amateurist, i have a question,

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?

(6 years ago)

holy shit

i feel bad for flaking on n/a and sarah a few too many times. sorry guys. you and jaymc and other folks in chicago are really great. i feel like i abused people on ilx sometimes, by accepting lots of kindness but being sort of aloof in return.

i didn't know an individual could abuse a group

?

i don't remember you flaking on us? at least no more than i may have. it's cool.

Amateurist, have you seen "Hotel Imperial" (1927) dir. Mauritz Stiller, and what did you think of it if so? just curious, like.