I hope you're enjoying Reader Appreciation Month! (If you're waiting on a prize from various contests... i believe everything has gone out.) The reason I used to love blog-a-thons -- before the Dire Oversaturation of late2008 / early2009 which seemed to kill them off -- was the sense of community and the revelatory nature of 'multiple eyeballs on same object' . So "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" has been a wonderful experience thus far.
CHEERS!
BTW wasn't it shocking that so few of Wednesday night's contributors chose Brando-related images? There was a lot of "Hey... Stella!?!" discovery rather than "Hey Stellllllaaaaaaaa!" going on if y'know what I mean. Here's what Brando thinks about y'all ignoring him.
So here's to everyone who has been contributing! To those of you playing along at home, have you been imbibing the multiple takes with abandon -- are you weighing them against your own unnamed favorites? Honestly, with both Memento and Streetcar which kicked off season two, I feel like I've learned new things about each film by reading the contributions. So thanks to two timers: Serious Film, Movies Kick Ass, Cinephilia & Sass, Pussy Goes Grrr, Against the Hype, Luisergho and Okinawa Assault. And a round of applause and/or welcomes to Victim of the Time, Dial P For Popcorn, Film Actually, Amiresque, The Owls Are Not What They Seem and Encore's World.
NEXT UP...
Join us and pass this on to your movie-loving friends.
- March 30th PSYCHO (1960, Alfred Hitchcock)
- April 6th HEAVENLY CREATURES (1994, Peter Jackson)
- April 13th AKIRA (1988, Katsuhiro Ôtomo)
Maybe they'll have announced their official casting and we'll need to vent again? We've never tried an animated film in this series. Let's take a look at anime's international breakthrough. - April 20th THE CIRCUS (1928, Charlie Chaplin)
Water for Elephants arrives in theaters on the 22nd, so let's prep with a three ring classic. - April 27th SOMEWHERE (2010, Sofia Coppola)
Experiment. This comes out on DVD on the 19th. We've never done a brand new release the week of... so why not?