amateurist, i have a question,

Lewis' "Ladies Man" is pretty queer, but then he's an unconventional masculine model, considering he was among the top 10 box-office stars from 1950-65 or so.

A Fistful of Dynamite (Sergio Leone)
A Guide For the Married Man (Gene Kelly)
A New Leaf (Elaine May)
A Star is Born (George Cukor)
ABBA: The Movie (Lasse Hallström)
Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein (Charles Barton)
After Hours (Martin Scorsese)
Annie (John Huston)
Back to School (Alan Metter)
Bedazzled (Stanley Donen)
Best In Show (Christopher Guest)
Blood For Dracula (Paul Morrissey/Antonio Margheriti)
Boy On a Dolphin (Jean Negulesco)
Brewster McCloud (Robert Altman)
Butterflies Are Free (Milton Katselas)
Call Me: The Rise and Fall of Heidi Fleiss (Charles McDougall)
Can't Stop the Music (Nancy Walker)
Claudine (John Berry)
Cocksucker Blues (Robert Frank)
Dawn of the Dead (George A. Romero)
Desk Set (Walter Lang)
Desperately Seeking Susan (Susan Seidelman)
Dirty Mary Crazy Larry (John Hough)
Dogfight (Nancy Savoca)
Dude, Where's My Car? (Danny Leiner)
Ed Wood (Tim Burton)
Edison, The Man (Clarence Brown)
Exotica (Atom Egoyan)
Fame (Alan Parker)
Far From Heaven (Todd Haynes)
Four More Years (Michael Shamberg/Allen Rucker)
Foxes (Adrian Lyne)
Frances (Graeme Clifford)
Freaky Friday (Gary Nelson)
Freeway II: Confessions of a Trickbaby (Matthew Bright)
Ghost World (Terry Zwigoff)
Ghostbusters (Ivan Reitman)
Girls Just Want to Have Fun (Alan Metter)
Goodbye, Columbus (Larry Peerce)
Harold and Maude (Hal Ashby)
Heat (Paul Morrissey)
Heathers (Michael Lehmann)
Home Room (Paul F. Ryan)
Imitation of Life (Douglas Sirk)
Irma La Douce (Billy Wilder)
Little Darlings (Ronald F. Maxwell)
Little Fauss and Big Halsy (Sidney J. Furie)
Lolita (Stanley Kubrick)
Love and Death (Woody Allen)
Love Story (Arthur Hiller)
Manhattan (Woody Allen)
Midnight Cowboy (John Schlesinger)
Mulholland Drive (David Lynch)
My Bodyguard (Tony Bill)
My Own Private Idaho (Gus Van Sant)
Mystery Train (Jim Jarmusch)
Nights of Cabiria (Federico Fellini)
Norma Rae (Martin Ritt)
North By Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock)
Over the Edge (Jonathan Kaplan)
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (Sam Peckinpah)
Phantom of the Paradise (Brian De Palma)
Purple Noon (René Clément)
Quiz Show (Robert Redford)
Rosemary's Baby (Roman Polanski)
Safe (Todd Haynes)
Slums of Beverly Hills (Tamara Jenkins)
Somewhere Tomorrow (Robert Wiemer)
Straight to Hell (Alex Cox)
Suddenly, Last Summer (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
Summer of Sam (Spike Lee)
Switchblade Sisters (Jack Hill)
The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola)
The Day After (Nicholas Meyer)
The Goodbye Girl (Herbert Ross)
The Jerk (Carl Reiner)
The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges)
The Lonely Guy (Arthur Hiller)
The Long Goodbye (Robert Altman)
The Out-of-Towners (Arthur Hiller)
The Panic in Needle Park (Jerry Schatzberg)
The Pawnbroker (Sidney Lumet)
The Purple Rose of Cairo (Woody Allen)
The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson)
The Shining (Stanley Kubrick)
The Sunshine Boys (Herbert Ross)
The Sweet Hereafter (Atom Egoyan)
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (Joseph Sargent)
The Virgin Suicides (Sofia Coppola)
The Warriors (Walter Hill)
The Way We Were (Sydney Pollack)
Three Days of the Condor (Sydney Pollack)
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (David Lynch)
Two For the Road (Stanley Donen)
Vanishing Point (Richard C. Sarafian)
Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock)
Volcano (Mick Jackson)
West Side Story (Jerome Robbins/Robert Wise)
Westworld (Michael Crichton)
Xanadu (Robert Greenwald)

American Pie (Weitz Bros.)
Army Of Darkness (Sam Raimi)
Bad News Bears (Michael Ritchie)
Bitter Moon (Roman Polanski)
Blazing Saddles (Mel Brooks)
Blue Velvet (David Lynch)
Bonnie And Clyde (Arthur Penn)
Breaking Away (Peter Yates)
Bring It On (Peyton Reed)
Bull Durham (Ron Shelton)
Cabaret (Bob Fosse)
Cleopatra (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
Clerks (Kevin Smith)
Clockers (Spike Lee)
Commando (Mark L. Lester)
Cruel Intentions (Roger Kumble)
Dangerous Liasions (Stephen Frears)
Dead Ringers (David Cronenberg)
Die Hard (John McTiernan)
Dr. Stangelove (Stanley Kubrick)
Dogs Of War (John Irvin)
Don’t Look Back (D.A. Pennebaker)
Dressed To Kill (Brian DePalma)
Dumb & Dumber (Farrelly Bros.)
Dumbo (Ben Sharpsteen)
Ed Wood (Tim Burton)
Election (Alexander Payne)
Fear (James Foley)
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (John Hughes)
Fish Called Wanda (Charles Chrichton)
The Game (David Fincher)
Georgia (Ulu Grosbard)
Ghostbusters (Ivan Reitman)
The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola)
The Great White Hype (Reginald Hudlin)
Gunga Din (George Stevens)
Hairspray (John Waters)
Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle (Danny Leiner)
The Hills Have Eyes (Wes Craven)
Hollywood Shuffle (Robert Townshend)
Identity Crisis (Melvin Van Peebles)
Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (Philip Kaufman)
Jaws (Steven Spielberg)
The Killers (Robert Siodmak)
Klute (Alan J. Pakula)
The Lady From Shanghai (Orson Welles)
Last Tango In Paris (Bernardo Bertolucci)
Lost In Translation (Sofia Coppola)
The Manchurian Candidate (John Schlesinger)
Manhattan Murder Mystery (Woody Allen)
Manhunter (Michael Mann)
Married To The Mob (Jonathan Demme)
Martin (George Romero)
Mean Streets (Martin Scorcese)
Metallica: Some Kind Of Monster (Joe Berlinger/Bruce Sinofsky)
Monty Python And The Holy Grail (Terry Jones/ Terry Gilliam)
Moscow On The Hudson (Paul Mazursky)
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (Alan Parker)
Murder By Death (Robert Moore)
My Cousin Vinny (Jonathan Lynn)
My Dinner With Andre (Louis Malle)
My Left Foot (Jim Sheridan)
Mystery Men (Kinka Usher)
National Lampoon’s Animal House (John Landis)
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (Jeremiah S. Chechik)
Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino)
Quick Change (Howard Franklin/Bill Murray)
Raising Arizona (Coen Bros.)
The Ref (Ted Demme)
Richard III (Laurence Olivier)
Romy And Michelle’s High School Reunion (David Mirkin)
Roxanne (Fred Schepisi)
Say Anything (Cameron Crowe)
Scrooged (Richard Donner)
Secretary (Steven Sheinberg)
The Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa)
The Shop Around The Corner (Ernest Lubitsch)
Splash! (Ron Howard)
The Spy Who Came In From The Cold (Martin Ritt)
The Stepfather (Joseph Ruben)
A Streetcar Named Desire (Elia Kazan)
The Stunt Man (Richard Rush)
Superman II (Richard Lester)
Sweet Smell Of Success (Alexander Mackendrick)
Tequila Sunrise (Robert Towne)
They Live (John Carpenter)
The Thin Man (W.S. Van Dyke)
This Is Spinal Tap (Rob Reiner)
Three Kings (David O. Russell)
Top Secret! (Zucker/Abrams/Zucker)
Total Recall (Paul Verhoeven)
Treasure Of The Sierra Madre (John Huston)
Used Cars (Robert Zemeckis & Bob Gale)
Waiting For Guffman (Christopher Guest)
Wet Hot American Summer (David Wain)
Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? (Mike Nichols)
Wild One (Lazlo Benedek)
The Witches Of Eeastwick (George Miller)
Zardoz (John Boorman)
Zoolander (Ben Stiller)

bad news is that stress (and lonelines around holidays) inspired me to start smoking again after nearly 4 months without a cigarette. i'm hoping that after the semester is over i can go cold turky again.

It's Ammer time!

1. Dr. Zhivago
2. The Apostle
3. This is Spinal Tap
4. Ghost Dog
5. Dead Man
6. Empire Strikes Back
7. The Godfather
8. Grizzly Man
9. The Wanderers
10. Mullholland Drive

i've got a funny feeling amst is doing a... writing program!

i have been kept up all night, strangely and embarassingly, by regret. specifically, regrets concerning two women i met when i was in paris. more broadly, i've been nostalgic for the independence (even the loneliness) i felt in paris. i feel really robbed of that independence now because i've spent the past three weeks recovering from a really awful bout of mono on my mother's living room couch. bleh.

same. living in the same place at about the 2 year mark starts to feel constricting, doesn't it?