| Poem for Saturday |
[Mar. 22nd, 2003|10:18 am] |
( The Lost Pilot )
From ![[info]](http://piktures.deadjournal.com/userinfo.gif) queenofthorns, the alphabet movie meme:
A – Amadeus - for the music alone, but also just superbly done
B – Bob Roberts - Tim Robbins skewers politics with music
C – Crimes and Misdemeanors - Woody Allen's tragicomic masterpiece
D – Dangerous Liaisons - the most stylish film ever made
E – Evita - have always loved the musical and Madonna is wonderful
F - The Fellowship of the Ring - do I really need to explain?
G – The Grifters - creepy mod-noir and Anjelica is phenomenal beyond belief
H – Hair - Let the sunshine in and stop the war
I – The Indian Runner - gripping, haunting and superbly acted
J - Joe vs. the Volcano - an underrated, hilarious, uplifting film
K – Kiss of the Spider Woman - Stunningly powerful, gutwrenching
L – The Lion In Winter - History, Hepburn, amazing dialogue and acting
M – The Maltese Falcon - everything noir is and should be
N – The Natural - because I love the dream of baseball with a passion
O – One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - the script, the acting, Louise Fletcher
P – The Princess Bride - I am not left-handed!
Q – Queen Christina - My favorite Garbo
R – Rear Window - Hitchcock, Grace Kelly and humor, an irresistible combination
S – Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan - the best of the big-screen Treks
T – Tempest - Mazursky's film with Cassavetes, Rowlands and Sarandon, a masterpiece
U – Unforgiven – one of few Eastwood movies I really like
V – Vertigo - Hitchcock wraps obsession and pathology together
W – The Wizard of Oz - because who can forget it, ever?
X – Xanadu - because yes, I do love Olivia and ELO
Y – Young Frankenstein - Mel Brooks' masterpiece, one of the funniest movies ever
Z – Zelig - another Woody Allen masterpiece, the fiction of history
Fascinating Bill Keller op-ed piece on why Colin Powell is the wrong secretary of state for Dubya, even though Keller and I both agree that Powell is one of the few members of the Bush cabinet who actually listens to reason...
and an op-ed piece on the hypocrisy of the U.N. which I found myself unhappily agreeing with a lot of, even though my major issue -- the screaming hypocrisy toward Israel -- is never addressed. |
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