YOU CAN'T TRIPLE-STAMP A DOUBLE STAMP!

So now John Pyper Ferguson and Callum Keith Rennie have been (totally wasted) on Smallville. C'mon Bernie and Hugh, what are you waiting for? I would love to see Joe Dick in that milieu. Maybe he could spit on Lana.

Meanwhile Michael Rosenbaum please give me a call when you find something else to be sexy and intense and bald in.

For my politics course I've had to write out my ten favourite movies (everyone's lists will be collated and the results distributed; I look forward to seeing them). Apparently it's supposed to be in order of most-->least favourite, but no-one would be that cruel. So, in no particular order:

( My list )

So, disregarding the influence of mood: two Rob Reiners; I could also have doubled up on Kubrick or Goldman or Bogart or Gilliam or even tripled up on Reiners, which would actually not have changed the stats below one whit. Three (four, counting HCL) satires, two "childhood" movies, two thrillers, two fantasies, three animal names. All English or North American (with a touch of NZ & mystery island), in quintessential ways (US noir, gangsta, Western, Arthur/Medieval romance epic, English twits, American youth). All live-action. Two about music, one musical. Three with documentary elements.

All about Men OMG MEN and their manly bonds, like could they be any more MALE? (Maybe not Elijah Wood). Where are the women? Sense and Sensibility and The Princess Bride and Fifth Element were close to getting in. Most prominent female characters? Wife (Etta Place, Jeanine Pettibone) or fiance (Arwen) or mother (Alec's mum, Galadriel haha). Thank god for Mary Astor. Etta Place is pretty great, too. All white as lilies. Rabbit Proof Fence and Ang Lee and Yimou Zhang and Benicio Del Toro had look-ins. I'm almost disappointed in myself that I've chosen such a narrow spectrum of movies to really take into my heart! You can tell the kind of media I latched onto most as a kid *g*

I'm really interested to see other people's lists and the breakdowns. Tell me yours!

Also for this course I had to watch He Died with a Felafel in his Hand, which I very much enjoyed. Noah Taylor is great. Out of the ten million pop culture (and high culture) references in that movie, both in dialogue and homages, I think about two referred to Australia. And you know, aside from the occasional orgasming over Hugo Weaving and Cate Blanchett, that is so, so true. lydia_petze, have you seen this? There is a Reservoir Dogs reference in there that KILLED me.

So, to continue in the theme of white men doing manly things, in their Venice FF special on Wednesday Margaret and David touched on (heh) Brokeback Mountain. Man, I cannot wait for this. I am uncertain about Heath Ledger but I think Jake Gyllenhall will be fantastic (in one clip he mimicked Ledger having to take a shot of whiskey before the love scenes (in a way that implied that there was tension between them because of it. And Ledger, promoting Casanova, mentioned that BM was an extremely hard shoot). And they seem to be building on the Proulx story in intelligent ways.

I have never been more wholly immersed in pop culture in all my life. It's fantastic.

Just got finished watching Hard Core Logo for about the billionth time. There are many things I love about this movie (and a couple I hate, like, could the lip syncing be any worse? Is it meant to be ironic? I don't know!) but there are not that many other movies out there I could watch over and over again and still be fascinated by the performances, always finding something more. Plus I'm not sure exactly what's happening but I think somehow CKR gets more beautiful every time I see it (*has the SERIOUS hots for CKR atm*). Maybe it's just my DVD player.

Was going through CKR.net for screencaps and I'm really beginning to think that I've got to get the other version of the movie; I have the special edition which is pan-and-scan, which by itself I absolutely loathe, but the colours also appear to be remarkably different: sepia or blue where mine is b&w, for instance. Or perhaps it really *is* my DVD player. Well, when I have money to spare, maybe.