Monday, November 15, 2010

born 15 November 1970

Aaron Star, Minneapolis, Minnesota, cinematographer

Barry Privett, state of Virginia, singer

Christoph Hochenbichler, Vienna, Austria, cinematographer

Danny Sapani, London, England, actor

Duncan Cowan, London, England, film editor

Edward Fletcher, Boston, Massachusetts, actor

Ezra van Groningen, Zeist, The Netherlands, actor

Fausto Talone, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, actor

Karin & Mirjam Van Breeschooten, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, Playboy playmates

Kelly Pierce, Baltimore, Maryland, producer

Martin Oberhauser, Vienna, Austria, actor

Matt Cahill, birthplace unspecified, American post-production supervisor

Paulina Mlynarska, Warsaw, Poland, actress

Scott Mitchell Nelson, Shawnee Mission, Kansas, actor

Ursula “Uschi” Disl, Bad Tölz, West Germany, biathlete (IF you know what I mean)

Yusuke Hirayama, Saitama, Japan, actor



This week I have set for myself the task of rounding up the forty movies that knocked me the flattest on my hindquarters upon first viewing.


It is an impossible task.


I tried; I can’t narrow it down that far. So, instead, I’m going to have to fiddle around and fudge my own task lavishly.


Here, and for the next five days, will be thirty-two such films, as well as the eight directors working in my own time who captured my heart the most consistently. Not that they can do no wrong; it’s just that it would be wholly impossible to pick just one of their films to stand for the rest (as I’m doing for the other thirty-two).


And in the end, I’m doing this only slightly to share my all-time favorites. I’m doing it more to measure what I can actually remember loving as I sit here right now, as opposed to all the great movies I’ve seen that I can’t quite recall off the top of my head, with minimal search-engineering. There are going to be a LOT of honorable mentions, in other words, when I look back on this list, even, say, a month from now.


So here are the first eight. Like the installments that follow, this list will be scrambled completely, to maximize the potential for random juxtaposition, like the books on my home bookcases.


Kingpin

Chinatown

South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut

Funny Bones

Zero Effect

The Conformist

Crooklyn

Dead Man


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