Showing posts with label 30 Day Challenge. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 30 Day Challenge. Show all posts
Thursday, June 30, 2011

Day 30 - Your Favorite Film This Time Last Year

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My top 100 changes a lot over time.  I’m trying to watch all my top 100 films, plus others that could make my top 100, and make a defi...
Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Day 29 - Your Favorite Film As a Kid

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As a young child, I had most of the songs from Mary Poppins memorized and I took joy from every scene. I still love that film and thi...
Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Day 28 - The Most Obscure Film You've Ever Seen

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Northfork is petty high on the list of obscure films.   But let me ask you: Have YOU seen it?   James Woods?   Yeah, I didn’t think s...

Day 27 - Your Favorite Independent Film

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The definition of “independent” is a little tricky.   It means that it was produced out of the major studio systems, but doesn’t mean...

Day 26 - Your Favorite Foreign Language Film

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How do you know if it is a foreign language film or not?  Doesn’t it depend on which country you are in? If you are in Japan, Kurosawa...
Sunday, June 26, 2011

Day 25 - Your Favorite Documentary Film

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At the beginning of F is for Fake, Orson Welles tells you that everything in the film is true. That, of course, is a lie. But he says...
Friday, June 24, 2011

Day 24 - Your Favorite Animated or Children's Film

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As a genre (although, in reality, animated/children’s film are TWO genres as there are many films that are one or the other, not both; Pa...
Thursday, June 23, 2011

Day 23 - Your Favorite Thriller/Mystery Film

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Due to my father’s influence I am a fan of mysteries—both books and film.  It is said that an exegete’s favorite genre is mystery because...
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Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Day 22 - Your Favorite Horror Film

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I’m not a huge fan of the horror genre. Gushing blood and axes just aren’t my idea of entertainment. A Nightmare on Elm Street is cl...
Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Day 21 - Your Favorite Sci-Fi/Fantasy Film

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Fantasy is supposed to light and airy, filled with elves and fairies and men in tights.  But not Pan’s Labyrinth. Pan’s is as dark of...
Monday, June 20, 2011

Day 20: Your Favorite Romantic Film

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Romances are a dime a dozen. It’s easy to throw up on screen a couple people whom everyone will fall in love (or at least in lust) with a...
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Sunday, June 19, 2011

Day 19 - Your Favorite Action Film

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In a week’s time recently I watched three classic all-time-favorite action films: Terminator 2, Aliens and the original Die Hard. Then I ...
Saturday, June 18, 2011

Day 18 - Your Favorite Comedy Film

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I do love quirk. The quirkier the Coens are, the better I like the film. Terry Giliam, Buckaroo Bonzai, Ferris Bueller—all favorites....
Friday, June 17, 2011

Day 17 - Your Favorite Drama Film

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The term “drama” is pretty broad.   Aren’t most Westerns dramas? Science fiction? Thrillers? If we take the term “drama” in the most narr...
Thursday, June 16, 2011

Day 16 - A Film You Used to Love, But Now Hate

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Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band.   Don’t ask.  Well, look, when I was a kid I thought it was great. I bought the book....
Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Day 15 - The Film That Depicts Your Life

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I absolutely adore The Mission (1986). It is gorgeous. It is moralistic while still presenting different points of view.   It both up...

Day 14 - The Film That No One Expected You To Like

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I’m a pastor and known to be of high moral fiber.  Whatever.  And often when discussing movies with people who do not know that I’m a ...

Day 13 - A Guilty Pleasure

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I am a secret Hugh Grant fan. He is so funny in everything he’s in, I love it. I am not a Julia Roberts fan. But the great thing ab...
Sunday, June 12, 2011

Day 12: A Film By Your Least Favorite Director

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I don’t have a “least favorite” director. Who thinks of these things? Who would want to spend time thinking of the people who make the wo...
Saturday, June 11, 2011

Day 11: A Film By Your Favorite Director

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Hayao Miyazaki is the greatest living animation direction and he is possibly the best art director and script writer as well.   Almos...