What would the Your-Name-Goes-Here Film Festival show?

Counting Days: Because I worked on it and I was in it.

Clockwork Orange
Kissed
Crash
Bound
Boxing Helena
The Crow

I would substitute my name in the "Your-Name-Here" part
What an easy question. Give me a tougher one. I can take it!

*slaps head*
D'oh
Wasn't paying attention. Thought you wanted the name for my personal film festival.
*bows out as gracefully as possible*

Nothin' but Sydney Pollack movies, naturally. Havana, Tootsie, Out Of Africa, Three Days of the Condor, The Firm and The Way We Were.

This has got to be the hardest question ever. I guess for the personality part it would be those movies where the main character is a bit lost and screwed up but makes it alright in the end.

Favourite movies though are 'Thelma and Louise', 'South Park' and a movie (no-one else has seen it appears) called 'Butterfly Kiss'.

Oh and 'Calamity Jane' because no Dino Film Festival should be without a musical.

*cough* We'll pretend we didn't see that!

Willie Wonka
Mary Poppins
Love Story
Animal House
The Sting
What's Up,Doc?
Rain Man
City Slickers
Forrest Gump
Miracle on 34th Street (the 1947 version)
Parent Trap (the old one)
Hard Day's Night
Up In Smoke
The Apartment
Moulin Rouge (the old one)
Gone With The Wind
The Wizard of Oz
The Trouble With Angels
Big
A League Of Their Own
Paper Moon

My favourite films - all four of them. That's about it. It'd be a pretty boring festival for anyone but me!

All the movies would be by John Hughes, David Lynch, or Martin Scorsese.

Feats. It was a film showing people falling over while asleep at a table, tripping and falling on things, going to say something and the wrong words come out, that sort of thing. That film was never released *sob and sniff and wiping off snot*

"American Beauty".

Star Wars, Diva, Stop Making Sense, Brazil, Brain Candy, and Run Lola Run.

Underrated films.

Mallrats
Dr. T & The Women
Final Fantasy The Spirits Within
Unbreakable
The Arrival
Planet of the Apes Remake (I think the critics were WAY too harsh).

You liked it!? Explain the ending of Planet of the Apes (the remake) to me and I will be forever in your debt!

What! You're not going to tell us what the four films are?

Every vampire movie ever made just because I like vampires.

It's tough to explain. I just know I liked it.

Really, there's never been a movie to reflect any part of me.

There was going to be a second movie, but now there's not. So, the ending was like that of "Back to the Future". A second movie just isn't in the making, though, because the first wasn't a big success like they thought. That explains it. A Holly Wood Mishap.

Grease - I've always had the idealistic romantic notion of true love, The Mask - I believe everyone hides behind masks, Dumb & Dumber - I've done some stupid things in my life

Waking Life - it's the only movie I've ever seen that grasps what it feels like to be me on the days I walk around alone.
Pollack - hits me really hard with questions I have about what artistic success is and is not, can and cannot do in one's life.
Blur of Insanity - the best representation I've ever seen in a film of a 20 year old on acid.
Sheltering Sky - It's been a long time since I've seen it, but I remember its depiction of traveling really hitting home to me
Lord of the Rings - just because I'm becoming obsesses with it right now
Unforgiven - for the laying bare the mythos of "frontier justice."
Magnolia - just because I think it's a great film
Casablanca - ditto
South Park the Movie - ditto, and because it hits on some major political themes in my life
Tea with Mussolini - ditto and ditto.

Hmmm....It would have a lot of movies. A league of their own, The Preacher's Wife, The Bodyguard, Cinderella, Dumbo, Spiceworld, BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, and lots lots more.

What didn't you get about the ending?

The Man Who Would Be King, Citizen X, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are dead and Harvey. I may add Lord of the Rings to thatafter I get round to seeing it again

How the time-lines connected up. It's been a while since I saw it so I don't remember what it was exactly! Just, it didn't make sense the way things were portrayed when he got back to "Earth."

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I think the implication was that because that one ship ended going so far back in time, it affected the history of Earth, too. I figured What's-his-name (Marky Mark) was supposed to get back to Earth some time in the future, since travel seems to be unpredictable with respect to time. We don't know what the time-line was on the planet of the apes, either. But if it was in the past, and he traveled forward through time to get back to Earth, then by the time he got there, the apes could have colonized Earth, possibly even before the US had become the country he remembered--hence Lincoln being an ape. Make sense? I'm having trouble explaining it...

Hmm, maybe, I'll have to watch it again now The seeds of true confusion have been sown!!! lol

Citizen Kane
The Shawshank Redemption
Das Boot
The Third Man
Goodfellas
The Usual Suspects
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Bladerunner
Fight Club
L.A. Confidential
On The Waterfront
Raging Bull
Leon
The Life of Brian

Were you Sara 11? Now I will have to see that movie.

No. I was a production assistant and I was an extra in the funeral scene. My car was in the funeral procession scene also!

The little girl, Amanda Jamison, who played Sarah was a fantastic kid. Very talented and a sweet warm person.

Sheila Larken was in the film. She plays Scully's mom on the X-Files. Gladis Jimenez from The Y&R had the female lead. She is very beautiful and thin as a twig!
Alexa Robbins played Cheryl the waitress. She's amazing. She is married to Tom Robbins, the author and had a small part in the movie taken from his book, Even Cowgirls Get The Blues and she did something recently with Bruce Willis, I forget the name of the film though. I was her stand in for lighting one scene and we had lunch together one day. She's so incredibly beautiful. I couldn't take my eyes off of her.

Making a movie was fun and even though I enjoyed the excitement and met some wonderful and talented people, I honestly hated spending all that time away from my family. Go Figure!

Thanks!
...one of the downfalls of the Internet. You really have to watch what you say!

The Burning Bed

Films I like. I don't know. I feel like I've listed them all here before. Honestly, I've been avoiding this one for the last couple of days...Sorry, I can see everyone else likes it.

Sounds like fun for the whole family!

Fight Club
Dogma
American Beauty
American History X
Memento
Being John Malkovich
X
Dark City
Boys Don't Cry
Vanilla Sky (the original and the new one with Tom Cruise)
Dragonfly (even though it isn't out yet, I think I'd like it)
All 3 LOTR movies (even though Peter Jackson butchered it)
The Hobbit movies (even though Peter Jackson will probably butcher it)
The Mothman Prophecies
Cube
Man Bites Dog
I Married A Strange Person
Pink Flamingos
The Gods Must Be Crazy
Blow
The Matrix (and both sequals, and the anime)

When it comes down to it, practically any movie that WANTED IN would get in, but I think those movies would be essential, and I'd want the uncut versions of all of those that have things cut. As well, I'd want tons of anime shown, far too many to mention.

Thanks-these are some of my favorite movies. I still enjoy some kids movies like Willie Wonka.

Star Wars
Romeo and Juliet
Thelma and Louise (for me and my best mate)
The Little Mermaid
The Aristocats
Cruel Intentions (Fantastic film!!)

Have you ever seen "The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T"? That's one of my favourite children's movies. Dr. Seuss has screenwriter credits.

In what ways do you feel Jackson butchered LOTR? A couple friends and I have been rereading the all the texts and reviewing the movie and discussing with a couple other fans the choices he made in transferring it to film, and we have yet to find any choices we cannot get behind. There are huge changes, sure, but I'm curious what changes felt like "butchering" to you.

These are just a few movies that I have liked -- nothing really to do with me personally.

Sling Blade -- great flick
Proof -- interesting study about a blind guy who takes pictures and then has strangers describe what they see. That's how he learns about people. It's also a good flick.
Dead Man Walking -- Sean Penn is highly underestimated
Forrest Gump -- love that one
Silence of the Lambs
How Green Was My Valley -- Roddy McDowell as a child whose father works in the coal mines.

Lots more that have escaped me at the moment.

A View Askew-Fest!

Clerks
Mallrats
Chasing Amy
Dogma
Clerks The Animated Series (6 22-min. eps)
Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back
A Better Place
Vulgar The Clown
Clerks: Sell Out (the animated movie that starts production this year)
Jersey Girl (also this year)
Fletch Won (prequel to the Chevy Chase classic comedies that start production as soon as Jason Lee finsihes filming Stephen King's Dreamcatcher)

I'd also show Almost Famous and Vanilla Sky just cuase Jason Lee is in them.

Nope, never seen that one. But I liked the Grinch (the old one, never saw the new one), so I'd probably like it. I like Dr.Seuss stuff.

First up would be The Sheltering Sky, which partly inspired and partly depicts my inspiration for traveling to Morocco, and probably other things I've done as well.

Other films I'd show include:
American Beauty
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Buckaroo Banzai

There are lots of other movies I think are good, but I'm sure I'll think of more movies I specifically want in the festival, so I'll leave some room for those.

Fun!

It is live action, from the 50s.

OK, I saw The Royal Tenenbaums tonight, and I would definitely show that.

I'd probably like it, then.

eh,wha dis

continuous sex

I feel that he butchered Lothlorien by cutting SO SO much of it and leaving out the gift-giving scene, and the awe of Gimli for Galadriel (a key side-plot to the books that added a great deal of wonder to it the series, and quite a lot of fun), and he also added in Arwen as the saviour of the day for Frodo. Number one, it was Elrond and Gandalf, as well as Glorfindel, who did that job. Elrond cast the spell to sweep the riders away, and Gandalf added the horses because he was confident in Elrond's focus and skill at utilizing the ring of the sea in concordance with his own natural Elven magic to do the job. Arwen would have been not only MUCH weaker in magic at such a "young" (for Elves anyways) age, she would not have had the ring, and why, when focusing on saving Frodo, would she have added the horses?! Gandalf was confident enough in Elrond's total focus and concentration on saving the ring-bearer that he felt he could add something, but Arwen, alone and by herself, could not have done that with all of her focus and concentration, much less adding horses too. It was just to add a female role. Also, at the end, Aragorn LET FRODO GO. That COMPLETELY not what happened in the book, and also not in Aragorn's personality. He would have stopped Frodo if he'd seen him, but it was too late. And of course, how could I forget, one last thing, though this is just nitpicking more than anything, as they don't even mention him later on in the books, and he is the one thing that every HARDCORE LOTR fan would have argued about endlessly, Tom Bombadil. Gone completely, as was the Barrow-wights. Tom Bombadil is my favourite character because of all of the things he could have been, from Valar to Earth spirit to simply a forest spirit or maybe even a joyful manifestation of Illuvatar himself. I tend to think of Tom Bombadil and his wife, Goldberry, as the Valar of the forest and the hunt, Orome, and his spouse Vana, the ever-young. But once again, because of the hotly contested issue, I can UNDERSTAND, if not like, the last one. Just my humble opinion, as you wanted it.

Yeah, I was curious, thanks for taking the time to spell it out. You didn't ask for my view on it, so I hope you'll forgive that I share it anyway. I don't, at all, expect anyone to agree with it.

The one change that I do consider a big shame, though I do understand it, is the relationship between Sam and Frodo. In the books, it is very clearly, unmistakably, about class. Sam is Frodo's manservant. Tolkien was very moved by how the very strict boundaries of class, as they stood in that time in England, were dissolved when officers (the gentlemen) and infantry (the labor class) were fighting side by side in WWI. He puts a lot into the relationship of loyalty- not between equals, but across the class boundaries. But, I think, if Jackson had tried to leave that aspect in, it would confuse the story today. We simply do not have the same kinds of class relations as Tolkien did in his time. Sam would look odd, calling Frodo "Master." So, sadly, I accept that change.

I agree with you that some of the changes are sad, I just don't agree that they harm the story, or even the intentions of Tolkien drastically. I imagine that he probably edited tons more back story out of his books, to make them more readable. And he probably hated doing it, but accepted it. I miss Tom Bombadil, too. I love him! I just accept that the movie was already close to three hours long, and if you *have* to cut something, his plot is just about the only one you can cleanly cut that doesn't come up later. There's another one I thought about alot: Both the Old Forest, and Caradrhas act of their own volition to foil the travelers. Not because of Sauron, or Sarumon, but because Middle Earth is far, far older than any of the races which inhabit it now (except, probably, the Ents) and some of the oldest parts have a will of their own which does not serve any living race. I love this about Tolkien. I love how old and rich and deep his world is. I love the Barrows and the Barrow Wrights, not because they're an important part of the plot, but because they hint at the ages of the world. But, I tried to imagine how the movie could go into this, and all I end up getting is another disaster like the movie adaptation of "Dune." As for Arwen, I figured the reason for bringing her in early was to set up for the third book/movie. Tolkien did it much more subtly, of course, but he does, every so often, give us little clues about hers and Aragorn's relationship. I would totally not have been okay with Jackson inventing a love interest, but I was comfortable with him bringing an existing relationship into focus earlier. As for Glorfindel, well, again, if you *have to* make cuts, the loss of his character, though it thins the deep world a little, does so in a relatively indestructive way. I'm not sure that I agree with you that Argorn wouldn't let Frodo go. When it comes down to a choice, he does opt to try to save Merry and Pippin, rather than chase Frodo. I think he understands.

Anyway, that's my humble opinion, and you didn't even ask for it, so thanks for tolerating it anyway.

When it comes to Arwen as a LOVE INTEREST, ok. But that was simply stupid addition for the sake of political correctness. "Let's have a strong female character, even though we already have Galadriel!" "Ok, sounds good to me, let's alter something that doesn't need to be altered so women's rights groups won't complain at us." I hated that. It was Elrond and Gandalf, NOT Arwen. They could have, yes, included the love interest thing, and in fact I think they could have done MORE on it than they did, but they did the flight to the ford thing all wrong, and that pissed me off. There was no reason to change it. It did, in fact, add to the time the movie had, because Arwen was for some reason there, and they had to include those scenes. If they cut out those scenes, there would have been room to include Glorfindel, and still had lots of room left over for a little more romance scenes between Aragorn and Arwen. And I agree with you that it's sad they altered the Sam/Frodo relationship, and also that they cut out the subtle "My world is ancient and deep." things Tolkien probably would have loved to see in there. And as for him cutting things, you'd be surprised. I have the History of Middle-Earth series, books 1-6, and Book 6 is all about his notes and writings of LOTR, compiled with commentary by Christopher Tolkien. He cut very little, and in fact ended up making it much larger than intended BECAUSE he didn't want to cut anything. It was supposed to be one book. It ended up in three. When he started he didn't even know about the Ents or about Sauron's involvement. I'm going to quote a letter he wrote to a friend, because I thought it was so cool of Tolkien to write in a letter to a friend.

"I met a lot of things on the way that astonished me. Tom Bombadil I knew already; but I had never been to Bree. Strider sitting in the corner at the inn was a shock, and I had no more idea who he was then had Frodo. The Mines of Moria had been a mere name; and of Lothlorien no word had reached my mortal ears till I came there. Far away I knew there were the Horse-lords on the confines of an ancient Kingdom of Men, but Fangorn Forest was an unforseen adventure. I had never heard of the House of Eorl nor of the Stewards of Gondor. Most disquieting of all, Saruman had never been revealed to me, and I was as mystified as Frodo at Gandalf's failure to appear on September 22."
-J.R.R. Tolkien, in a letter to W.H. Auden, 7 June 1955

I read that quote somewhere too. I loved it. I especially am dumbfounded that Strider/Aragorn came as a surprise to him, when his plot line becomes so central. The art of writing astounds me. Enjoy! Out of curiosity, did you read somewhere that having a strong female character was Jackson's reason for the Arwen change? I mean- did he or one of his team say that ever? If so, I can see how that might tick you off, if not, perhaps you're reading too much into a choice made for other reasons?

My favorite movie is Miller's Crossing by the Coen Brothers.It's not a beautiful film.It's a perfect film.I have many others favorites.Strange Days.Clerks.The big Lebowski (Coens again! )Dead Man.Nosferatu (not the remake).Smoke.
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Mumford, Primary Colors, The Time Machine (2002), Good Will Hunting, Donnie Darko, L.A. Confidential, The Thin Red Line, A Better Place, The Celluloid Closet.

Oh my. My sense of humour is probably the easiest to show. And I've tried to do it in a very rough order.

Stop Making Sense
Brazil
A Clockwork Orange
La Jetée
[Two of the following three:]
Kes
If....
Zéro De Conduite
Sherlock, Jr.

Hm.