"Hit Me With Your Best Shot" Returns !

"Hit Me With Your Best Shot" began its eighth season last week with Moonlight.  If you're new to the blog or haven't yet experimented with actually participating in the weekly series that is open to all, we guarantee a good time. 

UP NEXT

Tues May 30th Wonder Woman (1976)
We're doing Season 1 Episodes 5/6 (two parter) "The Feminine Mystique" which is largely considered one of the best episodes of the series and is after the show perfected Diana's spinning costume change (which was rougher / incomplete in the first few episodes). Plus this one features Debra Winger as "Wonder Girl", only her second role ! [Amazon  (per episode or season) | iTunes (full season) ]

Tues June 6th Parent Trap (1961) 
For my birthday and to honor all the Geminis among you, my favorite childhood movie starring Hayley Mills and Hayley Mills! [Amazon | iTunes | Netflix ]

HOW TO PLAY? 

1. Watch the assigned movie over the weekend
2. Post your single favorite shot from that movie 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!
3. Let us know you've done so and we link up

Everything we've previously covered is after the jump... 

1920s Sherlock Jr (24), The Circus (28), and Pandora's Box (29)  

1930s Morocco, Blonde Venus (30,32), Tarzan the Ape Man (32), Snow White (37), Wizard of Oz (39), and 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), and The Red Shoes (48)

1950s  Sunset Blvd (50), A Streetcar Named Desire (51), The Quiet Man (52), Singin' in the Rain (52), The Bad and the Beautiful (52), Forbidden Games (52), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (53), Roman Holiday (53), How to Marry a Millionaire (53), Johnny Guitar (54), Night of the Hunter (55), Rebel Without a Cause (55), Picnic (55), Summertime (55), To Catch a Thief (55), A Face in the Crowd (57), Throne of Blood (57), and Suddenly Last Summer (59)

1960s  Rocco and His Brothers (60), Psycho (60), La Dolce Vita (60), To Kill a Mockingbird (62), Yesterday Today and Tomorrow (63), Hud (63), Mary Poppins (64), Goldfinger (64), Zorba the Greek (64), The Sound of Music (65), Repulsion (65), Blow Up (66),  Bonnie & Clyde (67), Barbarbella (68), and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (69) 

1970s  The Beguiled (71), Pink Narcisuss (71), The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant (72), The Exorcist (73), Cries and Whispers (73), American Graffiti (73), Zardoz (74), Dog Day Afternoon (75), Story of Adele H (75), Taxi Driver (76), Eraserhead (77) and Three Women (77)

1980s  Can't Stop the Music (80), Nine to Five (80), Mommie Dearest (81), One From the Heart (81), Splash (84) Amadeus (84), Ghostbusters (84), Ladyhawke (85), The Color Purple (85), Witness (85), A Room With a View (86), Aliens (86), Law of Desire and/or Matador (86/87), Peggy Sue Got Married (86), Working Girl (88), and Dead Ringers (88) 

1990s  Paris is Burning (90), Edward Scissorhands (90), Dick Tracy (90), Beauty & the Beast (91), Raise the Red Lantern (91), Death Becomes Her (92), Jurassic Park (93),  Heavenly Creatures (94), Trevor (94), Queen Margot (94), Pocahontas (95), Se7en (95), Showgirls (95), [safe] (95), Jackie Brown (97), LA Confidential (97),  The Talented Mr Ripley (99) and The Matrix (99)

2000s Bring it On (00), Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (00), Requiem for a Dream (00), X-Men (00), Chicken Run (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), Atonement (07), and Bright Star (09)

2010s  Pariah (11), Magic Mike (12), Under the Skin (14), Mad Max Fury Road (15), The Force Awakens (2015), and Zootopia (2016)

Experimental Episodes Orson Welles Centennial (41-48), Orson Kelly Costumes (1940s-1950s), 1977 Oscar Cinematography Nominees (77), 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), True Skin & World of Tomorrow (shorts 12-15)  VMA Best Music Video Nominees (14-15), The Get Down Part 1 (16), Daredevil S2 (2016)

Comments

[catbaskets]

Fun selections--can we e-mail contributions for HMWYBS? Or does it need to posted somewhere online?

Also curious to know what you are keeping to yourself about last season...

[Peggy Sue]

I already know my Moonlight shot!

[NATHANIEL R]

catbaskets -- it has to be posted somewhere -- anywhere, facebook, pinterest, whatever-- so i can link to it. otherwise it would just be for an audience of one (me) ;)

[Rebecca]

"Moonlight" gets HMWYBS treatment? SWOON.

[BVR]

Can we do A Woman under the Influence at some point? It will also give you an excuse to finally get on the Gena Rowlands bandwagon, Nathaniel.

[Brian]

I dabbled in this last year, but life got in the way. This is one of my favorite features on this site and it was so enjoyable. Moonlight is a very good choice for this. I liked the movie, and it is filled with beautiful shots. Out of movies from last year that I hope show up are La La Land, Arrival, and Moana if they are possible. And for an experimental episode I'd love to try doing The Handmaid's Tale after season 1 is over because the cinematography is just so perfect. I'm glad this is coming back!!

[Keisha]

So happy HMWYBS is coming back! And kicking off the new season with Moonlight is such a perfect choice. <3

[Jason H.]

Hooray! I felt terrible that life got too busy for me to participate last year, so I'm really excited that my favorite feature on the site lives to see another day. Great choices for the start of the season, and I can't wait to watch the films, write up my shots, and read everyone else's selections!

I second BVR's suggestion for A Woman Under the Influence.

[Fredric]

They say NOSTALGIA is a bad feeling. Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman is pure magic and NOSTALGIA.The same way Christopher Reeve is the definitive, Lynda Carter is the definitive too.

[Derreck.]

OOOH, i'm already game to revisit Moonlight for this.

Also I might have been passed out drunk when I missed Beauty and the Beast!

[AAA]

I'm eagerly waiting for La La Land

[nivin]

I'm really excited that my favorite feature on the site lives to see another day.

[joel6]

Glad to see this feature return. Really looking forward to The Parent Trap, a film I love.

Any hope of seeing another favorite feature, the Smackdown, come back anytime soon?

[cal roth]

Yeah, A Woman Under The Influence would be a great opportunity to celebrate gritty cinematography and hand-held camera. Masters Caleb Deschanel (The Right Stuff, The Passion of the Christ) and Frederick Elmes (Blue Velvet, The Ice Storm) were assistants in this movie.

At least it'd be great to study a more actor and movement focused movie. And of course every excuse is valid to worship the best performance of all time.

[globex]

Thanks
great post

[STinG]

Oh God, why wasn't I informed?!

[Pile]

Moonlight" gets HMWYBS treatment? SWOON