Meme A-Z List
I have been tagged by Dark City Dame for the latest meme doing the rounds and started at Blog Cabins. You basically compile a list of 26 favorites films from A to Z, and then tag another 5 film bloggers.
My random list which is not limited to noirs follows, and my tags are named below the list.
American Friend, The (Germany 1977)
Bicycle Thieves (Italy 1948)
Casablanca (1942)
Duck Soup (1933)
Enfants du Paradis, Les (France 1945)
Fight Club (1999)
Gattaca (1997)
High and Low (Japan 1963)
It Happened One Night (1934)
Jules e Jim (France 1962)
King of California, The (2007)
Lost Honor of Katharina Blum, The (Germany 1975)
Maltese Falcon, The (1941)
Now Voyager (1942)
On The Waterfront (1954)
Padre Padrone (Italy 1977)
Quiet Man, The (1952)
Red Sorghum (China 1987)
Seduced and Abandoned (Italy 1964)
Trouble In Paradise (1932)
Unbearable Lightness of Being, The (1988)
Viridiani (Spain 1962)
Wages of Fear, The (France 1955)
X-Men (2000) eXistenZ (1999)
Yellow Earth (China 1984)
Zorba the Greek (US/Greece 1964)
My tags – please don’t feel obliged and my apologies if you are annoyed by it all:
the dancing image
mardecortesbaja.com
the motley view
precious bodily fluids
wonders in the dark
That’s quite a list Tony. I was thrilled to see TROUBLE IN PARADISE there too. I submitted my own list to Rick at Coosa Creek Cinema, as per DCD’s urging, knowing full well that we have Allan’s list here to acknowledge your own tagging. But outside of Coleman’s Corner, I simply don’t know who else to tag, as everyone has been spoken for at this point.
Allan Fish’s list:
Alexander Nevsky
Bad Day At Black Rock
Casablanca
Dead of Night
Excalibur
Festen
Gone With the Wind
His Girl Friday
In A Lonely Place
Jaws
Kwaidan
LA Confidential
Manhattan
No Country For Old Men
Out of the Past
Pinocchio
Queen Christina
Rear Window
Salo
Trouble in Paradise
Ugetsu Mongatari
Verdun
Walkabout
Xala
Young Frankenstein
Zoo in Budapest
Tagged:
Coleman’s Corner
Front The Front Row
Getafilm
Cinematic Passions
Fils For the Soul
Comment by Sam Juliano — November 9, 2008 @ 4:17 pm
Hi! D’Ambra,
A nice list of 26 films, some of the films on your list I have watched, others I haven’t watched yet!
…hey! can you believe it!… your blog is part of the “buzz” along with several other blogs focusing on the Alphabet Meme!…Great job! at listing your Alphabet Meme in “record speed!”
Take care!
dcd
Comment by darkcitydame — November 9, 2008 @ 4:52 pm
Hi! Sam,
Another nice list of 26 films!…some of the films on your list I have watched, others I haven’t watched yet!
Sam, your job is finish!…once you list your 26 favorite films and list 5 others blogs.(They can either fulfill it! or ignore it!) hmmm…I planned to tag T.S. and Dean (Treadway), but both of them completed their list of 26 films before I could even tag them!…I already emailed Fletch (The creator of the Alphabet Meme) and asked him can they both still be tagged!
Take care!
dcd
Comment by darkcitydame — November 9, 2008 @ 5:22 pm
Thanks DCD. It will be most interesting to see how this all turns out.
Comment by Sam Juliano — November 9, 2008 @ 10:10 pm
Thanks guys…
Comment by Tony D'Ambra — November 10, 2008 @ 12:05 am
[...] Someone recently had the idea of alphabetizing a movie list. (Some others are here, here, and here.) I’m not really sticking to the strict rules. And this isn’t definitive, etc. etc. [...]
Pingback by A-Z « Precious Bodily Fluids — November 10, 2008 @ 10:36 pm
Thanks, Tony – I actually didn’t see I was tagged until now but just tackled the meme last night. We’ve got two overlaps: Waterfront and (inevitably) X-Men. good call on Seduced and Abandoned though.
Sam, great to see Kwaidan there. I couldn’t pick it, as it was too slow for me at times, but it may be the most gorgeous film I’ve seen, so that compensates somewhat, no?
Comment by MovieMan0283 — November 11, 2008 @ 4:09 pm
Thanks MM. Yes, it was X-Men or nothing – though I did rack my brain for a foreign title…
Comment by Tony D'Ambra — November 11, 2008 @ 10:22 pm
I have decided to bend the rules ever so slightly and change my entry for X, as while X-Men was a fun movie, it was a “no-alternative” choice at the time of posting. This morning a more worthy sci-fi flick came to mind: David Cronenberg’s eXistenZ (1999).
Comment by Tony D'Ambra — November 11, 2008 @ 11:56 pm