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1) What film made you angry, either while watching it or in thinking about it afterward?
I hate when movies end before they’re over. Like when a narrator or on-screen text tells you what happens to the characters rather than those scenes actually playing out. So I hated Unbreakable.
2) Favorite sidekick.
Cameron Frye from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.
3) One of your favorite movie lines.
”With this you don’t know how to kill the bunny, you know what I mean?” - Vince Vaughn in Swingers
4) William Holden or Burt Lancaster?
Lancaster.
5) Describe a perfect moment in a movie.
Annie Hall and Alvy Singer trying to cook lobster.
6) Favorite John Ford movie.
The Grapes of Wrath.
7) The inverse of a question from the last quiz: What film artist (director, actor, screenwriter, whatever) has the least-deserved good reputation, artistically speaking. And who would you replace him/her with on that pedestal?
At some point, Nicolas Cage decided that great acting and overacting were synonymous. That’s why so many of his movies suck shit. He’s a character actor and should stop trying to be a leading man. But Harry Dean Stanton and Jeff Bridges are the fucking bee’s knees.
8) Barbara Stanwyck or Ida Lupino?
Ida Lupino.
9) Showgirls-- yes or no?
Nay.
10) Most exotic or otherwise unusual place in which you ever saw a movie?
I saw Flight of the Intruder at the Air and Space Museum in Dayton, Ohio. IMAX. Lick it up, baby. Lick it up.
11) Favorite Robert Altman movie.
The Player.
12) Best argument for allowing rock stars to participate in the making of movies.
Courtney Love in The People vs. Larry Flynt.
13) Describe a transcendent moment in a film (a moment when you realized a film that just seemed routine or merely interesting before had become become something much more).
In High Fidelity, probably halfway through, when I realized that the movie was sort of about every guy who ever lived.
14) Gina Gershon or Jennifer Tilly?
Jennifer Tilly’s tits, Gina Gershon’s everything else.
15) Favorite Frank Capra movie.
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.
16) The scene you most wish you could have witnessed being filmed.
The interview between Marty De Bergi and Spinal Tap, in front of Nigel Tufnel’s castle.
17) Robert Ryan or Richard Widmark?
Robert Ryan.
18) Name a movie that inspired you to walk out before it was finished.
The Phantom Menace.
19) Favorite political movie.
JFK or Dr. Strangelove.
20) Your favorite movie poster/one-sheet, or the one you’d most like to own.
Walk the Line.
21) Jeff Bridges or Jeff Goldblum?
Goldblum’s best scene is still the one from Annie Hall where he says, “I forgot my mantra.” So Bridges.
22) Favorite Ken Russell movie.
Tommy. Just like Ike, it’s the only one I’ve seen.
23) Accepting the conventional wisdom that 1970-1975 marked a golden age of American filmmaking in which artistic ambition and popular acceptance were not mutually exclusive, what for you was this golden age’s high point? (Could be a movie, a trend, the emergence of a star, whatever).
The Godfather.
24) Grace Kelly or Ava Gardner?
Ava Gardner in a walk. She’s a Carolina girl.
25) With total disregard for whether it would ever actually be considered, even in this age of movie recycling, what film exists that you feel might actually warrant a sequel, or would produce a sequel you’d actually be interested in seeing?
The Passion of the Christ. The tomb was empty you guys. That’s nuts.
I hate when movies end before they’re over. Like when a narrator or on-screen text tells you what happens to the characters rather than those scenes actually playing out. So I hated Unbreakable.
2) Favorite sidekick.
Cameron Frye from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.
3) One of your favorite movie lines.
”With this you don’t know how to kill the bunny, you know what I mean?” - Vince Vaughn in Swingers
4) William Holden or Burt Lancaster?
Lancaster.
5) Describe a perfect moment in a movie.
Annie Hall and Alvy Singer trying to cook lobster.
6) Favorite John Ford movie.
The Grapes of Wrath.
7) The inverse of a question from the last quiz: What film artist (director, actor, screenwriter, whatever) has the least-deserved good reputation, artistically speaking. And who would you replace him/her with on that pedestal?
At some point, Nicolas Cage decided that great acting and overacting were synonymous. That’s why so many of his movies suck shit. He’s a character actor and should stop trying to be a leading man. But Harry Dean Stanton and Jeff Bridges are the fucking bee’s knees.
8) Barbara Stanwyck or Ida Lupino?
Ida Lupino.
9) Showgirls-- yes or no?
Nay.
10) Most exotic or otherwise unusual place in which you ever saw a movie?
I saw Flight of the Intruder at the Air and Space Museum in Dayton, Ohio. IMAX. Lick it up, baby. Lick it up.
11) Favorite Robert Altman movie.
The Player.
12) Best argument for allowing rock stars to participate in the making of movies.
Courtney Love in The People vs. Larry Flynt.
13) Describe a transcendent moment in a film (a moment when you realized a film that just seemed routine or merely interesting before had become become something much more).
In High Fidelity, probably halfway through, when I realized that the movie was sort of about every guy who ever lived.
14) Gina Gershon or Jennifer Tilly?
Jennifer Tilly’s tits, Gina Gershon’s everything else.
15) Favorite Frank Capra movie.
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.
16) The scene you most wish you could have witnessed being filmed.
The interview between Marty De Bergi and Spinal Tap, in front of Nigel Tufnel’s castle.
17) Robert Ryan or Richard Widmark?
Robert Ryan.
18) Name a movie that inspired you to walk out before it was finished.
The Phantom Menace.
19) Favorite political movie.
JFK or Dr. Strangelove.
20) Your favorite movie poster/one-sheet, or the one you’d most like to own.
Walk the Line.
21) Jeff Bridges or Jeff Goldblum?
Goldblum’s best scene is still the one from Annie Hall where he says, “I forgot my mantra.” So Bridges.
22) Favorite Ken Russell movie.
Tommy. Just like Ike, it’s the only one I’ve seen.
23) Accepting the conventional wisdom that 1970-1975 marked a golden age of American filmmaking in which artistic ambition and popular acceptance were not mutually exclusive, what for you was this golden age’s high point? (Could be a movie, a trend, the emergence of a star, whatever).
The Godfather.
24) Grace Kelly or Ava Gardner?
Ava Gardner in a walk. She’s a Carolina girl.
25) With total disregard for whether it would ever actually be considered, even in this age of movie recycling, what film exists that you feel might actually warrant a sequel, or would produce a sequel you’d actually be interested in seeing?
The Passion of the Christ. The tomb was empty you guys. That’s nuts.