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A number of our blogging friends have picked up the Alphabetical Favorites meme. The idea is that you list 26 favorite movies, one for each letter of the alphabet. Some people are adding comments, but I think it’s more interesting to just toss the titles out there, to see how they fit together within a single list and how they match up to other lists. Also, it’s been a hell of a week and I’m exhausted. I will say this: after not being able to think of a single movie beginning with the letter “J” that I enjoy more than Joe Versus the Volcano, I noticed that several commenters at the House Next Door had slotted the same film in the same face. So much for Todd McCarthy’s contention in his Doubt review that John Patrick Shanley’s first directorial effort was “misguided.”
So! My list is after the jump.
Killers, The (1946)
Star is Born, A (1954)
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We’ve had a bit of trouble getting this episode to go through the iTunes feed, so we hope this re-post will fix the problem. The original post, with episode description and embedded player, is here.
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[...] I rarely organize my collections alphabetically, at least not as the major organizational tool, since the letter the title starts with is usually less meaningful than the year it was made or the genre that it’s in. But there’s a meme going around film blogs (starting with Blog Cabins) to choose one favorite film that starts with each letter of the alphabet. Forcing you to pick something from each letter is generating some interesting results, so I thought I’d give it a try. (Other entries I’ve seen include: Only the Cinema, Film Doctor, The House Next Door, and Spoutblog.) [...]
I’ll use this space to do my own list.
Apartment, The
Badlands
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Duck Soup
8 1/2 (it counts, right? If not, then Eternal Sunshine)
Fisher King, The
General, The (Keaton’s)
Heathers
Incredibles, The
Jerk, The
Koyaanisqatsi
Life of Brian
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
North by Northwest
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Pierrot le Fou
Quick Change
Raising Arizona
Steamboat Bill Jr.
Thin Man, The
Umberto D.
Velvet Goldmine
Wet Hot American Summer
X2: X-Men United (not a good lot to choose from here, eh?)
You Can’t Take it With You
Zelig
[...] (meme) Gina Telaroli November 7, 2008 | 4:55 pm EST So cinema nerds across the web have been having fun making alphabetical favorite film lists over the past few days. Meaning they’ve been taking [...]
[...] (meme) Gina Telaroli November 7, 2008 | 4:55 pm EST So cinema nerds across the web have been having fun making alphabetical favorite film lists over the past few days. Meaning they’ve been taking [...]