In One Month... Hit Me Baby One More Time
Tuesday, February 3, 2015 at 11:52PM 
In exactly one month we'll spin on the mountaintop, run round gazebos, wear playclothes made of curtains, and hide from the Nazis together for the 50th anniversary of THE SOUND OF MUSIC. It began its record breaking run in March of 1965. If you adjust for inflation it's the third biggest hit of all time after Gone With the Wind and Star Wars. Fine company to be in.
Have you ever thought about what your favorite shot from it is? Or which shot best represents the movie as a whole? You know how to take a screen cap. You know where this is going right? We'll start with The Family Von Trapp but later we'll get colorful with Dick Tracy, funky over Magic Mike, and creepy via Repulsion, and lots more ... Dates TBA.
Break out the bubbly because "Hit Me With Your Best Shot", a ton of fun all spring and summer, returns March 3rd. [More...]
If you're new to the blog or haven't yet experimented with actually participating, I guarantee a good time. Everyone who has participating religiously has said that they've gotten a ton out of it. The More the Merrier so watch the movies with friends and encourage them all to post their choice.
HOW TO PLAY?
- Watch the movie over the weekend
- post your single favorite shot any time on Tuesday (i.e. what you deem "best" for whatever reason) on your blog/tumblr/youtube/instagram/twitter/pinterest whatever and tell us why you chose it!
- Let me know you've done so and we link up
Just a three step process. Easy-peasy ANY SUGGESTIONS? The list of movies we've already covered after the jump...
1920s
Sherlock Jr (24), The Circus (28), Pandora's Box (29)
1930s
Tarzan the Ape Man (32), Snow White (37), Wizard of Oz (39), Gone With the Wind (39)
1940s
The Letter (40), Fantasia (41), How Green Was My Valley (41), Shadow of a Doubt (43), The Woman in the Window (44), Double Indemnity (44), Black Narcissus (47), Possessed (47), Easter Parade (48)
1950s
A Streetcar Named Desire (51), Singin' in the Rain (52), The Bad and the Beautiful (52), Forbidden Games (52), How to Marry a Millionaire (53), Night of the Hunter (55), Rebel Without a Cause (55), Picnic (55), Summertime (55), A Face in the Crowd (57), Suddenly Last Summer (59)
1960s
Rocco and His Brothers (60), Psycho (60), La Dolce Vita (60), Hud (63), Mary Poppins (64), Goldfinger (64), Zorba the Greek (64), Blow Up (66), Bonnie & Clyde (67), Barbarbella (68), Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (69)
1970s
Pink Narcisuss (71), The Exorcist (73), Cries and Whispers (73), American Graffiti (73), Dog Day Afternoon (75), Story of Adele H (75), Eraserhead (77), Three Women (77)
1980s
Can't Stop the Music (80), Ladyhawke (85), The Color Purple (85), Aliens (86), Law of Desire and/or Matador (86/87), Peggy Sue Got Married (86), Dead Ringers (88)
1990s
Edward Scissorhands (90), Beauty & the Beast (91), Raise the Red Lantern (91), Jurassic Park (93), Heavenly Creatures (94), Pocahontas (95), Se7en (95), Showgirls (95), Jackie Brown (97), LA Confidential (97), The Talented Mr Ripley (99), The Matrix (99)
2000s
Bring it On (00), Requiem for a Dream (00), X-Men (00), Moulin Rouge! (01), Memento (01), The Royal Tenenbaums (01), Road to Perdition (02), Angels in America (03), Mean Girls (04), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (04), Serenity (05)
2010s
Pariah (11), Under the Skin (14)
Experimental Episodes
Any Batman Film (franchise 66-12), The Saddest Children in the World Trilogy (shorts 03-09), Orange is the New Black S2 (TV 2014), Eagleman Stag & Death to Tim Man (shorts 07-11)
Reader Comments (31)
Suggestions: "One from the Heart", "Fame", "Leave Her to Heaven", or some Douglas Sirk?
The Conformist would be a really cool entry.
John T: The Conformist is a great suggestion!
How about one of Todd Haynes' films?
Or Mike Leigh's?
Or something from the Coens?
Suggestions: Apocalypse Now, Beetlejuice, Crouching Tiger/Hidden Dragon, Death Becomes Her, Dirty Dancing, Game of Thrones, Gravity, Her, Kill Bill, Pan's Labrynth, To Kill a Mockingbird, Up/Wall-E.
Suggestion: Tarsem's "The Fall"!
Magic Mike? OH DEAR.
Daredevil S1 or 2003 Daredevil in April?
Needs more 70s/80s. Klute and Out of Africa. Or Cabaret and Amadeus.
THE CONFORMIST!!!
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Saturday Night Fever, or Pulp Fiction
All that Jazz, The Shinning (35th anniversary) and some Malick, maybe The New World.
Ah yes, The Sound of Music - the only movie where I rooted for the Nazis.
Ah yes, The Sound of Music - the only movie where I rooted for the Nazis.
I'm with Dave S. A Sirk film would be great. Written on the Wind in particular is full of some great shots.
Glad that Repulsion is coming up this season.
I wonder if I'll ever muster up enough willpower to watch The Sound of Music. I certainly won't be able to do it in one sitting. It's the exact opposite of the kinds of musical I like: Cabaret, All That Jazz, Dancer in the Dark, Chicago...
Doctor Zhivago, Umbrellas of Cherbourg, The Wild Bunch, The Towering Inferno
Needs more 20s/30s!
What about: Sunrise, Metropolis, Nosferatu (with a choice to do either the original or the Herzog remake), or Wuthering Heights?
Also, Rebecca is celebrating its 75th Anniversary in April!
Let's do some 60's Godard! Pierrot le Fou, Breathless, Band of Outsiders, Aphaville...there are so many great shots in those films...and so many others too!
I agree with The Fall.
Excited!
Suggestions:
Ida
Her
Summer with Monika
Boogie Nights
Casablanca
Amour
Hunger
An American in Paris
Agree with the need for more 70s and 80s-but its okay, because they are my least favorite cinematic decades. How about All the Presidents Men, Beetlejuice, The Deer Hunter, or Grave of the Fireflies-all movies I've wanted to see and you will provide the extra push.
Touch of Evil
A Woman's Face
Red River
Mildred Pierce
The Player
New York, New York
Blue Skies
Baby Face
Valley of the Dolls
In Cold Blood
Mommie Dearest
I am nervous about "Magic Mike". I saw it with my mother because she is a nurse and I was worried about having to meet CPR. I am meeting Kevin Nash at a wrestling appearance this weekend and I am hoping he'll sign my copy.
Rust and Bone (2012)
Un Prophete (2009)
L'heure d'ete (2008)
Yi Yi (2000)
The Insider (1999)
The Thin Red Line (1998)
The Lady Vanishes
A Place in the Sun
The Misfits
Anything by Tarkovsky
The Conversation
Julia
Pride and Prejudice (2005) - It will be 10 years since this Joe Wright version of the Austen classic came out and I believe it deserves some recognition. It's visually sensual, with all those tracking shots and dance scenes. Keira Knightley, Rosamund Pike, Carrie Mulligan, Jena Malone, Brenda Blethyn, and Judi Dench - what a tide pool of talent !
To me, the B&W widescreen format stil is the most esthetically pleasing of all. So I'd love to see an episode that tackles either The Apartment (1960) or The Innocents (1961). Both are filled with amazing frames!
Dieter, yes...The Innocents has some amazing imagery. Breathtaking.
Oh yeah The Conformist. You just need some Storaro here.
The Fall FTW
At least one Disney animated feature? Maybe a maligned or lesser known one? Say, The Black Cauldron or Treasure Planet. Or, for a challenge one of the package films.