Survey

1) Second-favorite Stanley Kubrick film. Dr. Strangelove (1st is 2001)

2) Most significant/important/interesting trend in movies over the past decade, for good or evil. Many action films rely on fast paced cutting which turn the films into a giant blur

3) Bronco Billy (Clint Eastwood) or Buffalo Bill Cody (Paul Newman)? Can't say I'm familiar enough with either of these films or characters.

4) Best Film of 1949. Late Spring

5) Joseph Tura (Jack Benny) or Oscar Jaffe (John Barrymore)? Again I plead ignorance

6) Has the hand-held shaky-cam directorial style become a visual cliché? Only if you let it.

7) What was the first foreign-language film you ever saw? If I remember correctly, it was "The 400 Blows"

8) Charlie Chan (Warner Oland) or Mr. Moto (Peter Lorre)? Can't go wrong with Peter Lorre

9) Favorite World War II drama (1950-1970).The Great Escape

10) Favorite animal movie star. Asta

11) Who or whatever is to blame, name an irresponsible moment in cinema. Gus Van Sant remaking "Psycho".

12) Best Film of 1969. I'll go with "The Wild Bunch"

13) Name the last movie you saw theatrically, and also on DVD or Blu-ray. "Harry Potter" in theatres. "Mouchette" on DVD.

14) Second-favorite Robert Altman film. "The Long Goodbye" (1st MASH)

15) What is your favorite independent outlet for reading about movies, either online or in print? Don't have a preference.

16) Who wins? Angela Mao or Meiko Kaji? (Thanks, Peter!)Do not know.

17) Mona Lisa Vito (Marisa Tomei) or Olive Neal (Jennifer Tilly)? Tomei all the way!

18) Favorite movie that features a carnival setting or sequence. "Strangers on a Train"

19) Best use of high-definition video on the big screen to date. "Once"

20) Favorite movie that is equal parts genre film and a deconstruction or consideration of that same genre."Unforgiven"

21) Best Film of 1979. "Manhattan"

22) Most realistic and/or sincere depiction of small-town life in the movies."It's a Wonderful Life"

23) Best horror movie creature (non-giant division). Frankenstein

24) Second-favorite Francis Ford Coppola film. "The Godfather" (1st The Godfather Part 2)

25) Name a one-off movie that could have produced a franchise you would have wanted to see. "Miller's Crossing" I would've liked to have seen that Gabriel Byrne character again.

26) Favorite sequence from a Brian De Palma film.I'm a sucker for the "Scarface" finale.

27) Favorite moment in three-strip Technicolor. If "Vertigo" was is technicolor than Kim Novak coming out of the washroom as Jimmy Stewart's dead lover for the first time and they embrace. Perfection.

28) Favorite Alan Smithee film. (Thanks, Peter!)None

29) Crash Davis (Kevin Costner) or Morris Buttermaker (Walter Matthau)? Too close to call.

30) Best post-Crimes and Misdemeanors Woody Allen film. Match Point

31) Best Film of 1999. "The Insider"

32) Favorite movie tag line.Can't think of one

33) Favorite B-movie western.All the westerns I've seen I would grade as A

34) Overall, the author best served by movie adaptations of her or his work. John Grisham

35) Susan Vance (Katharine Hepburn) or Irene Bullock (Carole Lombard)? Impossible to choose.

36) Favorite musical cameo in a non-musical movie.The Yardbirds in "Blow-Up"

37) Bruno (the character, if you haven’t seen the movie, or the film, if you have): subversive satire or purveyor of stereotyping? No comment...Yet.

38) Five film folks, living or deceased, you would love to meet. (Thanks, Rick!)
Yasujiro Ozu, Frank Capra, Ernst Lubitsch, Francois Truffaut, John Ford.