Filmbrain Contributes to Memetic Drift

As first noted on Greencine over the weekend, there is a meme making its way around film blogs, and Michael over at Culture Space has tossed it this way. The responses have been pretty impressive so far, and Filmbrain is now convinced that Girish is his doppelganger from the Great White North -- three of his answers to question four might very well have wound up on Filmbrain's list. (Does anybody else love The Young Girls of Rochefort?) Though the answers to some of these will change from moment to moment, here's a snapshot in time: 1. Total number of films I own on DVD and video Just shy of 500 DVDs, probably a third of which are still wrapped. Never bought films on VHS due to poor quality and the tendency towards pan-and-scan. 2. Last film I bought Katsuhito Ishii's The Taste of Tea (cannot wait to watch it.) 3. Last film I watched Cause For Alarm! (1951, Tay Garnett) A domestic film-noir, set in the course of a single day in the life of a housewife. Not very good -- sort of a cross between D.O.A. and The Donna Reed Show. 4. Five films that I watch a lot or that mean a lot to me (in no particular order) An impossibility. There are simply too many films that land in both categories. Here are the five that popped into Filmbrain's head while on an overcrowded F train. Five minutes later, the list changed. Bande à part (1964, Jean-Luc Godard) Anna Karina (in a sweater), dancing the Madison. What more is there to say? Head (1968, Bob Rafelson) Everything you always wanted to know about the sixties but were afraid to ask. The Profound Desire of the Gods (1968, Shohei Imamura) Though it's been over fifteen years since Filmbrain last saw this masterpiece, every second of its three hours is forever burned into his memory. Duck Soup (1933, Leo McCarey) Married. I can see you right now in the kitchen, bending over a hot stove. But I can't see the stove. Wild at Heart (1990, David Lynch) The greatest love story ever told? 5. If you could be any character portrayed in a movie, who would it be? Oh...there are so many. But if forced to pick one -- Berger (Treat Williams) from Hair, just to be able to sing Manchester, England England. . . Now, the fun part. Just because he's dying to know, Filmbrain passes this on to George, Aaron, Daniel, La Depressionada, Matthew, and of course, the Cinetrix. Feel free to leave comments below as well.