JEAN BRODIE'S SPRINGTIME MOVIE QUIZ

or: MISS JEAN BRODIE’S MODESTLY MAGNIFICENT, MATRIARCHALLY MANIPULATIVE SPRINGTIME-FOR-MUSSOLINI MOVIE QUIZ

another one from Dennis!

)  1) CLASSIC MOVIE MOMENT 

  EVERYONE LOVES EXCEPT 

   ME IS:

That "Love means never having to 

say you're sorry" bullshit in LOVE 

STORY (1970).

Also this moment ↓

😂 so fucking stupid.

2) 

FAVORITE LINE OR DIALOGUE 

    FROM A FILM NOIR
"You know, sometimes a bad memory is 

like what they call an ill wind. It can blow 

somebody luck."

Mitchum in OUT OF THE PAST

3) 

2ND FAVORITE HAL ASHBY
BEING THERE (1979)

4) DESCRIBE THE MOMENT WHEN 

YOU FIRST REALIZED MOVIES 

WERE DIRECTED AS OPPOSED 

TO SIMPLY PIECED TOGETHER ANONYMOUSLY*
Very young, like 2nd grade; and mostly stemming from 

my already understanding how stop-animation 

worked. I had seen a Reading Rainbow episode 

explaining clay animation and also a Wallace & 

Gromit "making of" featurette. My first home movies 

were claymation or stop-motion too.

I assumed the same went for live-action from there on. 

Except it's way easier with live-action because you 

don't have to pose the actors frame-by-frame. But I 

understood someone was deciding everything that 

happens in front of the camera including where it was 

placed & what everyone says or does.

5) FAVORITE FILM BOOK
Cronenberg on Cronenberg.

6) DIANA SANDS 

   OR VONETTA MCGEE?
Personally, Vonetta.

7) MOST EGREGIOUS GAP 

IN YOUR VIEWING OF FILMS 

MADE IN THE PAST 10 YEARS
My Costa Rica honeymoon last 

year! Two full weeks with no movies. 😱

8) 

FAVORITE LINE OF DIALOGUE 

    FROM A COMEDY
Lloyd Bridges narrating this in 

HOT SHOTS! PART DEUX (1993)  
"And so, we were off. Just two questions 

were going through my head: Would we 

make it in time?" [Voice getting higher] 

"& why did I bring helium instead of air?"

9) 

2ND FAVORITE LLOYD BACON
FOOTLIGHT PARADE 

10) RICHARD BURTON 

   OR ROGER LIVESEY?
Colonel Blimp.

11) IS THERE A MOVIE YOU 

STAUNCHLY REFUSE TO 

CONSIDER SEEING? IF SO, 

WHY?
I hate the idea of these real life "Faces of Death" 

compilations and their ilk featuring real people

 getting killed. & Always devoid of social 

commentary. I also refuse to watch most 

of the "mondo" films that feature animals

 being slaughtered or tortured for fun. 

12) FAVORITE FILMMAKER 

       COLLABORATION?
Sergio Leone and Ennio Morricone.

13) MOST RECENTLY VIEWED MOVIE 

ON DVD / BLU-RAY / 

THEATRICAL?
Theatrically: STOKER

streaming: 

THE ABCs OF DEATH (2012)

Bluray: 

ON THE WATERFRONT (1954)

14) FAVORITE LINE OF 

DIALOGUE FROM A HORROR 

MOVIE
"They're coming to get you, Barbara" -
the brother teasing in NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1968)

15) 

2ND FAVORITE OLIVER STONE
NIXON (1995)

coming only after 

BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY (1989).

16) EVA MENDES 

    OR RAQUEL WELCH?
Both goddesses, but I go with 

Raquel Welch.

17) 

FAVORITE 

RELIGIOUS SATIRE
Monty Python's LIFE OF BRIAN 

18) BEST INTERNET 

     MOVIE ARGUMENT?
That ROSEMARY'S BABY (1968) aspect ratio 

brouhaha over at Hollywood Elsewhere! 

I'm not a fan of Jeff Wells but many of the points & 

debates there in the comments section were fascinating.

19) MOST POINTLESS 

INTERNET MOVIE ARGUMENT?
Anything about cinema being dead or 

film criticism being dead... (groan)

20) CHARLES MCGRAW 

  OR ROBERT RYAN?
Robert.

21) FAVORITE LINE OF 

DIALOGUE FROM A WESTERN
"Well, are you gonna pull those pistols or whistle Dixie??" 
- OUTLAW JOSEY WALES (1976)

22) 

2ND FAVORITE ROY DEL RUTH
I'm not going to lie, I've only seen ZEIGFELD 

FOLLIES (1945) of this guy's work and I 

believe he only directed a tiny segment of 

that film. I really need to see more of 

his movies.

23) RELATIVELY UNKNOWN 

FILM OR FILMMAKER YOU'D 

MOST EAGERLY PROSELYTIZE 

FOR
This director named Patrick Wang and his 

small family drama called IN THE FAMILY 

(2012). That's one of the best indie films 

I've seen in a long while.

24) EWAN MCGREGOR 

   OR GERARD BUTLER?
Ewan without hesitation.

25) 

IS THERE SUCH A THING 

AS A PERFECT MOVIE?
Definitvely and Objectively? No. And I 

don't think there should be either.. But any 

art can be immaculate on a personal level 

for sure.

26) 

FAVORITE MOVIE LOCATION 

YOU'VE MOST RECENTLY HAD 

THE OCCASION TO ACTUALLY VISIT*
Tombstone, Arizona.

27) 2ND 

FAVORITE DELMER DAVES
DARK PASSAGE (1947)

28) NAME THE ONE DVD 

COMMENTARY YOU WISH 

YOU COULD HEAR THAT, 

FOR WHATEVER REASON, DOESN'T 

ACTUALLY EXIST*
I wish Kubrick had recorded one for 

EYES WIDE SHUT (1999) before he 

passed away.

29) GLORIA GRAHAME 

  OR MARIE WINDSOR?
Love both-- but Marie Windsor.

30) 

NAME A FILMMAKER WHO NEVER 

REALLY LIVED UP TO THE 

POTENTIAL SUGGESTED BY 

THEIR EARLY ACCLAIM OR SUCCESS
Fernando Merielles.

dude that made CITY OF GOD (2002)

31) IS THERE A MOVIE-BASED 

DISAGREEMENT SERIOUS 

ENOUGH THAT IT MIGHT 

CAUSE YOU TO RE-EVALUATE 

THE BASIS OF A ROMANTIC 

RELATIONSHIP OR 

A FRIENDSHIP?*
If my romantic partner flat-out hated select 

few movies, I would have a hard time believing 

they could ever love or understand me. & I 

would constantly be in doubt. 

but Otherwise; No.