Tomorrow Never Comes
1. Nashville
There’s so much I like about this movie—Lilly Tomlin singing with a full gospel choir, Ronee Blakely breaking down after getting off the airplane, Keith Carradine calling his girlfriend as Lilly Tomlin leaves the room—and, of course, the end, right after “My Idaho Home” when the nervousness and fear of the period are fully realized and, then, overcome.
2. Distant Voices, Still Lives
I remember a feeling of wholeness after I watched this movie. From what I remember it didn’t have much plot, but a lot of British people wandering through their daily lives, fighting with one another and singing at the pub. And it was all shot in a rich brown tone. I’d watch it again, but it’s not on DVD.
3. Road to Utopia
I have a fondness for the Paramount movies of the late thirties and early forties in which there’s a little comedy, a little music and a little drama, all tied together, but not in a very flashy way. The Road movies epitomized that easy going style, and I think this is the funniest, especialy when Bob Hope wears a huge fur coat.
4. Il Deserto rosso
Anther movie I remember as mainly tones, feelings, visuals—I couldn’t tell you much about the plot, but I remember I thought it was amazing when I watched it. And I like that it’s set in Ravenna, where I spent several happy hours staring at Byzantine mosaics.
5. Dr. Jeckyl and Mr. Hyde
A surprisingly compelling retelling, especially considering that it was made so early in the history of sound movies.
6. A Mighty Wind
Any movie that gave us “Potato’s in the Paddy Wagon” deserves our undying gratitude. At first I didn’t think this was as good as “Best in Show,” but as I watched it over and over again, and noticed how the characters enter the plot so well formed and how they develop in relationship to one another as the movie progresses, it grew to be my favorite Christopher Guest movie.
7. Days of Heaven
This used to rank higher, but when I watched it on DVD, I have to admit I got a little bored toward the end. But when I saw it on the big screen (via DOC films at the University of Chicago), I was blown away by the images of the grain harvest on the prairie.
8. Red
I remember telling somebody as I walked out of the theater, “That was the best movie I ever saw.” I can’t remember much about it now, but if I felt that strongly then, I guess it deserves to be on the list.
9. The Matrix
Ever since seeing it, I’ve been comforted by the knowledge of my stuck-in-podness.
10. Cabin Boy
“My christening wig. I’ve had it since infancy!”
There’s so much I like about this movie—Lilly Tomlin singing with a full gospel choir, Ronee Blakely breaking down after getting off the airplane, Keith Carradine calling his girlfriend as Lilly Tomlin leaves the room—and, of course, the end, right after “My Idaho Home” when the nervousness and fear of the period are fully realized and, then, overcome.
2. Distant Voices, Still Lives
I remember a feeling of wholeness after I watched this movie. From what I remember it didn’t have much plot, but a lot of British people wandering through their daily lives, fighting with one another and singing at the pub. And it was all shot in a rich brown tone. I’d watch it again, but it’s not on DVD.
3. Road to Utopia
I have a fondness for the Paramount movies of the late thirties and early forties in which there’s a little comedy, a little music and a little drama, all tied together, but not in a very flashy way. The Road movies epitomized that easy going style, and I think this is the funniest, especialy when Bob Hope wears a huge fur coat.
4. Il Deserto rosso
Anther movie I remember as mainly tones, feelings, visuals—I couldn’t tell you much about the plot, but I remember I thought it was amazing when I watched it. And I like that it’s set in Ravenna, where I spent several happy hours staring at Byzantine mosaics.
5. Dr. Jeckyl and Mr. Hyde
A surprisingly compelling retelling, especially considering that it was made so early in the history of sound movies.
6. A Mighty Wind
Any movie that gave us “Potato’s in the Paddy Wagon” deserves our undying gratitude. At first I didn’t think this was as good as “Best in Show,” but as I watched it over and over again, and noticed how the characters enter the plot so well formed and how they develop in relationship to one another as the movie progresses, it grew to be my favorite Christopher Guest movie.
7. Days of Heaven
This used to rank higher, but when I watched it on DVD, I have to admit I got a little bored toward the end. But when I saw it on the big screen (via DOC films at the University of Chicago), I was blown away by the images of the grain harvest on the prairie.
8. Red
I remember telling somebody as I walked out of the theater, “That was the best movie I ever saw.” I can’t remember much about it now, but if I felt that strongly then, I guess it deserves to be on the list.
9. The Matrix
Ever since seeing it, I’ve been comforted by the knowledge of my stuck-in-podness.
10. Cabin Boy
“My christening wig. I’ve had it since infancy!”
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