Wednesday, 23 July 2008
Movie Lists Are No Fun...
posted @12:44 p.m. by Richard Kelly
... if they run to 250 entries, IMHO. The Internet Movie Database offers a running tally of the Great Movies based on readers' submitted scores, and it's great that they get so much feedback. But then there's something so panoramic about a Top 250 that it sort of defies understanding or coherence. Is Grindhouse (averaging 8.0 from 50,000 ratings) deservedly higher than Klimov's Come and See (7.9 from 5000)? Or is it fair that Seven Samurai and Star Wars are locked together near the top at 8.8. when three times as many voters have expressed an opinion on the Lucas picture? I don't know. You tell me. For the moment we welcome back guest poster RAVI HOLY who offers his list of 10 favourite titles not even placing in that Top 250 - at least not today, anyway...
Saturday, 24 November 2007
'Telegraph' Confirms: Ten Bad Dates Ideal Xmas Prezzie
posted @1:37 p.m. by Richard Kelly
The following from today's Telegraph speaks for itself, happily. The writer, Sameer Rahim, has made an interesting selection from the Walken list...
"Ten Bad Dates with De Niro: a Book of Alternative Movie Lists ed. Richard T Kelly 458pp, Faber & Faber, £12.99, T £10.99
This would make an excellent present for film lovers, or anyone who claims to be one. The editor has asked various people - from filmmakers such as the Coen brothers, Steven Soderbergh and Mike Figgis to buffs such as Ryan Gilbey, DBC Pierre and our very own Tim Robey - to compile quirky movie lists.
We have "Top 10 Films it's Painful to Like" (Love Actually triumphs); "Top 10 Thespian Turns in Drag" (surely Dustin Hoffman in Tootsie should have been higher than fourth?); and, my favourite, "Top 10 Lines by Christopher Walken".
From The Comfort of Strangers (adapted by Harold Pinter from Ian McEwan's novel): "I respect you as an Englishman, but not if you're a… Communist poof. You're not a poof, are you?""
