I drove my boyfriend, Raf, home yesterday so he could pick up some stuff for our trip to Seattle. I met his mother for all of three minutes and then we drove away again. Apparently we were going to go see if his diploma was at his old house's mailbox, and I wasn't sure how to get there from his new house. His mother gave him instructions to go to the end of the street and turn left, which seemed weird because it was away from where my boyfriend's old house was. However, I trusted his mother, and we drove for about twenty minutes towards Los Banos (and also San Jose; I realised that, if I wanted to, I could probably drive to my aunt and uncle's house in San Jose by memory) before I realised that something was wrong. We turned around and he called his sister, but then after another twenty minutes of confused driving we gave up and went home.

Of course I'd get lost in the vineyards the day after I get my license. Why wouldn't I drive halfway to San Jose? Raf was worried that I was irritated, but I was just really hungry, so we stopped off at In 'N' Out, which wasn't as good as I remembered it (actually, it sucked ass). The hamburgers were mushy, the milkshake was watery, and the fries were like dry hashbrowns, only bigger (of course, that's how they've always been). Carl's Junior is better. Later we went to Wendy's and got a bunch of those junior burgers. Those things are awesome.

My friend described A Confederacy Of Dunces as "chugging pleasantly up a tropical river while buzzed".

Good old fashioned posting party

2008-07-30T09:40:04Z

When was the last time something really old fashioned was in style?

So, I've been having a pretty good summer, what with my boyfriend living with me for two months straight (so far), planning our move to Seattle, watching movies, feeling my ass dimples multiply, getting my driver's license. Not interesting, but good.

Read some good books.

Yep.