Favorite Movies by Genre a la Jim - my version
Submitted by DaveMog on Tue, 02/20/2001 - 09:15
Tags:
- Action/Adventure: TBA
- Animated Film, Non-Children's: Twice Upon a Time
- Apocalyptic: TBA
- Black & White, Classic: The Third Man
- Black & White, Modern: Dr. Strangelove
- Children's Film, Non-Animated: TBA
- Children's Film, Hand-Animated: TBA
- Children's Film, Computer-Animated: Toy Story
- Comedy, Light: Top Secret
- Comedy, Medium: Raising Arizona
- Comedy, Dark: tie, Fargo, Dr. Strangelove
- Comedy, Stand-up: Gilda Live
- Crime, Con: TBA
- Crime, Guns: TBA
- Crime, No Guns: TBA
- Documentary: Genghis Blues
- Education: Rushmore
- Gangster: The Godfather
- Guilty Pleasure: Porkys II
- Horror, Funny: An American Werewolf in London
- Horror, Scary: The Exorcist
- Institutional: TBA
- Musical: Fiddler on the Roof
- Non-American, Classic: TBA
- Non-American, Modern: Europa Europa
- Period Piece: The Wings of the Dove
- Plot Number One: TBA
- Science Fiction: tie, The Terminator, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn
- Shakespeare: Othello (Orson Welles version)
- Suburban Angst: TBA (another tough choice)
- Tear Jerker: TBA
- War, Pre-WWI: TBA
- War, WWI and beyond: The Killing Fields
Author Comments:
I liked Jim's list so much I just had to make my own version. It is, however, still in progress, as I am still making choices for several categories. It's HARD!
TOP SECRET, yeah, good one! The huge telephone, the German soldier who falls off the wall and shatters, the scene with Peter Cushing filmed in reverse where they slide up the pole. Could this have been the peak, the Everest, of Val Kilmer's career? - no, only the K2, Tombstone is the Everest. But my favorite Zucker Brothers movie is still FLYING HIGH (a.k.a. AIRPLANE). And stop calling me Shirley.
Excellent! But didn't I tell you that there are no ties allowed? :) Just kidding; indecision is why I split genres so much. So it impresses me that you've listed Dr. Strangelove twice - using 2 slots for the same movie when there are limited slots to go around is quite the sacrifice.
I see you've listed Europa Europa (great movie). You might want to check out this list.
I've never heard of Genghis Blues; tell me about it?
Finally, if you want to link "Plot Number One" to the relevant list (so folks know what that means), you can replace that line with this code:
<A href="http://www.listology.com/content_show.cfm?content_id=2629">>Plot Number One</A>: TBA
(that probably wrapped funny, but it should all go on one line, starting with "<A HREF")
Looking forward to seeing how you fill in the TBAs.
I watched Genghis Blues last night and agree that it was probably the best documentary I've ever seen (if not the best, really really close). It's the story of Paul Pena's trip to Tuva. He's a blind blues-singer who learned how to do Tuvan throatsinging and went there to compete in a contest. Very moving, and very well done.
I just noticed this is available via Netflix; how exciting! I checked for this months ago and I have to sheepishly admit that I probably missed it by misspelling "Genghis" (I think I put the H after the wrong G). It's even more embarrassing considering Mongolia is one of the few countries I've been to. :-)
I checked it out of the library, which is how I've been getting most of my movie watching in lately.
I think I'd like to hear about the trip to Mongolia though.
It was very cool, but way too short. I was travelling with my future brother-in-law (although we didn't know that at the time). He had just finished Peace Corps in Thailand and I had just finished college. The plan was to travel around Thailand and China, and then take the Trans-Siberian railway from Beijing to Moscow, stopping off in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. It pretty much worked out that way, except we had a really hard time arranging our Russian and Mongolian visas in China. This was in 1992, so it wasn't as hard as it could have been, but it was still pretty hard. We probably could have worked the system a bit better, but what did we know? Anyway, we managed a three-day stopover in Ulaanbaatar in November. The landscape was beautiful, wide-open, and seemingly devoid of human habitation. It was also kinda bleak given the time of year. Ulaanbataar itself was a model of squat grey Soviet construction. The people were very friendly unless they thought you were Russian. Given we only had three days we spent too much time arranging visas (we actually failed to get our Russian visa in China, so being young and stupid we decided to go anyway and assume we'd be able to work something out) and figuring out what we wanted to do rather than actually doing it, but it was still tons of fun. I'd love to go back for a longer trip. Perhaps in the spring to see Naadam.
Hey Dave . . . Care to weigh in on whether or not "Black & White" counts as a genre over here?