An involved film quiz.

I feel smarter for having filled this out.

1) What film made you angry, either while watching it or in thinking about it afterward?

Solaris. Angry that I paid $10 to see it and that IT MADE NO SENSE!!!

2) Favorite sidekick

Willem Dafoe as Klaus Daimler in The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

3) One of your favorite movie lines

"One day you'll be cool." - Anita Miller, played by Zooey Deschanel in Almost Famous

4) William Holden or Burt Lancaster?

Burt Lancaster.

5) Describe a perfect moment in a movie

Audrey Tautou as Mathilde in A Very Long Engagement, despite weakened legs due to polio races across her farm to catch one last glimpse of her fiance who is off to war, the whole time saying to herself "If I make it to the bend before the car, Manech will come back alive."

6) Favorite John Ford movie

Napoleon's Barber

7) What film artist (director, actor, screenwriter, whatever) has the least–deserved good reputation, artistically speaking. And who would you replace him/her with on that pedestal?

Julia Roberts. Replace with Michel Gondry.

8) Barbara Stanwyck or Ida Lupino?

Ida Lupino

9) Showgirls-- yes or no?

No. In the way that "no" should be said when something should not have existed in the first place. Not even as a joke.

10) Most exotic or otherwise unusual place in which you ever saw a movie

John Malkovich's subconscious in Being John Malkovich

11) Favorite Robert Altman movie

Only one I've seen: Gosford Park. A Prarie Home Companion looks like I will enjoy it in an incredibly hearty way though.

12) Best argument for allowing rock stars to participate in the making of movies

Jason Schwartzman. Former drummer from the Planet Smashers, while working on Rushmore with Wes Anderson, he inspired much of Anderson's choices for the Royal Tennenbaums' soundtrack. Plus (minus a few glaring errors) the movies Schwartman has been in have been fantastic.

13) Describe a transcendent moment in a film (a moment when you realized a film that just seemed routine or merely interesting before had become become something much more)

Adam Sandler's Barry Egan tells his overbearing sister that he can't meet her friend at a family dinner party because he has to renew his gym membership in Punch-Drunk Love

14) Gina Gershon or Jennifer Tilly?

At least Jennifer Tilly's been in some good movies. See The Wrong Guy.

15) Favorite Frank Capra movie

Only one I've seen: It's a Wonderful Life. Did you know that Frank Capra alos wrote and directed a movie called Know Your Enemy: Japan? Odd, at best.

16) The scene you most wish you could have witnessed being filmed

It's a tie between two scenes in Mullholland Drive. 1: The first "behind the diner" scene, and 2: Naomi Watts's psychological breakdown towards the end.

17) Robert Ryan or Richard Widmark?

Uh...

18) Name a movie that inspired you to walk out before it was finished

Solaris

19) Favorite political movie

Wag the Dog

20) Your favorite movie poster, or the one you’d most like to own

Dr Strangelove: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb


21) Jeff Bridges or Jeff Goldblum?

Well, Jeff Bridges has made a lot of bad movies, but Jeff Goldblum would get annoying after a while.... so both. Or neither.

22) Favorite Ken Russell movie

Tommy

23) Accepting the conventional wisdom that 1970-1975 marked a golden age of American filmmaking in which artistic ambition and popular acceptance were not mutually exclusive, what for you was this golden age’s high point? (Could be a movie, a trend, the emergence of a star, whatever)

Al Pacino's rise to fame. Tragically, I still need to see many movies from this period.

24) Grace Kelly or Ava Gardner?

Ava Gardner

25) With total disregard for whether it would ever actually be considered, even in this age of movie recycling, what film exists that you feel might actually warrant a sequel, or would produce a sequel you’d actually be interested in seeing?

Magnolia 2: The Next Day