I saw Anchors Aweigh when I was two and Strangers on a Train when I was eight, and it has not slowed down since. I am retired from thirty-five years administering juvenile residential facilities, six years teaching drama in high school, and fourteen months caring for a (now) fourteen month grandson. I will be appearing in a local production of The Laramie Production in January 2009. Films have gotten me through life so far, and I see no end to their influence.
When I was eight years old I went to the neighborhood theater by myself and saw “Strangers on a Train.” While I did not fully understand the story, once I experienced the visual impact of the scenes movies were never the same for me.
I was fourteen when I saw Vertigo within days of its first release. I appreciated the motherly sexiness of Barbara Bel Geddes; but when Kim Novak appeared leaving Ernie’s, I immediately fell in love with those strikingly sensuous images. The immediate bad reviews and years of silly interpretations can never dampen my remembrance of those intense feelings.
New to The Auteurs? You Belong Here over 3 years ago
I saw Anchors Aweigh when I was two and Strangers on a Train when I was eight, and it has not slowed down since. I am retired from thirty-five years administering juvenile residential facilities, six years teaching drama in high school, and fourteen months caring for a (now) fourteen month grandson. I will be appearing in a local production of The Laramie Production in January 2009. Films have gotten me through life so far, and I see no end to their influence.
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Which Movies Have You Walked Out On? over 3 years ago
Walked out of Jeremy, Ghostbusters, Big Fish, and Garden State. I feel so much better getting that off my chest.
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Films that changed how you looked at cinema over 3 years ago
When I was eight years old I went to the neighborhood theater by myself and saw “Strangers on a Train.” While I did not fully understand the story, once I experienced the visual impact of the scenes movies were never the same for me.
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What films do you always catch shit for for not liking? over 3 years ago
Ghostbusters
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Favorite use of a song in a film. over 3 years ago
I was surprised and delighted when as a kid I heard “Singin’ in the Rain” in North by Northwest.
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Obscure recommendations over 3 years ago
Tol’able David
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The most beautiful films? over 3 years ago
Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)
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If you had to pick ONE film as your favorite... over 3 years ago
Vertigo
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BEST SEQUENCE OR SCENE FROM ANY FILM(CAN BE AN OPENING OR ANYTHING ELSE) over 3 years ago
The long walk scene in The Third Man.
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Coming Of Age over 3 years ago
Faces of Children
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Whats the scariest film ever or some of ur favorites over 3 years ago
Seeing Psycho when it first came out on a rainy night in Trenton, New Jersey.
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Whats the scariest film ever or some of ur favorites over 3 years ago
Seeing Psycho when it first came out on a rainy night in Trenton, New Jersey.
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Whats the scariest film ever or some of ur favorites over 3 years ago
Seeing Psycho when it first came out on a rainy night in Trenton, New Jersey.
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Unexpected over 3 years ago
Agree with “King and Country.” The first time I was punched in the face by a film.
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List the most exemplary acting performance(s) over 3 years ago
Joseph Cotten in SHADOW OF A DOUBT and Richard Widmark in anything.
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Whats your favourite actor,and what actor is so bad you cant look at him over 3 years ago
Richard Widmark, Joseph Cotten, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Marie Windsor and Barbara Stanwyck – consistently excellent
Tom Cruise, Tom Hanks, Barbra Streisand, Jerry Lewis, Charlton Heston and Goldie Hawn – consistently derivative
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Surreal over 3 years ago
The Phantom by F.W. Murnau, Brand upon the Brain by Guy Madden, and Werckmeister Harmonies by Bela Tarr.
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movies that shake you to the core over 3 years ago
Again Joseph Losey’s King and Country.
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"HAVE YOU SEEN..." BY DAVE THOMSON over 3 years ago
Just “finished” the book. I felt vindicated by some of his opinions, learned new things from others, and was outraged by still others.
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I used to think this movie was great, but i don't anymore over 3 years ago
“The Mouse That Roared”
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Films with brothers quarreling over 3 years ago
Brothers of the Head
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Last movie you saw and rate it over 3 years ago
A Fool There Was 8/10
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SEX & LOVE IN CELLULOID: WHO FIRST, AND WHO LATELY, TURNED YOU ON? over 3 years ago
I was fourteen when I saw Vertigo within days of its first release. I appreciated the motherly sexiness of Barbara Bel Geddes; but when Kim Novak appeared leaving Ernie’s, I immediately fell in love with those strikingly sensuous images. The immediate bad reviews and years of silly interpretations can never dampen my remembrance of those intense feelings.
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What's your top 3 Marilyn Monroe Films? over 3 years ago
All about Eve
Niagara
Bus Stop
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Top 5 Hitchcock over 3 years ago
Vertigo
Psycho
North by Northwest
Strangers on a Train
Notorious
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what film or films may have made you into the fan/fanatic you are over 3 years ago
In 1951 I saw Strangers on a Train, and movies were never the same for me.
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WHAT WAS THE FIRST FILM YOU EVER SAW, IN A THEATRE? over 3 years ago
Anchors Aweigh 1945
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The Auteurs "Sight & Sound" Poll over 3 years ago
I would like to be involved also. Thank you.
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WHO IS / WAS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL FILM ACTRESS EVER? over 3 years ago
Ava Gardner in “The Killers” and “The Night of the Iguana”
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FREEZE FRAMES IN FILMS over 3 years ago
Claude Lelouch’s “A Man and a Woman”
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