I thought I would supply my answers to the following questions:
Chabrol photographed by Pierre-Olivier
What is your all-time favorite movie?
It would have to come down to the following films:
Belle de Jour
Breathless (1960)
The Exorcist/Rosemary’s Baby
Nashville
Manhattan
Belle de Jour
The Exorcist
Robert Altman’s NASHVILLE
Rosemary’s Baby
Jean-Luc Goddard’s Breathless
Woody Allen’s MANHATTAN
Blue Velvet
Blue Velvet
In The Mood For Love/2046
OldBoy (Korean Version)
Hesher/Bellflower
The Big Lebowski
Dogtooth
Weekend
3 Iron
OldBoy
HESHER
DOGTOOTH
In The Mood For Love
Weekend
Kim Ki-duk’s 3 Iron
What is your all-time top best movies list?
Belle de Jour
Nashville
Manhattan
Blue Velvet
The Wizard of Oz
Harold and Maude
The Godfather
Don’t Look Now
The Wizard of Oz
Harold and Maude
The Godfather Parts I and II
Don’t Look Now
In The Mood For Love
O Brother Where Art Thou?
O Brother Where Art Thou?
Fellini’s 8½
3 Iron
3 Iron — weightless love…
Rosemary’s Baby
The Exorcist
Oldboy
Fellini’s 8½
What is your personal favorite movie?
Only ONE?!?!? I could never limit to only one:
Tommy/OldBoy/A Star Is Born (1976)/The Wizard of Oz/Ma Mere/3 Iron/Wild At Heart/For Pete’s Sake/Survive Style 5+
Ken Russell’s TOMMY
A STAR IS BORN
SURVIVE STYLE 5+
David Lynch’s WILD AT HEART
Diane Ladd in WILD AT HEART
Laura Dern as Lula in David Lynch’s WILD AT HEART
Who are the 5 top most important film makers thus far?
A virtually impossible question to answer as art is so subjective. I am unable to limit it to only five filmmakers
Claude Chabrol
Jean-Luc Goddard
Luis Buñuel
Orson Welles
John Huston
Kim Ki-duk
Kim Ki-duk’s DREAM
Federico Fellini
Robert Altman
Hal Ashby
Roman Polanski
The Coen Bros
Bernardo Bertolucci
Alfred Hitchcock
Wim Wenders
Wim Wenders’ Wings of Desire
Woody Allen
Pedro Almodóvar
David Lynch
Wong Kar-Wai
Paul Thomas Anderson
PT Anderson’s Magnolia – this sometimes happens…
Steven Spielberg
Martin Scorsese
Park Chan-Wook
Lynne Ramsay
Wes Anderson
Takashi Miike
Lars von Trier
David Fincher
And, although I am not a fan of his work I think one must list George Lucas as a key film director
Star Wars
Who are the 6 most interesting/talented film actors – male and female?
Male: Brando/Fassbender/DeNiro/Newman/Hardy/Choi Min-sik/Asano
Female: Streep/Theron/Morton/M Williams/Huppert/B. Davis/Hepburn
Which emerging filmmakers interest you?
Evan Glodell
Yorgos Lanthimos
Lena Dunham
Andrew Haigh
Spencer Susser
Evan Glodell’s BELLFLOWER
Which actors gave the most powerful film performances?
Brando: Last Tango
Huppert: The Piano Teacher/Merci Pour le Chocolate/Ma Mere
Isabelle Huppert in Ma Mere
Theron: Monster/Young Adult
Ryan Gosling/Michelle Williams: Blue Valentine
Fassbender: Hunger/Shame
Jean-Paul Belmondo: Breathless
Jean Belmondo in Breathless
Hepburn: Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner
Julianne Moore: Safe
DeNiro: Taxi Driver/The King of Comedy
Bette Davis: What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?/Now Voyager/The Little Foxes
Ruth Gordon: Rosemary’s Baby
Choi Min-sik: OldBoy
Shelley Duvall: 3 Women
Shelley Duvall as one of Robert Altman’s 3 Women
Malcom MacDowell: A Clock Work Orange
Tom Hardy: Bronson
Tom Hardy as Bronson
Dennis Hopper: Blue Velvet
Vivien Leigh: A Streetcar Named Desire
Jeff Bridges: The Big Lebowski
Laura Dern: Wild At Heart/Citizen Ruth/Inland Empire
Laura Dern transforms – this time in David Lynch’s INLAND EMPIRE
Jessica Lange: Real Men Don’t Leave
Peter Sellers: Being There
Jennifer Jason-Leigh: Georgia
Gary Oldman/Chloe Webb: Sid & Nancy
Chloe Webb & Gary Oldman as SID & NANCY
Madeline Kahn: What’s Up Doc?/Young Frankenstein
Tony Leung: In The Mood For Love/2046
What is the most important factor regarding the making of a movie?
Editing
Do you read film reviews prior to seeing a movie or after seeing it?
Only the first and last two lines of a film review — and, only then if I am on the fence about whether or not I want to see it. Those 4 lines from a solid film critic will either make me want to pay to see it or skip it.
What are the biggest omissions by the Oscars?
A rather stupid question and there are far too many to list, but…
Gary Oldman/Chloe Webb: Sid & Nancy
Jack Nicholson/Shelley Duvall: The Shining
Jack Nicholson with too much work in Stanley Kubrick’s THE SHINING
Holly Hunter: Raising Arizona/Broadcast News/Crash
Tom Hardy: Bronson
Michael Fassbender: Shame
Fassbender/Mulligan: SHAME
Charlize Theron: Young Adult
Ryan Gosling/Michelle Williams: Blue Valentine
Piper Laurie: The Hustler/Carrie/Hesher
Jared Leto/Marlon Wayans: Requiem for a Dream
Ellen Burstyn: The Exorcist/Requiem for a Dream
Ellen Burstyn in Requiem for a Dream
Jim Carrey: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Julianne Moore: Safe/Magnolia
Mickey Rourke: Barfly/The Wrestler
Ruth Gordon: Harold and Maude
Vanessa Redgrave: The Devils
Vanessa Redgrave in Ken Russell’s THE DEVILS
Bette Davis: What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Peter Sellers: Being There/Glenn Close: Fatal Attraction
Faye Dunaway: Momie Dearest/Sandy Dennis: Come Back to the Five & Dime, Jimmy Dean Jimmy Dean
Elizabeth Olsen: Martha Macy May Marlen
Laura Dern: Citizen Ruth
Jeff Bridges: The Big Lebowski
The dude abides. Jeff Bridges in The Big Lebowski
Klaus Kinski: Aguirre, the Wrath of God
Kathleen Turner: Crimes of Passion
Jessica Lange: Men Don’t Leave/Titus
Bill Murray: Lost In Translation
Bill Murray in Lost In Translation
Kim Cattrall: Meet Monica Velour
Tony Leung: In The Mood For Love
Angie Dickinson: Dressed To Kill
Ewan McGregor: Trainspotting
Ewan McGregor in TRAINSPOTTING
Chris New: Weekend
Tilda Swinton: We Need to Talk About Kevin
Joseph Gordon-Levitt: Mysterious Skin
Michael Fassbender: Hunger/Shame
Nicolas Cage: Wild At Heart
Carrie Mulligan: Never Let Me Go/Shame
Burt Reynolds: Starting Over/Semi-Tough/The Longest Yard
Jennifer Jason-Leigh: Georgia
Jennifer Jason-Leigh in Georgia
Is there any movie you’ve not seen that you would like to see more than any other?
There are two:
Health by Robert Altman
Robert Altman’s H.E.A.L.T.H.
Welcome to LA by Alan Rudolph
Welcome to LA
What are the most interesting cinematic mistakes?
Lisztomania
Valley of the Dolls
Mommie Dearest
Moment by Moment
Lily Tomlin and John Travolta are passionate lovers in Moment By Moment. Viewers are still in recovery…
Blade Runner (brilliantly filmed and hypnotic, but ultimately it never quite works)
Repo! The Genetic Opera
Synecdoche New York
Watchmen
Ken Russell’s Lisztomania
The Tenant
Possession
La Luna
Bertolucci’s Luna …fascinating cinematic mistake.
Fellini Cassanova
Mahogany
Roller Boogie
Crash (1996)
Funky Forest: First Contact
Funky Forrest: First Contact
What movie most surprised you in 2012 and which movie most disappointed you?
Surprised: THE Paperboy
Disappointed: The Master
Lee Daniel’s The Paperboy
Macy Gray in Lee Daniel’s THE PAPERBOY
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