'Best Shot' Resumes Production on June 27th
Tuesday, June 12, 2012 at 10:00AM 
"Hit Me With Your Best Shot" returns from its month-long hiatus in two weeks. Will you join us? I'll try to catch up soon with Possessed (1947) which had terrible timing given my father's passing. Other than a short upcoming moment with Joan Crawford, what's next?
Wednesday June 27th - THE STORY OF ADELE H. (1975)
For Isabelle Adjani's birthday (and considering that Victor Hugo madness will be heading our way at Christmas time) we'll look back at François Truffaut's Oscar nominated tale of obsessive love. Trivia: Adjani held the "youngest Best Actress nominee" record for three decades until a certain Whale Rider teared up.
*THURSDAY* July 5th -PICNIC (1955)
Technically this is a Labor Day movie as opposed to 4th of July but the point is who wants to sit at home blogging on Independence Day? I've never seen this - hence the choice - but I hear it's visually appealing (James Wong Howe on cinematography duties!) and I enjoy me some Kim Novak and William Holden. Bonus points: filling in the Oscar gaps. This one was nominated for 6 Oscars including Best Picture.
Wednesday July 11th - ROAD TO PERDITION (2002)
It's the tenth anniversary of Sam Mendes' self-consciously 'best shotty' graphic novel adaptation with Tom Hanks, Paul Newman, Jude Law, little Tyler Hoechlin before he was an alpha werewolf and the then (mostly) unknown Daniel Craig who found it all so fucking ridiculous.
Wednesday July 18th - PINK NARCISSUS (1971)
I like doing short movies for this series (since it's asking a lot to assign y'all a movie each week) and this one is only 64 minutes. Luishergio suggested a NSFW edition and why not? This influential cult classic (the debt Pierre et Gilles owe will never be paid in full) about a rent boy's fantasies was shot almost entirely inside director James Bidgood's apartment and yet it's visually ravishing (the intense color helps). It's one of those movies then that all indie filmmakers without $ resources ought to look at.
Wednesday July 25th TBA
Wednesday August 1st TBA
Wednesday August 8th TBA.. it's so hard to choose but you get the point.
Previously on "Hit Me With Your Best Shot"
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Reader Comments (7)
Candidates for the Three Unchosen Weeks:
The Tree of Wooden Clogs
Episode One of Heimat (Stunningly visual long form mythmaking and showcasing the first (two hour long) episode would be an interesting idea.)
Performance (a feast of amazingly trippy visuals and a dead on performance by Mick Jagger)
How about "The New World?"
Oh my, Picnic is a fabulous film. And there are some breathtaking images. I've actually been meaning to rewatch it this summer.
Hannah -- hmmm. I guess a Malick probably is in order.
Suzanne -- glad to hear it!
Volvagia -- One of the tricks is you have to find movies that are easy for people to rent . But as for Performance... not really into Mick Jagger.
Ah! The Story of Adele H!!!
If I had time or anything intelligible to contribute beyond "AAAAAH I LOVE IT I LOVE IT I CAN'T BELIEVE HOW UNDERRATE-I LOVE IT WHOA THE ACTING AND OHMIGOD THE SCRIPT SO PSYCHOLOGICALLY PRECISE LIKE A NOVEL AND OHMIGOD IS - A - BELLE AD - JA - NIIII!!!", I would totally sing up to this one. But I think I best just settle for reading all the entries.
Tree of Wooden Clogs: Well, I first saw it from a library borrow and I live in MARKHAM, ONTARIO. If it's in a library in the outskirts of the Toronto Area, I'm sure a lot of libraries have it.
Heimat: Again, I think some libraries have it, even if it doesn't get onto Netflix or into your old local Blockbluster Video. Not everyone will participate, but it's worth a watch.
Performance: That performance might just grow on you, especially if you haven't seen the film in a long time. I know I understood it more the second time I tried to watch (and first successful watch) than the first and it was maybe six months between first and second attempts.
Yay! I was almost worried about this.
For the TBAs my suggestions are more boring. How about Bullhead (on DVD June 26 and is twice the movie that Drive is!), Brokeback Mountain (wondering whether the participants will go for the landscape or the characters) or any Merchant Ivory movie (yay costumes!)? But yeah, the Malick suggestion has may possibilities!