CATCHING UP WITH FILM - THE QUEST FOR A PERSONAL CANON

I’ve always been a sucker for pub trivia, and I almost like creating trivia quizzes more than competing in them. The answers to the first nine questions are all connected by a theme, and the tenth is the theme. Feel free to share this quiz, and no Googling when you’re trying it! (What’s the fun in that?) Answers will be posted next week with the newest quiz. This is the heavenly body closest to the sun. Homer sent a famed Greek warrior on a ten year journey in this epic poem.

I’ve always been a sucker for pub trivia, and I almost like creating trivia quizzes more than competing in them. The answers to the first nine questions are all connected by a theme, and the tenth is the theme. Feel free to share this quiz, and no Googling when you’re trying it! (What’s the fun in that?) Answers will be posted next week with the newest quiz. Fast food chain whose founder is Dave Thomas. He is the director of the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit trilogies. In olde

Inspired by the 1001 Movies to Watch Before You Die, Edgar Wright’s 1000 favorite films and other lists, I am striving to come up with my own personal canon of films. I am slowly realizing that social satire is my favorite genre of film. Perhaps it is the presence of many people in my life who urge me to never just blindly accept the status quo, or perhaps the genre appeals to my basically cynical nature - that things can never be as good as they purport to be. I prefer to th

Inspired by the 1001 Movies to Watch Before You Die, Edgar Wright’s 1000 favorite films and other lists, I am striving to come up with my own personal canon of films. Art that explores the disparity between the very rich and privileged and everyone else exists in all culture, but other than American and Korean culture, I have been fascinated by just how pronounced this disparity is in British culture, a country with one of the most influential monarchies in world history and

I’ve always been a sucker for pub trivia, and I almost like creating trivia quizzes more than competing in them. The answers to the first nine questions are all connected by a theme, and the tenth is the theme. Feel free to share this quiz, and no Googling when you’re trying it! (What’s the fun in that?) Answers will be posted next week with the newest quiz. Maroon 5 song about staying in bed while it’s raining. The daughter in The Addams Family. The name of Robinson Crusoe’s

Inspired by the 1001 Movies to Watch Before You Die, Edgar Wright’s 1000 favorite films and other lists, I am striving to come up with my own personal canon of films. Shakespeare has always been a tricky bastard to adapt. His works are so ingrained in Western culture that artists often treat his work with too much reverence, or they completely miss the point of his works entirely. I have seen too many adaptations of Shakespeare’s works, and my favorites, by far tend to be wor

Inspired by the 1001 Movies to Watch Before You Die, Edgar Wright’s 1000 favorite films and other lists, I am striving to come up with my own personal canon of films. Towards the beginning of Simon of the Desert, a man with no hands visits with his family the great saint Simon Stylites, who has stood atop a pillar for six years, six weeks and six days. He begs Simon for a miracle since he needs to provide for his family. Simon prays and the man’s hands are restored. Instead o

I’ve always been a sucker for pub trivia, and I almost like creating trivia quizzes more than competing in them. The answers to the first nine questions are all connected by a theme, and the tenth is the theme. Feel free to share this quiz, and no Googling when you’re trying it! (What’s the fun in that?) Answers will be posted next week with the newest quiz. When life gives you sour fruits, you can make this. The legal age in most states to drink alcohol in public spaces. Wha

Inspired by the 1001 Movies to Watch Before You Die, Edgar Wright’s 1000 favorite films and other lists, I am striving to come up with my own personal canon of films. Woman of the Lake starts off with an intimate scene between two lovers, Miyako (Mariko Okada) and Kitano (Tamotsu Hayakawa), in bed. They are in their own world, so much so that Miyako allows Kitano to take nude pictures of her. It is an intensely claustrophobic, yet also voyeuristic scene, since the two are pre

Inspired by the 1001 Movies to Watch Before You Die, Edgar Wright’s 1000 favorite films and other lists, I am striving to come up with my own personal canon of films. Young Girls of Rochefort walks a fine line between frivolity and melodrama. It is a musical grounded in the real life, though people burst out in song, contrary to reality. The music is catchy, yet deceptively complex, while the lyrics are decidedly mundane. A less forgiving person might even call them trite. We