I have been terrified someone would send this my way (thanks Cara ;-)). I majored in film theory at uni and I was good at it, really I was. But you know what the net result of those three years of intensive study of film was? I watch only trash, with something of an emphasis on women in action roles. Poor Jesse feels very hard done by in this regard, he wants to watch “cinema” I want “movies”. It is a very sad state of affairs.

1. The last movie you went to see in a theater:
Elektra It wasn’t great. I knew it wouldn’t be great when I went, but I have a compulsive need to see action films with a female lead - see above.

My dad loved to go to the movies and took me a lot as a kid. I only went more often as I got older, right up until Isabelle was born I went to see movies at the theatre constantly, weekly I would say. Jump to now and I guess I go maybe once every 6 months. I don’t even know what’s playing unless I see it advertised on the back of a bus, which you have to admit is not the best way to keep your finger on the pulse of cinematic happenings. I just saw on a bus last week that Catwoman was on DVD, I didn’t even know they had finished making it yet!

2. The last movie you watched at home:
Runaway Jury - Love, love, love John Cusack and I really enjoyed this film, I even put my knitting down. I think Jesse would have liked it too but we almost never manage to watch films together these days. I can’t work without background noise/distraction while he can’t work with it and he is almost always working….

3. How many movies do you own?
Not many actually. Once you remove Isabelle’s DVDs and the two seasons of Buffy from the shelf there isn’t much left, maybe 15? And it’s a pretty odd collection.

4. Got Netflix (or a similar service)?
Yep, similar, I suspect inferior. However it has allowed me to give far more respectable answers to some of these questions than would have been the case if we didn’t have it. So it has it’s uses. Someone should do a study of the differences in film choices one makes when choosing lots at once, in advance, as compared to on the day, in the store.

5. List five movies you adore (or mean a lot to you.)
Dogma - there is so much to love about this film that I don’t even know where to start. I just watched it again recently after unpacking it from a box that had spent far too long in storage.

Anything by the Coen brothers. If I had to pick a favourite I would be choosing between Millers Crossing , The Hudsucker Proxy and Intolerable Cruelty

SFW - For old times sake this is one from my uni days. I should try to find a copy and see if I still like it as much as I did at the time. I seem to recall really liking Spanking the Monkey around the same time.

The Usual Suspects - there a so many Kevin Spacey films that could be on this list but this is a definite favourite of mine and Jesse’s too (we do agree some of the time it seems).

I want to put Pride and Prejudice on this list but I don’t think a mini series qualifies so The Princess Bride - I bought this on DVD the second it was realised and I watch it whenever I am sick and sulking on the couch. Hilarious film.

6. What’s in the Netflix queue?
Um, my queue is huge and you can’t prioritize it much so I have no idea what will be coming at any given time, but here is what arrived this morning:
Vertigo
Mona Lisa Smile
Gothica

7. Name three people you are going to send this to:
Alison
Mrs. Pilkington
Stephanie