Top 10 Pick Up Lines for Movie Geeks

Yes, this image has nothing to do with this entry, but today is National Dog Day here in the United States. Assuredly, this will make people in Iceland wonder about us, but we're used to that! This is a Yorkshire terrier puppy, by the way.



Here are our top 10 choices for best/worst lines for movie geeks:



1. What's your sign?



2. I think I've seen every Hitchcock movie. What about you?



3. Which Bergman movie do you prefer: "The Seventh Seal" or "Persona"?



4. How many Indonesian films have you seen?



5. Would you like to see "Midnight in Paris" for the twelth time with me?



6. Did you know there is a Turkish version of "The Exorcist"?



7. I'm not really into chick flicks, but I loved Julia Roberts in "Pretty Woman."



8. Would you like to dance? I've been told that I can dance like John Travolta.



9. Do you know what Bill Murray said in Scarlett Johansson's ear at the end of "Lost in Translation"?



10. You should come up to my place. I have all 15 hours of "Berlin Alexanderplatz" on dvd.

Best Ten Films of 1951

Last year, I listed my favorite films from 1950, 1960, 1970, 1980, 1990 and 2000, on my two blogs. So, this year, I figured I would list my ten favorite films from 1951 until 2001.

We begin with the ten films that I percieve to be the best, or my personal favorites, from 1951, a year in which Marlan Brando yelled Sttttttttttteeeeeeeeeeellllllllllllllllllaaaaaaaaaaa in "A Streetcar Named Desire," which made the cut.

Here is the list:

1. "The Day the Earth Stood Still" (dir. Robert Wise)

2. "Strangers on a Train" (dir. Alfred Hitchcock)

3. "The Diary of a County Priest" (France. dir: Robert Bresson)

4. "Early Summer" (Japan. dir: Yasujiro Ozu)

5. "A Streetcar Named Desire" (dir. Elia Kazan)

6. "The Steel Helmet" (dir. Samuel Fuller)

7. "The African Queen" (dir. John Huston)

8. "A Place in the Sun" (dir. George Stevens)

9. "The Thing" (dir. Christian Nyby and Howard Hawks)

10. "An American in Paris"* (dir. Vincente Minelli)

*-Oscar winner for Best Film

Quote of the Week- Jessica Tandy

Today, we are continuing our series within a series featuring quotes from past Oscar winners as the Oscar season is upon us. Our quote for today comes from the late Jessica Tandy (1909-1994) who was the oldest woman ever to win a Best Actress Oscar when she won the award in 1989.

It is fitting perhaps that Tandy won an Oscar for the film "Driving Miss Daisy," which was originally a hit stage play, since she was known primarily as a stage actress for much of her career.

In fact, she won the Lead Actress Tony for her performance as Blanche DuBois in the original Broadway run of the Tennessee Williams play "A Streetcar Named Desire" in 1947.

Tandy also starred in the famous Alfred Hitchock film "The Birds" (1963) which is still known to make one wary of pigeons.

Here is the quote from Tandy, which seems appropriate given that today is Valentine's Day, and the man buying his wife two dozen roses may have alterior motives:

"When he's late for dinner, I know he's either having an affair or lying dead in the street. I always hope it's the street."