tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7848463699454014872024-03-13T04:21:04.419-07:00Movies... and the omelette stinks!Shanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15033662507699896530noreply@blogger.comBlogger4099125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-784846369945401487.post-8760925070661786122021-07-16T17:58:00.001-07:002021-07-16T18:04:53.377-07:00Cory's Birthday Post: Son of Godzilla<p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-c4BG_2s7GTI/YPIl36Dk7fI/AAAAAAAAXDU/HvJd8FkFsQAHKVxbGGPu1g9HWsMNGKoeQCLcBGAsYHQ/s500/61ipPLpMXDL._AC_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="364" height="360" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-c4BG_2s7GTI/YPIl36Dk7fI/AAAAAAAAXDU/HvJd8FkFsQAHKVxbGGPu1g9HWsMNGKoeQCLcBGAsYHQ/w262-h360/61ipPLpMXDL._AC_.jpg" width="262" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>1967 Godzilla movie</p><p><br /></p><p>Rating: 8/20</p><p><br /></p><p>Plot: Godzilla has to protect his son from gigantic praying mantises and a spider while scientists experimenting with controlling the weather try to survive an island filled with monsters. </p><p><br /></p><p>To continue the tradition, here's a Movies-a-Go-Go post about a Godzilla movie for my brother-in-law Cory's birthday. I've done this for several years, and he either pretends to appreciate or actually understands how special it is to be one of two people (with the other being Nicolas Cage!) to have their birthday acknowledged with movie activity. <i>Son of Godzilla</i> is not one that Cory likes. In fact, as of March 22, 2010, he had never even seen this one. </p><p><br /></p><p>But happy birthday anyway! </p><p><br /></p><p>Here are my unadulterated, stream-of-conscious thoughts as I watched this movie: </p><p><br /></p><p>Son of Godzilla! </p><p><br /></p><p>This came up several years ago when a friend of mine named Kent left me a blog comment claiming that it was the greatest monster movie ever. Cory accused him of teasing, and he never answered to say whether he was serious, but Cory's pal Barry said it was a mid-tier Godzilla flick. So let's find out! </p><p><br /></p><p>The title, by the way, leaves me with some questions. I’m fairly certain this means Godzilla has fucked, and if that’s true and that scene is not in the movie, I’m going to be angry enough to knock down a few buildings of my own. </p><p><br /></p><p>Son of ____. Which movie franchise has the best son? It wouldn't be <i>Son of Frankenstein</i> because that kid was obnoxious. <i>Son of Lassie</i>? <i>Son of Flubber</i>? <i>Son of the Mask</i>? <i>Son of Dracula</i>? <i>Son of Sam</i>? <i>Son of Zorro</i>? </p><p><br /></p><p>Ok, let’s focus here. </p><p><br /></p><p>By the way, I’m pretty sure this has to be good because it’s part of the Criterion Collection now. </p><p><br /></p><p>How low was this plane flying to have to pull the nose up in order to avoid hitting Godzilla while he was standing in the ocean? </p><p><br /></p><p>Godzilla in the rain with menacing music...kind of cool. Then--boom. A title screen and a transition to colorful island shots and some lounge music. That’s...not quite as cool. </p><p><br /></p><p>These are the whiniest scientists I think I’ve ever seen in a movie. And comparing their work to being in a concentration camp? This guy must have gone to the Marjorie Taylor Greene School of Insensitive Analogies. </p><p><br /></p><p>This little science camp certainly is colorful. It looks like a delightful enough place to spend some time to me. </p><p><br /></p><p>The arrival of a newsman who is guided by his stomach--if I made decisions based solely on feelings I had in my stomach, then. . .well, I doubt things would be all that different. </p><p><br /></p><p>A giant praying mantis! I believe they eat grasshoppers, so I'm not sure this thing will be all that menacing to humans or a giant lizard that spits fire. </p><p><br /></p><p>I wish I had some understanding about what all these scientists were even doing on this island or what the experiment is. </p><p><br /></p><p>Oh, here we go with some experiment exposition. They’re going to freeze the island in order to help solve famine-related issues that are the result of overpopulation. Got it. I now feel like I'm ready to proceed. </p><p><br /></p><p>Wait, the South American jungles are “useless”? </p><p><br /></p><p>In the wrong hands, freezing islands could be worse than nuclear bombs. </p><p><br /></p><p>Here’s a scientist with a pipe. I’m not sure about anybody else, but in my estimation, a scientist with a pipe is more credible than one without a pipe. </p><p><br /></p><p>That was a cheery little science montage. I don’t know exactly what is happening and would like to see some giant monsters fighting, but in the meantime, I’ll take a cheery little science montage. </p><p><br /></p><p>My daughter Buster has joined me for this movie. </p><p><br /></p><p>I caught her up on the plot (the best a person with my limited ability to even understand the plot of a Godzilla movie could) and she said, “Ok, I’m not watching this” and left. Before she did, she suggested that Godzilla is a "Bigfoot-like creature but with horns and feet that aren't that big." I have no idea what she's talking about. </p><p><br /></p><p>What? Now there’s a narrator? 22 minutes into a movie is not the first time we should hear from a narrator. </p><p><br /></p><p>Reporter: “Don’t you believe I saw a girl?” </p><p>Professor: “And I don’t believe in ghosts either.” </p><p>So...he doesn’t believe in girls? </p><p><br /></p><p>Oh, snap! Not only is the praying mantis bigger but there are now three of them! </p><p><br /></p><p>Scientists in short pants definitely don’t have as much credibility as scientists with pipes. I learned that in my 8th grade science class, I think. </p><p><br /></p><p>Gimantis! That is some solid portmanteauing! </p><p><br /></p><p>I’m as intrigued by this jungle woman as the reporter, to be honest. </p><p><br /></p><p>Godzilla’s son is awfully squishy. I guess they’re born without bones? </p><p><br /></p><p>Godzilla’s now back in the movie and stomping all over the science camp. I have a feeling even more repairs will have to be made now. </p><p><br /></p><p>It’s become clear that I’m not going to get a Godzilla sex scene in this movie, and my disappointment is profound. </p><p><br /></p><p>These monster noises have frightened my cat. </p><p><br /></p><p>Ok, I just watched a scene where two Gimantises kick a rock back and forth like it’s a soccer ball before launching it into Godzilla Jr.’s head and had to rewind to watch it again. And then--I watched it a third time. This whole Godzilla-movie-on-Cory's-birthday thing is now worth it. </p><p><br /></p><p>And now baby Godzilla was thwacked in the skull by his own father’s tail. The most interesting parts of this are definitely going to involve head trauma to the titular child. </p><p><br /></p><p>Son of Godzilla is a mistake of nature. He looks like something a four year old can make out of clay. </p><p><br /></p><p>I’m not sure if this movie will give us a glimpse at who or what Godzilla fucked to produce this son, but from the looks of this kid, I believe it must be a congealed thing of yogurt that’s been hidden in the back of a refrigerator for several years. </p><p><br /></p><p>Well, it there’s no Godzilla sex scene, maybe something between the reporter and the jungle woman can help make up for it. </p><p><br /></p><p>“Boy never wear red shirt like this. Maybe you’re a girl.” If I had a nickel for every time somebody said something like that to me in school. . .</p><p><br /></p><p>“Oh! The reporter! Are you alright? We were worried.” Translation: “Oh! The reporter! We completely forgot about you!” </p><p><br /></p><p>I’m really starting to dig the peppy lounge music that plays whenever a Gimantis shows up. These guys, however, are not one of Godzilla’s most formidable foes. </p><p><br /></p><p>Oh, man. The slapstick in these scenes with Son of Godzilla is hilarious. With stunts like these, I’m fairly positive it’s Buster Keaton in this Son of Godzilla suit. </p><p><br /></p><p>After a race: “Goro, you gave up. Are you really a man?” That’s the second time this jungle woman has questioned this guy’s masculinity. It seems to be her thing. </p><p><br /></p><p>Goro (the reporter) just pointed at Son of Godzilla and said, “Godzilla!” I don’t see how anybody could make that mistake. Not only is he not really a man but he's also apparently an imbecile.</p><p><br /></p><p>He certainly has grown quickly. It’s up to his dad’s nipples already! </p><p><br /></p><p>Now the little guy’s having some sort of a seizure. </p><p><br /></p><p>I wish the characters would quit saying “Spiga” because I’m having trouble taking a monster named that seriously. </p><p><br /></p><p>Is “Spiga” also a portmanteau word? Spider and gassy? </p><p><br /></p><p>The reporter (Goro) and the jungle woman are off to retrieve some “hot red water” (my guess is cherry Kool-aid that has been left out) in order to heal a bunch of scientists with fevers, and I feel we’re as close to a plot as we’re going to get. </p><p><br /></p><p>Godzilla’s son sounds a lot like a donkey at times. He brays. </p><p><br /></p><p>Oh, he just blew a smoke ring. I forgot that I saw him do that in another movie. I really should have watched these movies in order. I probably wouldn’t have all these questions. </p><p><br /></p><p>“Here, drink this hot red water. But you can only drink it from a shell.” </p><p><br /></p><p>Where did this jungle woman get pants anyway? </p><p><br /></p><p>Aww, it’s Son of Godzilla’s first fight. I hope his opponent isn’t hear his little theme song because that’s not intimidating anybody. </p><p><br /></p><p>He just got bopped in the head again. And he always kind of has an expression that makes it look like he’s concussed anyway. </p><p><br /></p><p>And here comes Godzilla, a helicopter parent. How’s your son ever going to learn to defend himself if you’re fighting his fights for him, Godzilla? </p><p><br /></p><p>Spiga! </p><p><br /></p><p>Uh oh! Spiga spews silly string! </p><p><br /></p><p>I kind of like the look of Spiga. He looks a little cooler than the Godzilla in this one and way cooler than Godzilla’s son. His movements seem pretty complicated. </p><p><br /></p><p>The scientists must not have explored their new cave home at all if they didn’t notice that very obvious back door. </p><p><br /></p><p>And now their cave is caving in, and they don’t seem to have any clue about how to get out. Umm...maybe that back door you were shown about five minutes ago could work? </p><p><br /></p><p>I’m kind of surprised the shot I just saw hasn’t been turned into a meme. It looked like Son of Godzilla standing gleefully while being covered in jism. </p><p><br /></p><p>I’ll see myself out. </p><p><br /></p><p>Wait, this is rated G? I guess I should have known that it wouldn’t have a Godzilla sex scene. </p><p><br /></p><p>Waa-waa! Waa-waa! </p><p><br /></p><p>This fight, which I’m assuming is the climactic one, is not one of the most exciting of the franchise. Barry, in his comment, claimed that this had "some great fight scenes," but I'm not sure what movie he was watching. </p><p><br /></p><p>I have no idea why the scientists are this excited to see snow. I guess it means the experiment worked? But didn’t they already know that? </p><p><br /></p><p>I have no idea why I’m paying any attention to the science in this movie. There’s a monster fight in the snow! </p><p><br /></p><p>What a sweet scene with father and son working together to catch a Spiga on fire. It reminds me of all the times when my dad and I would. . .well, no. It doesn’t remind me of anything like that. </p><p><br /></p><p>The snow on a tropical island is a neat look. Luckily, lizards love snow. </p><p><br /></p><p>“They won’t die. They’ll hibernate. They’ll just go to sleep until the snow’s gone.” Yeah, that sounds scientific. </p><p><br /></p><p>So my friend Kent was clearly wrong when he claimed this was the best monster movie ever. And more than likely, Barry was also wrong when he ranked it as the 7th best. Of course, I’m not exactly an expert on these sorts of things. However, a movie focused so much on a baby monster that looks like that and either whines or brays like a donkey probably isn’t quite a mid-tier Godzilla movie. </p><p><br /></p><p>Ok, another Cory birthday officially in the books. I’m running out of these Godzilla movies and have no idea what to do. Rewatch them? </p><div><br /></div>Shanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15033662507699896530noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-784846369945401487.post-72455104722947206802021-01-05T17:06:00.002-08:002021-01-05T17:06:27.865-08:002020 Year in Review (Part 4)<p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;">Best Shirt</span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-b9232a07-7fff-3da8-0f71-2a8dc1da2cde"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Froot Loop shirt in <i>Atlantics</i></span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Best Mutton Chops</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Burt Lancaster, <i>The Leopard</i></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-s2ncj7yq7cQ/X_UIE8X4JFI/AAAAAAAAW1A/t9V1n2NUzncwo0FyF9PSGmzeSM6hkQSGwCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="391" data-original-width="643" height="195" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-s2ncj7yq7cQ/X_UIE8X4JFI/AAAAAAAAW1A/t9V1n2NUzncwo0FyF9PSGmzeSM6hkQSGwCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Best Hat</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I loved those Teutonic Knights helmets (the one with the outstretched hand or the one with the chicken foot) in <i>Alexander Nevsky</i>, but Gregg Turkington’s hat in <i>Mister America</i> is the winner here. I’m sorry if you don’t understand why. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-_44oYrIY7hE/X_UIQulalTI/AAAAAAAAW1I/nCrH7OgjseMaXNDCmXa9SbNt4RPbaUqqQCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="301" data-original-width="450" height="214" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-_44oYrIY7hE/X_UIQulalTI/AAAAAAAAW1I/nCrH7OgjseMaXNDCmXa9SbNt4RPbaUqqQCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Best Jewelry</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Furby bling in <i>Uncut Gems</i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><br /></i></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-gbj_HDKh2_c/X_UIW4UcHlI/AAAAAAAAW1Q/2zDi1JdbUJAAYt9eegzTpoBo4NmcMiciQCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="225" height="240" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-gbj_HDKh2_c/X_UIW4UcHlI/AAAAAAAAW1Q/2zDi1JdbUJAAYt9eegzTpoBo4NmcMiciQCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" width="240" /></a></div><div><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Best Hair</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bernadette Peters’ beehive in <i>The Longest Yard</i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><br /></i></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-OXfkqMlLgIY/X_UIdU56HBI/AAAAAAAAW1U/_CGlNgTP19U3VzZw-jhKvDuMv7bVgxSqwCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="732" data-original-width="1200" height="195" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-OXfkqMlLgIY/X_UIdU56HBI/AAAAAAAAW1U/_CGlNgTP19U3VzZw-jhKvDuMv7bVgxSqwCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Best Dress</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A tie! The killer dresses in <i>In Fabric</i> or any number of dresses in <i>Donkey Skin</i> are all great. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Best Furniture</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Giant white cat throne--also <i>Donkey Skin</i></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-bEJsDMFWNkI/X_UH9IcPkLI/AAAAAAAAW08/pcE2yMtzg5YZc1BhqTTmkdSEudNbOnYhwCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="307" data-original-width="512" height="192" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-bEJsDMFWNkI/X_UH9IcPkLI/AAAAAAAAW08/pcE2yMtzg5YZc1BhqTTmkdSEudNbOnYhwCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Best Mustache</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">W.C. Fields’ fake mustache he insisted wearing in his shorts (“perversely insisted” according to Wikipedia) because he knew his audiences didn’t like it</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-3Ua4LiLoy7c/X_UIp6OiVkI/AAAAAAAAW1g/6qBfQLUKRYYbm_5gwvv1rqgwkTVkLVJhACLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="254" data-original-width="198" height="240" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-3Ua4LiLoy7c/X_UIp6OiVkI/AAAAAAAAW1g/6qBfQLUKRYYbm_5gwvv1rqgwkTVkLVJhACLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" width="187" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Wiseau</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This award is for the best-worst example of a person who thinks he or she can do it all--write, direct, act, and sometimes even make music. The nominees: </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Neil Breen, <i>Pass Thru</i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Noel Marshall, <i>Roar </i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Julie Kimmel, <i>A Karate Christmas Miracle</i></span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The winner: An upset! Maybe it’s because Breen has won this award too many times or something, but I’m giving this one to Noel Marshall because <i>Roar</i> is a pretty special work of art. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-lXT0kVt11Xg/X_UI7SHfPGI/AAAAAAAAW1s/75Ckws9BWEoMRBWjTK-txIj8wzMH5DQ_ACLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="682" data-original-width="1024" height="213" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-lXT0kVt11Xg/X_UI7SHfPGI/AAAAAAAAW1s/75Ckws9BWEoMRBWjTK-txIj8wzMH5DQ_ACLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Favorite Cameo of the Year</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jake “The Snake” Roberts, <i>The Peanut Butter Falcon</i></span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I thought he was dead. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Number of Frederick Wiseman Documentaries I Watched This Year</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pretty sure it was seven! Maybe eight! </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Zap Rowsdower Achievement in Bad Action Heroism Award</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ron Slinker, Andy in </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mr. No Legs</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It was Ron Slinker’s only role. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Lew Zealand (Best Movie Puppet)</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The randy puppet in <i>Coming Home</i> at the hospital. He really really liked Jane Fonda. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Best Scene Featuring a Mask That I Totally Forgot to Mention Earlier!</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The use of a Richard Nixon mask in <i>The Ice Storm</i>. Thanks for reminding me, Josh! </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-SNIPM8NFi5I/X_UJuu4w38I/AAAAAAAAW14/-kS6onyXfy8i7G5yqst_s-NIgdGR5HfXACLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="165" data-original-width="306" height="173" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-SNIPM8NFi5I/X_UJuu4w38I/AAAAAAAAW14/-kS6onyXfy8i7G5yqst_s-NIgdGR5HfXACLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Favorite Minor Character of the Year</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">That dude with a flower in his mouth in <i>French Cancan</i> certainly was up to something. I wanted a spin-off for his character. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The “sundial man” in <i>The Man Who Sleeps</i>. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">John Fielder plays the human equivalent of Piglet (well, other than my friend Josh) in <i>Sharky’s Machine</i>. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The winner is a rich lady in <i>Husbands</i> who Peter Falk flirts with. With this ever-changing face, she was just so interesting. </span></p><div><span><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-hh7AIyozVmI/X_UKIi0Ze0I/AAAAAAAAW2A/4IlsIbhj88ARkCiG3B2U28xpObf1_PTIgCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="480" height="240" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-hh7AIyozVmI/X_UKIi0Ze0I/AAAAAAAAW2A/4IlsIbhj88ARkCiG3B2U28xpObf1_PTIgCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Best One and Done Performance</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The previously-mentioned Noel Marshall directed and starred in <i>Roar </i>and then did nothing else. And again, that was truly special. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Fernando Ramos da Silva’s story is a little sadder. He was the titular character in <i>Pixote</i> and didn’t do anything after that because he was shot by police before his 20th birthday. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ted Vollrath played Mr. No Legs in <i>Mr. No Legs</i> and then couldn’t find any studios looking for actors to play more legless characters. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Vladimir Garin, the older brother in <i>The Return</i>, sadly drowned at the age of 16. This year-in-review has suddenly gotten really depressing. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ike Sanders, thus far, has directed <i>Final Flesh</i> and nothing else. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Barbara Loden acted in a few things, including <i>Wanda</i>, the only full-length feature she directed. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And Bill Sherwood wrote and directed <i>Parting Glances</i>, his only feature, before he died from AIDS. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I’m too depressed about all of this to pick a winner in this category. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Best Actor</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bernard Pruvost, <i>Li’l Quinquin</i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dirk Bogarde, <i>The Servant</i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Claude Laydu, <i>Diary of a Country Priest</i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Shooby LeBoof, <i>Honey Boy</i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Volker Spengler, <i>A Year of 13 Moons</i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Giancarlo Giannini, <i>Seven Beauties</i></span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I liked all of those. The winner, however, is Honey Davis for <i>She’s Allergic to Cats</i>. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-esY3Y9TloXs/X_UK18KI58I/AAAAAAAAW2M/b0oe1Rm_TC0NyebAdqfgP4H99DEwAkjowCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="480" height="240" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-esY3Y9TloXs/X_UK18KI58I/AAAAAAAAW2M/b0oe1Rm_TC0NyebAdqfgP4H99DEwAkjowCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Best Actress</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Zhao Tao, <i>Ash Is Purest White</i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jeong-Hie Yun, <i>Poetry</i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chunibala Devi, the aunt in <i>Pather Panchali</i> (she’s so hot!) </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Isabelle Adjani, <i>The Story of Adele H.</i> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Krisha Fairchild, <i>Krisha</i></span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The winner is Ana Torrent from <i>Cria Cuervos</i>. She was 7 years old when she did <i>Spirit of the Beehive</i>, and this came out a few years later. These performances are the opposites of Tooties. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-8IB4J38p-4o/X_UK_seAI9I/AAAAAAAAW2Q/AD0Q1PQMKPc9sKSo9CnGB0a9nw1j5eksACLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="173" data-original-width="291" height="190" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-8IB4J38p-4o/X_UK_seAI9I/AAAAAAAAW2Q/AD0Q1PQMKPc9sKSo9CnGB0a9nw1j5eksACLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Torgo Award (The Best-Worst Performance by an Actor) </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Look! It’s Neil Breen again. <i>Pass Thru</i> was his movie. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Two one-and-dones deserve a mention--Ted Vollrath and Noel Marshall from <i>Mr. No Legs</i> and <i>Roar </i>respectively. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And Jeff Kirkendall from <i>Sharkenstein</i> is the final nominee. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This one goes to Neil Breen. “Isn’t that corrupt?” Maybe, it is, Neil. But nobody knows what either of us is even talking about. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-y5-4SL7ZcRQ/X_ULVwAuGoI/AAAAAAAAW2c/6nEa54cG0gwBOGicskbfyPxXBsolCAamACLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="342" data-original-width="600" height="182" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-y5-4SL7ZcRQ/X_ULVwAuGoI/AAAAAAAAW2c/6nEa54cG0gwBOGicskbfyPxXBsolCAamACLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>The Livingstone (The Best-Worst Performance by an Actress) </b></span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kathy Corpus, <i>Pass Thru</i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Donna T. Rogers, the smuggler lady who sounds like Mr. T in <i>Pass Thru</i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Edith Massey, <i>Polyester</i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Rebel Wilson, <i>Cats</i></span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Maybe it’s a bit of recency bias here, but I’m giving the Livingstone to Anne Barschall for her confusing work in A Karate Christmas Miracle. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-fdlJzCHzQlE/X_ULpgnxhLI/AAAAAAAAW2k/4wJR0xosIlo_fbnJZNg7kYvAXdTUQDckwCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="317" data-original-width="214" height="240" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-fdlJzCHzQlE/X_ULpgnxhLI/AAAAAAAAW2k/4wJR0xosIlo_fbnJZNg7kYvAXdTUQDckwCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" width="162" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Ten Least-Enjoyable Movies I Saw in 2020</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Cats</i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Ready or Not</i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>It: Chapter Two</i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Two Tons of Turquoise for Taos Tonight</i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Hillbilly Elegy</i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>The Bling Ring</i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Maps to the Stars</i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Da Sweet Blood of Jesus</i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>The Old Guard</i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Where’d You Go, Bernadette</i></span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bob Dylan’s <i>Renaldo and Clara</i> almost made this list, by the way. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Manos Award (Best-Worst Movie of the Year) </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bad Movie Club didn’t meet a lot this year, surprising since we all had more time at home in 2020. There were still some enjoyable bad movies though, including these nominees for the Manos: </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Pass Thru</i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Sharkenstein</i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>A Karate Christmas Miracle</i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>The Christmas Tree</i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Future Fear</i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Mr. No Legs</i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Neon Maniacs</i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>A Score to Settle</i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Assassin 33 A.D.</i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>The Creation of the Humanoids</i></span></p><div><span><br /></span></div>The winner? Probably no surprise--Breen takes it again! </span><div><span><br /></span></div><div><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-9oBZpst5oqs/X_UMvWunk3I/AAAAAAAAW2w/U4empW7nswcE9r4BI38plUlrg9lsRU3xwCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1400" data-original-width="906" height="358" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-9oBZpst5oqs/X_UMvWunk3I/AAAAAAAAW2w/U4empW7nswcE9r4BI38plUlrg9lsRU3xwCLcBGAsYHQ/w231-h358/image.png" width="231" /></a></div><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Best Twenty New-to-Me Movies I Saw in 2020 in Random Order</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>1917</i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>The Servant</i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>La Notte</i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Aparajito</i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>The Naked Island</i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Diary of a Country Priest</i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Il Sorpasso</i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Portrait of a Lady on Fire</i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>The Man Who Sleeps</i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Le Million</i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>The Burmese Harp</i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Loves of a blonde</i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Nazarin</i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Welfare</i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Quai des Orfevres</i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>The Travelling Players</i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Topsy Turvy</i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>All About My Mother</i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>L’Eclisse</i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Kanal</i></span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Movies I Saw Twice This Year</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Uncut Gems </i>(in one 24-hour period actually) </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou</i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>I’m Thinking of Ending Things</i></span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Favorite TV Shows That I Watched This Year</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>The Mandalorian</i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Schitt’s Creek</i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Neon Genesis Evangelion</i></span></p><br /></span></div>Shanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15033662507699896530noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-784846369945401487.post-91117854141236503882021-01-05T16:27:00.002-08:002021-01-05T16:27:55.057-08:002020 Year in Review (Part 3)<span id="docs-internal-guid-f1cace22-7fff-7b29-f12f-210aa036d35c"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Best Food Moment</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>The Two Popes</i>--watching Hopkins attack a piece of pizza</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Tampopo</i>--the egg yolk scene (though that should probably go in the “sex scene” category)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Driller Killer</i>--Abel Verrera can also tear through a pizza</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The winner: The pizza voters were divided, and <i>Tampopo</i> comes away with this one. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-VBhFN_s6koM/X_T9shAC8QI/AAAAAAAAWxI/tIFGjBsG9-0yKxBdoI-HP5p7ADhwpxjlQCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="499" data-original-width="720" height="222" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-VBhFN_s6koM/X_T9shAC8QI/AAAAAAAAWxI/tIFGjBsG9-0yKxBdoI-HP5p7ADhwpxjlQCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My New Go-To Thanksgiving Movie</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Krisha</i></span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Best First Appearance in a Movie</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Here’s Claudia Cardinale again--<i>The Leopard</i>. And the men in the movie would agree with me. It’s a lovely moment broken by a froggy “Dinner is served” from a servant. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-8ij-afTCStE/X_T-KJ2reMI/AAAAAAAAWxQ/ijUBTa7Q16wQtPqdY--0hb_91pE22DEWACLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="165" data-original-width="306" height="173" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-8ij-afTCStE/X_T-KJ2reMI/AAAAAAAAWxQ/ijUBTa7Q16wQtPqdY--0hb_91pE22DEWACLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><span><br /></span></div><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Best Editing</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>The House Is Black</i>--a scene where quick cuts to leprous faces match the rhythm of a wheelbarrow’s squeaky wheel</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Best Monologue</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Neil Breen, <i>Pass Thru</i>--a fiery speech from a news station desk</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-585TtSkPgmw/X_T-a1MazUI/AAAAAAAAWxY/W0rJm0eCVqk_xGyJuNewezjVllDO5PHVgCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="480" height="240" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-585TtSkPgmw/X_T-a1MazUI/AAAAAAAAWxY/W0rJm0eCVqk_xGyJuNewezjVllDO5PHVgCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Best Openings</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Jojo Rabbit</i>--connecting Beatlemania to Hitlermania very effectively</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Coonskin</i>--Scatman Crothers doing his thing in profile</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Best Ending</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A desert swallowing a family whole in <i>Barren Lives</i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A goodbye from a train in <i>Summertime</i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Donald Sutherland becoming a meme in <i>Invasion of the Body Snatchers</i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A meta scene with characters walking in the background of a shot in <i>Pastoral: To Die in the Country</i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Vacation photos in <i>The Return</i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thick Eggnog in <i>Intimate Lighting</i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><br /></i></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-XZeQNYXQpW0/X_T-rghzHpI/AAAAAAAAWxg/XDeL7Ic2nl0EbiwR1FWuH9tzt0wYSnnlwCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="153" data-original-width="220" height="223" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-XZeQNYXQpW0/X_T-rghzHpI/AAAAAAAAWxg/XDeL7Ic2nl0EbiwR1FWuH9tzt0wYSnnlwCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><span><br /></span></div><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Best Extended Shots</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>1917</i>--one of my favorite movies from 2019, so something from that (probably the climactic scene I mentioned earlier) has to be mentioned here, right? </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Tout Va Bie</i>n--a supermarket sequence</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>The Passenger</i>--the famous final scene</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Best Scene Featuring an Umbrella</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">A tie! </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Anna in </span><i style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Capricious Summer</i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">, turning to look at the camera while holding an umbrella</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 400;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 400;">A lady with a missing dog waiting under and umbrella in the Outback in </span><i style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 400;">Where the Green Ants Dream</i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 400;"><br /></i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 400;"></i></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-FWEVjW9YgrI/X_T_V0fxG6I/AAAAAAAAWxs/lkFwTCjHwkUWOXSdUG65_hMUqCrU2DJSgCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="240" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-FWEVjW9YgrI/X_T_V0fxG6I/AAAAAAAAWxs/lkFwTCjHwkUWOXSdUG65_hMUqCrU2DJSgCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" width="320" /></a></i></div><i style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 400;"><br /></i></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Favorite Shots or Movie Moments of the Year</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Denis Lavant walking down a street (and jerking, contorting, etc.) while Bowie’s “Modern Love” plays in </span><i style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mauvais Sang</i></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-7Ie6sGwdxPY/X_UA9oIiIRI/AAAAAAAAWyE/_wkytt8bFAAIWW35bbgtp_DtAndAW22ZACLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="392" data-original-width="638" height="197" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-7Ie6sGwdxPY/X_UA9oIiIRI/AAAAAAAAWyE/_wkytt8bFAAIWW35bbgtp_DtAndAW22ZACLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">A welding scene in</span><i style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"> I Fidanzati</i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">, a rain of sparks around a skeleton of a building at night</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The church and its parishioners in the background while the March sisters march food to a struggling family in <i>Little Women</i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Floating veil in Vera Chytilova’s short in<i> Pearls of the Deep</i>--lightning flashes, lovely and haunting</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A husband in <i>The Naked Island</i> looking at a grieving wife and then ignoring her to get back to work</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A shot of a girl unspooling a roll of film by rolling it on the ground like it’s a hula hoop in <i>The Image Book</i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Women changing behind a screen in <i>The Gold Diggers of 1933</i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/--LpXR9ILKYc/X_UAYX4VXuI/AAAAAAAAWx4/f_GloQN9mDsrScRflhPsqF7ij7vxhmeXQCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="325" data-original-width="444" height="234" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/--LpXR9ILKYc/X_UAYX4VXuI/AAAAAAAAWx4/f_GloQN9mDsrScRflhPsqF7ij7vxhmeXQCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A shot of a female janitor trying out a balance beam in <i>Something Different</i> while other female janitors watch her work</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A briefcase thrown into a tree in <i>Mistress America</i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A woman’s face highlighted by light after she’s had smoke blown in her face in <i>Il Sorpasso</i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Grace Kelly in that beach get-up in <i>To Catch a Thief</i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In the titular donkey skin, Catherine Deneuve prancing through the woods and later a village with frozen people in <i>Donkey Skin</i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-UXlCUpCg0Mw/X_UAv9b0dJI/AAAAAAAAWyA/umQ19sc8vYoZekASJn6YFvfZvGr_5kkLgCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2039" height="240" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-UXlCUpCg0Mw/X_UAv9b0dJI/AAAAAAAAWyA/umQ19sc8vYoZekASJn6YFvfZvGr_5kkLgCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" width="239" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The winner is a really easy choice this year: “Slow-mo artist taunting some goats with a knife--at one point, he and all the goats look directly into the camera and it’s magical.” That’s a note I have written down for this, but I don’t have any idea what I’m talking about or what movie this might come from. It sounds great though, so it wins. If you have any information about this, let me know. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Movie Scene I Thought About the Most This Year</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Adam Sandler, after digging through a fish in <i>Uncut Gems</i>, looking straight at the camera and announcing, “Holy shit, I’m gonna cum.” </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-A4_8asEziSQ/X_UBJMp4YDI/AAAAAAAAWyM/y50D_idXXrwPN5QOHUtvOrzD1lEkqSOmgCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="300" height="179" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-A4_8asEziSQ/X_UBJMp4YDI/AAAAAAAAWyM/y50D_idXXrwPN5QOHUtvOrzD1lEkqSOmgCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Best Silent Movie Title Card</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“An American boy is in love with an American girl--Let’s go!” </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Best Lighting</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Cemetery of Splendour</i>--those oxygen tubes that glow and change colors are so cool</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Best Poster</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-pZXKpe_qvpQ/X_UCjLvfjPI/AAAAAAAAWzk/a3X9tdVFGMM7qVQtMyCEiLn8XP2mILUwACLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="300" height="266" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-pZXKpe_qvpQ/X_UCjLvfjPI/AAAAAAAAWzk/a3X9tdVFGMM7qVQtMyCEiLn8XP2mILUwACLcBGAsYHQ/w177-h266/image.png" width="177" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-6S25Y-5UPXw/X_UCoFL8gvI/AAAAAAAAWzo/Rj4b6AxAFHEShRr95epQvlGfE5LICxleACLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="255" data-original-width="170" height="266" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-6S25Y-5UPXw/X_UCoFL8gvI/AAAAAAAAWzo/Rj4b6AxAFHEShRr95epQvlGfE5LICxleACLcBGAsYHQ/w177-h266/image.png" width="177" /></a></div><br /><p></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Best Animal Moment</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pruvost riding a horse (and fulfilling a dream) in <i>Li’l Quinquin</i>--this one has a punchline! </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Barren Lives</i>--Mom kills a parrot</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Invasion of the Body Snatchers</i>--a dog with Harry’s face</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lucien Lacombe karate chopping the head off a chicken and walks away before a little girl scrambles over to pick it up in <i>Lacombe, Lucien</i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A cow shot and eaten in <i>Monos</i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The acrobatic chickens--in an act with a clown--in <i>Honey Boy</i> (they’re even credited)</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Best Scene with a Person Acting Like an Animal</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Forest Walrus guy--<i>The Magic Flute</i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><br /></i></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-dYl4oZ6tX8w/X_UC-bO2amI/AAAAAAAAWz0/lked4iQBzhk_KxWwM2Mfq2DI-o1LBBgRgCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="400" height="240" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-dYl4oZ6tX8w/X_UC-bO2amI/AAAAAAAAWz0/lked4iQBzhk_KxWwM2Mfq2DI-o1LBBgRgCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Bart the Bear Award for Best Performance by an Animal</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Beleia--<i>Barren Lives</i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jack--<i>What did Jack Do?</i> (disqualified because it’s aided by CGI)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Turkey on a streetcar--<i>Hot Water</i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lucy--<i>Wendy and Lucy</i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chimp with bells--<i>Arabian Nights</i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Singing parrot--<i>Donkey Skin</i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Donkey that shits jewels--<i>Donkey Skin</i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dog--<i>The Strange Little Cat</i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cat--<i>The Strange Little Cat</i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Moth--<i>The Strange Little Cat</i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bird--<i>The Strange Little Cat</i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A whole lot of animals in <i>Roar</i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Rainbow the dog--<i>Fury</i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tanga the chimp--<i>Phenomena</i></span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The winner: Vlad the tiger from Neil Breen’s <i>Pass Thru</i>. He outshines every human actor in the movie, and any living thing that can have a staring contest with Neil Breen without giggling has to be talented. Congratulations, Vlad. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-VS3mNWOsnUA/X_UDSDXIs-I/AAAAAAAAWz8/oW_hI1ai7YAHhZwAC_El0h9HsiCPDjzDACLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="171" data-original-width="294" height="186" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-VS3mNWOsnUA/X_UDSDXIs-I/AAAAAAAAWz8/oW_hI1ai7YAHhZwAC_El0h9HsiCPDjzDACLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Best Monster</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">That monkey man in <i>Neon Maniacs</i> was really working it.<i> Sharkenstein</i> was goofy in the water and then somehow even goofier on land. Wait, what? On land? </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The winner: The bunch of melded alpacas in <i>Color Out of Space</i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><br /></i></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-c-j2wUKV514/X_UDveTYsHI/AAAAAAAAW0E/n-QhMRMCNGEMAX6yFskd9QrsSkz0eoF8gCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="240" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-c-j2wUKV514/X_UDveTYsHI/AAAAAAAAW0E/n-QhMRMCNGEMAX6yFskd9QrsSkz0eoF8gCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Best Pleasant Surprise</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Roy Andersson’s <i>Giliap</i></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-lxwfovdFZmM/X_UD4LvSrLI/AAAAAAAAW0I/SNFaLALG5a8qfzzuw6xTA088ek2ml6qyQCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="419" data-original-width="300" height="269" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-lxwfovdFZmM/X_UD4LvSrLI/AAAAAAAAW0I/SNFaLALG5a8qfzzuw6xTA088ek2ml6qyQCLcBGAsYHQ/w193-h269/image.png" width="193" /></a></div><br /><p></p>Shanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15033662507699896530noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-784846369945401487.post-43238660483077720272021-01-04T20:32:00.017-08:002021-01-04T20:35:33.321-08:002020 Year in Review (Part Two)<span id="docs-internal-guid-5698e51b-7fff-03a7-b090-412e91228b28"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Best Decapitation</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A very surprising severed head spotted in <i>Li’l Quinquin</i> (one of the funniest movies I saw all year)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Celine Lopez in a fish tank in <i>The Silent Partner</i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A freak decapitation with an elevator and necklace in <i>Deep Red</i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">An early splashy one in <i>Lancelot du Lac</i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Polyester</i> post-car-accident scene</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A photographer in <i>The Omen</i></span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The winner is <i>Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees</i>, probably because its decapitations outnumber the others. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bTPqFDTQl4w/X_Oje_335JI/AAAAAAAAWvc/IIR7j4V2ImkJnDp94f_Pi7FMD5VgU-BfwCLcBGAsYHQ/s283/download.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="178" data-original-width="283" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bTPqFDTQl4w/X_Oje_335JI/AAAAAAAAWvc/IIR7j4V2ImkJnDp94f_Pi7FMD5VgU-BfwCLcBGAsYHQ/s0/download.jpeg" /></a></div><p></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Best Training Montage</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>The Peanut Butter Falcon</i></span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Best Chase Scene</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A three-way tie (only because I’m in a hurry and don’t want to think too much about this garbage): </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Police officers on roller skates chasing Billy Barty on roller skates during the “Pettin’ in the Park” sequence in <i>Gold Diggers of 1933</i> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Moon pirates in <i>Ad Astra</i>, the year’s quietest chase scene</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jackie Chan, an umbrella, and a bus in <i>Police Story</i></span></p><div><span><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EDV_WdTq6Js/X_OlnPEuW3I/AAAAAAAAWvs/_doOW8vT7A8JZTxYnufC5aJzOQLh768PQCLcBGAsYHQ/s480/3409472-06_ps.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="270" data-original-width="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EDV_WdTq6Js/X_OlnPEuW3I/AAAAAAAAWvs/_doOW8vT7A8JZTxYnufC5aJzOQLh768PQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/3409472-06_ps.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></div><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Best Action Scene That Isn’t an Action Scene</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A bottle spinning perpetually in <i>The Strange Little Cat</i></span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Best Action Scene That Is an Action Scene</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Dirty Ho</i> had several, but my favorite involved teacups. I probably just wanted to type “Dirty Ho” again though. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Scariest Moment</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Machete fishing in <i>La Cienaga</i></span></p><div><span><br /></span></div>So few people reading this are even going to know what the hell I'm talking about with most of these! Why do I keep doing this? </span><div><span><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Best Death Scene </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The end of <i>All Quiet on the Western Front</i>, a scene with a butterfly</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Best Urine Scenes</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Romance,” the final short in the <i>Pearls of the Deep Czech</i> anthology film--a kid urinates and another character claims, “Careful. This may be some future president.” </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Relaxer</i>--it’s also got defecate and vomit</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Tout Va Bien</i>--the manager of the factory desperately tries to take a piss and eventually does out of a window during a strike/hostage situation</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><i style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Honey Boy</i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">--an argument about dick sizes during some competitive urinating</span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8qNfaws288g/X_Pme8EKY9I/AAAAAAAAWv4/69_H3GJDU6k93fYmWdMf1jRrClBMsoHMgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1284/honey-boy-shia-labeouf.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="856" data-original-width="1284" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8qNfaws288g/X_Pme8EKY9I/AAAAAAAAWv4/69_H3GJDU6k93fYmWdMf1jRrClBMsoHMgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/honey-boy-shia-labeouf.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">I have an old friend who doesn't really look like Shooby LeBoof's character here. But whenever I think of him, I imagine a person who looks exactly like this. </span></span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Best Poop Scenes</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Relaxer</i>--gross. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Cemetery of Splendour</i>--a seemingly random shot of a guy pooping in the woods (Oh, Apichatpong, you nutty guy!) </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Cooley High</i>--a gorilla throws feces at a character</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Seven Beauties</i>--the death of a character</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>The Taste of Tea</i>--one involving a skull</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Best Fart</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It’s got to be the farting corpse in <i>Seven Beauties</i>. Seemingly a light year with farting movies. I guess I didn't see any Dreamworks animated films this year. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Best Movie Foreplay</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The daughter character bites off a frog’s head and spits blood in her hair in <i>Thou Wast Mild and Lovely</i>. It’s something my wife refuses to try. Speaking of her. . .</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Things That Would Annoy My Wife If She Read My Reviews on Letterboxd</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Claudia Cardinale ranting when writing about <i>The Leopard</i> (you can practically see the drool in my typing)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">That I developed a cigarette fetish while watching <i>The Gold Diggers of 1933</i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">That I developed a bloomers fetish while watching Hulya Kocyigit and her legs and became as lusty as the villainous main character in <i>Dry Summer</i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">That I awarded J-Lo an Academy Award for “booty” </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">More Anna Karina fawning, seemingly a yearly tradition</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Claims that Herzog’s artificial surrealism hardens my nipples</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Admitting that my “favorite brand of nudity” is “elderly man nudity” when writing about <i>The Death of Mr. Lazarescu</i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Suggesting that if Goldie Hawn was the librarian at my library, I’d be there all the time</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Admitting that I only watched Wiseman’s <i>Primate</i> to see monkey sex because I don’t know how to find pornography on the Internet</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">That I had trouble taking my eyes of Jack Nicholson’s body </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When I sad that Rod Steiger was hot</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My appreciation of bosom heaving</span></p><div><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9mMqx0luGUo/X_PnQ0HtTTI/AAAAAAAAWwE/mz7r4sKHci4B11bdzHt0-UPSBpxxDu40ACLcBGAsYHQ/s1200/MV5BMTk0NjQ1OTUxNl5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTYwNDA3NjA2._V1_UY1200_CR109%252C0%252C630%252C1200_AL_.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="630" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9mMqx0luGUo/X_PnQ0HtTTI/AAAAAAAAWwE/mz7r4sKHci4B11bdzHt0-UPSBpxxDu40ACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/MV5BMTk0NjQ1OTUxNl5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTYwNDA3NjA2._V1_UY1200_CR109%252C0%252C630%252C1200_AL_.jpg" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p>Best Sex Scene</span><p></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The character I called “Mustache” in <i>Dry Summer</i> and his encounter with a scarecrow</span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The main character in <i>Poetry</i> and an old man in a pool (thanks, Viagra)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Aspergren with a car in <i>The Deer Hunter</i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jeff Bridges and What’s-Her-Face in <i>Winter Kills</i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sharkenstein and Bonnie Boom Boom (though I will never have a rape scene win this award)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1930’s sex in <i>People on Sunday</i>, a camera moving away to show some trees before panning to show the guy getting dressed again</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Playing cards (a jack scandalously on top of a queen) in <i>Bed and Sofa</i></span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The winner: A sex montage in <i>Absurdistan</i>! That movie's on Amazon and is very enjoyable. You should watch it. Of course, I don't know why you'd listen to a person who has a yearly award for. . .</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Best Masturbation </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Midnight Express</i> has a conjugal visit with boobs pressed against glass (“Oh, Billy.”)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kids watching a pornographic film with a pimp and having at it in <i>Pixote</i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A dude several times in <i>Thou Wast Mild and Lovely</i>, once in a barn with livestock looking on</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The kid in <i>Evangelion</i> while he watches his comatose friend in a hospital bed</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>In Fabric</i>--an old guy pleasures himself while watching witches bathe a mannequin that for some reason has pubic hair</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The winner: <i>Primate</i>, for a scene where a scientist feeds a monkey grape juice while using some sort of tube instrument on it, all while saying, “Hey! Hey!” Comedy gold! Especially if you have the mind of a 12 year old! </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-89cFHVgQKWI/X_PoUXkDU6I/AAAAAAAAWwQ/uPhnrTlwMHwta7F19e_VLlQfEKPZxb1VACLcBGAsYHQ/s1000/primate-1974-001-researcher-with-primates.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="559" data-original-width="1000" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-89cFHVgQKWI/X_PoUXkDU6I/AAAAAAAAWwQ/uPhnrTlwMHwta7F19e_VLlQfEKPZxb1VACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/primate-1974-001-researcher-with-primates.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;">Best Shower Scene</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>The Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle</i>--swirling words, other hallucinatory shenanigans </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Best Nudity</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The unexpected nudity at the end of <i>Schneider vs. Bax </i>and a girl on the roof in <i>Absurdistan </i>are great, but Britt Ekland wins this for a double dose with <i>The Wicker Man</i> (butt double?) and <i>Year of the Cannibals</i>. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0w31Q9l9mjs/X_Po4lIS-CI/AAAAAAAAWwY/7YZRR82gmdULubx4i6eIq6YJmKHv4P2HgCLcBGAsYHQ/s982/britt-ekland-the-man-with-the-golden-gun.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="982" data-original-width="782" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0w31Q9l9mjs/X_Po4lIS-CI/AAAAAAAAWwY/7YZRR82gmdULubx4i6eIq6YJmKHv4P2HgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/britt-ekland-the-man-with-the-golden-gun.jpg" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><span style="font-weight: 700;">Best Artwork</span></span><p></p><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Metallic Jesus in the middle short of <i>Pearls of the Deep</i></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jesus portrait in <i>Nazarin</i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Doodle test in <i>Le Petit Soldat</i>--Anna Karina draws a Johnny Appleseed with a boner approaching an armless woman</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The paintings in <i>Potrait of a Lady on Fire</i>--I especially liked the one she messes up</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The winner is the Jesus portrait from <i>Nazarin</i> because I had fun tweeting that at Mike Pence several times over the summer. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KtLIHHvD5FA/X_PpkI7fJGI/AAAAAAAAWwg/wBaYBQZ4jJcL4yz2T5Q0vjrkRbFmPVEuACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/nazarin-luis-bunuel-laughing-christ.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KtLIHHvD5FA/X_PpkI7fJGI/AAAAAAAAWwg/wBaYBQZ4jJcL4yz2T5Q0vjrkRbFmPVEuACLcBGAsYHQ/s0/nazarin-luis-bunuel-laughing-christ.jpg" /></a></div><p></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Best Mirror Scene</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>A Single Man</i>--”Just get through the goddamn day.” </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Gold Diggers in 1933</i>--Faneul H. Peabody wagging his tongue with a dog</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>The Servant</i>--nothing specific, but I wanted to mention how this movie has a lot of great shots in mirrors</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Winner: <i>Final Flesh</i>--a guy talking about how he dreamed so hard that he found a mirror in his pants</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The E.T. (Best Product Placement Award) </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I did not do a very good job of keeping track of these this year, it seems. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Animal Wafers (<i>Gold Diggers of 1933</i>)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Red Bull (<i>Hustlers</i>)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Fanta (<i>The Two Popes</i>)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Faygo (<i>Relaxer</i>)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tab, lots of others (<i>Polyester</i>)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Evian (<i>Xala</i>) </span></p><div><span><br /></span></div>Do I have to pick a winner? Nope! Especially since nobody is even reading this! </span></div><div><span><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Best House</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The swamp-surrounded architectural feat that is the setting of <i>Schneider vs. Bax</i> (any excuse to mention Alex van Warmerdam)</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Best Clock</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>The Joke</i>--one shown at the beginning (Note: I have no idea what I’m even talking about here.) </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Best Smile</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The last shot of <i>Magnolia</i></span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Best Colon</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Adam Sandler’s in <i>Uncut Gems</i></span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Best Teeth</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Adam Sandler’s in <i>Uncut Gems</i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mFn-kfFn8p0/X_PqGdD0xXI/AAAAAAAAWwo/Dx4PxzhbuXIJ3TXgWyfBYCRTA-_m8fLcwCLcBGAsYHQ/s225/as.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="225" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mFn-kfFn8p0/X_PqGdD0xXI/AAAAAAAAWwo/Dx4PxzhbuXIJ3TXgWyfBYCRTA-_m8fLcwCLcBGAsYHQ/s0/as.jpg" /></a></div><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Best Use of a Dummy</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Jean-Louis Trintignant in</span><i style="font-size: 11pt;"> Il Sorpasso</i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A mannequin in <i>The Criminal Life of Arhcibaldo de la Cruz</i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Two thrown from a train in <i>Last Stop on the Night Train</i></span></p><div><span><br /></span></div>However, a<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> girl thrown out of a car in </span><i style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Phenix City Story </i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">made me laugh the hardest at the most inappropriate time, so it wins. </span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The American Sniper Fake Baby Award</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Pastoral: To Die in the Country</i></span></p><div><span><br /></span></div>In television, this would go to a fake baby I've been seeing on <i>Days of Our Lives</i>. They have the most irritating baby sound effects, almost like the baby is hyperventilating. It's really almost ruined that show for me. </span></div><div><span><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Best Masks</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Mr. Arkadin</i> has a masquerade ball with some ridiculous(ly awesome) ones</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>I Vitelloni</i>--a guy in drag carries one around for a while and even dances with it</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Best Accent</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Crispin Glover’s French one in <i>Lucky Day</i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><br /></i></span></p><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WGGcoSRnpYE/X_PrkTnKMaI/AAAAAAAAWw0/6foyaX-jdo0xDtUcAN_ugKvPyS5JgHW6QCLcBGAsYHQ/s1024/crispin-glover-lucky-day-jpg-1024x521.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="521" data-original-width="1024" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WGGcoSRnpYE/X_PrkTnKMaI/AAAAAAAAWw0/6foyaX-jdo0xDtUcAN_ugKvPyS5JgHW6QCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/crispin-glover-lucky-day-jpg-1024x521.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></div><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Best Movie Prayer</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I like the one at the end of <i>Welfare</i> (“I’ll wander. . .”) but the winner is Coonskin here--”I sees you, Lord, and you better fuckin’ see me.” </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Best Cannibalism</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Fried Green Tomatoes</i></span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Best Horror Movie</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I have no idea if <i>His House</i> (available on Netflix) is the best horror film or not, but I wanted to mention it somewhere. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LtEmJSEk8N4/X_Pr1W0C7AI/AAAAAAAAWw8/uf1es38yC0YkNRAFOb4WRSaTxh-FmvUyQCLcBGAsYHQ/s512/AAAABWYbt_L9JeRsmNqJscfIFmkKX5mJvStArXjkqSzCeeguyHXDnxn-Tp0wPJv_9fiISAKUkIdBZxK6FGIARAN_5rByF-mqi3kzkcqYrT-yUpr1O6tqkt9HvzFQyMbfeA.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="288" data-original-width="512" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LtEmJSEk8N4/X_Pr1W0C7AI/AAAAAAAAWw8/uf1es38yC0YkNRAFOb4WRSaTxh-FmvUyQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/AAAABWYbt_L9JeRsmNqJscfIFmkKX5mJvStArXjkqSzCeeguyHXDnxn-Tp0wPJv_9fiISAKUkIdBZxK6FGIARAN_5rByF-mqi3kzkcqYrT-yUpr1O6tqkt9HvzFQyMbfeA.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><p></p></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div>Shanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15033662507699896530noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-784846369945401487.post-29654744249769077392021-01-02T15:23:00.001-08:002021-01-02T15:23:18.644-08:002020 Year in Review (Part One)<p>That's right. I still do this. </p><p>Well, I broke my personal record for the amount of movies I watched this year. Though I have a global pandemic to partially blame, I’m still a little too embarrassed to say just how many I watched. So I won’t. Message me privately, and I might tell you. </p><p>I believe I saw four movies in the theater this year. They were all Best Picture nominees because some theater nearby was showing those for just five bucks each. The last movie I saw in a theater was <i>Ford v Ferrari</i>. It was pretty good! </p><p>As you might know, I use a 20-point scale when rating movies. <i>Ford v Ferrari</i> was a 15/20, for example. Pretty good! I did give it a bonus point for the use of the song “Pork Salad Annie,” however. This year, there were four 20’s (all repeats), and I didn’t have a single movie with a 1/20. I didn’t rate anything a 19/20 either. There was a tie for my most frequent rating between 15/20 and 16/20. </p><p>The average rating this year was a 14.04, just underneath last year’s record of 14.1. Fewer Bad Movie Clubs and an emphasis on movies on the “They Shoot Pictures, Don’t They?” list of the greatest films ever made probably helped that average. </p><p>Only 50.8% of the movies I watched this year were American. 58.5% were in English. 10% of the movies I watched came from France. </p><p>None of these numbers are official. </p><p>Ok, that’s boring. Let’s get moving with some awards! </p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>The Billy Curtis Award</b></p><p>As always, we start with my award for the best performance by a little person. The competition’s always fierce with this one! This year’s nominees: </p><p>Leigh Gill played a little fellow in <i>Joker</i>. However, he’s really only there so that jokes can be made about little people because that’s the kind of movie <i>Joker</i> is. Gill was “Bobono” in Game of Thrones. That means nothing to me, but it might mean something to you. </p><p>Previously-nominated (and former Razzie winner, believe it or not) Billy Barty played an ornery baby in <i>Gold Diggers of 1933</i> at the age of 8, a little older than ornery-baby age. He’s used in a couple great gags in that movie. I also saw him as a beleaguered Bible salesman in 1978’s <i>Foul Play</i>. </p><p>Wilson Salazar gives a great little person performance as “The Messenger'' in <i>Monos</i>. Thus far, this is his lone performance. </p><p>Tiny Kennedy delivers a delightfully enthusiastic little performance, mostly cheering on a cat fight at The 7 Seas in <i>Mr. No Legs</i>. Note: I’m not sure this is the little person actor’s name; however, his name is “Tiny,” so I’m taking a chance. </p><p>There’s a little guy with a mohawk in <i>Pastoral: To Die in the Country</i>. He works in a circus and inflates his wife. It’s a good one, but I can’t find his name, and you just can’t win the Billy Curtis Award without a name. The same goes for the actor who played “Eddy,” the little circus sidekick in <i>Lola Montes </i>or the barker with a megaphone in <i>La Strada.</i> </p><p>"Hermine's Midgets" perform a lot of amazing little-person acrobatics in <i>The Court Jester</i>. Billy Curtis himself is in that movie. If I had an little person ensemble award, they would win that. </p><p>Mihaly “Michu” Meszaros, another former nominee, has a very brief role in <i>Coonskin</i> as a referee. He’s best known, of course, as the guy in the Alf costume or as Andy in <i>Big Top Pee Wee</i>. </p><p>Bow-legged Hugo in Bunuel’s <i>Nazarin</i> is played by Jesus Fernandez. He’s great. </p><p>David Marotta is best known as the alien in a series of Italian Kodak commercials, but I saw him as The Ugnaut in <i>Phenomena</i>. </p><p>And Sammy Brooks finishes off this list of Billy Curtis nominees with his small part as a little suitor in Harold Lloyd’s “The Marathon.” </p><p>The winner of this year’s Billy Curtis Award: It's your year, Billy Barty! Congratulations! </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TJPZuMCO55Y/X_D4L6iI-rI/AAAAAAAAWuE/hqdzs8OhffwhCTkVs6dHANtzJ-bcq3BUwCLcBGAsYHQ/s988/Gold-Diggers-of-1933-1933-00-37-59.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="988" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TJPZuMCO55Y/X_D4L6iI-rI/AAAAAAAAWuE/hqdzs8OhffwhCTkVs6dHANtzJ-bcq3BUwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Gold-Diggers-of-1933-1933-00-37-59.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><b>Best Nicolas Cage Moment of the Year</b></p><p><i>Color Out of Space</i>, <i>Primal</i>, and <i>A Score to Settle</i> were the only Nicolas Cage movies I saw, at least while conscious. I dream Nicolas Cage movies all the time, but I never remember them. <i>Between Worlds</i> was a repeat, so I won’t include it here. The best Nicolas Cage moments, all which will likely be completely meaningless to anybody reading this who hasn’t seen the movies (but can be easily imagined): </p><p>“Beef! Beeeeeeef!” (end of <i>A Score to Settle</i>)</p><p>“They won’t be calling you ‘dragon’ anymore.” Blam! Genital shot!</p><p>Killing a guy while chomping on a carrot for absolutely no reason</p><p>“Chasing Rainbows” song in <i>A Score to Settle</i> (he learned to play piano for this role)</p><p>“Bitches, leave!” </p><p>Throwing out an “egghead,” an “eggface,” and an “eggcelent” pun while a bellhop is Googling nursing homes in a magical 30 seconds</p><p>Milking an alpaca and immediately drinking the milk (“Gentle with the. . .uh. . .boobs.”)</p><p>Singing operatically while driving his wife home from the hospital</p><p>A shower scene--”Ahh! Ahh!” as a jelly creature grabs his hand</p><p>Accent struggles in <i>Color Out of Space</i></p><p>Calling his car a “cocksucker” several times during a mini-freakout</p><p>A full-fledged freakout when he doesn’t like how his “peaches” taste (“Slam dunk!”) </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HzqRSPKCIiM/X_D6qAICOPI/AAAAAAAAWuY/Xeo5qNEkDOIktIKEC_c0DYpa5ttJrxdzACLcBGAsYHQ/s2000/2AW4B5H.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1270" data-original-width="2000" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HzqRSPKCIiM/X_D6qAICOPI/AAAAAAAAWuY/Xeo5qNEkDOIktIKEC_c0DYpa5ttJrxdzACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/2AW4B5H.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><b>The Tootie (Worst Child Acting)</b></p><p>The youngest kid in <i>Islands in the Stream</i>, John Whitely in <i>Moonfleet</i>, the Beaver himself (Jerry Mathers) in <i>The Trouble with Harry</i>, and the annoyingly screechy Naomi Casey Fields’ in W.C. Fields’ “The Golf Specialist” are all really bad, but The Tootie goes to Mario del Vicchio, the star of <i>A Karate Christmas Miracle</i>. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YukPgCsGH3s/X_D6US-1TeI/AAAAAAAAWuQ/dVXwipx9agIctrFR2XS2bJNQmObv-XZZQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1617/x1080.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1617" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YukPgCsGH3s/X_D6US-1TeI/AAAAAAAAWuQ/dVXwipx9agIctrFR2XS2bJNQmObv-XZZQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/x1080.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><b>Favorite Quotes of the Year</b></p><p>"I'll always taste the salt of your body in the sweat of mine."</p><p>"I've had seven children with her, and I've never seen her navel." </p><p>"There is no shortage of ugliness in the world. If man closed his eyes to it, there would be even more." </p><p>"It's like falling off a bicycle. . .into a vagina." </p><p>"We are never sad enough for the world to be better." </p><p>"I'll make 'em laugh at you starving to death, honey. It'll be the funniest thing you ever did."</p><p>"We are all as God made us, and others, much worse." </p><p>"It's hard when a woman leaves a man with nothing but memories and a muff." </p><p>"Tame your stick!"</p><p>"I think it's extraordinarily unfair for a woman to age." </p><p>"Why don't you just put pasta up her pussy?" </p><p>"Sometimes you have to go back in order to go front." </p><p>"That's cool about the frozen yogurt machine. Everybody I know dies." </p><p>"Did Jesus build walls?" </p><p>"This whole country runs on epidemics." </p><p>"Cruelty abounds in this planet." </p><p>"We must look a little closer. And when we do, we see that the doughnut hole has a hole in its center. It is not a doughnut hole, but a smaller doughnut with its own hole, and our doughnut is not holed at all." </p><p>"Maybe freedom begins with remorse." </p><p>"We all have a trash can deep within." </p><p>"What part of Mommy's body makes Daddy frown?" </p><p>"Yes, there's toilet humor, but there's also toilet sadness, toilet tragedy, toilet triumph!” </p><p>"I hate men with little white hands." </p><p>"That's right, honey, you have attacked an innocent dwarf." </p><p>"I can't shit upwards." </p><p>"You can't choose hepatitis. It chooses you." </p><p>"The mind controls the pants, mate!" </p><p>"Rats don't dream, and what can you do to protect yourself against your dreams?" </p><p>"In the circus, everyone's got a watch." </p><p>"Hey, lady, you can't throw oranges on an escalator."</p><p>"Poetry deranges you, father."</p><p>"And now, my dear friend, go jack off among the roses." </p><p>"Every time you have an erection, it makes the papers." </p><p>"Everyone who drinks is not a poet. Maybe some of us drink because we're not poets." </p><p>"I never wanted to use macramé to kill."</p><p>"He who cares not for art cares not for life." </p><p>"He looks like an old umbrella. He must be a lousy lover." </p><p>"You are the gay heroes who will repulse the enemy when you are called upon to do so." </p><p>"There's moisture. Some of it isn't sweat." </p><p>"Prince Charmings today snort cocaine and do the mambo." </p><p>"And that's how you get dead." </p><p>"Sweetie, since the beginning of time, there has never been a case of one gargoyle attacking." </p><p>"I saw a Rohmer film once. It was kind of like watching paint dry." </p><p>"You'd get lost in the woods and die. And they'd find a rat skeleton inside your pelvic bone where your vagina was." </p><p>"I say it's a horny demon." </p><p>"When I die, I want a separate tombstone for my balls." </p><p>"The greatest threat to any marriage is chess."</p><p>"Half the rock and roll industry's finance by dentists." </p><p>"The world belongs to those with teeth." </p><p>"The penis astonishes me. It can give pain or pleasure. It can give life and now it can give death." </p><p>"Can a person fit inside a cow's ass?" (This was followed with the answer “Cows go in barns.”)</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mWT6JLQ9CZ0/X_D7oTRzofI/AAAAAAAAWuk/qDsj3ois7hIM4oKoaB9JpAuSlNpQajNlgCLcBGAsYHQ/s500/original.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="206" data-original-width="500" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mWT6JLQ9CZ0/X_D7oTRzofI/AAAAAAAAWuk/qDsj3ois7hIM4oKoaB9JpAuSlNpQajNlgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/original.gif" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><b>Best Scores</b></p><p><i>The Naked Island </i>(Hikaru Hayashi)</p><p><i>Ad Astra</i> (Max Richter)</p><p><i>Dry Summer</i> (Ahmet Yamacı and Manos Hadjidakis)</p><p><i>Monos</i> (previous winner Mica Levi)</p><p><i>The Green Fog</i> (Jacob Garchik with Kronos Quartet)</p><p><i>Pastoral: To Die in the Country</i> (J.A. Seazer)</p><p><i>Juliet of the Spirits</i> (Nino Rota)</p><p><i>La Antena</i> (Leo Sujatovich)</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Best Belly Dancing Scene</b></p><p>A chubby Mushka in <i>Barefoot in the Park</i> is a good one, but <i>French Cancan</i> wins this for a scene with Gabin’s first love interest. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LYST3Aoe-MA/X_D8MjarFDI/AAAAAAAAWus/wj_gTvHjtUUVbnySb-0eXzJS3UHxxMQZwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/891id_316_152_w1600.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1600" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LYST3Aoe-MA/X_D8MjarFDI/AAAAAAAAWus/wj_gTvHjtUUVbnySb-0eXzJS3UHxxMQZwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/891id_316_152_w1600.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><b>Best Theme Song</b></p><p>“Cannibal” (Don Powell and Ennio Morricone for <i>Year of the Cannibals</i>)</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Best Scene with a Metronome</b></p><p><i>The Two Popes </i>only teases one, and so does <i>Autumn Sonata</i>. Metronome teases! </p><p>The easy winner is from Fellini's <i>Orchestra Rehearsal</i>. First, you’ve got a woman doing an impersonation of a metronome which might be the hottest thing I’ve ever seen. Second, there’s a giant metronome brought in to replace a conductor during a chaotic climax. Giant metronome! </p><p><br /></p><p><b>Best Sound Effect</b></p><p>Slurping in <i>Tampopo</i></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Best Use of Sound</b></p><p><i>Sound of Metal</i>, a 2020 release about a heavy metal drummer who loses his hearing (on Amazon Prime)</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Best Dance Sequence</b></p><p>The end of <i>Jojo Rabbit</i> is really sweet. </p><p>Anna Karina dances to Haydn in <i>Le Petit Soldat</i>. </p><p>Denis Lavant writhes and flops around to “Rhythm of the Night” at the end of <i>Beau Travail</i>. That might be a spoiler. Sorry about that. Maybe you should have tried to watch every movie I saw this year instead of being lazy and doing whatever it was you were doing all year.</p><p>Audrey Hepburn shows off some moves in a smoke-drenched Parisian beatnik club in <i>Funny Face</i>. </p><p>A whore and a kid share a dance in front of headlights in <i>Pixote</i>. </p><p><i>La Notte</i> has a terrific and scandalous dance scene in a nightclub with a woman and a glass of wine, and I haven’t stopped thinking about that one since I saw it. </p><p>And there’s a mad tapdance-on-a-table sequence in <i>I Knew Her Well</i>. </p><p>Those are some great nominees! But the award goes to Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon from <i>Lost in Paris</i>. And if I see them dancing in a scene next year, they’ll probably win next year, too. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/w-vC2d-FB4o" width="320" youtube-src-id="w-vC2d-FB4o"></iframe></div><br /><p><b>Best Musical Moment</b></p><p>“You Are So Beautiful” moment in <i>Honeyland </i>when the “character” gets a radio to work</p><p>A leper singing a song and doing a little dance in <i>The House Is Black</i></p><p>That aforementioned Nicolas Cage “Chasing Rainbows” scene in <i>A Score to Settle</i></p><p>A song sung by soldiers in the woods in <i>1917</i>, a little beauty amidst a whole lot of dead bodies</p><p>Jack the Monkey bursting into song in Lynch’s “What Did Jack Do?” </p><p>“Dancing Queen” in <i>The Two Popes</i> (or when Hopkins’ pope plays piano for Pryce’s pope)</p><p>A scene in <i>Little Women</i> when the youngest little woman plays piano while the guy who lost his daughter listens to her</p><p>Adam Driver providing background vocals for that spaceman song in <i>Inside Llewyn Davis</i> (likely mentioned in a previous year but worth mentioning again)</p><p>Watching Steve Young enjoy his new finds in <i>Bathtubs Over Broadway</i></p><p>The only good part of <i>A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood</i>--the very end</p><p>George Dzundza’s piano recital in <i>The Deer Hunter</i></p><p>Mother/daughter dueling Chopin preludes in <i>Autumn Sonata</i></p><p>Twin musical moments in <i>Portrait of a Lady on Fire</i>--first on a harpsichord and then at the very end (also--a spontaneous Stereolab cover around the fire)</p><p>The composer character wandering off in the sewer while playing his ocarina in <i>Kanal</i></p><p>Laurie Anderson’s dog’s keyboard stylings in <i>Heart of a Dog</i></p><p>The monk playing the titular instrument for his guys behind barbed wire in <i>The Burmese Harp</i></p><p>A sing-a-long in <i>Lovers Rock</i></p><p>Neil Breen and Kathy Corpus (both Facebook friends of mine, by the way) in <i>Pass Thru</i> stumbling upon a beaten-up piano and play with it a little after Corpus’s character says she always wanted to learn (“It’s never too late,” Breen tells her. “Music’s magical, universal! It’s timeless.”)</p><p>The climactic musical number in <i>Soul</i></p><p>The winner: Have you ever seen an accordion battle? It’s just like a rap battle except with accordions. Watch <i>The Wind Journeys</i> to see one. It’s a movie that makes <i>8 Mile</i> look like a movie that doesn’t even have accordions! </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DHwIzqCzR-c/X_D_Nfn60gI/AAAAAAAAWu4/8B6qgCyJZXgGkOwJhQiXi1_5tyv6sdbegCLcBGAsYHQ/s400/1280354541_6.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DHwIzqCzR-c/X_D_Nfn60gI/AAAAAAAAWu4/8B6qgCyJZXgGkOwJhQiXi1_5tyv6sdbegCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/1280354541_6.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><b>Movies That I Heard Beethoven’s 7th Symphony In (the song that will be playing when I die if my psychic knows what she’s talking about) </b></p><p>Just one this year--<i>Renaldo and Clara</i></p><p><br /></p><p><b>My Best Ideas of the Year</b></p><p>A Toucan Sam origin story (horror movie)</p><p>A board game based on <i>The Great Escape</i></p><p>A Buster Keaton Pac-Man adaptation</p><p><i>Godzilla vs. Christ the Redeemer</i></p><p>A Frederick Wiseman documentary on Central Perk, the hangout of the friends on <i>Friends</i></p><p>A movie where all of John Turturro’s characters run into each other</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Best Band Names I Got from Movies This Year</b></p><p>My Famous Genuflection (emo band)</p><p>Between Salemecs and Gibberish</p><p>Papier-Mache Sasquatch Firecracker Penis</p><p>Kilt Parkour</p><p>The Berry Razzers</p><p>Ominous Whooshing</p><p>Mona Lisa Nipple</p><p>E-I-E-I-Onanism</p><p>Giuliani money Shot</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Something Random That Made Me Happy This Year</b></p><p>Neil Breen got his hands on a drone! </p><p><br /></p><p><b>Biggest Movie Question of the Year</b></p><p>Why do so many movies I saw this year have characters walking into the ocean to kill themselves? </p><p><br /></p><p><b>Claims That I Made This Year</b></p><p>That I made “The Text of Light” before Stan Brakhage at my grandmother’s house as a small child but didn’t have a camera</p><p><i>The Testament of Dr. Mabuse</i> is a Snoke (from the recent Star Wars sequels) origin story</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Best Title of the Year</b></p><p><i>Dirty Ho</i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-E-Jlg5Jbr4I/X_EABFWBnJI/AAAAAAAAWvE/nnft0pO4aNUapqx6Gmo0K3NUeIqoz9ApwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1866/810wUhhtr1L._RI_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1866" data-original-width="1400" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-E-Jlg5Jbr4I/X_EABFWBnJI/AAAAAAAAWvE/nnft0pO4aNUapqx6Gmo0K3NUeIqoz9ApwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/810wUhhtr1L._RI_.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><b>Worst Title of the Year</b></p><p><i>Thou Wast Mild and Lovely</i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FpsGYVvIHLY/X_EAH4h4kkI/AAAAAAAAWvI/OqMIhVx_7S0F8xYL6GcPOP637mppEYx4ACLcBGAsYHQ/s978/MV5BMjI0MjI1NzI1N15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwNDQ1MjExMTE%2540._V1_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="978" data-original-width="680" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FpsGYVvIHLY/X_EAH4h4kkI/AAAAAAAAWvI/OqMIhVx_7S0F8xYL6GcPOP637mppEYx4ACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/MV5BMjI0MjI1NzI1N15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwNDQ1MjExMTE%2540._V1_.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><b>Movies That Made Me Cry or Nearly Cry</b></p><p><i>Honeyland</i> (that musical moment I mentioned earlier or the hair-dye scene [“Everybody likes to look nice--even me.”])</p><p><i>1917</i> (the “You must be insane” sequence with the combination of the big music, the spectacle, the craft, and the balls of that main character)</p><p><i>Little Women</i></p><p><i>If Beale Street Could Talk</i> (again!)</p><p><i>The Taste of Tea</i> (a scene with flip books)</p><p><i>Soul</i> (because it’s a Pixar movie)</p><p><i>Onward</i> (I don’t remember actually, but it’s also a Pixar movie)</p><p><i>Dick Johnson Is Dead </i>(on Netflix if you’d like to watch this documentary about a filmmaker and her father who she is losing to dementia)</p><p><i>Heart of a Dog</i>, Laurie Anderson’s movie that is about more than her dog</p><div><br /></div>Shanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15033662507699896530noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-784846369945401487.post-35987535152023666262020-07-16T14:42:00.001-07:002020-07-16T14:50:23.138-07:00Cory's Birthday Celebration: Terror of Mechagodzilla<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It's July 16th, and that can mean only one thing--it's time to watch a Godzilla movie for Cory's birthday!<br />
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Once again, it seems that I've chosen one that isn't considered one of the greats. However, I think I'm out of those. I'm also wondering if I've now seen more Godzilla movies than Cory has. I didn't enjoy this one very much, but as usual, here are my unadulterated thoughts as I watched it:<br />
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<i>Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla</i> confused my son and I when we watched it, making me wonder if I was even smart enough to be watching Godzilla movies. But here we go with the direct sequel, <i>Revenge of Mechagodzilla</i>.<br />
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This movie begins with stomping, and I imagine that’s usually a good thing with any kaiju film.<br />
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And then what I assume is footage lifted from previous movies--probably not a good sign?<br />
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600 ton monster? What else weighs 600 tons? That number’s too big. (My research led me to the information that Christ the Redeemer weighs 700 tons. And that just makes me want to see a fight scene between Godzilla and that giant statue of Christ!)<br />
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A flash to some of the goofiest cinematic aliens I’ve seen in a while.<br />
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I know this is all flashback stuff so far, but this one really seems to be shooting its wad early.<br />
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Yes! That victory dance that I like so much!<br />
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Hmm. Don’t remember Mechagodzilla spinning his head around really fast and creating a forcefield, but that’s certainly a cool move.<br />
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If nothing else, the montage during the opening credits makes it seem like Godzilla’s victory of Mechagodzilla was nearly impossible.<br />
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Right in the jugular! That’s the kind of blood spurt you’d expect to see in a samurai movie!<br />
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And at the 10 minute and 39 second mark of a less-than-90-minute movie, we’ve finally got something that isn’t from a previous movie.<br />
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I have the closed captioning on, but it’s consistently off. That just said “especially for the head and pick it up carefully understood dick 200 meters.” I don’t think that’s what submarine guy actually said.<br />
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Uh oh. It seems as if they’ve woken something up. This is why it's always wise to submarine as quietly as possible if you really have to submarine.<br />
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This new thing has a terrifying cry. I think the sound effects wizards probably recorded themselves wounding a dog and then used some garbling effects.<br />
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At this point, would any character in a world where Godzilla’s already existed and fought all these other monsters be surprised by the appearance of an underwater dinosaur? It seems as if this would be pretty standard by now.<br />
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The way the mad scientist guy and the other guy are toasting their dinosaur success and then drinking wine is disturbing me.<br />
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I’ve never been to film school, but I’m pretty sure prospective filmmakers are told that the more a mad scientist laughs, the madder he will seem to the audience.<br />
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I just want to pause and remind everybody that this film is part of the Criterion collection.<br />
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“We are from the third planet.” Unless I’m missing something, wouldn’t that be Earth?<br />
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If you have the technology to rebuild a Mechagodzilla that was smashed into a bunch of pieces, wouldn’t you have the technology to just make a few Mechagodzillas and really give Godzilla some problems?<br />
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The editing in this chase montage is making me dizzy, but I did like the random flip the guy did.<br />
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What a death scene!<br />
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According to the captioning, this INTERPOL guy is named Wacky Anna.<br />
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I wish I could hold and look at a piece of metal and determine that it’s “space titanium” within a few seconds.<br />
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“Your heart is frozen and dry. Who’d love a cyborg?”<br />
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The organ score during that flashback was a little much.<br />
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Why is sending an exact duplicate of the submarine that the giant dinosaur easily destroyed a good idea? I’m not sure whatever plan they have is very well thought through.<br />
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Of course, I underestimated the supersonic waves. As I often do!<br />
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First off, the dubbing with this alien character was incredible. Second, the captioning read “then try to ski birthing or you will force us to kill you wash your asshole.”<br />
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At least get out of your chair while whipping your minions, alien dude. That’s just lazy.<br />
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Playing havoc? That’s not the right phrase.<br />
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If nothing else, this teaches people not to pick on scientists. Apparently, that is a group that does not like to be mocked.<br />
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Finally! At around the 50-minute mark, we’re going to have some action. I’m still starting to wonder if Godzilla is even in this movie though.<br />
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Cool, there was a device in the alien headquarters that was constructed out of an erector set.<br />
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Monsters are finally fighting, but sure, let’s spend some time watching people chase each other in a forest.<br />
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There’s always one dubbed voice that sounds a lot like John Wayne in these things. It forces me to imagine John Wayne secretly doing a lot of work like this in between his acting gigs and racism.<br />
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Mad scientist guy is feeling up his sleeping daughter. Who does he think he is--Donald Trump?<br />
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Hell hath no fury like a Mechagodzilla scorned! I’m not sure I totally understand the science and the connection between cyborg-daughter and the titular metal monster, but as I usually do, I’m just going to roll with it.<br />
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Titanosaurus has some style. I like that mohawk anyway.<br />
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Damn, Mechagodzilla is really playing havoc here! Then try to ski birthing or you will force us to kill you wash your asshole!<br />
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I’m not sure what happened to Godzilla. He was fighting Titanosaur, and then they just kind of stopped showing that so that they could concentrate on people in the forest and other people talking. I must have missed something.<br />
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When he does show up, I wonder how this will go. As I recall, he needed to be struck by lightning in the last movie to have enough spunk to tear off Mechagodzilla’s head and win that fight. Now he’s going to defeat it again while it’s teamed up with this mohawked monster?<br />
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Wait, where did Godzilla even come from?<br />
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The big guy is getting his ass handed to him! And Mechagodzilla isn’t really even helping yet. This does not look good for our hero!<br />
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Now Godzilla is boxing.<br />
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Maybe Godzilla was rope-a-doping him?<br />
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Oh, there was some goofy fight choreography. Titanosaurus bit Godzilla’s face and picked him up a couple of times. That looked really stupid.<br />
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Godzilla pops out of the ground after being buried alive, knocks Mehagodzilla down with his ice breath, and then dusts himself off. That was a cool move.<br />
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Mechagodzilla’s throwing everything he has at the big guy, and Godzilla was actually on fire for a little bit. I’m going to assume it was an accident.<br />
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A “stop hitting yourself, stop hitting yourself” moment there.<br />
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Welp! There goes the head again!<br />
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It didn’t actually need his head.<br />
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This movie does a good job showing the collaboration between Godzilla and humans, but it really makes Godzilla look pretty weak. Without human intervention, Godzilla’s dead.<br />
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Ok, that’s over. Happy birthday, Cory! Next year--Godzilla vs. Christ the Redeemer!<br />
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Shanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15033662507699896530noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-784846369945401487.post-54163319384582169342020-01-06T19:28:00.000-08:002020-01-06T19:28:07.128-08:002019 Year in Review (Last Part)<b>Best Long (Extended) Shot</b><br />
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Anybody who knows anything about my taste in movies knows how much I love extended shots. The last hour of <i>Long Day’s Journey into Night</i> is one of the more extraordinary ones I’ve ever seen, so it’s winning this award. However, I also loved these:<br />
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<i>Thunder Road</i>’s opening where the main character addresses people at a funeral and performs a dance<br />
<i>Le Quattro Volte</i> has a long shot with an Easter procession, a dog, a vehicle, and a goat, and I have no idea how it was pulled off.<br />
The soccer stadium scene in <i>Secret in Their Eyes </i>seems completely impossible.<br />
The opening 10 minutes of <i>Stan and Ollie</i> where the titular duo are walking through a studio on the way to their set<br />
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<b>Favorite Cameo</b><br />
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Two are Mary Poppins related--Dick Van Dyke in <i>Mary Poppins Returns</i> and Larry Poppins in The <i>Lego Movie 2</i>. I don’t know why I’m calling Larry Poppins a cameo though. He's a cartoon character. So never mind.<br />
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Shyamalan was in <i>Glass</i> because he thinks he’s Alfred Fucking Hitchcock, and his appearance was long (probably too long to even be considered a cameo) and awkward.<br />
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Is Jeff “I forgot my mantra” Goldblum’s appearance in <i>Annie Hall</i> even a cameo? I mean, he wasn’t Jeff Goldblum yet, was he?<br />
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Jim Jarmusch and his mind-reading dog in <i>In the Soup</i> is a nice cameo!<br />
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Bob Dylan shows off his acting chops in Dennis Hopper’s <i>Backtrack</i>. Bob Dylan, in case you've never seen him try to act, cannot act.<br />
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Never mind. Dick Van Dyke wins! I’m really losing my enthusiasm and don’t feel like putting much thought into any of this anymore. And you get no picture because I already have a picture of Dick Van Dyke on that desk somewhere else.<br />
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This is where Larry Poppins should go!<br />
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Pedro Almodovar voices “Gloria” in <i>Arrebato</i>, and that’s pretty good. But that “Hi” I mentioned in the “mirror” category earlier from <i>Brain Damage</i> is enough to give John Zacherle, the voice of Aylmer, the win in this category.<br />
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<b>Best Giggling Kung-Fu Master</b><br />
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Yuen Wah’s “general” character in <i>Eastern Condors</i><br />
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<b>Best Baby Acting</b><br />
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Elbert Coplen Jr., in his only role, was terrific as the baby in <i>Bachelor Mother</i>. But William A. Poulsen in <i>Another Thin Man</i> was like the Tom Cruise of baby actors in the 1930s, so he wins.<br />
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<b>Best One-and-Done </b><br />
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Any number of the people who ended up in <i>The Milpitas Monster</i> could have won this, but Dick Ashe has the best name, so he wins it for directing <i>Track of the Moon Beast </i>and then nothing else.<br />
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<b>The Tootie Award (Worst Performance by a Child Actor)</b><br />
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Kasie, played by Caitlin Dwyer, in <i>The Fighter </i>only has one line--where she gets excited about a bigger apartment), but it’s really bad.<br />
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Evelyn Del Rio, a little crying girl in <i>You Can’t Cheat an Honest Man</i>, isn’t very good.<br />
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And Cammie King Conlon, who played Bonnie in <i>Gone with the Wind</i>, is terrible.<br />
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But the winner of this year’s Tootie is Donnie Dunagan, the grandson of Frankenstein in <i>Son of Frankenstein</i>. He also voiced Bambi, by the way.<br />
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<b>Best Extra</b><br />
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An old bald guy at the Cafe Bel Ami in <i>An American in Paris</i> who can’t stop staring at Gene Kelly. He was really distracting.<br />
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A guy with no legs in <i>The Young and the Damned</i><br />
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A street person surrounded by fake mice in <i>Twisted Pair</i><br />
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The easy winner is one of the children in <i>Santa’s Christmas Circus</i> who is enjoying Whizzo the Clown’s shenanigans. She couldn’t stop coughing throughout the movie, and I’m fairly positive that she died of tuberculosis soon after the filming of the “film.”<br />
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<b>Favorite Small Characters of the Year</b><br />
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The ice cream man in <i>The Northerners</i><br />
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Mr. Sophistication, an emcee at Gazzarra’s club in <i>The Killing of a Chinese Bookie</i><br />
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A shopkeeper wrapping the waiter’s bow and arrow in <i>The Waiter</i>, doing it with such patience and hilarity<br />
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Vincent Lindon, the guy I mentioned in the “Best Monologue” category who talks about “nothing like a good shit” in <i>La Haine</i><br />
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Peter Stormare’s doctor in <i>Pain & Gain</i>, talking about “beautiful, robust erections”<br />
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The kid with a neck brace in <i>George Washington</i> who plays Marco Polo despite not being in the pool<br />
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A kid licking the top of a pew in <i>Winter Light</i><br />
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A guy imitating trolleys in Kurosawa’s <i>High and Low</i><br />
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The pirate with an eye patch and acid-washed jeans in <i>Under the Silver Lake</i><br />
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The surly bartender complaining about the Sisyphean monotony of his job in <i>Destry Rides Again</i><br />
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<b>Best Nicolas Cage Moments of the Year</b><br />
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Calling somebody a “turkey puncher” as his Spider-Man noir character.<br />
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“You ripped my shirt! You ripped my shirt!”<br />
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That bathroom scene in <i>Mandy</i>, a real tour de force. That’s one that will go in his montage when they give him a “Best Actor Ever” award right before he dies.<br />
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The aforementioned “Eric Estrada” knock-knock joke<br />
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That smile at an imagined <i>Mandy</i> in one of the final shots of that movie<br />
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“I gotta get a suit like that,” an improvisation in <i>Honeymoon in Vegas </i><br />
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His call of “Yoohoo? Can I get a room”” at a hotel front desk in <i>Vegas</i><br />
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His skydiving in that skydiving sequence, especially since it’s clear he’s not doing his own stunts<br />
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“Memories” by Nicolas Cage, a scene I mentioned in the “sex scene” category<br />
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Yet another peach reference--a mention of a woman’s “peach juice”--which reminded me of all the other times he’s referenced peaches in his movies<br />
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Asking a woman to “fuck him” like Linda Blair in <i>The Exorcist</i><br />
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The “golden shower” moment...sorry, it’s a “Golden Shower!” moment<br />
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“I lost my hand! I lost my hand!” while holding up his ridiculous wooden hand in <i>Moonstruck</i><br />
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All the stuff that precedes the moment he sleeps with Cher in <i>Moonstruck-</i>-flipping a table, screaming “Son of a bitch!” for no reason<br />
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<b>The Wiseau (Most Impressive Writing/Directing/Acting Triple Threat)</b><br />
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Gaspar Noe put himself in <i>Love</i>. It’s terrible, and he’s terrible.<br />
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Shymalan couldn’t resist putting himself in <i>Glass</i>. It’s not a good movie, and his appearance makes it even worse.<br />
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Sorry though, fellas, this one belongs to Neil Breen for writing and directing and acting in <i>Twisted Pair </i>and not doing any of those three well at all.<br />
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<b>Best Actor</b><br />
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Michel Simon, Jules in <i>L’Atalante</i><br />
Nicolas Cage, <i>Mandy</i><br />
Issey Ogata, <i>Silence</i><br />
Christian Bale, <i>The Fighter</i><br />
Tom Waits, Hermit Bob in <i>The Dead Don’t Die</i><br />
Ken Okata, <i>Vengeance Is Mine</i><br />
Andrew Garfield, <i>Under the Silver Lake</i><br />
Robert Duvall, <i>Apocalypse Now</i><br />
Robert Donat and his fake mustache, <i>Goodbye, Mr. Chips</i><br />
Al Pacino, <i>Scent of a Woman</i><br />
Brian Dennehy, <i>The Belly of an Architect</i><br />
Max Von Sydow, <i>Pelle the Conqueror</i><br />
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The winner? Nicolas Cage!<br />
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<b>Best Actress</b><br />
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Regina Hall, <i>Support the Girls</i><br />
Maggie Cheung, <i>In the Mood for Love</i><br />
Emmanuelle Riva, <i>Hiroshima Mon Amour</i> (1,000 women in one)<br />
Delphine Syrig, <i>Jeanne Dielman</i><br />
Gina Rowlands, <i>A Woman Under the Influence</i> or <i>Opening Night</i><br />
Liv Ullmann, <i>Scenes from a Marriage</i><br />
Juliette Binoche, <i>Certified Copy</i><br />
Harriet Andersson, <i>Through a Glass Darkly</i><br />
Florence Pugh, <i>Midsommar</i> or <i>Fighting with My Family</i><br />
Shuzhen Zhao, <i>The Farewell</i><br />
Sofia Boutella, <i>Climax</i><br />
Elizabeth Moss, <i>Her Smell</i><br />
Angela Winkler, <i>Benny’s Video</i><br />
Scarlett Johansson, <i>Marriage Story</i> or anything else I saw her in this year<br />
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Usually, Scar-Jo wins this one. But Gina Rowlands is special.<br />
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Still, this award goes to Scarlett Johansson.<br />
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<b>Best Animated Movie</b><br />
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<i>Habfurdo</i> (<i>Foam Bath</i>) from Hungary started my year off right! But <i>Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse</i>, <i>Missing Link</i>, <i>Birdboy: The Forgotten Children</i>, <i>I Lost My Body</i>, and <i>Toy Story 4</i> were all great! So how about you decide. I'm tired of picking winners.<br />
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<b>Best Documentary</b><br />
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Three from this year--<i>Rolling Thunder Revue</i>, which might be my favorite 2019 release; <i>Amazing Grace,</i> and <i>Apollo 11</i>--were all good, and I really liked <i>The Thin Blue Line</i>; <i>Hale County This Morning, This Evening</i>; <i>The Biggest Little Farm</i>; <i>Of Fathers and Sons</i>; <i>Nostalgia for the Light</i>; <i>Restrepo</i>; <i>Leviathan</i>; and <i>The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On</i>.<br />
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The winners: A tie between <i>Berlin, Symphony of a Metropolis</i> and <i>Homo Sapiens</i><br />
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<b>Best Silent Movie</b><br />
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Once again, I didn’t watch nearly enough silents this year. I think I have to go back to having Silent Saturdays. <i>Berlin</i> could win this one, too, but I feel like giving it to something else, so we’ll go with <i>Spies</i>, just barely over <i>Strike</i> and <i>Earth</i>.<br />
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<b>The Torgo (Best Worst Acting by a Male)</b><br />
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Robert Scott, “Junior” in <i>Snake Eater</i>, a growling redneck who sometimes pretends to be a bear<br />
Karl Glusman, <i>Love</i><br />
C. Thomas Howell, Hedion in <i>Zolar</i>, a performance aided by a ridiculous alien nose<br />
Jordan Hoffart, Zolar in <i>Zolar</i>, inauthentic as a kid or as an alien<br />
Theo Barnes, a neighbor who displays some histrionics in <i>Brain Damage</i><br />
Sserunya Ernest, <i>Who Killed Captain Alex?</i>, whose best moment is when he cries and destroys a television<br />
Alan Swain, a drunk bowler in <i>Track of the Moon Beast</i><br />
Neil Breen, two of him in <i>Twisted Pair</i><br />
Crazy George Henderson, the drunk guy in <i>The Milpitas Monster</i><br />
Dennis Hopper, <i>Backtrack</i> or <i>Catchfire</i> or whatever he wants to call that movie<br />
Keenan Wynn, the bad guy in <i>Herbie Rides Again</i><br />
John Travolta, Moose in <i>The Fanatic</i><br />
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I mean, it’s Neil Breen proving that two Breens are better than one. How can anybody else have a chance? Well, consider this an upset if you must, but Travolta is pretty special in <i>The Fanatic</i>. Congratulations, John Travolta! You’ve embarrassed yourself!<br />
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<b>The Livingstone (Best Worst Performance by a Female)</b><br />
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Only three nominees this year.<br />
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Franka Potente, a woman with a wavering accent in <i>Between Worlds</i><br />
Denise Bellini, the agency director in <i>Twisted Pair</i><br />
Dianne Wiest, the wife in <i>The Mule</i><br />
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This award goes to Denise Bellini! If you can stand out as “bad” while working with Neil Breen, you know you’re bad.<br />
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<b>Worst Movie Experiences of the Year</b><br />
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I hated all of these movies.<br />
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<i>Love</i><br />
<i>Velvet Buzzsaw</i><br />
<i>Pain & Gain</i><br />
<i>I Saw the Devil</i><br />
<i>Welcome to Marwen</i><br />
<i>Happy Death Day 2U</i><br />
<i>Train to Busan</i><br />
<i>Border Radio</i><br />
<i>Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw </i>(most disappointing)<br />
<i>Stuber</i><br />
<i>Anna</i><br />
<i>Glass</i><br />
<i>Godzilla: King of the Monsters</i><br />
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<b>The Manos (Most Enjoyable Bad Movie Experience or Best-Worst Movie of the Year)</b><br />
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<i>Snake Eater</i><br />
<i>Zolar</i><br />
<i>Who Killed Captain Alex?</i><br />
<i>Track of the Moon Beast</i><br />
<i>Twisted Pair</i><br />
<i>The Milpitas Monster</i><br />
<i>The Fanatic</i><br />
<i>The Mule</i><br />
<i>Santa’s Christmas Circus with Whizzo the Clown</i><br />
<i>Herbie Rides Again</i><br />
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A really down year for good-bad movies. And I should really figure out a way to exclude Neil Breen from these things. <i>Twisted Pair</i> wins this one! It’s not his first Manos, and I have a feeling it won’t be his last.<br />
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<b>Best Movies I Saw All Year</b><br />
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I know that all of you are really excited about reading these, but I don't feel like doing it. It just seems fitting that I'm ending this blog by disappointing people.<br />
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<br />Shanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15033662507699896530noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-784846369945401487.post-3982520034574322442020-01-05T11:01:00.003-08:002020-01-05T11:01:47.671-08:002019 Year in Review (Part 5)<b>Favorite Quotes (Part 4) </b><br />
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"I'm gonna rip your eyelids off and paste them on your asshole, alright?"<br />
"Ah! A distressing odor. I seem to feel my bowel moving."<br />
"I say there is no arse wiper like a well-downed goose. Take my word for it."<br />
"My penis betrayed me."<br />
"What a nostril--a dramatic nostril."<br />
"There's nothing I hate more than happy morons."<br />
"Woe, woe, the wooden horse is forgotten."<br />
"What a world. It could be so wonderful it wasn't for certain people."<br />
"Whitefella way is shit way."<br />
"If I had a steak, I would fuck it."<br />
"But as for me, I'm living between the buildings with the ghosts."<br />
"But I love life, imbecile!"<br />
"Falling asleep while defecating, I don't care."<br />
"I'd say that the whole world consists of a whole bunch of bastards. You hear that, bastards?"<br />
"I want to make movies out of blood, sperm, and tears." (Followed by “Hahaha. That’s so sweet.”)<br />
"Shall we make those pants dance?"<br />
"You best get to shucking!"<br />
"Did we just murder. . .as a family?"<br />
"Will you please check my head for signs of spoiling?"<br />
"It's about time people learned about their failures and my successes."<br />
"I've never been able to relieve myself in the presence of another."<br />
"You don't know how fast time goes by until you get there."<br />
"Oh, great. I'm inside a guy who likes game shows."<br />
"First one feather goes...and then another. In the end, you're just a plucked chicken in the dung."<br />
"I've never seen a guy get picked up by his testicles before."<br />
"It's living in the past that is scary, not mudslides."<br />
"It's hard to get born, and it's hard to die."<br />
"I don't know why you're outside my house like some deaf mute pervert."<br />
"The brighter the light, the clearer you see the scum."<br />
"The napkin is the only thing that separates man from the carnivorous animals."<br />
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<b>The E.T. (Best Product Placement)</b><br />
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Burger King in <i>The Thin Blue Line</i><br />
Sun-Maid raisins (also Budweiser) in <i>Stars and Bars</i><br />
Marlboro and Pizza Hut in <i>Frantic</i><br />
Starbucks in <i>Velvet Buzzsaw</i><br />
Chick-fil-A fries and Digiorno pizza (the latter with a shot of a line of drool rolling down a baby’s stomach) in <i>Hale County This Morning, This Evening</i><br />
Pepsi in the climactic Live-Aid scene in <i>Bohemian Rhapsody</i><br />
Whitman’s Candy, <i>The Night Stalker</i> (used as a bribe)<br />
Marlboro in <i>Ivan Vasilievich: Back to the Future</i><br />
Fruit Roll-Ups in <i>Rabbit Hole</i><br />
Mounds in <i>Rolling Thunder</i><br />
Snickers, Snapple, Mountain Dew and likely others in <i>The Dead Don’t Die</i><br />
Tab (my favorite!) in <i>Kramer vs. Kramer</i><br />
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Wrigley gum in <i>Hair</i><br />
Yoohoo in <i>Happy Death Day 2U</i><br />
McDonalds in <i>Benny’s Video</i><br />
Oreos, Doritos, and especially Avis (the rental car for people who have had acid dumped on your own car by a scorned mistress) in <i>Fatal Attraction</i><br />
Vis a Vis markers in <i>The Fanatic</i><br />
Bengay in <i>The Mule</i><br />
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Home Depot in <i>Pain & Gain</i>, because that’s where dumb characters need to go to get items needed to dispose of bodies. And you can return your saw there! This movie also has a brief commercial for something called a Taco Supreme from Taco Bell.<br />
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Corn Flakes, Campbells, and KFC in <i>Scarecrow</i><br />
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But the winner? Hostess Sno-Balls in <i>Backtrack</i>!<br />
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<b>Best Fake Product Placement</b><br />
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I don’t believe “Liquid Python” from <i>Happy Death Day 2U</i> is real, but it doesn’t matter because it can’t compete with Cheddar Goblin, seen in a commercial in <i>Mandy</i>. Cheddar Goblin!<br />
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<b>Best Scene Involving Cannibalism</b><br />
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<i>Dr. Caligari</i>, a guy who is also addicted to shock therapy<br />
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There’s also some cannibalistic references in Pilgrim. But man, I didn’t see nearly enough movies with cannibalism in 2019!<br />
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<b>Best Dream Sequence</b><br />
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There’s severed heads, bleating, and a sheep bursting through a fridge in one in <i>Dr. Caligari</i>.<br />
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There’s a husband’s dream sequence in <i>Who Wants to Kill Jessie?</i> involving magic anti-gravity gloves, the fetching Jessie in various bondage poses, and the wacky superhero and cowboy villains.<br />
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There’s another one in <i>Jessie</i> with a cow’s dream of gadflies that might be even better.<br />
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<i>Mandy</i> has a Bakshi-inspired animated dream sequence, but I didn’t love that one.<br />
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The kid in <i>Time of the Gypsies</i> has a very strange sex dream.<br />
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<i>3 Women</i> has what you might call a dream sequence within a dream. <i>Inception</i>-esque?<br />
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Matthew McConaughey’s in <i>Serenity</i>, but that’s only because he, like me, dreams of himself naked.<br />
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<i>Under the Silver Lake</i> has that scene I mentioned in this earlier with the intestines. I’m not totally sure what is a dream and what’s real in that movie though.<br />
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<i>The Lighthouse</i> has a dream sequence with mermaids, always a plus.<br />
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<i>Herbie Rides Again</i> shows the villain’s nightmare with a bunch of fanged Herbies. Terrifying!<br />
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And there’s a great butterfly montage in <i>The Duke of Burgundy</i> that looks like something from a Svankmajer short. I loved that.<br />
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The winner is so easy though--the last hour of <i>Long Day’s Journey into Night</i>, an unbroken shot that is the dream of a person sleeping in a pornographic theater. Man alive!<br />
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<b>Best Devil</b><br />
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Though the trio of biker demons in <i>Mandy</i> are cool, this has to go to Jaan Tooming in <i>November</i>, an ornery little devil lurking around in those black and white woods.<br />
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<b>Best Movie Prayer</b><br />
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“Jesus, I approve of you as the only cool man besides Kurt Cobain.” (<i>Love Exposure</i>)<br />
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That’s good, but Elizabeth Moss’s prayer to the goddess amidst all this insanity in <i>Her Smell</i> wins.<br />
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<b>The Shammalammadingdong (Goofiest Movie Twist)</b><br />
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This has to go to the end of <i>Zolar.</i> I can say no more, for I would not want to spoil anything.<br />
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<b>Best Tree</b><br />
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<i>Meek’s Cutoff</i> has nice tree, but the tree in <i>Le Quattro Volte</i>--one that is hoisted and climbed, etc.--is more vital to that story.<br />
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<b>Best Use of Doors</b><br />
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<i>Where Is My Friend’s House? </i><br />
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<b>Most Egregious Thing I Saw in Any Movie This Year</b><br />
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“You like a little Bizkit?” a dad asks his son in Fred Durst’s travesty, <i>The Fanatic</i><br />
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<b>Random Favorite Moments or Scenes I Really Enjoyed from Movies This Year</b><br />
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A still of hippies kissing used twice (twice!) in <i>Herbie Rides Again</i><br />
Pompeii excavation scene in <i>Journey to Italy</i><br />
Sharon Tate watching herself on the big screen in <i>Once Upon a Time in Hollywood</i><br />
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A cult member amusing himself with an automatic window in <i>Mandy</i><br />
Daniel Day-Lewis having a staring contest with a cactus in <i>The Unbearable Lightness of Being</i><br />
A perfectly-timed skirt flip in <i>The Last Days of Emma Blank</i><br />
A Kyle MacLachlan snot rocket in <i>High Flying Bird</i><br />
Some bad acting with a cab driver in <i>Touki Bouki</i> reacting to a skull<br />
Valentina Cortese in <i>Day for Night</i> trying to get through a scene while soused<br />
An old lady’s “thank you” at the beach in <i>Shoplifters</i><br />
Ryan Gosling unpacking an old man’s things in <i>Blue Valentine</i><br />
A local in <i>Restrepo</i> trying to get a straw into a Capri Sun during a meeting with soldiers<br />
One of Breen’s characters screaming “I never had a beard!” in <i>Twisted Pair</i><br />
A cabinet opening in <i>Vengeance Is Mine</i> to reveal another victim<br />
Agata Trzebuchowska taking off her nun hat (I know--that probably has a name) in <i>Ida</i><br />
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Sherly Lee laughing at an angel in <i>Fire Walk with Me</i><br />
John Travolta smelling his finger after touching his ear and Hunter’s ear in <i>The Fanatic</i><br />
Those oranges in <i>Shoplifters</i><br />
A camera sweeping over a roof to a little window with the titular baby in <i>Little Tony</i> making the perfect expression while sitting amongst some birds<br />
Colored hands hanging on a wall in front of a tiny chair in <i>Thunder Road</i><br />
A silhouette searching the Atacama Desert for human remains while a lone star looks on from above in <i>Nostalgia for the Light</i><br />
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So many in <i>Apocalypse Now</i>, the sun stealing the movie in nearly every shot its in<br />
Jean running away from the camera on a beach in <i>L’Atalante</i><br />
A sister’s descent into the waters in <i>Sansho the Bailiff</i><br />
Nearly every shot in <i>In the Mood for Love</i>, but if I’m forced to pick one--a shot of a reddish hallway with a plant in the foreground<br />
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A shimmering tea room in <i>Hiroshima Mon Amour</i><br />
A first shot of Marilyn Monroe (her first screen appearance actually) in <i>The Asphalt Jungle</i><br />
A shot of the eyes of a suicidal lady’s eyes in <i>Berlin, Symphony of a Metropolis</i><br />
Carnival lights as a backdrop to a chase sequence in Minneli’s <i>Some Came Running</i><br />
Those impaled guys on a beach in <i>On the Silver Globe</i><br />
Fireworks perfectly punctuating a death sequence in <i>Ashes and Diamonds</i><br />
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Swirling around Fonny’s artwork in <i>Beale Street</i>, and all that smoke<br />
<i>Cold Water</i>--a kid emerges from woods after reciting Ginsberg, hops on a bike, gets absorbed by the fog<br />
This miraculously impossible rolling apple the camera follows for a really long time in <i>Once Upon a Time in Anatolia</i><br />
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The ringing bells at the end of <i>Certified Copy</i>, at least once that guy gets his head out of the way<br />
A mother and son in a bed together slowly fading into the body of a murder victim in <i>Mother</i><br />
De Niro watching dancers illuminated by lights of a train in <i>New York, New York</i><br />
A fading shadow during a sex scene in <i>Burning</i><br />
Suzanne on the front of that boat while Klaus Nomi sings in <i>A Nos Amours</i><br />
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A shot following Ogata down an alley when he abruptly turns around and looks directly at the audience in <i>Vengeance Is Mine</i><br />
Pretty much any shot at all from <i>Homo Sapiens</i>, a movie that might not have the best shot but has the most best shots<br />
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Grandma waving goodbye from the perspective of a car pulling away in <i>The Farewell</i><br />
A maddening swirling shot in <i>Opera</i> from the perspective of a raven, one of those seemingly impossible shots<br />
A creepy figure behind frosted textured glass in Joon-Ho’s segment in <i>Tokyo!</i><br />
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<b>Best Opening</b><br />
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There might be recency bias, but I really liked an opening shot in <i>Dust in the Wind</i>, a simple one of a train coming out of a tunnel. It’s lovely and sets up a central metaphor.<br />
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I also liked the opening of <i>Scarecrow</i>, a jolt with Hackman stumbling down a hill; the two-minute tracking shot with great pedestrian and vehicle choreography at the beginning of <i>Day for Night</i>; the almost magical opening shot of <i>The Lighthouse</i>; the five-minute long shot that begins <i>Long Day’s Journey into Night</i>; another long shot that introduces the town in Kusturica’s <i>Time of the Gypsies</i>; and the entwined, glistening, and eventually ash-covered bodies shown in the opener of H<i>iroshima Mon Amour</i>. I also loved the opening shots of a Jesus statue in <i>Ida</i><br />
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<b>Best Intertitle Card</b><br />
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“Well, goodbye, I’m dyin’” or “He liked pears,” both in <i>Earth</i><br />
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<b>Best Closing Shot</b><br />
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Most of these are probably spoilers. If you haven’t seen the movie, don’t read about the closing shot. It’s not like any of you have gotten this far anyway.<br />
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<i>The Asphalt Jungle</i>: Horses getting ready to devour a character<br />
<i>The Thin Blue Line</i>: A tape recorder, the audio sharing the haunting words of a probable killer<br />
<i>Mandy</i>: The otherworldly psychedelic landscape featuring multiple planets<br />
<i>Hana-Bi</i> (<i>Fireworks</i>): A shot of a girl with a kite during the indeterminate ending<br />
<i>Ashes and Diamonds</i>: A poor guy dying on a heap of trash<br />
<i>Jeanne Dielman</i>: A character just sitting at a table<br />
<i>Spies</i>: A clown shooting himself in the head and getting a round of applause<br />
<i>Another Year</i>: A shot of Mary<br />
<i>My Sweet Little Village</i>: A shot of the two co-workers walking (and hopping) in sync<br />
<i>Land without Bread</i>: An abrupt “After two months in this country, we leave” followed by FIN<br />
<i>Goodbye, Mr. Chips</i>: A creepy superimposed kid starting straight into my soul<br />
<i>The Big City</i>: light bulbs--one working, the other not<br />
<i>Long Day’s Journey into Night</i>: A miraculous sparkler, a symbol of transience, concluding an uninterrupted hour-long shot<br />
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I’m picking Jeanne Dielman as the winner, but you should be aware that I didn’t put any thought into it at all.<br />
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<b>Most Distracting Aspect of Any Movie I Saw This Year</b><br />
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The imprisoned guy (Randall Dale Adams) in <i>The Thin Blue Line</i> has a very similar speaking cadence to Nicolas Cage. I couldn’t un-hear it.<br />
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<b>Best Poster</b><br />
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<b>Worst Posters</b><br />
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<i>Innerspace</i> has a bunch of awful posters. This one is my favorite:<br />
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<b>Best Narration</b><br />
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Only one movie had a “Video Joker,” and that was <i>Who Killed Captain Alex?</i> A bonus for the added fart sounds.<br />
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<b>Best Wilhelm Scream</b><br />
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<i>Welcome to Marwen</i><br />
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<b>Worst Allusion That Doesn’t Have Anything to Do With Fred Durst or Limp Bizkit</b><br />
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<i>Welcome to Marwen</i>, a bit where Zemeckis references to his own <i>Back to the Future</i><br />
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<b>Worst Cut</b><br />
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Dennis Hopper’s character in <i>Backtrack</i> appears to leap from a rooftop and land right in front of Jodie Foster’s dresser. That’s something, but it didn’t make me laugh as much as Eastwood’s cuts when his character gets to an engagement party in <i>The Mule</i>.<br />
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Clint Eastwood needs to retire, by the way.<br />
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<b>The “Whoops! I Forgot the Title Screen” Award</b><br />
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I’d have to do a little more research than I’m willing to put into this. I know that Noe’s <i>Climax</i> starts with what appears to be closing credits, and I think the title screen shows up about halfway through the movie. <i>Long Day’s Journey into Night</i>’s title screen appears an hour and eleven minutes into the movie, right before the shot that is winning the next award.<br />
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Which you'll have to wait for in Part 6. That's right, motherfuckers--a cliffhanger.<br />
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Shanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15033662507699896530noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-784846369945401487.post-49318350164970994662020-01-04T14:31:00.002-08:002020-01-04T14:31:38.177-08:002019 Year in Review (Part 4)<b>Favorite Quotes (Part 3)</b><br />
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“It’s so horrible to see your own confusion and understand it.”<br />
“Thought will fuck you up.”<br />
"You're using this conspiracy theory to avoid having sex with me."<br />
"Touch my heart--with your foot."<br />
"There it is--the Eiffel Tower." (This one only works in context.)<br />
"All pregnancies are unplanned, son."<br />
"I've never had rectal bleeding before, but I'm pretty sure I'm not a fan of that."<br />
"Dick me dead, bury me pregnant."<br />
"Nothing keeps you awake better than always thinking about death."<br />
"Everybody has their own ideas about what paradise is."<br />
"Paradise begins with the love we show each other on earth."<br />
"I have a friend who, even though he loves women, claims they are sacks of excrement."<br />
"It's the big wide world, and it sure has changed."<br />
"The first thing I ever masturbated to was probably a rerun of <i>Charles in Charge</i>."<br />
"John Wayne can kick death's ass."<br />
"You're not going to do a young lady any good, not with that little thing of yours."<br />
"All you've got to be is white in America to get what you want."<br />
"Blow your spoons!"<br />
"I cannot live without my life. I cannot die without my soul."<br />
"All I wanna do is be a cowboy and wear my own pants."<br />
"Art is our life. Art! Art!”<br />
"One doesn't easily forget an arm torn out by the roots."<br />
"To have a vagina that smells like the fish of Hades."<br />
"My inner baboon is taking over."<br />
"The cooties is gettin' desperate."<br />
"Well, I got an idea for you. Why don't you just go back to the land of fucking wall sockets?"<br />
"They looked like mermaids on crack!"<br />
"Why else should his grandfather have sent me as an engagement present one roller skate covered in thousand island dressing?"<br />
"I'm going away so you don't have to see my ugly face when you're eating."<br />
“I can think of only three words to describe women, none that are worth expressing."<br />
"That's quite an erection!"<br />
"That took you long enough. What did you do--douche while you were at it?"<br />
“I am the muffin.”<br />
“If I had a nickel for every cigarette your mom smoked, I’d be dead.”<br />
“He’s got my bumper! What will my wife say?”<br />
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<b>Best Fart</b><br />
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I thought for sure Dafoe’s early fart in <i>The Lighthouse</i> would win this before checking my notes. Another contender is the Video Joker’s fart noises and commentary in the middle of a bad guy meeting in <i>Who Killed Captain Alex?</i> And there’s a good one in <i>35 Shots of Rum</i>. And yes, <i>Lion King</i> fans, Pumba farts in that remake because that’s the kind of thing that would have made Walt Disney proud.<br />
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But the winner is from <i>November</i>, Kratt’s far accompanied by Jew’s harp from Hans. It’s a simple equation really: fart + Jew’s harp = movie magic<br />
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<b>Best Scene Involving Urine</b><br />
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Lots of compeetition in this category!<br />
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There’s the kid peeing on the superhero dream character in <i>Who Wants to Kill Jessie? </i><br />
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There’s a great bathroom scene in <i>Seven Servants</i>.<br />
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There’s a scene in <i>Mother</i> where the main character feeds her son broth while he urinates on a blue wall at a bus stop, a scene ending with a beautiful shot of broth and urine running down a sidewalk.<br />
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The kids in Ozu’s <i>I Was Born, But. . . </i>get a chance to urinate on screen.<br />
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A kid pees in the hall of a hotel room in <i>The Silence</i> because. . .well, I never figured out why that was happening, but it sure was inspirational.<br />
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An old man wets himself at what you might call the turning point in <i>A Separation</i>.<br />
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There’s lots of pissing in <i>Kramer vs. Kramer</i>.<br />
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Treat Williams’ stream off a ledge in Central Park in <i>Hair</i> is impressive stuff!<br />
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In <i>Teorema</i>, the son urinates on a crappy blue painting he made.<br />
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<i>Climax</i> has a scene where a tall blonde woman urinates on the floor while a guy says, “Way to party!”<br />
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Stephen Rea helps Forest Whitaker pee in <i>The Crying Game</i>.<br />
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And a character pees in jugs of wine in <i>Red Sorghum</i>.<br />
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That’s a lot of urine! My favorite, however, is in a much earlier film--<i>Earth</i>. Farmers urinate on a tractor, prompted by the order to “Let ‘er fly!”<br />
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<b>Best Scene Involving Defecate</b><br />
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Not as many to choose from.<br />
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I already mentioned the collective dumping in the backyard while that Nico song plays in <i>Cold Water</i>.<br />
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There’s a nice pooping moment in <i>Le Quattro Volte</i> when a goat herder takes a dump in a field while a fly walks around on his face.<br />
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A serial killer in <i>I Saw the Devil</i> digs a tracker thingy out of his own fecal matter. That was pleasant. Man, I really disliked this movie.<br />
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Sam Elliott smells Bigfoot’s feces in <i>The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot</i>.<br />
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And there’s squirrel poop at the very end of <i>La Ardilla Roja (The Red Squirrel). </i><br />
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But the winner has to be <i>The Lion King</i>, a Disney remake that had the balls to include a 5+ minute sequence where giraffe shit is a major factor.<br />
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<b>Best Primal Scream</b><br />
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Apparently, Andrew Garfield (and the kid playing his younger self) has a pretty good one in <i>Never Let Me Go</i>, but I don’t have any recollection of this movie at all.<br />
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Creed’s boy--Creed--has a good one in a pool after his first fight with Drago’s boy--Drago. That’s in <i>Creed II</i>, the sequel to a movie called <i>Creed</i>.<br />
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The dad in <i>Teorema</i> has a good one, too, and that one involves yelling at a volcano. That’s the kind of the thing that seems to sum up the last three years for me actually.<br />
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And Matthew McConaughey has a Cage-esque “Ee-yah!” in <i>Serenity</i>.<br />
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My favorite is at the end of <i>Support the Girls</i> though, characters screaming from a rooftop at a beach highway.<br />
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<b>Best Scene Involving Food</b><br />
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A tennis match, panning shots between food with Cheung and Leung in <i>In the Mood for Love</i><br />
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A meatball scene in <i>Brain Damage</i><br />
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Dennis Hopper grabbing a burrito during a shootout and escape from a restaurant in <i>Backtrack</i><br />
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The winner: a wild and dizzying bread-making montage in <i>Earth</i><br />
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<b>Best Hands</b><br />
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Rudolf Klein-Rogge has great villainous hands in Spies.<br />
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<b>Best Feet</b><br />
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It’s love at first sight in <i>El</i> with some tangential foot-washing.<br />
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But if Tarantino has released a movie during the year I do these for, there’s no way he can’t win. Why haven’t I named the “Best Feet” award after him?<br />
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<b>Best Use of a Nose Guard</b><br />
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<i>Angel Heart</i><br />
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<b>Best Laughing</b><br />
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<i>El</i>, a climactic scene in a church where a man’s jealousy hits a peak. Did you know that Bunuel has a cameo as a priest in this one?<br />
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<b>Best Windsock Man (Balloon Goon, Tube Dude)</b><br />
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<i>Hale County This Morning, This Evening</i>, has a lovely shot of one beside fireworks.<br />
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But Clint Eastwood pulled off something special when he filmed a sequence with three windsock men in three seconds of film in <i>The Mule</i>. So this belongs to Clint!<br />
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<b>Best Artwork in a Movie</b><br />
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A random painting of guys in turbans putting cats down a shirtless woman’s pants spotted on a wall in the background of <i>Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion</i><br />
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A picture of George Bush on a wall in <i>George Washington</i> (a picture that made me laugh)<br />
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A painting of the titular dress in van Warmerdam’s <i>The Dress</i><br />
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<i>Fireworks</i> has two--the flower things or the snowlight/suicide painting<br />
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A recurring painting in <i>Barney’s Version </i>depicting the main character as a demon<br />
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The artwork in <i>Midsommar</i>--both the tapestry seen at the beginning and a pubic hair love potion story in pictures a little later on<br />
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Any of the tableaux vivants in <i>Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting</i>, the best probably being the one with the hanged kid<br />
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Willie’s paintings in <i>3 Women</i><br />
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<i>Teorema</i>’s son’s paintings on glass<br />
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The winner is a kid’s police sketch of a kidnapper in <i>High and Low</i> because it made me laugh. My favorite art is art that makes me giggle.<br />
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<b>Best Statues</b><br />
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<i>The Innocents</i> has some great statues, but I like the random bit of surrealism in <i>The Belly of an Architect</i> with a guy chiseling off the noses of statues. So that wins.<br />
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<b>Best Lighting</b><br />
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<i>Last Black Man in San Francisco</i> thrilled me with how light was used throughout, but I have to go with <i>Once Upon a Time in Anatolia</i> as the winner for one scene featuring an angel with tea. She’s a rare female presence, and my reaction probably matched the reaction of the men in the room with her.<br />
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<b>Best Thumbs Up</b><br />
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It’s gotta be the one a kid gives in <i>Pilgrim</i> after watching his mom bludgeon an evil pilgrim lady with his father’s head.<br />
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Oh, sorry. Spoiled that one again.<br />
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<b>Best High Five</b><br />
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Though a high-five exchanged between a senile old man and a son during a foosball game in <i>A Separation</i> is pretty good, I’m giving this award to Joshua Leonard giving a high-five to a random kid in <i>Humpday</i>.<br />
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<b>Best Facial Tic</b><br />
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Mastroianni in <i>Divorce Italian Style</i><br />
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<b>Best Drug Trip</b><br />
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<i>Midsommar</i>, a nice long take with the screen getting all warbly<br />
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<b>Worst Spoken Word Poetry in a Movie</b><br />
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“Ode to Alex Ramsey” in <i>The Black Stallion</i>, though the girl is really trying to sell it<br />
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<b>Most Disappointing Movie-Related Things</b><br />
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Varda’s <i>Kung Fu Master!</i> was not a kung-fu movie at all!<br />
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No Hermit Bob character poster for <i>The Dead Don’t Die</i> (though a friend did give me that movie poster, and I hung it in my classroom)<br />
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The glorious, warbling “whoa” in <i>Gunga Din</i> did not become a Wilhelm Scream<br />
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That the climactic scream in <i>Hunchback of Notre Dame</i> didn’t become another Wilhelm Scream<br />
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That <i>Gone with the Wind</i> isn’t filled with little people--apparently Singer’s Midgets were busy<br />
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That Pavel Juracek didn’t make another movie after <i>Case for a Rookie Hangman</i><br />
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<b>Unanswered Questions</b><br />
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Does Olaf fart?<br />
What’s an ear nostril called?<br />
Is there some sort of online group where serial killers can meet up and become friends?<br />
Did <i>Opening Night</i> have a black cowboy who wore an eye patch and swaggered or was that my imagination?<br />
Am I allowed to use the word “boychik” or not?<br />
Why did the Creed movies skip over Mr. T’s son?<br />
What game show had a giant pinball machine? (Note: This is in <i>The China Syndrome</i>.)<br />
How did Paul Frees and ben Burtt get involved in <i>The Milpitas Monster</i>?<br />
What the hell am I doing with my life? (This was in my review for <i>Happy Death Day 2U</i>.)<br />
What is the etymology of “shitballs”? (Is it a <i>Pet Detective</i> thing?)<br />
Did I really hear a “What the fuck?” in the remake of <i>The Lion King</i>?<br />
Was Edgar Bergern actually a good ventriloquist?<br />
Do I want to know what a “human toilet” is, or am I better off not knowing?<br />
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<b>My Biggest Laugh of the Year</b><br />
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The big “I’m Still Standing” climactic moment (a reenactment of the music video) in that Elton John movie<br />
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<b>This was <i>Rocketman</i>'s big "Live-Aid" moment. </b></div>
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Nicolas Cage’s “Eric Estrada” knock-knock joke in <i>Mandy</i> is a close second. “Sand off” in <i>Paddleton</i> is probably a close third.<br />
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<b>My Proudest Moments as a Wildly-Popular Movie Blogger from 2019</b><br />
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Coining a new word--whoreography<br />
Coining a new word--pop-doc<br />
My double Dick Hyman (That's back-to-back movies scored by Dick Hyman. In the industry, we call that a "Double Dick Hyman.")<br />
The use of “con-fu fighting” in my write up for <i>House of Games</i><br />
The fact that the only flaw or thing I need to fix in 2020 is seeing more Satyajit Ray movies<br />
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<b>Things I Learned from Watching Movies This Year</b><br />
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Seattle is not Fun Town, USA.<br />
The Italian army wore goofy feathers on their caps during WWII.<br />
The ostrich is the fastest land animal.<br />
Trash cans in Baltimore are 34 inches high.<br />
Hell is full of bears, Indians, and mountains.<br />
A new buffet strategy--never sit down. Thanks, <i>Mother</i>.<br />
<i>Grand Illusion</i> is really funny if you’re high. (No, I haven’t tested this.)<br />
The makers of Lassie were inspired by Bunuel’s use of a goat in <i>The Young and the Damned</i>.<br />
Abraham Lincoln cheated at tug-of-war, the kind of thing that is almost as shocking as Trump gleefully admitting that he grabs women by their genitalia.<br />
The Internet and cell phones have ruined society. As Clint Eastwood said, “You can’t open a fruit box without opening the Internet.”<br />
Roy Andersson invented the selfie stick.<br />
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<b>Movies That Made Me Cry (Likely an Incomplete List)</b><br />
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<i>Paddleton</i><br />
<i>The Biggest Little Farm</i><br />
<i>Rise of Skywalker</i><br />
<i>Amazing Grace</i><br />
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Yeah, that’s definitely an incomplete list. I cry all the time. Heck, two days ago, I cried while watching an episode of <i>The Office</i>.<br />
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<b>Movies I Watched Only So I Would Be Allowed to Enter a Person’s House Again After Being Threatened</b><br />
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<i>The Birdcage</i><br />
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<b>The “Attaboy, Luther” Award (Best Offscreen Dialogue)</b><br />
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“Yahoo! That’s the stuff, baby! Take it off baby!” (<i>The Night Strangler</i>)<br />
Lots of things characters say about Shelley Duvall in <i>3 Woman</i> (“He’s in for a good time,” etc.)<br />
“He stole my pen again.” (Also <i>3 Women</i>)<br />
“Grease my gun” or “I’m ready to powwow tonight, baby” in <i>Apocalypse Now</i><br />
“Way to party!” after the tall, blond dancer starts urinating on the floor in <i>Climax</i><br />
“Look what you done to my pretzi!” (<i>Herbie Rides Again</i>)<br />
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The winner: “Hey, Penguin, you gonna pick up the little girlie, huh?” (<i>The Milpitas Monster</i>, one where the subtitles may have let me down)<br />
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<b>Worst Pun I Heard in a Movie This Year</b><br />
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“Victim of sawcumstance” (<i>You Can’t Cheat an Honest Man</i>)<br />
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<b>Note: This is not Batman's The Penguin. (Note: This is an inside joke.)</b></div>
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<b>Biggest Pleasant Surprise</b><br />
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That <i>Cold Pursuit</i> is a black comedy<br />
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<b>Best Lebowski Reference</b><br />
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Thor in <i>Endgame</i><br />
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<b>The “How Did I Miss That the First Time?” Award</b><br />
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The silent comedy references in the <i>John Wick</i> movies.<br />
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I mean, they even start with Buster Keaton!<br />
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<b>Best Ideas I Had All Year</b><br />
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A Harry Nilsson biopic starring Tim Heidecker<br />
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A spin-off movie of <i>The Black Stallion</i> where Hoyt Axton has sex with mer-people<br />
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A hybrid sequel to <i>Rocketman</i> and <i>Crawl</i> where a bunch of Elton Johns try to eat a father and daughter<br />
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Asking former students for favors (like free glasses) because they owe a debt to me as a teacher. Thanks for that idea, <i>The Big City</i>!<br />
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<b>Best House</b><br />
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Alex van Warmerdam’s farm house with its well-planned doors in <i>Little Tony</i> (all van Warmerdam’s houses are awesome--I think he has them specially constructed)<br />
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<i>Survive Style 5+</i>, the house of the man who wants his wife dead<br />
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The winner is the Victorian in <i>Last Black Man in San Francisco</i>, aided by that aforementioned light.<br />
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<br />Shanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15033662507699896530noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-784846369945401487.post-58929412357604618922020-01-03T18:41:00.000-08:002020-01-03T18:41:40.851-08:002019 Year in Review (Part 3)<b>Favorite Quotes (Part 2) </b><br />
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"Making love, as you call it, is only a detail."<br />
"You've been destroying my buttocks since early morning."<br />
"Names is for tombstones, baby. You all take this honky out and waste him."<br />
"We got a swamp full of black Russians driving boats to beat the dam down here!"<br />
"My throat feels like a vulture's crotch."<br />
"Being human is a condition that requires a little anesthesia."<br />
"Get out, you treacherous pissflap!"<br />
"It was with deep regret that I chose to forego the joys of daffodils in Pullayup, but I had other plans."<br />
"Everyone is magic. And no one is."<br />
"Good night, world! You motherfuckers!"<br />
"And I can tear the ass out of a goddamned elephant!"<br />
"My soul felt like a brothel."<br />
"God, first and foremost, is an experimental, independent reality different for each of us. And incommunicable."<br />
"Morning, get up. Go to bed. Go to sleep. That's insanity, right?"<br />
"I'm not a spaghetti man!"<br />
"I don't understand why people like to eat together but hate to defecate together."<br />
"I could buy a lay from anyone just to wash you out of my genitals"<br />
"It's mental group sex to the max!"<br />
"Go ahead--pray. But pray with your eyes open."<br />
"My dad is a dad, but he's also a bird."<br />
"I hope I get hit by a truck full of fuckin' cement."<br />
"I don't trust people who talk about their children. They're perverted."<br />
"A man without a truck isn't a man. You know that."<br />
"Does the tin man have a sheet metal cock?"<br />
"I'm gonna drain the main vein."<br />
"I prefer daydreams to psychology."<br />
"Locks are like pretty girls. You have to practice on them."<br />
"We live among the trees. We live among the stars. We live among the galaxies. We are a part of the universe, and the calcium in my bones was there from the beginning."<br />
"Whoa! Where are we? We're inside a robot's vagina!"<br />
"Oh, wow! The poop is spinning!"<br />
"So somewhere out there, I'm making pancakes? Or at a water park?"<br />
"If you're gonna zoom somewhere, then you're a zoomer."<br />
"I need your observations like I need a dick in my ass."<br />
"I've seen this dog around here before. I think he's lost." (Reply: "Let's pee on his head.")<br />
"Expect the unexpectable."<br />
"Ok. But I want to beat the rat serious." (a euphemism for sex)<br />
"I'm cumming day and night. It's terrific. I'm in heaven."<br />
"That's America's ass."<br />
"Remove this tracheotomy or whatever it's called."<br />
"The pendulum has killed time."<br />
"Good heavens! Are you housing anarchists?"<br />
"It's no use! The only solution is monkey urine."<br />
"Eureka! The flower's weeping!"<br />
"You don't really care for an electric spanking, do you?"<br />
"You can't just bring an erection into my marriage and then disown it--your own flesh and blood."<br />
“In this life, we should trust everyone, except those who have two nostrils.”<br />
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<b>Single Worst Thing I Saw in a Movie This Year</b><br />
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Some guy: God!<br />
Bradley Whitford: Zilla<br />
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Although “I’m going to get you all the cheeseburgers you want” in that Avengers movie might not be far behind.<br />
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<b>Happiest I’ve Ever Been to See a Person Lose a Leg</b><br />
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<i>Of Fathers and Sons</i><br />
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<b>Most Disturbing Scene in a Movie</b><br />
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“It’s snowing” from <i>Benny’s Video</i><br />
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<b>Best Costume</b><br />
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Amber Heard’s dress in <i>Aquaman</i> with its jellyfish collar and a tentacle skirt. Her lovely red hair probably doesn’t hurt either.<br />
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<b>I can't find a picture with the rest of the dress. My apologies. </b></div>
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<b>Best Articles of Clothing</b><br />
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The titular dress in van Warmerdam’s <i>The Dress</i><br />
Nicolas Cage’s tiger shirt in <i>Mandy</i><br />
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Either the red dress or the green gloves or the combination of the red dress and green gloves that Cyd Charisse wears in <i>The Band Wagon</i><br />
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Nicolas Cage’s alligator (or is it a crocodile) shirt in <i>Between Worlds</i><br />
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<b>You just know he's grabbing these from his own closet. </b></div>
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A t-shirt with a hole in it in <i>Maria Braun</i><br />
Pauline’s boob shirt that she puts on in <i>One Sings, the Other Doesn’t</i><br />
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<b>Best Hats</b><br />
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The bowler in <i>The Unbearable Lightness of Being</i>, for like Pavlov’s dog, I started to get aroused every time I saw it<br />
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Friend’s beret in <i>Hana-Bi</i> (<i>Fireworks</i>), a thoughtful gift from the main character<br />
Steve Buscemi’s “Keep America White Again” hat in <i>The Dead Don’t Die</i><br />
Friki’s hat in <i>The Tree of Wooden Clogs</i>, but maybe only combined with his mustache<br />
And the octopus that King Kong wears on his head in <i>King Kong vs. Godzilla</i><br />
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<b>Best Teeth</b><br />
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Otik in <i>My Sweet Little Village</i>, but it was a narrow gap between his and one of the thieves in <i>Survive Style 5+</i>.<br />
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<b>Best Dance Scene</b><br />
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Lamplighters by an underground fountain with bicycles in <i>Mary Poppins Returns</i>, not quite the chimney sweeps but not too shabby<br />
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Shoeshine scene in <i>The Band Wagon</i>, a dance sequence that cracked me up<br />
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Harrison Ford and Emmanuelle Seigner in <i>Frantic</i>, he trying desperately to keep up while she’s gyrating in this red dress<br />
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Gene Hackman’s striptease in <i>Scarecrow</i>, though thankfully, that character wore a lot of layers<br />
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Climactic ballet sequence in <i>An American in Paris</i>, the colors and the choreography and the dancing, a sequence that made that otherwise dull movie worth watching<br />
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Anthony Quinn and four shirtless guys dancing at a party in <i>Seven Servants</i><br />
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Jim Cummings dancing to a song that only he can hear in <i>Thunder Road</i><br />
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Jane Birkin’s attempts to belly dance, “Hopeless,” because she’s “as sexy as a locust to them.”<br />
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That jazzy, surreal interpretive bird dance at sunset when the music stops but the character doesn’t in <i>Burning</i><br />
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Allen Ginsberg busting a move in <i>Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story</i><br />
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The winner has to be <i>Mary Poppins Returns</i> for a scene where Dick Van Dyke jumps on a desk and starts dancing like he’s not a 90-year-old man. It was exhilarating, a scene that made me yelp in the theater.<br />
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<b>Best Score</b><br />
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<i>Hiroshima Mon Amour</i>, Georges Delerue and Giovanni Fusco<br />
<i>The Thin Blue Line</i>, Philip Glass doing his normal Philip Glass thing<br />
<i>Mandy</i>, Johann Johannsson<br />
<i>If Beale Street Could Talk</i>, Nicholas Britell<br />
<i>The Ghost Writer</i>, Alexandre Dusplait<br />
<i>The American Friend</i>, Jurgen Knieper<br />
<i>3 Women</i>, Gerald Busby<br />
<i>Midsommar</i>, The Haxan Cloak<br />
<i>Under the Silver Lake</i>, goofball noir with a Hitchcock vibe by Disasterpeace, a word that I really hated typing<br />
<i>Teorema</i>, Morricone<br />
<i>Apocalypse Now</i>, Coppola’s dad<br />
I<i>nvestigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion</i>, Morricone again<br />
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The winner is a 2019 movie though. It’s Emile Mosseri’s lovely and eclectic score for <i>The Last Black Man in San Francisco</i>.<br />
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<b>Best Potential Band Names I Heard in Movies This Year</b><br />
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Plague Goat<br />
Cheddar Goblin<br />
Gnarly Psychos<br />
Ear Nostril<br />
Buford Pusser’s Woody<br />
Goat Ambiance<br />
The Archbishop of Shitting<br />
The Revolutionary Army of the Infant Jesus<br />
Interstellar Perversion<br />
Spaghettification<br />
Shaman of Sperm<br />
Rotunda Lust<br />
Smegma Trumpet<br />
Haunting Peacock Soliloquy<br />
Tuning Fork of Annihilation<br />
Flaming Orangutan Chandelier<br />
Robot Funeral<br />
Aquatic Rape<br />
Sphere of Influence<br />
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<b>Best Musical Moments of the Year</b><br />
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The series of angry events in <i>The Dress</i> that end up with a calliope thing being thrown into a river, the most Roy Anderssonian scene I saw in a movie this year even though I actually saw a Roy Andersson movie<br />
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When the church bells work their way into the score in <i>L’Atalante</i><br />
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Shirley Maclaine singing “After You’ve Gone” in a club in <i>Some Came Running</i><br />
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Mandy, the titular character in <i>Mandy</i>, laughing at Jeremiah’s song (better than the Carpenters) which leads to what I believe might have been angry masturbation<br />
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Aylmer’s Tune from the sink in <i>Brain Damage</i><br />
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A kid in <i>Time of the Gypsies</i> playing his accordion and squawking at his turkey<br />
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Dixieland funeral band in <i>Live and Let Die</i>, once with a stabbed guy sucked into a casket (I did see this exact location during my trip to New Orleans, by the way.)<br />
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Roxy Music’s “Virginia Plains” scene in <i>Cold Water</i>, siblings fighting over a radio<br />
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Oscar Levant going absolutely crazy in <i>An American in Paris</i> during a cool dream sequence<br />
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Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams with a ukulele rendition of “You Always Hurt the One You Love” while she tap-dances in <i>Blue Valentine</i><br />
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Minneli belting out “World Goes Round” in <i>New York, New York</i><br />
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Way too many to mention from <i>The Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story</i><br />
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A moment in <i>The Dead Don’t Die </i>when Adam Driver points out how the title track of a movie his character is in is playing on the radio<br />
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Keaton’s “It Had to Be You” with cacophonous accompaniment in <i>Annie Hall</i>, her first song<br />
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Street musicians with a mandolin and guitar rocking a Vivaldi number in <i>Kramer vs. Kramer</i><br />
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“Yesterday” in <i>Yesterday</i><br />
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Elizabeth Moss playing a song for her daughter in <i>Her Smell</i>, heartbreaking<br />
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Dueling zithers in <i>Shadow</i>, one of the most erotic moments I saw in a movie all year<br />
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Beach numbers at the end of <i>Nightingale</i> or an act of defiance in a bar<br />
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Adam Driver’s song in <i>Marriage Story</i><br />
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“Amazing Grace” in <i>Amazing Grace</i>, one that brought tears<br />
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“Mother Country” by John Stewart in <i>Apollo 11</i><br />
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If I had to pick a winner, it’s the Songwriter’s medley on piano in <i>Under the Silver Lake</i>. So, so good.<br />
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<b>Worst Musical Moments</b><br />
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The Ed Sheeran and main character in <i>Yesterday</i> song-off, a scene that could have singlehandedly ruined the movie if the movie<br />
Dennis Hopper, each time he does something with a saxophone in <i>Backtrack</i>--trying to hurl it through a window, popping into the shot to play it on a boat during the end credits<br />
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Travolta’s “Great Ball of Fire” in <i>The Fanatic</i><br />
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<b>Best Use of a Song</b><br />
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This is a tie between <i>Mandy</i>’s use of King Crimson’s “Starless and the Bible Black” and <i>Cold Water</i>’s use of Nico’s “Janitor of Lunacy” in a post-party sequence while a guy eats ravioli from a can and kids take dumps in the backyard.<br />
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<b>Worst Theme Song</b><br />
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<i>Snake Eater</i>, a song that details the plot a little and calls the titular character a survivor<br />
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<b>Most Surprising Theme Song</b><br />
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<i>The Milpitas Monster</i><br />
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<b>Worst Song</b><br />
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That travesty that Johnny Mathis sings at the end of <i>Walking Tall</i><br />
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<b>Worst Use of a Song</b><br />
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“Leader of the Pack” at the end of <i>Between Worlds</i> is a perplexing bit of lunacy. But how can that possibly compete with the panpipes version of Seal’s “Kiss from a Rose” in <i>Who Killed Captain Alex?</i><br />
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<b>Best Use of Music</b><br />
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<i>The Tree of Wooden Clogs</i>, symbolically, always just out of reach of the characters<br />
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<b>Best Musical Extra</b><br />
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Vibes/xylophone player who takes advantage of his limited screen time in <i>Bob le Flambeur</i>, and he could probably be in the running for this next award<br />
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<b>Most Disappointing Limited Time with a Musician</b><br />
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The fire keytar guy from <i>Hair</i>! One shot? That’s it?<br />
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<b>Best Sound Effect</b><br />
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A horrifying thud in a decrepit restroom in <i>George Washington</i><br />
Autopsy sound effects in <i>Once Upon a Time in Anatolia</i>, something that had to be a blast for the sound effects guy<br />
A squeaky wheel in <i>Meek’s Cutoff</i>, a constant companionShanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15033662507699896530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-784846369945401487.post-63968485758096037782020-01-03T09:28:00.001-08:002020-01-03T09:31:14.339-08:002019 Year in Review (Part 2)<b>Best Graphic Eye Injury</b><br />
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<i>Zombie 2</i> shows a woman’s face being pulled into a splinter of wood, and <i>Brightburn</i> has a difficult-to-watch scene where a woman has to pull a sliver of a fluorescent bulb from her eyeball. But the winner is J<i>ohn Wick 3</i> with a slow-motion knife jab into an eye.<br />
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<b>Best Gorilla Suit</b><br />
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Close, <i>The Battle Wizard</i>. Close! But <i>The Pink Panther</i> has a wild car chase featuring two men in gorilla costumes, so that’s got to win. Two gorilla suits are always better than one. I think they teach you that in film school.<br />
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Honorable mention: <i>In the Soup</i> with that scene mentioned earlier with a little clown and a person in a gorilla suit.<br />
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<b>Best Action Sequence</b><br />
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<i>Mandy</i>’s chainsaw fight between Nicolas Cage and a cult guy<br />
<i>Mandy</i>’s battle between Cage and a demon with a penis knife (!) while porn plays in the background<br />
A train collision sequence in Fritz Lang’s <i>Spies</i><br />
A stabbing in a taxi cab, one of the few good parts of <i>I Saw the Devil</i><br />
A Harryhausen-crafted fight between a troglodyte and a tiger in <i>Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger</i><br />
A shoot-out in a wedding dress shop in the surprisingly good <i>Cold Pursuit</i><br />
The climactic fight in <i>The Battle Wizard</i>, one that includes a guy getting clawed right in the ol’ crotch<br />
Tilda Swinton swinging a samurai sword in <i>The Dead Don’t Die</i><br />
Zombie vs. shark in <i>Zombie 2</i>, a scene that follows nearly-nude scuba diving that is pretty hard to argue with<br />
The exquisite sloppiness of the first murders in <i>Vengeance Is Mine</i><br />
Duvall’s scenes in <i>Apocalypse Now</i>, taking the good surfing spot from Charlie<br />
A shoot-out that leaves an apartment riddled with bullets in<i> Le Jour Se Leve</i><br />
People scooting down the street in metallic umbrellas in <i>Shadow</i><br />
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This is one of those examples where I knew the winner as soon as I saw it though. That winner is the fight sequence in the knife museum in <i>John Wick 3</i>. I know it’s the scene that made me the giddiest I’ve been while watching a movie this year.<br />
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<b>Best Chase Sequence</b><br />
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Daniel Day-Lewis chasing Juliette Binoche through an old folks home in <i>The Unbearable Lightness of Being</i> is a dark-horse nominee here, but this one also goes to <i>John Wick 3</i>, not for the motorcycle/sword shenanigans that were an homage to <i>The Villainess</i> anyway but the scene with the horse. A horse!<br />
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<b>Best Vehicle</b><br />
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Despite getting to see the Millennium Falcon one last time (maybe) and watching a Herbie movie, not even that ship can compete with the motorcycle with the cow skull on the front of it in <i>Touki Bouki </i>or the time machine in <i>Ivan Vasilievich: Back to the Future</i>.<br />
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The winner? The car in <i>In the Land of the Owl Turds</i>! Check it out!<br />
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<b>Best Decapitation</b><br />
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<i>Silence</i> has a really good one.<br />
There are lots in <i>The Dead Don’t Die</i>. You have to kill the head, ya know.<br />
<i>Bachelor Mother</i> has a decapitated duck toy because Niven winds it too much.<br />
<i>I Saw the Devil</i> has a cruel denouement that may or may not feature decapitation. I wouldn’t want to say for sure because I don’t want to spoil anything.<br />
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The winner goes to <i>Pilgrim</i> even though I don’t really want that movie to win any awards at all. But when a woman beats a pilgrim woman with her husband’s severed head, it’s something worth mentioning. And yes, that’s a spoiler, but you don’t want to see that movie anyway.<br />
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<b>Best Severed Body Part</b><br />
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<i>I Lost My Body</i> has to win this one though. I love the way that hand is animated!<br />
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<b>Best Death Scene</b><br />
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(Note: Spoilery stuff here. It won't hurt my feelings if you skip this one.)<br />
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Slim’s death in <i>Snake Eater</i> is one of those that has to be seen to be believed. But it’s not one that you’ll understand after you’ve seen.<br />
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There are two beautiful death sequences in <i>Ashes and Diamonds</i>, one at the very end of the movie that I can’t give away and another one that features fireworks.<br />
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There’s death-by-bad-rock-music in <i>High Anxiety</i>.<br />
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There’s a great death scene in <i>The Marriage of Maria Braun</i> that I can’t talk about because it would spoil things.<br />
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<i>Once Upon a Time in Hollywood</i> isn’t without its problems, but it’s impossible not to love a flame-throwerific scene in that movie.<br />
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How about a woman’s spaghettification in <i>High Life</i>?<br />
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<i>Midsommer</i> has a few great death sequences. Again, this is one I can’t give away because it would spoil things.<br />
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There’s a great death scene in Nic Cage’s <i>Between Worlds</i>, one complete with very special special effects and a jack-in-the-box.<br />
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The winner is courtesy of my favorite director, Aki Kaurismaki. I don’t think it’s a complete spoiler (since it’s pictured on the poster) to mention that a guy dies when he gets a jukebox to the head in <i>Hamlet Goes Business</i>.<br />
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<b>Most Depressing Use of Special Effects</b><br />
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No competition here--it’s Jarmusch’s <i>The Dead Don’t Die</i>. They just don’t belong!<br />
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<b>Best Special Effects</b><br />
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<i>Who Wants to Kill Jessie?</i> I don’t know if it’s the talking bubbles or the helicopter flying backwards while shooting specifically, so don’t ask me.<br />
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<b>Best Training Montage</b><br />
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This one belongs to <i>Who Killed Captain Alex?</i>, another interrogative title with the word “killed” in it. This montage includes Bruce U., the Ugandan Bruce Lee.<br />
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<b>The American Sniper Fake Baby Award</b><br />
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<i>3 Women</i><br />
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<b>Best Scene Involving People Acting Like Animals</b><br />
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There’s a dad hypnotized to think he’s a bird in <i>Survive Style 5+</i>.<br />
Jane Birkin, Varda’s son, and Birkin’s youngest daughter imitate birds while sitting on a porch in <i>Kung Fu Master!</i>.<br />
“Junior” in <i>Snake Eater</i> acts like a bear and growls with the rest of his hillbilly kinfolk.<br />
Matthew McConaughey has a grand old time in <i>The Beach Bum</i>, getting a chance to act like both a dog and a dolphin at various points.<br />
Arthur Bisbane acts like a puppy in <i>High Anxiety</i>, humping Mel Brooks’ leg and barking a lot.<br />
There are a lot of barking women in <i>Under the Silver Lake</i>.<br />
Jimmy Stewart bird-calls in <i>Mr. Smith Goes to Washington</i>.<br />
<i>In the Land of the Owl Turds</i> contains a scene where the protagonist imitates a chicken.<br />
<i>Yeelen</i> has a guy with a silly laugh pretending to be a hyena while perched in a tree.<br />
Buster Keaton imitates a parrot in a short that I saw this year.<br />
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But I’m giving this award to Alex van Warmerdam for his work in <i>The Last Days of Emma Blank</i>. He plays a dog in the movie and is totally committed to the performance, humping legs and defecating outside.<br />
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<b>Best Animal Performance</b><br />
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<i>November</i> has both a plague goat and a pig, but it’s kind of like when you’ve got two Cy Young or MVP candidates on the same baseball team and they kind of cancel each other out.<br />
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Same goes for the pigs--one old, one young--in <i>The Unbearable Lightness of Being</i>. I do think the old one does the better acting, however.<br />
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<i>In Time of the Gypsies</i>, there’s a turkey that gives an incredible performance. And it gets a sex scene, so that’s a definitely bonus.<br />
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The main goat in <i>Le Quattro Volte</i>? That’s solid work, but how about the dog in that same movie that manages to hit all its marks in this incredible 8-minute shot?<br />
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There’s a stinkin’ cute Jack Russell terrier with a good amount of personality in <i>Beginners</i>.<br />
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Charlie the cat from <i>The Beach Bum</i> deserves a mention, I suppose, though he’s really more of a prop.<br />
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<i>The White Meadows</i> has a monkey (Man with 10,000 Faces).<br />
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Irma the Cat does good work in <i>Dinner with Adele</i>.<br />
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There’s Sam Elliott’s dog, Ralph the dog, in <i>The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot</i>.<br />
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That horse in <i>The Black Stallion</i>! Man alive! So good! IMDb tells me it was a horse named Cass-Ole.<br />
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And <i>Long Day’s Journey into Night</i> has an amazing performance from a mule.<br />
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I’m giving this award to Cass-Ole, but it’s just because I know the animal’s name. I’m too lazy to look up the other ones. If you have a problem with that, talk to the committee.<br />
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<b>Best Animal Moment</b><br />
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A vulture on a bed in van Warmerdam’s <i>The Northerners</i>, horses inevitably devouring a character at the end of <i>Asphalt Jungle</i>, Truffaut trying (unsuccessfully) to direct a cat in <i>Day for Night</i>, an ostrich head poke in <i>Paddleton</i>, a panting dog that Melville keeps cutting to in <i>Bob le Flambeur</i> during a scene where a dude is practicing with a lock, ubiquitous goat chaos in <i>Le Quattro Volte</i>, a friendship between a chicken and a hog developing in <i>The Biggest Little Farm</i>, Neil Breen hanging out with an eagle, Sam Elliott having a conversation with an owl, a fish narrating <i>Maelstrom</i>, Peter Lorre with raven arms yelling at Vincent Price for not wizarding correctly, <i>John Wick 3</i> again with a dog action sequence?<br />
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Lots of good candidates, but I’m going with one that made me laugh out loud--a dead dog scene in <i>Walking Tall</i> where Buford Pusser brings it into his house so that his kids can see it and freak out.<br />
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Here's a picture of Peter Lorre and Vincent Price anyway. This is my blog, and I can do whatever I want.<br />
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<b>Worst Animal Moment</b><br />
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Well, Bunuel had a donkey killed with bees and a goat killed by being shoved own a mountain in <i>Land without Bread</i>, and that’s not very nice. In <i>The Tree of Wooden Clogs</i>, there’s goose decapitation that is hard enough to watch, but some horrifying pig screams before its slaughter are not easy to forget. And that punk Osama kid slaughtering a bird in <i>Of Fathers and Sons</i> wasn’t fun to watch either.<br />
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The winner will be the killing of a pig in <i>Benny’s Video</i>, however, because Haneke made sure I got to see that about 40 times throughout the movie. Thanks, Haneke.<br />
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<b>Best Use of Chickens (The Herzog)</b><br />
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Though I liked the chickens in Bunuel’s <i>The Young and the Damned</i> a lot, <i>Angel Heart </i>gets this because of the protagonist’s fear of the fowl.<br />
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<b>Most Oppressive Use of Birds</b><br />
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In <i>Teorema</i>, birds are omnipresent, and there’s an oppressive raven (or crow) ensemble cast in <i>Opera</i>. But once you hear the Lorre-voiced raven in <i>The Raven</i>--during the moments in the movie that are kind of like the poem its adapted from--you probably would have trouble imagining a more oppressive bird.<br />
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<b>Best Monster</b><br />
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Harryhausen’s troglodyte in <i>Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger</i><br />
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The titular creature in the cheapo <i>Milpitas Monster</i><br />
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Svankmajer’s “Audrey II” in <i>Dinner with Adele</i>, mostly because the thing has a freakin’ tongue<br />
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The winner is Kratt in all its various forms in <i>November</i>, but it’s probably only because of the bonus points I awarded it because it’s a monster that farts. Congratulations, you flatulent beast!<br />
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<b>The Lew Zealand (Best Puppet)</b><br />
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As a fan of ventriloquist dummies (but not really ventriloquism), I really enjoyed Vincent in <i>Toy Story 4</i>, but I thought Jules’ conductor puppet in <i>L’Atalante</i> was wonderful and not a CGI creation. The winner, however, is Charlie McCarthy in <i>You Can’t Cheat an Honest Man</i>. He rides a pony, ends up inside an alligator, wears blackface. What else could you want from a puppet?<br />
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<b>Best Movie Scene Involving a Penis</b><br />
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Yes, I did see <i>The Crying Gam</i>e this year, a movie that this award could probably be named after. However, there’s also the climax of <i>A Nos Amours</i> (probably), and Miss Scorpion’s erection at the sudden wind-aided glimpse of Yoko’s white panties in <i>Love Exposure</i>. And yeah, you read that right.<br />
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The winner is from <i>Mandy</i> though--a biker demon’s knife penis is just too hard (no pun intended) to compete with.<br />
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<b>Best Bulge</b><br />
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Terence Stamp’s in <i>Teorema</i>! This one excited me enough to use an exclamation point!<br />
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<b>Best 3-D [Censored] [Censored] from the Perspective of [Censored]</b><br />
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<i>Love</i> was the only movie that provided this delight. Thanks, Gaspar Noe.<br />
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<b>Best Masturbation Scene</b><br />
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As always, there’s fierce competition for this award.<br />
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<i>Love Exposure</i>, Yoko with a lot of writhing in bed<br />
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<i>Dr. Caligari</i>, a nympho wife pleasuring herself in front of a static-filled TV screen with a lurking guy in a mask<br />
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<i>Y Tu Mama Tambien</i>, two characters on a diving board<br />
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<i>Pain & Gain</i>, Adrian Doorbal trying to masturbate to a pornographic film despite suffering from Defeated Phallus Syndrome<br />
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<i>I Saw the Devil</i>, a first suspect going at it in front of a computer when the good guy walks in, pointless like the rest of the movie<br />
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<i>The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz</i>, security guys interrupting a masturbating man<br />
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<i>Burning</i>, a guy enjoying a tower a little too much<br />
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<i>The Silence</i>, Ester’s work. Swedish!<br />
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<i>Under the Silver Lake</i>, Andrew Garfield going to town to several magazines and a backwards record<br />
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<i>Memories of Murder</i>, a suspect masturbating at the scene of a crime to lady’s undergarments while he’s wearing a pair of red panties<br />
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<i>The Lighthouse</i>, Pattinson using a mermaid figurine as inspiration<br />
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<i>Rebels of the Neon God</i>, a guy pleasuring himself while listening to moaning sounds from an adjacent apartment<br />
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This one is a tie. First, you’ve got a scene that has to win because it’s become an immature inside joke with a co-worker of mine. Seth Rogen, come claim your Best Masturbation Scene prize for your work in <i>Long Shot</i>. Hitting your face with your ejaculate might not have been enough, but that “Oh, boy!” really sealed the deal.<br />
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Second, is Juliette Binoche in the fuckbox in <i>High Life</i>. I still can’t believe that scene happened. I’m sure winning this is very exciting for Juliette Binoche.<br />
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<b>Best Phallic Symbol</b><br />
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Sometimes, as Freud said, a lighthouse is only a lighthouse. In <i>The Lighthouse</i>, the lighthouse is clearly a penis in what turned out to be the horniest movie I saw all year.<br />
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<b>Best Belly Dancing Sequence</b><br />
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Flip a coin on this one, ladies and gentlemen! <i>The China Syndrome</i>? “Get in tight on the navel!” From <i>Russia with Love</i>? When there's belly dancing, we all win!<br />
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<b>Best Sex Scene</b><br />
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Loads of really great ones this year! These are among my favorites:<br />
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<i>The Last of England</i>, a guy humps a painting<br />
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<i>Time of the Gypsies</i>, turkeys going at it<br />
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<i>Jeanne Dielman</i>, her first orgasm (that’s probably a spoiler)<br />
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<i>Seven Servants</i>, an ending with all seven servants and a revelation about why Anthony Quinn was inspired to do this movie in the first place<br />
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<i>Mother</i>, random words uttered slowly while a couple make love (“spaghetti,” “armadillo”) while the titular character looks on from a closet<br />
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<i>Midsommar,</i> a group orgasm while an old lady pushes on the guy’s posterior to aid in the thrusting<br />
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<i>Under the Silver Lake</i>, doggy style (naturally) with a news report of a missing billionaire playing in the background<br />
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Any other year, that scene from <i>Midsommar</i> would win this easily, but I didn’t see Nicholas Cage in Between Worlds in any other year. I saw him in this year. And in this movie, he has a few sex scenes including one where he asks a woman to say “Fuck me” like Linda Blair in <i>The Exorcist</i>. But the winner is the one where his character is having intercourse while reading a book of poetry called “Memories” by. . .you guessed it. Nicolas Cage! I mean. . .<br />
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<b>Best Golden Shower</b><br />
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Also Nicolas Cage in <i>Between Worlds</i>. To be completely honest, it’s not a golden shower. He’s playing with a hose while washing a motorcycle. However, he does scream “Golden shower!” at one point, so I’m counting it.<br />
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<b>Missing Sex Scenes</b><br />
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Honeymoon sex in <i>The Tree of Wooden Clogs</i>. But you sure spent a lot of time on that boat, didn’t you, Olmi?<br />
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Also, either of the threesomes that Clint Eastwood’s character has in <i>The Mule</i>. Yes, you read that correctly. Either of the threesomes. I haven’t seen <i>Richard Jewell</i> yet, but I’m assuming he gives himself a part as an extra just so he can have a random sex scene in that, too. Hopefully, it’s not with Richard Jewell.<br />
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<b>Most Sex Scenes</b><br />
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<i>Love</i>, <i>A Nos Amours</i>, or <i>In the Realm of the Senses</i>. At least two of those made my wife suspicious in my movie choices. I’m not sure which movie has the most sex scenes. I’d have to watch them again and tally.<br />
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And speaking of my lovely and talented wife. . .<br />
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<b>Things That Would Really Annoy My Wife If She Actually Read My Blog</b><br />
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Calling Michel Simon’s character in <i>L’Atalante</i> a “sexy beast” because of his “I’ll show you my puppet” line<br />
The enjoyment of Maggie Cheung’s form-fitting dresses in <i>In the Mood for Love</i><br />
Leering at Olga Schoberova (Jessie in <i>Who Wants to Kill Jessie?</i>) like I was a comic book villain<br />
Typing the words “That’s right, naked muscle guy in the shower--I’m looking at you,” knowing what it could mean, and leaving it in there anyway<br />
Admitting that I may have wanted to “pflug” Jo Ann Pflug from <i>The Night Strangler</i><br />
Typing that I deserve a hand-job from her for coining the term “pop-doc”<br />
Typing that I fell in love with Rosamund Pike because of a dress she was wearing in <i>Barney’s Version</i><br />
My regrets that I didn’t become aroused during a <i>Pumping Iron</i> shower scene and blaming the photographer for it<br />
How much I enjoyed seeing Michael B. Jordan without a shirt<br />
Enjoying Schygulla’s legs in <i>Maria Braun</i><br />
Revealing how when I dream about Matthew McConaughey, he’s almost always naked<br />
Calling Mickey Rooney pantomiming the riding of a horse the “sexiest thing I’ve ever seen”<br />
How thrilled I was to see Pitt take off his shirt after a roof climb in <i>Once Upon a Time in Hollywood</i><br />
How Jimmy Stewart’s fingers in <i>Mr. Smith Goes to Washington</i> might have given me an erection<br />
How much I enjoyed imagining Jimmy Stewart and Marlene Dietrich having sex<br />
Yet another admittance that I have a nun fetish<br />
How I’d have sex with Dopey or Esmeralda in a “Sex with a Disney Character” part of the theme park if that sort of thing exists<br />
My Costanza-esque reasons for wanting to watch <i>My Cousin Vinny</i><br />
That I might also have a trapeze fetish<br />
The desire to rewatch a scene in <i>Summer with Monika</i> in order to check out the part with nudity again<br />
The excitement I had after she gave me permission to sleep with Cher if that opportunity ever arises (Note: She does know about this one.)<br />
How a Chinese woman saying “Your zither needs tuning” gave me an erection”<br />
That I want Morricone to compose the score for the next time I have sex, assuming it ever happens again<br />
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<b>My Three Favorite Instances of Nudity That I Saw This Year</b><br />
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The gal in <i>Wings of Desire</i>--yes, it’s only her back, but it’s really something.<br />
Two naked guys on stilts around a roulette wheel in <i>Jane B. for Agnes V. </i><br />
The girl who plays peek-a-boo with her buttocks from behind a tree in <i>The Northerners</i><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Before we get to the awards, I like to take a look at statistics that nobody would have any interest in. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">I watched 365 movies this year. The average rating was my highest ever at 14.1, up from 13.4 last year</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">and 12.45 the year before. Bad Movie Club disintegrated, and I guess I concentrated more on watching </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">good movies this year for whatever reason. Well, it might have a lot to do with living in a country with </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">such a bad president. The most-frequent rating was a 16/20. I watched three 20/20 movies this year </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">I saw movies from 35 different countries this year. I assume that’s a personal record for me, but I don’t </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">have an easy way of knowing for sure. 47.1% of the movies I saw this year were not made in America, </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">and that’s likely also a personal record. 7% of the movies I saw were from France, probably my silent </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">protest of this country’s rebranding of French fries as “freedom fries” back in 2003. I still haven’t </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">He blows smoke rings. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Bohemian Rhapsody</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> has a pair of little fellows at a Freddie Mercury party, but </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">they don’t really do anything. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Pain and Gain</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> had a scene in a motel with a little person, but although he </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">had lines, I couldn’t find him in the credits. There are little people dancing on a table in </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Strike</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">, a little </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">people troupe in </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The Silence</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">, and lots of dwarfish cretins (not my word!) in Bunuel’s </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Land without Bread.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span></div>
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<b>Previously nominated for his work in <i>The Manitou</i>. He was also Twiki in the Buck Rogers TV show. </b></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">This year’s winner was a really easy choice, however. The winner of this year’s Billy Curtis Award is </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">the great Michael J. Anderson. I saw him in three movies this year. He’s The Arm in </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Twin Peaks</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">, of </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">course, and if I really think about it, that character might be one of the main reasons why I enjoy seeing </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">little people in movies so much. He was also in </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">In the Soup</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> playing a clown who hangs out with a guy in </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">“I’m shivering. My mustache is prickly. It’s the first sign of a seizure.” </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">“My first hard-on. It’s embarrassing.” </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">“You and your sinful boner need to be trained by us.” </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">“I like the tingle. Juice me, I’m a shiver boy. I’ve got secret needles in my pokie globe.” </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">“His underpants got horny and ran into the woods.” </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">“A man is not a human being without mercy.” </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">“Sir, I categorically demand that you stop dreaming immediately.” </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">“I love trains. They are so erotic.” </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">“Sometimes, when a man aims high, he can miss.” </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">“You’re a vicious snowflake.” </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">“Can you juice me again? The colors are starting to fade.” </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">“God’s inside you, so he helps you dump. God loves your bowels.” </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">“Shut your ass, English shitbird.” </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Tiger codpiece that a hypnotist wears in </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Survive Style 5+</i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">and both Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson have great monologues in </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The Lighthouse</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">, and I also liked </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">the drunken old man who stumbles out of a bathroom stall in </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">La Haine</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> and delivers the following: </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">“Nothing like a good shit! Do you believe in God? That's the wrong question. Does God believe in us? I </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">once had a friend called Grunwalski. We were sent to Siberia together. When you go to a Siberian work </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">camp, you travel in a cattle car. You roll across icy steppes for days, without seeing a soul. You huddle </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">to keep warm. But it's hard to relieve yourself, to take a shit, you can't do it on the train, and the only </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">time the train stops is to take on water for the locomotive. But Grunwalski was shy, even when we </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">bathed together, he got upset. I used to kid him about it. So, the train stops and everyone jumps out to </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">shit on the tracks. I teased Grunwalski so much, that he went off on his own. The train starts moving, </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">so everyone jumps on, but it waits for nobody. Grunwalski had a problem: he'd gone behind a bush, and </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">was still shitting. So I see him come out from behind the bush, holding up his pants with his hands. He </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">tries to catch up. I hold out my hand, but each time he reaches for it he lets go of his pants and they drop </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">to his ankles. He pulls them up, starts running again, but they fall back down, when he reaches for me.” </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">It ends, after he’s asked about what happened next, with the old man saying, “Nothing. Grunwalksi... </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">froze to death. Goodbye.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">George Segal shows off his comic chops while practicing his “Stick ‘em ups” in a mirror in </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Fun with </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Neil Breen, through cinematic magic that would make Georges Melies cream his jeans, recalls Mary </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">There are lots and lots of mirror sequences in Altman’s </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">3 Women</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">, but I’m not sure how I can be </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">One of the most memorable sequences in </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">On the Silver Globe</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> has impaled people on a beach, and I’m </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">intestines. Don’t blink or you’ll miss them though! </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">the coffee pot, too. </span></div>
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2019 documentary<br />
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Rating: 16/20<br />
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Plot: You probably know the plot of this one.<br />
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Though I prefer <i>For All Mankind</i> with its Brian Eno score, this is really good visual documentary storytelling. You don't need a narrator to describe the calm before the storm with the media, ground control, the camping onlookers, and the trio of astronauts before they get on that rocket although the Cronkite stuff is nice to hear. The immensity of this thing they're going to be propelled into space with (320 feet tall)) is shown with the lumbering movement of the apparatus on those giant tank treads. When that thing ignites? Man alive! That is quite the display of power!<br />
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A montage of still photographs before take-off is touching, and for some reason, watching those made me wonder if I should have liked <i>First Man</i> a little more. This is a nice companion piece to that, by the way. But those photographs really brought the humanity into this. It was like lives flashing before our eyes. Maybe that was a seed planted in my mind that made it feel like there were cracks in the astronauts' stoicism.<br />
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Like <i>For All Mankind</i>, this does show the astronauts as very human. They're not as obviously awed by the experiences here, maybe, but there's something about Buzz Aldrin telling ground control, "I promise to let you know if I stop breathing," that made these guys cooler in an authentic way rather than just being cool because they were the first guys to go to the fucking moon.<br />
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Like <i>Amazing Grace</i>, this is a great document that shows what mankind is capable of. And as somebody in this said, it's also a symbol of our insatiable curiosity. And as Kennedy says in the speech that concludes this, it's a symbol of our boldness.<br />
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Oh, there's a nice musical moment, too. On their way back from the moon, there's a scene where they play a cassette on a spinning cassette player. It's a song called "Mother Country" by John Stewart, apparently one-third of the Kingston Trio.<br />
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This concludes my movie-watching from 2019. Thank you for your attention.Shanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15033662507699896530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-784846369945401487.post-23404141358935838412019-12-31T19:04:00.003-08:002019-12-31T19:04:46.534-08:00The Pink Panther<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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1963 crime caper comedy<br />
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Rating: 15/20<br />
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Plot: A bumbling inspector tries to stop a notorious jewel thief from stealing the titular treasure. He's also trying to have sex with his wife.<br />
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I thought for sure I saw this as a kid, but I don't think my parents would have let me watch it when I remember seeing it. Maybe I just saw the opening credits with the animation.<br />
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This isn't consistently funny, but it definitely has its moments. Peter Sellers brings the slapstick, silly but funny in nearly every scene he's in. There are only so many times you can watch a guy run into or trip over things though. Claudia Cardinale is cute as a button, especially during a sequence where she's a little tipsy and making me very jealous of a tiger-skin rug on the floor. Robert Wagner, David Niven, and Capucine (an actress who apparently only needed one name) are also good. This is more of an ensemble cast than I would have thought. I imagine the Steve Martin reboot of this is mostly Steve Martin running into or tripping over things.<br />
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Highlights include a nutty car chase featuring four vehicles, two driven by men in gorilla suits, and a pair of police officers running around in a zebra costume; a very lengthy sequence with characters trying to escape a hotel room without being seen; and another scene that I can't remember.<br />
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I'm not familiar with the sequels to this, but I'll probably check them out. What else do I have to do with my life?<br />
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Oh, I should mention the Henry Mancini score. So there--I've mentioned it.Shanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15033662507699896530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-784846369945401487.post-83486838411355454822019-12-31T18:54:00.001-08:002019-12-31T18:54:36.348-08:00The Souvenir <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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2019 autobiographical drama<br />
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Rating: 12/20<br />
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Plot: An aspiring filmmaker gets a new boyfriend, but he's got some problems.<br />
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Were both of these characters supposed to be unlikable? It certainly seemed that way even though one of them is based on the writer/director as this is autobiographical.<br />
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Maybe this says more about me than it does Joanna Hogg or the characters or the movie, but I just couldn't connect to these characters or their story. It felt like the movie was making an effort to keep itself at a distance.<br />
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The guy had a nice suit and sock game. I'll give him that.Shanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15033662507699896530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-784846369945401487.post-50833901336607488592019-12-31T18:49:00.000-08:002019-12-31T18:49:43.663-08:00Raven's End<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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1963 drama<br />
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Rating: 16/20<br />
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Plot: A writer struggles with getting published while dealing with relationship issues and his parents.<br />
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This was one of Bergman's favorite movies.<br />
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Two quotes stood out to me:<br />
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1) "The brighter the light, the clearer you see the scum."<br />
2) "The napkin is the only thing that separates man from the carnivorous animals."<br />
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I suspect there were some subtitle issues with the version of this that I watched, and I'd like to see it again.<br />
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A startling conclusion. I wasn't sure how I was supposed to feel. There was a crossroads moment that reminded me of a pair of crossroads moments in my own life, and I was conflicted.<br />
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I can't write anymore. I have a few more of these to get finished before 2019 is over.Shanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15033662507699896530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-784846369945401487.post-8201967097714574282019-12-31T18:39:00.005-08:002019-12-31T18:39:55.478-08:00Amazing Grace<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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2019 concert video<br />
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Rating: 15/20<br />
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Plot: Aretha Franklin sings some gospel songs at a church.<br />
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1) The introduction has Aretha's friend James Cleveland introducing her as a woman who could sing "3 Blind Mice" and make it good. By the end of this, I was really disappointed that I didn't get to hear her rendition of that one.<br />
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2) I have no real interest in Aretha Franklin, but I figured I'd watch this after seeing Obama's list of favorite movies of the year and realizing how much I missed having a real president. Watching <i>Amazing Grace</i> became an anti-Trump act, so I put it on and played it fucking loud! I kind of figured I might do some other things while it was on, but I was transfixed the second she opened her mouth and started making words happen.<br />
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3) And moved. It's too bad the titular gospel song appears at the end of the first of two nights because the movie peaked then and nothing on the second night matched it. Watching the response of the crowd, the choir behind her, and James Cleveland made me weep. But as Cleveland said, "If I seem a little misty, it's just cause I'm happy."<br />
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4) Mick Jagger seemed to dig it, too. At first, I was only joking to my family that I saw him in the congregation, but a later shot confirmed that it was actually him.<br />
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5) One of the choir dudes, a little bespectacled fellow who looks like he might be Indian, really stands out. The guy seemed like to love the camera, and by golly, the camera loved him as well.<br />
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6) This is one of two documentaries from this year (the other I'll write about in a few minutes) that showcases what human beings are capable of better than anything I've seen in a long time. Aretha Franklin could work magic with that voice.Shanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15033662507699896530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-784846369945401487.post-16727643238267260352019-12-31T18:29:00.000-08:002019-12-31T18:29:11.292-08:00Muriel, or The Time of Return<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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1963 drama<br />
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Rating: 17/20<br />
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Plot: A woman, her step-son, her old lover, and his niece enjoy each other's company for a couple of weeks.<br />
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"It's hard to follow you."<br />
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That's a line of dialogue, but at first, I was pretty sure it described the movie as well. And this film, from Alain Resnais who directed two movies I have absolutely loved (<i>Hiroshima Mon Amour</i> and <i>Last Year at Marienbad</i>) did perplex me with its jumpiness and seeming lack of interest in its narrative. With 813 shots (and only one tracking shot), this has a rhythm that I don't believe I've seen in another movie. It's almost off putting initially, and I can imagine a lot of people giving up on this one early. I was always intrigued, however, and trusted Resnais. Eventually, I fell into that rhythm, and while some of the narrative pieces didn't quite make sense after this first viewing, I ended up understanding these characters on a deeper level than I normally do with a movie.<br />
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Those characters are trapped in this place that "feeds on memories," and like in those aforementioned Resnais masterworks, this explores the ideas of time and place and memory. It toys with the viewers' expectations and seemingly toys with the characters as well.<br />
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It's a real tightrope walk this one, a director having this idea to piece together a story like this with this maddening editing, dialogue leaking into subsequent scenes, and all these narrative gaps. It's hard for me to imagine what the vision of this movie would have looked like in Resnais's head, but you have to appreciate a director like this balancing high above the crowd without a net like this.<br />
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How about <i>Hiroshima</i>, <i>Marienbad, </i>and this as a 1-2-3 punch to start a film career? Man alive!Shanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15033662507699896530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-784846369945401487.post-40460850490268235362019-12-31T18:10:00.002-08:002019-12-31T18:10:53.530-08:00Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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1970 Italian crime drama<br />
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Rating: 16/20<br />
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Plot: A policeman commits a crime and tries to get away with it. Sort of.<br />
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1) The silent opening credits befuddled me, especially after I saw that Ennio Morricone did the music for this. Once that playful score hits, however, it makes the wait worth it. There's a repeated "boing" motif in the score that I thought was delightful.<br />
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2) More playfulness--the first line in this is "How are you going to kill me this time?" It really sets the mood for this one, a playful darkness.<br />
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3) Back to Morricone--I really want him to score my sex scenes if I'm ever in a situation where I will have sexual intercourse again.<br />
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4) There are a lot of visual references (and one reference in the dialogue) to the protagonist's socks being too short. I can identify!<br />
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5) So much of this leans on dramatic irony. It's a police procedural, in a way, but we know exactly who the criminal. References to a murderer who "wouldn't do that" or being "an idiot" work nearly every time because we watched the first 15 minutes of the movie. And the perfect irony near the end when a character says, "I confess to my innocence!" is just perfect. It's fresh on my mind, but it reminds me of the visual irony constructed at the end of <i>The Executioner</i>.<br />
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6) I made a note while watching this. "Montage of phone calls--man alive!" I have no idea what I'm referring to.<br />
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7) I tried my best to figure out how the theme of power works universally here. The main character is working to figure out if he's reached a point in his career where he can get away with this murder. I kept trying to connect that to the self, a person trying to excuse himself for his past metaphorical murders, but it didn't work. Besides, with the references to Stalin, Mussolini, Che Guevara, Trostsky, the "bureaucracy," and other political things, it seems this has more to do with politics than humanity in general. And maybe more to do with Italian politics than I would even have enough context to understand.<br />
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8) There are some jabs at America that I do understand, however. A few times, a character talks about crime or police investigations being "like in America" and there's an interrogation where a character is trying to do it more like they do it in America. There's also a machine/computer connected with America that makes it seem like Elio Petri is poking fun. Trump isn't going to care for that.<br />
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9) There are some cool visuals in this, mostly in the first third. One shot I liked had a picture on a wall in the background of some guys in turbans putting cats down a shirtless woman's pants. Somebody figure out what that is for me.<br />
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10) Man alive! I don't even say "Man alive!" ever. What the heck?Shanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15033662507699896530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-784846369945401487.post-4066260960737640912019-12-31T17:32:00.002-08:002019-12-31T17:32:34.743-08:00The Fanatic<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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2019 thriller<br />
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Rating: 4/20<br />
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Plot: A developmentally-challenged cinephile stalks an action star.<br />
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1) Redbox Entertainment--I should have known I was in trouble from the get-go.<br />
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2) "Moose is in the house!" Moose indeed is in the house, and John Travolta's lost his mind. He's got a haircut that is capable of doing all the acting for him, but he turns it to 11 anyway. "I can't talk long. I've gotta poo." That's one of his first lines, so the screenplay definitely isn't doing him favors here, but it was still his decision to be in this movie and play the titular fanatic like he plays him. I mean, I assume this was a lot of his creation. Fred Durst isn't going to tell John Travolta to stop doing a character a certain way, right?<br />
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3) That's right--Fred Durst directed this. As I said, I should have known I was in trouble before Travolta tells us he's got to poo.<br />
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4) Just think about how big of a gap there is between the opening shots in Travolta's break-out performance and the opening of this one when he says, "I can't talk long. I've gotta poo." He's cooler than cool, and you can tell by the way he walks his walk in the 70s. In 2019, he's gotta poo.<br />
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5) Whether you want to blame Durst or Travolta or the hellish combination of the two, it's hard not to see "Moose" as an offensive character. Travolta plays up the mannerisms for comic effect, a character obviously on the spectrum who I think we're supposed to laugh at more than sympathize with. His disability--whatever that might be--is the source of his conflict here. I don't want to spoil anything, so I'll put this vaguely, but his disability is what leads to what you could describe as a downfall here, and it's almost cruel what Durst and Travolta are doing here.<br />
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6) More offensive is a scene where the action star (never caught his name, but he's played with a little bit of irony or satire by Devon Sawa) is in a car with his son and plays Limp Bizkit. "You like a little Bizkit?" I don't care how desperate I am as an actor or how much I need the work. I see that line in a script, and I'm walking.<br />
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7) There's Vis-a-Vis markers product placement in this as well.<br />
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8) Durst isn't seasoned enough as a filmmaker to realize that alluding to a lot of better movies is just going to make me realize how bad the movie I'm watching really is. The best reference--a "blink and you miss it" type of reference--is when Moose is looking at a Star Maps app on his phone and sees the address of Jack Torrance. For a brief moment, I thought that was clever, but then I remembered I was watching a movie from the guy in Limp Bizkit and realized that it was the opposite of clever. Other references: the "Stuck in the Middle" scene from <i>Reservoir Dogs</i>, a reference that almost seems blasphemous now that I think about it) and some ramblings about how Louise Fletcher isn't a good nurse. I'm embarrassed for those movies having to be in some IMDb trivia page for this movie.<br />
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9) Travolta does get a nice moment where he plays a piano and sings bits and pieces of "Great Balls of Fire." And by "nice moment," I mean that it's awful and embarrassing.<br />
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10) This has a few tense moments, but they're only tense because of what is happening. It seems like Durst and Travolta are doing everything they can to deflate them.<br />
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11) Ummm...the maid? What the hell? If you have seen this, maybe you can help me clear up something about the timeline of this narrative. Also, if you frequent Hollywood, maybe you can tell me if "Cereal Man" is real.<br />
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12) Best moment in the movie: John Travolta smelling his finger after touching his stalkee's ear.<br />
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13) Oh, sorry. He's not a stalker! He's not a stalker!<br />
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14) Durst tried to give this a neo-noir flavor by adding some narration. That's provided by Moose's friend. Unfortunately, the narrated lines she's given are maybe worse than the dialogue. "Moose didn't just cross the line. He fucking nuked it." That's the exact kind of line you'd expect from somebody who was in Limp Bizkit, I guess.<br />
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15) I hope Fred Durst doesn't read this and decide he wants to fight me. Or stand outside my door with a boombox and play Limp Bizkit.<br />
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16) Credit has to go to Travolta because I think he's doing his own moped stunts in this.<br />
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17) I can't type anymore. I gotta poo.Shanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15033662507699896530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-784846369945401487.post-80358676100648907102019-12-31T17:00:00.000-08:002019-12-31T17:00:03.841-08:00Long Day's Journey into Night<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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2019 Chinese movie<br />
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Rating: 16/20<br />
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Plot: I don't have time for a plot synopsis!<br />
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1) The title screen appears 1 hour and 11 minutes into the film, right before this turns into the most magical thing I've seen in any film from this year.<br />
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2) And I thought the five-minute opening long take was impressive, the first of many shots in this that managed to trick me. Me! A guy who watches about a movie every single day! Me!<br />
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3) "The TV said dreams are lost memories," a character says at some point in this, and this final hour is a surreal journey, purely surreal since it's quite obviously a dream. It's a narrative juiced by dream logic, and it's an exhilarating trip through memories and hopes and dreams within dreams within dreams.<br />
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4) I gasped audibly, probably the best way to gasp, while watching the last hour of this movie. I can't remember gasping at camera movement like that since <i>Soy Cuba</i>. <br />
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5) "Tricked how?" you might be asking. Well, am I seeing floor or am I seeing ceiling? Wait, these people are a reflection? I had no idea! Another reflection? Got me again, movie! That's got to be a reflection, right? What? Those are flesh 'n' blood people! Movie!<br />
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6) "It's living in the past that's scary, not mudslides."<br />
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7) That last shot, a symbol of transience, took my breath away. It's maybe the most gorgeous conclusion to a movie I've seen all year, and that's saying a lot because I'm a guy who watches about a movie a day on average. And if you remember #7 on this list while you're watching this movie for the first time, that might be a spoiler. Sorry about that.<br />
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8) Water, water, everywhere! Rain, a car wash, a pond, water dripping down walls. All that rain, all those neon lights. Why didn't I see this on the largest screen ever constructed?<br />
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9) A watch, claims a character in the middle of a dream narrative, is a symbol of eternity. And the watches and clocks in this movie are busted. So what's that tell you?<br />
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10) "Dipping water with the point of a knife,<br />
Examining snow with a microscope,<br />
Doing this over and over,<br />
One still wants to ask:<br />
Have you ever counted the stars in the sky?<br />
They're like little birds<br />
Ever parachuting through my chest."<br />
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I decided to create lines from that mini-soliloquy to make it into a poem. It deserves to be a poem! This movie deserves to be a poem!<br />
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11) Fruit, a spinning house, the consumption of entire apples, those broken watches and clocks, karaoke, mudslides, movies.<br />
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12) And an agitated mule! The mule is a better actor than Brad Pitt, and it has a better chance of making any sense out of this review than you do. And I'm sorry about that. Shanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15033662507699896530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-784846369945401487.post-7569643776331743242019-12-24T17:05:00.000-08:002019-12-24T17:05:00.793-08:00This Sporting Life<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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1963 drama<br />
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Rating: 16/20<br />
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Plot: A miner impresses enough to land on a rugby team, but he is unable to impress the widow he's shacking up with.<br />
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1) Richard Harris has an intensity that reminds me of Brando, a man who seems like he's larger because there's something inside of him that is bursting to get out.<br />
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2) My favorite moment with this character is when he slow rolls with quad kings, a stylish move if you ask me. That might be everything you need to know about the character.<br />
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3) I searched for a list of books the protagonist reads, but I couldn't find anything. I thought there might have been some significance with the titles. The only one I caught was <i>Cry Tough!</i><br />
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4) "You're a man! You're a bleedin' man!" cries Rachel Roberts' character, a widow with a cute nose. The poor guy--because as much as a bastard as he is, it's hard not to be sympathetic--just doesn't know how to be a bleedin' man. He doesn't really understand what a man is supposed to want. He doesn't know how to show feelings appropriately. He only knows how to lumber around with burly shoulders and scowl, how to crack jokes at the expense of others, and how to boil. He's a man searching for validation, and the tragedy is that he doesn't find it.<br />
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5) Man, Richard Harris can sure chomp on gum.<br />
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6) My favorite moment with this character was an awkward date that reminded me a little of Travis Bickle's in <i>Taxi Driver</i> except he doesn't take his date to a pornographic movie. This really does remind me of a 1970's movie that came out in 1963.<br />
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7) Apparently, I have two favorite moments with this character.<br />
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8) "Umpah whoa yeah yeah." There was that song, and a few other songs at parties or in bars. The score is from Roberto Gerhard. It's atonal, adds to the building tension in scenes, and is generally really interesting. I guess a lot of the score was cut by Lindsay Anderson, and Gerhard stopped doing music for movies.<br />
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9) There's a scene with a spider near the end that apparently critics thought was a little "on the nose," but I thought it had a wonderful ambiguity to it.<br />
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10) Richard Harris's character's main competition is a dead man's pair of boots. My favorite moments with this character are any scene when he stares at those boots.Shanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15033662507699896530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-784846369945401487.post-56170354855635455402019-12-23T20:50:00.000-08:002019-12-23T20:50:25.633-08:00Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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2019 sequel to a sequel to a sequel to an original series that has a prequel<br />
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Rating: 13/20 (Dylan: 10/20)<br />
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Plot: I'd really rather not talk about this one.<br />
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Before I get to a numbered list, I have a few things to say.<br />
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First, it's hard to believe that this movie exists. I remember meeting Darth Vader and a Jawa outside the Great Scot grocery store in Terre Haute, Indiana as a kid sometime around the time before Episode V came out, and somebody (maybe Darth Vader himself) said that the plans were to have a series of nine movies. Then for the longest time, it seemed like that would never happen. And now it's happened, and it was hard to believe even though it was on a giant screen right in front of me.<br />
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Second, it's an emotional experience for me watching this with my adult son. The music hits me, and then there are words scrolling on the screen, and I get emotional. I watched the prequels with the kid when he was just a little fellow, and we've watched every movie in the theater together since <i>The Phantom Menace</i>. He's a man now, and I'm an old man, and even if we don't love Star Wars the same way we did when we were younger, it's still something that I can't think about without thinking of him.<br />
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Anyway, here's a numbered list because that's how I want to write movie "reviews" now.<br />
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Oh, and don't read anymore if you haven't seen the movie but want to. This will have spoilers throughout.<br />
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1) This doesn't stick the landing, and it's irritating what it does to The Last Jedi, a movie that I really grew to appreciate. That one, though it has a sloppy narrative, remains cohesive because it is so focused on a central theme. It also took some risks, attempted to expand the universe, and toyed with our expectations. This one also has a sloppy narrative--a whole lot happens here--but compared to Rian Johnson's episode, it's much safer, gives people what Mickey Mouse thinks they want, and falls back on the same basic themes of the first films. It's Star Wars for dumber folk, and "Completely Good" vs. "Completely Evil" just feels a little tired. Hell, the bad guy even says "I am all the Sith" and is answered with "I am all the Jedi" at one point, like two kids dividing up action figures in the early-80s to play a little Star Wars in their bedroom. I'm pretty sure the Jedi aren't supposed to deal in absolutes, yet that's exactly what J. J. Abrams does here, watering down something that could have been so rich and so complex and so much fun to think about.<br />
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2) Let's get to the bad guy. It's Emperor Palpatine, back and better than ever except for some missing digits. I'm not sure we needed him, but at least we get to see Ian McDiarmid back in action. And we are forced (no pun intended) to think about Palpatine having sex, so that's cool. Well, unless there's some sort of midichlorian rape thing going on. That's not nearly as sexy though.<br />
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3) If you really think about it, this entire saga becomes more about Palpatine than any other character. The Skywalker siblings are only babies in a very small part of the prequels. Darth Vader's only there in spirit for this sequel trilogy. Sure, Palps (that's what his buddies call him) is only in 1/3 of Episodes IV-IX, but he's an integral part of everything that happens in any of these movies.<br />
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4) Finn has something to tell us, but J. J. Abrams isn't really interested in letting us know what that is. I was hoping that it was that he and Poe were involved in a hot romantic relationship, but apparently that's not the case.<br />
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5) Richard E. Grant seems to be doing a Werner Herzog thing here. I kind of dug it.<br />
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6) Like in <i>The Force Awakens</i>, C3PO actually gets the funniest line. It's about his "one of his oldest friends" and actually made me laugh out loud for real.<br />
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7) That "oldest friend" is the new character in this that is my favorite. He's even got a cool name--Babu Frik. I knew I needed more Babu Frik in my life after his scenes seemed to be finished, and then when I unexpectedly got some more Babu Frik (impractically), I nearly leaped out of my seat and fist-pumped.<br />
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8) Speaking of fish pumps, I'm pretty sure C3PO gave a fist-pump at one point in this movie, and if that's true, it's about the silliest thing that's happened in a Star Wars movie. It's definitely the silliest thing since the prequels.<br />
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9) Chewbacca finally gets a medal in a scene that made me smile, but it was at the very end of the movie. If the plan was to finally get Chewy his metal, you'd think that they'd give it to him much earlier since it seems unlikely that he'll survive the experience of this movie. Chewbacca also has fat legs in this movie. I think he's been doing squats.<br />
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10) This has some horrifying elements. Palps is hanging out (literally) in a setting that is probably the creepiest of any of these Star Wars movies, and the sound design and visuals really make it horrifying. From the opening scroll, I knew exactly who we'd meet there and wasn't sure how I felt about that, but I loved the way that place looked.<br />
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11) I hate everything that has to do with that stupid dagger in this movie. That didn't make any sense at all. The dagger having those words inscribed on it didn't make any sense. The dagger being a kind of map didn't make any sense.<br />
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12) Everything involving Carrie Fisher in this movie was really goofy. She didn't look like she was actually there in some scenes, and a lot of the dialogue the character has feels shoehorned in. That's understandable since it likely was. There's the key Leia moment at what you might call the climax of the movie that doesn't make a lot of sense because she wasn't around to film stuff that would help that make sense.<br />
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13) They do give Leia an appropriate send-off, however. R2D2 standing by her deathbed was such a nice touch. A less-callused version of myself might have lost it at that point.<br />
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14) The scene that got me was Harrison Ford's brief appearance. That "I know" was such a perfect line. That whole sequence is the kind of thing that should have pissed me off, but it didn't.<br />
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15) In general, I wasn't nearly as pissed off by this movie as I thought I was going to be. I had what I thought my review was going to be written in my head prior to going in. It was going to be something like "This movie broke my heart" and then a frowning emoticon. There are things that pissed me off, for sure, but as a whole, I wasn't all that annoyed.<br />
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16) But wow, this thing sure has a frenetic pace. It jerks you around like those Avengers movies. There's an early scene where the Millennium Falcon is lightspeed jumping (I can't remember what Poe actually called it, but it was something like that), and that almost works as a metaphor for the whole movie. Let's go over here now! Now let's go over here! Let's blow something up! Let's do some lightsaber stuff! Let's shoot some things! Kaboom! Zoom zip, time for a reflective moment. Zip zoom, time for another explosion! It's all fun, but it's a whole lot, especially for an old guy like me.<br />
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17) The older I get, the less I'm willing to fall for John Williams' scores. But the child in me will always love what he does in these Star Wars movies, and the child in me loved every note in this. The child in me is much easier to please than the adult costume I'm watching.<br />
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18) Let's talk about Kylo Ren's posse, the Knights of Ren! Actually, never mind. There's nothing to talk about!<br />
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19) Was it good to see Billy Dee Williams? Absolutely. Was it a little odd that he popped in out of nowhere twice? Absolutely. What a cool cat that guy is, however, although his dialogue with a new female character at the very end befuddled me. Maybe it's just because he's Lando, but it seemed like he was flirting with somebody 1/3 his age who may or may not be his daughter. I had no idea what was being suggested there. Maybe that's what Finn wanted to tell people?<br />
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20) The lightsaber action (and a lot of the spaceship action) was frankly a little boring in this. There's a ton of action, but it all kind of blends together after a while. Very little stands out although I liked the final lightsaber stuff at the end when Kylo and Rey are in two different spots in Palp's horrifying abode. It wasn't quite Snoke's Red Room fun, but it was nifty.<br />
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21) I want an entire spin-off series about failed Snoke clones running around and having misadventures.<br />
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22) That Rose character sure was Jar-Jar-Binksed out of this thing, wasn't she? She had a line here and there, but it was clear Abrams wanted nothing to do with this character because he was trying to appeal to the moron majority, and the moron majority did not approve of that character.<br />
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23) Oscar Isaac sure has charm to spare, doesn't he? If a character has to have a spin-off from this trilogy, I suppose he'd be the one I'd be most interested in.<br />
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24) Wedge Antilles! My son and I didn't know who he was until we looked it up early. My God, they managed to find a way to put Wedge Antilles in this movie. Abrams has no shame!<br />
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25) My favorite line: "They're just people." That was one of the lone things that helped connect this with its predecessor.<br />
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26) I thought I was done, but my son just informed me that Admiral Ackbar's son was in this movie. Oh, boy.Shanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15033662507699896530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-784846369945401487.post-37521272208155529352019-12-23T18:57:00.001-08:002019-12-23T18:57:19.460-08:00The Organizer<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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1963 drama<br />
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Rating: 17/20<br />
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Plot: Overworked factory workers struggle to get rights until the titular organizer stumbles into town to give them some direction.<br />
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1) This would make a good, though lengthy, double feature with <i>Matewan</i> since they both deal with workers' rights.<br />
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2) I was won over immediately because of the opening credits, stills of the working class and a score that had fart noises.<br />
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3) Personalities for the central characters in this are created so effortlessly. They're nearly caricatures, but in a good way if that makes sense. Even before Marcello Mastroianni shows up to be a recognizable face for me, I had already fallen for a lot of these characters. They're shown in a way that forces the viewer to empathize. Even the characters defined by their flaws manage to be likable.<br />
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4) One heartbreaking moment--the revelation a horde of characters have when they visit one of their coworkers. A door is busted through, and you wonder how a family could live like this movie has this family living while knowing that it's probably sadly accurate.<br />
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5) My favorite character was a mustachioed outsider who just stood around silently with his hands in his pockets most of the time. He has one moment in a hospital that reminded me of Chaplin or Keaton.<br />
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6) This really captures the monotony of the workplace. There's a rhythm to the factory, but it's like a drumbeat resounding in this personal hell these characters are forced to exist in for 14 hours a day. It's a depressing place, even the dusty lunch that is miserable except for a lighter moment when a person belches or when there's a glimpse of knickers.<br />
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7) I'm not totally sure this balances tragedy and humor very well, but the movie's tone is engaging. It's an easier watch than <i>Matewan</i>, but that might have more to do with a bias I have against West Virginians than anything else. This movie's smooth though, and it flies by despite the lengthy running time.<br />
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8) Marcello Mastroianni is just as good as you'd expect him to be. The character's got some contradictions and he leaves a lot of questions unanswered about his past and future. A lot of the performance is carried by a pair of spectacles.<br />
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9) Teachers will appreciate the emphasis on the importance of education in this movie. It's not just a random mention or two either; it's a recurring idea. Adults need to learn to read in order to vote. One of the young worker's brother is chastised when he doesn't study very hard because a good education is a way out of the life the characters are trapped in. There are lots of references to characters not being able to write.<br />
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10) One of the best bits has to do with that inability to write. The factory workers are drawing names out of a hat, and a whole bunch of them have just written an X for their signature.Shanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15033662507699896530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-784846369945401487.post-9940293927544150732019-12-23T18:16:00.001-08:002019-12-23T18:16:25.743-08:00The Sword in the Stone<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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1963 cartoon<br />
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Rating: 14/20 (Abbey: 12/20)<br />
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Plot: King Arthur, before he was King Arthur, makes a wizard friend and later pulls the titular sword from the titular stone which makes him king.<br />
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Here's a question--why's Merlin need to stand on a stool to sing his silly songs and perform magic? I mean, he's the guy who said, "Don't take gravity too lightly or it can catch up with you." It seems like standing on a stool like that is only asking for trouble.<br />
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Though I really like how the characters look and move in this, it seems like Disney went really cheap with the backgrounds. It also seems like Disney recycled itself in a scene where Arthur (Wart) is being chased by skinny Gaston, the latter who stumbles and falls on his face. The first time, it's in a forest, and the character trips over a log. The second time is in the town right near the end of the movie. It's the same angles and everything, and I think they just reused the characters over a different background.<br />
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But I do like how the characters move. Merlin's beard is almost a character on its own, and you just have to love how Merlin and the witch lady march to their wizards duel. That duel itself is a highlight, showing off the creativity of these Disney storyboarders, the kind of creativity that can overcome financial restraints. Most of the movie has Merlin changing Wart and him into various animals, and though I appreciated the whimsy in those scenes, I wish the legends added up to a little more. There's really no arc to this character. He turns into various animals and then stumbles into this situation where he yanks the sword from the rock. The end.Shanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15033662507699896530noreply@blogger.com0