"Hit Me With Your Best Shot" Returns
Wednesday, March 2, 2011 at 8:00AM 
This series was a big hit last year so we're bringing it back for round two in exactly two weeks time. Participating is easy. You just rent the movie, take a screencap of your favorite shot in the film and post it on your blog, journal, flickr, wherever. You can write an explanatory essay, a brief note or nothing at all. Let us know you posted it and we'll link up at 10 PM EST when The Film Experience post goes up.
Wed March 16th - MEMENTO (2001, Tenth Anniversary Celebration)
Wed March 23rd - A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (1951, Tennessee Williams Centennial Week)
Wed March 30th - PSYCHO (1960, in celebration of the excellent debut novel "What You See in the Dark" by Manuel Muñoz that comes out that week. I read it in galley. More on that book/author soon.)
April Titles - TBA
So put those films on your queue. If you have other visually motivated friends that you think would enjoy this 'group gaze,' challenge them to participate. Last year we covered the following films: Requiem for a Dream (2000), Se7en (1995), Black Narcissus (1947), Pandora's Box (1929), Bring it On (2000), A Face in the Crowd (1957), Showgirls (1995), Mean Girls (2004), Night of the Hunter (1955), X-Men (2000) and Angels in America (2003).
Reader Comments (13)
I can proudly say I've seen all three multiple times and own the first two. Most of my friends - fellow film school graduates, lol - have seen them as well and my Best Friend has seen Memento.
Daniel -- well, i'll have to throw in some obscurities and some things i haven't seen before later on. I am SO glad this series prompted me to see BLACK NARCISSUS and A FACE IN THE CROWD for the first time last season.
My intro to film studies class is watching Memento on Monday. It's like you planned this series just for me :P
i'm so excited.
i started really late last season, but i own all three of these on dvd, so yeah...
can't wait.
Hi. So i just post the link of my blog here at the comments section juz before the day itself when I am done ? This seems so cool. I have never seen 2 of the 3 above films though.
Have you ever seen The Wire? I know it's a TV, but, say, announce Season One as the finale and, at the end, anyone who wants to can post analyses of 1. A best shot per episode and 2. The single best shot of the season. Amazing show and it didn't get the love it needed. (As it's so huge, there will be a lot of contenders. People are different.)
YES. Looking hugely forward to this. Rewatched Memento recently, eager to rewatch Streetcar and Psycho, and can't wait to read "What You See in the Dark"; I found a preview chapter of it online and I'm all hyped up now for the full thing.
I already know what my shot is for Psycho. I love that film so much.
Psycho has the easiest choice ever for me. Streetcar Named Desire is the interesting one.
Yay! I've already done Streetcar. I think I know what my best shot is for Memento. Psycho, however, is a challenge.
I hope that people will rewatch though -- maybe there's another shot you hadn't thought of? staytuned.
volvagi -- no way can i assign 12-14 hours for one of these things. TOO MUCH. (confession: i have only seen 1 episode of the Wire and I didn't much like it. I understand it's a longhaul program to see it's brilliance but i only have so many hours so i have (so far) not been interested in watching it... cuz that's how many seasons and how many hours of my time?)
thank you