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My “favorite Director” is, technically speaking, two directors:  the brothers Ethan and Joel Coen.  Although they are separate people, of course, who have talents distinct from one another, it is still the case that most cinephiles treat them as the single entity “Coen brothers.”  It was hard to pass over many in the pantheon of…

As I mentioned a few days ago, I am in the process of making my first documentary film this summer, so I probably thought a good deal more about today’s prompt than I otherwise might have.  There are so many different types of documentaries and the ones I like the most, I like for very…

Like a lot of other people doing the 31 Day Film Challenge, I can quote “a” line from most film’s that I’ve seen.  I can quote several lines from all the good films I’ve seen.  Some films, like Casablanca and The Godfather and The Holy Grail, include dialogue that has embedded itself so deeply in…

For today’s pick I’m making a somewhat ticky-tack distinction between a film “soundtrack” and a film “score.”  My favorite film score is definitely Ennio Morricone‘s composition for The Mission, one of the most hauntingly beautiful pieces of music ever written as far as I’m concerned.  I picked The Mission on Day 1 of this Challenge,…

Like yesterday, I found today’s prompt for the 31 Day Film Challenge really difficult.  I can think of dozens of songs that remind me of certain events in my life, but I had to think long and hard to come up with a film that did the same.  (I’ll just refer you to my explanation…

First, I want to say that it’s been really great seeing everyone’s 31 Day Film Challenge picks show up each day on the Facebook page for our Challenge. I’ve got a lot of new movies to watch. Today’s pick was surprisingly difficult for me.  There was a similar prompt on Day 5 of the original…

Psychology researchers James J. Gross and Robert W. Levenson published a study about 15 years ago entitled “Emotion Elicitation Using Films” in which they determined that the “saddest” movie of all time was the 1978 tearjerker The Champ (starring Jon Voight and a very young Ricky Schroder).  In particular, Gross and Levenson determined that this…

Most people who know me also know of my unabashedly-fangirl affection for the 1997 documentary Hands on a Hard Body, which tells the story of an endurance contest in which roughly two dozen small-town Texans compete to win a Nissan hardbody truck. The concept is simple, really: everyone puts his or her hand on the…