question of the day: What movie(s) do you absolutely have to see more than once to really get?
I’m gonna go with Memento… and now I wanna watch it for a fourth or fifth time and find something new again in it…
questions
question of the day: What movie(s) do you wish you could forget… just so you could experience them again for the first time?
Just as we’ve all films we wish we’d never seen, so there are films we wish we would could come to fresh and unaware so that we could feel that first sense of discovery again…
question of the day: What movie memory do you wish you could eliminate?
We’ve all had movie moments we wish we could unsee, things so disturbing or upsetting that they are, alas, seared into our brains forever…
question of the day: Why do Hollywood execs suddenly love Lindsay Lohan again?
It’s cases like this that make me question the conventional wisdom that Hollywood only gives audiences what they want. It appears that the public does not want to see Lindsay Lohan onscreen. Something else must be going on.
question of the day: Is AMC exploiting 9/11 with its Mad Men imagery?
Does your take on whether or not Mad Men is a thematic riff on our cultural reaction to 9/11 impact whether you see the use of such imagery as reasonable?
question of the weekend: Do you have a smartphone?
If not, why not? If you’re one of the few who doesn’t have any kind of cell phone at all, why not?
question of the day: What is your favorite iconic still image from filmdom?
Obviously I’m not talking about an image that is actually motionless necessarily, but an image that implies stillness, one that the director lingers on, perhaps to create a sense of the sinister or the suspenseful…
question of the day: What awesome title (invented by you or others) would you like to see attached to a real movie?
Reel Steel (which I keep typing when I mean Real Steel) could be a gritty film noir about a private dectective who investigates Hollywood crimes…
question of the day: Should 911/999 emergency calls be broadcast on television?
Do they add an important perspective on a story that could not be obtained in another way? Do they have true journalistic value? Or at they nothing more than lurid sensationalism?
question of the day: What movies have standout opening credits?
In recent years, nothing has blown me away the way that Watchmen’s opening sequence does: it brilliantly sets up the alternate reality the story takes place within…
