my movie mantra is pretty simple…
“you can’t call yourself a film buff…unless you watch EVERYTHING!…and, yes…this includes the crap”
from art house classics…
…to foreign films…
…to mainstream summer flicks…
…to the “sublimely stupid” comedies of the last decade…
…to the soft-hearted “chick flicks”…
…to pain-staking beauty of animation…
…to the cheap thrills and scary things that go bump in the night…
…to movies for the younger set…
…to stark realities about ourselves…
…to even the simple, dime-a-dozen types…
only TRUE film buffs can say that they have taken a sample of each of these categories…and have walked away with a few choice selections from them…
i’ve seen everything from…an old man looking for the last tragic bit of his innocence (CITIZEN KANE)…to love stories that have defied every known barrier, including age (HAROLD AND MAUDE)…to strange voyages into man’s place in the universe (2001)…
i’ve seen hookers with hearts of gold…summer camps with “death curses”…elephants fly…close encounters with intergalactic beings who weren’t always of the friendly kind…to three transvestites going on a walkabout…
take heed from those that exclusively praise the works of Godard, Kurosawa, Lean…while refusing to “lowering” themselves to check out the latest work from Shyamalan, Cameron, or Hughes…
for these are wolves in sheeps’ clothing trying to infiltrate the Church of Cinemaphile…
where the commandments are simple…because there are only two…
-watch EVERYTHING!
-discuss
now, if you’ll excuse me, the 2005 version of “Black Christmas” is on…
shudder
…courage…
(fyi: the “bottom” they’re referring to in the episode…is ME!)
Filmnut – Actor Zoe Bell
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