My Favorite Movies

These are my Top Ten flicks of all times! Head to your nearest "artsy-fartsy" video store and rent these classics!!!
BOYCOTT BLOCKBUSTER!!!

1. La Belle Et Le Bete (Beauty And The Beast)

I ain't talkin' about no Disney film; this is the black-and-white, live-action, French version directed by Jean Cocteau in 1946. It's as if the original story was written just so this French Surrealist film auteur could put it on the big screen. Truly magical!

2. Wings Of Desire

I guess I'm just a romantic at heart. This is the movie that they based that piece of crap "City Of Angels" on. So why does the american bastardization not hold a candle to the original? In a phrase: the original had Peter Falk playing himself. You know you're at a great film when a German teenager utters the line, "Hey, isn't that Columbo?"

3. Tampopo

More than just a comedy about the Japanese need for doing things properly, it also shows how people in general tend to "fetishize" fine (and not-so-fine) cuisine. Hilarious!

4. Pulp Fiction

You say you've never heard of this film. Well, then on behalf of all earthlings, WELCOME TO OUR PLANET!!!

5. Barton Fink

Truly a bonkers piece of celluloid! It's about a Broadway playwright who gets sent to a Hollywood to write a script for a B-flick about wrestling. Being a writer myself, I can identify with the main character's writing block!

6. Stranger Than Paradise

It's rare that you can describe a tiny, independent film as "epic", but this is the exception to the rule. Filmed in New York, Cleveland and Miami, this off-kilter road picture gives an air of being grandiose and miniscule all at the same time.

7. Home Of The Brave

Performance artist / musician Laurie Anderson live in concert! An amazing look at modern technology's effect on human relations. (Don't panic! The whole thing is laced with her weird sense of humor.)

8. Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown

A wildly funny farce from Spain directed by Pedro Almodovar. See if you can recognize Antonio Banderas in this film before he became "Spanish Stud Central".

9. Beavis And Butthead Do America

I can't help myself! I love these guys! Beavis's speech on the bus makes me laugh EVERY SINGLE TIME!

10. ??????????

It's a tough choice that I STILL can't narrow down!

Gone With The Wind?
2001: A Space Odyssey?
The Seven Samurai?
Monty Python And The Holy Grail?
M?
Akira?
Heathers?
Hope And Glory?
Big Trouble In Little China?
Sonic Outlaws?
Rumble In The Bronx?

I STILL CAN'T DECIDE!!!

And while you're at the video store, CHECK THESE OUT!!

Absolutely Fabulous episodes
BBC info Comedy central info

A wildly hysterical sitcom from Great Britain about two women named Edina (a PR consultant) and Patsy (a magazine fashion director) who have no morals or scruples and insist on living life to its worst excesses, which leaves Edina's daughter, Saffron in a more parental role.

Ranma 1/2 episodes

It's gotta be said one more time: SOME CARTOONS ARE NOT FOR CHILDREN!!! Admittedly, this is one of the tamer examples but not by much. A Japanese martial arts comedy, the basic premise revolves around Ranma who A) is a martial arts student being trained by his father; B) had his engagement unwillingly arranged by his father and the father of his "now" fiancee; C) fell into a "cursed spring" while training in China so that whenever he's splashed with cold water, he turns into a girl; or D) all of the above. Give yourself 5 points for a correct answer. Try to rent these episodes in sequence so that you don't get confused with new characters.

On The Air

Imagine if David Lynch - director of such cinematic oddities as "Eraserhead" and "Blue Velvet" and the doubly-weird TV drama "Twin Peaks" - decided to create a half-hour sitcom. Well, you don't have to imagine it because ABC actually allowed him to do it for six gloriuos episodes! All of them are on this one videotape, and each one is hysterical!

Mystery Science Theatre 3000 episodes

My ex-girlfriend Leigh Ann got me turned on to this show when I moved out here to Tucson. She sent me some tapes of the show, and I've been hooked ever since. Basically, the show is about a guy named Joel (later it was a guy named Mike who is pictured here) who gets sent into space by mad scientists to conduct only one mind-bending experiment: watch really bad movies and not go crazy. He has two robot friends to help him survive it all and yell stuff back at the screen. Best episodes to start with are "The Amazing Colossal Man" and "The Cave Dwellers".

WAX, or The Discovery Of Television Among The Bees

This is a... Good God, how do I begin to describe this thing? It's kind of a cyber-techno-psychedelic story-telling experience revolving around Gulf War weaponry, Biblical imagery, and of course, beekeeping. Positively mind-blowing.