Good Morning, World

I am seeing Cole Escola's comic theatrical juggernaut "Oh, Mary!" a second time in a few weeks -- one of my few claims to coolness is having seen it very early, well before it moved to Broadway, because I knew Cole to be a genius already -- because I had to see John Cameron Mitchell play the lead role; this was non-negotiable. I'd have loved to see everyone that's played the role since Cole left but JCM? No way I'm missing Hedwig as Mary. But I will miss seeing Dino Fetscher here in the role of Mary's Teacher (he's doing it in London) which I'm sad about -- not that I won't enjoy seeing Simu Liu in the role, but Dino... Dino is gay hunk royalty. Anyway he talks about that and other stuff in the interview attached to this gay hunk royalty photoshoot at 1883 Magazine, so check it. Or supposedly he does, I haven't read it yet. I needed to take some time with these photos. Phew! Hit the jump to take it all in for yourselves...

Big Hogs For Everybody

Biker gangs are apparently the next hot trend -- this news I am about to share is the second bit of news today announcing a movie involving them, for goodness' sake! (See my previous post on Alexander Skarsgard's upcoming "kinky queer" biker movie here.) Add all that to the fact that out this June there is Jeff Nichols' film The Bikeriders with Tom Hardy, Austin Butler, Jodie Comer, and Karl Glusman -- Glusman who co-starred in 2022's fantastically queer Please Baby Please, which I am choosing to see as the real spark that started this Biker Gang Fire -- and we're calling it a trend. Anyway onto the second Biker Gang news of the day -- Cate Blanchett is going to star in Alpha Gang from the Zellner Brothers, whose wonderful film Sasquatch Sunset (starring Jesse Eisenberg and Riley Keough as sasquatch) is out in theaters now. As with all Zellner Bros movies there's nothing straightforward about Alpha Gang though, which is described thus:

"Alpha Gang follows alien invaders sent on a mission to conquer Earth. “Disguised in human form as an armed and dangerous 1950’s leather-clad biker gang, they show no mercy… until they catch the most toxic, contagious human disease of all: emotion.”

Is that description making anybody else think of John Cameron Mitchell's dementedly under-appreciated 2017 movie How to Talk to Girls at Parties, which starred Nicole Kidman as a leather-clad punk rock alien? 

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How To Talk To Girls At Parties (2018)

Zan: What is Punk, Boadicea?

Queen Boadicea: It's just the fag end
of the Blues, dear.

A happy 5 to this incredibly underrated musical-comedy from John Cameron Mitchell! I said at the time it was like a lost episode of The Monkees crossed with the miniseries V and I very much stand by that assessment! It's super goofy and Elle Fanning and Nicole Kidman are having a blast and I wanna re-watch it right this minute.

Get Back on the Shortbus, Baby

Today is the damn overdue day -- John Cameron Mitchell's sexual fantasia Shortbus from 2006 is today finally on blu-ray! And Amazon has it on sale right now too -- pick up your copy right here. I haven't seen this movie in full in awhile (I have watched the gay sex scenes out of context though because hot obviously) and I am deeply curious to see how it plays here 16 years (!!!) on. Will it feel like a time capsule of that moment? Or was it so prescient about the queer world ahead it's time-traveled up alongside us? Anybody watched it recently? I suppose I will find out myself when my copy arrives... in two weeks? Ugh I really should have pre-ordered, dammit. 

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Shortbus (2006)

Justin Bond: It's just like the 60's. 

Only with less hope.

Ouch that one-liner stings. Anyway I sadly wasn't able to catch the 4K restoration of John Cameron Mitchell's before-its-time skin-flick Shortbus when it screened months back because, you know, the pandemic. But now that it's hitting blu-ray soon (you can buy it over at Oscilliscope's website as of now) I plan on it and so should you. I mean who doesn't want to see that cute guy in the opening scene suck his own dick in glorious 4K resolution? This is why we invented technology. On that note a very happy birthday to John Cameron Mitchell today!

Some TV Stuff

Did any of you watch Charlie Cox's series Kin on AMC? I posted about it exactly once last August, and I watched exactly one episode, and then completely forgot about it. It wasn't because I thought it wasn't good -- I just forgot. Our brains have been through a lot lately, alright? And there's a lot of TV happening besides. Anyway I was reminded of Kin because apparently not everyone was as absent-minded as me and the show actually got renewed for a second season this week. So I am guessing some of you watched it! We do love Charlie, as we've made clear for a very long time, so I should probably circle back and give it another go. The show also starred Emmet Scanlan, another furry British fave of ours. That said it would appear, via some brief investigations on my part, that Charlie only took his shirt off once and it was extremely dark, so they need to do better next time around. Do better, Kin! (Sidenote: Charlie's telling EW today that we should very much expect to see him showing up in the MCU again after his surprise cameo in the last Spider-Man. Busy busy boy, just how we like it)

Some other TV news -- Jake Gyllenhaal's 2012 movie End of Watch (oh my god, how is that movie a decade old), which saw him playing a bald-headed police officer alongside a not-bald-headed Michael Peña as his partner and followed them, Found Footage style, over the course of one hellish night, is being turned into a series by FOX. David Ayer, who went on to make a truly terrible Suicide Squad movie -- sidenote: have you seen the "Release the Ayer Cut" nonsense happening all of a sudden? Good grief -- directed the film and will apparently have some writing duties at least on this series, but I think we can all safely assume that neither Gyllenhaal nor Peña will be returning for the show. I haven't seen EOW in awhile and don't remember how it ends (maybe I'll rewatch it this weekend) but I do know (spoiler alert) that it involves supernatural forces, so I'm guessing this series is going to be capitalizing on that show Evil, which is doing well right? I don't watch it but I kinda wish I did, it sounds fun.

Anyway I haven't been bringing up TV enough lately -- what are y'all watching that you like? I have been watching a ton -- I'm currently switching around between Station Eleven, The Gilded Age (I did mention that one), Somebody Somewhere, my screeners of the new season of Russian Doll and the limited series Joe vs Carole, (don't ask, I can't say anything), oh and I watch one episode of the last season of PEN15 about once a month in order to draw that amazing show out for as long as I possibly can. Station Eleven is superb by the way, if anybody's not watching that.

Pics of the Day

The first photos of John Cameron Mitchell playing the Tiger King Joe Exotic and Kate McKinnon playing his tiger rival Carole Baskin have arrived today -- this is for Joe Vs Carole, the fictionalized retelling of the Netflix pandemic-hit reality-program Tiger King, which latched onto our fast spiraling early-2020 mindsets and distracted us for a hot minute before we realized what we'd done and that we should feel properly guilty about it. 

That said! I totally watched Tiger King (the first season anyway) and these two actors being cast in these two roles is enough of a mad stroke of genius that I have clearly got to watch this new take, no matter how I feel  at this point about these real people and the whole gross spectacle of their lives. There's no me saying no to John Cameron Mitchell and Kate f'ing McKinnon! So fingers crossed that this series becomes the definitive comedic telling of this sordid tale, and we can forget about the real folks, when Joe Vs Carole premieres on Peacock on March 3rd. Here's our first teaser:

Looking Forward To NewFest

I missed this a couple of days ago because I am, as previously whinged upon, totally buried in Toronto Film Fest stuff and New York Film Fest stuff-to-be, but the NYC-based annual queer film fest called NewFest announced their line-up on Wednesday! Running from October 15th through 26th it's always a blast -- they're doing a mixed in-person and virtual line-up which is appreciated, given there is still a whole damn pandemic happening, but they're showing some really excellent shit so you should check it out! 

I've seen several of their bigger titles already thanks to earlier fests in the year -- for instance their Closing Night film, the animated Sundance smash Flee -- tackling the fairly timely subject of gay Afghan refugees -- will be gunning for all kinds of Oscars when the time comes and is absolutely worth it. They're also showing Rebecca Hall's masterful directorial debut Passing with Ruth Negga and Tessa Thompson, which I reviewed here, and the rowing team drama The Novice which has a tremendous performance from Isabelle Fuhrmann in its lead -- here's my review of that from Tribeca. Oh and Potato Dreams of America which I liked a lot when it screened at SXSW -- review here. 

Their Opening Night movie is a premiere doc about Pete Buttegieg called Mayor Pete, natch. And they've also got a few big anniversary screenings, including Truth or Dare's 30th and a premiere of Oscilliscope's just-announced 4K restoration of John Cameron Mitchell's Shortbus, which is turning 15 if you can believe it. (God that makes me feel old.) Anyway head on over to check out the line-up -- tickets go on sale today! 

5 Off My Head: Cinematic Spooge

Inspired by the medieval money shot that graces a more poetical (not to mention horny) moment in David Lowery's gorgeous new Arthurian epic The Green Knight, now in theaters (I reviewed it here) -- a scene which has already spurred on some superior semen contemplation around ye internet across the course the past week (see here for my favorite example) -- well I gots cum on my mind! And you know what happens when that happens...

It does indeed burn, Miss Coco Peru. And so it's best to do something about it fast, before the burning becomes an itching and the itching becomes a rash and the rash needs a cream and isn't that what got us into this sticky situation in the first place? And so I decided to do what I do best, which is slap together a list of the first five cum scenes from mainstream movies that popped (off) into my head. 

And yes "mainstream" means I'm refraining from the legitimately pornographic ones, so my apologies to Karl Glusman's 3D Love geyser for Gaspar Noé or the self-suck sensation at the start of John Cameron Mitchell's Shortbus (and yes those links are NSFW so don't yell at me if you clicked them in front of your boss like a dummy!!). With no further ado let's edge this list right on over to completion...

5 Fave Slick Flick Spunk Shots

Call Me By Your Name -- The Peach Scene

Oh you knew I'd have to include this one. And oh you knew it was the first one I thought of. And no, this is not me giving y'all an opportunity to screech about how the peach should have been completely eaten like it was in the book, I so do not care. 

The Silence of the Lambs -- Multiple Miggs 

Listen I didn't say they would all be sexy-time fun and games. The name of the game is I name the first five that I think of, not my favorites, and it's hard -- excuse me, difficult -- to block this horrific moment from this scary movie from one's mind once it's wedged its way in there. The thing is I don't think I even knew what happened the first time I saw this movie? In related news I was definitely too young to see this movie the first time I saw this movie. It was some time later when I was in film school and we were studying Demme's perfect construction of this scene -- of Clarice Starling's descent into this basement hell -- that I got what we were seeing happen to her.

There's Something About Mary -- Hair Gel

Even here almost 25 years on this still remains probably the most famous jizz moment in the movies, right? I know at the least that it's got to be the first time that man-spunk registered onscreen for me as what it was, and as a thing I had most certainly never seen represented on-screen before. (When I was a kid we didn't have porn access, kiddos! Imagine that!) 

But this definitely raises the question -- what was the first time that semen was sprayed across the screen in a mainstream non-pornographic piece of entertainment? Or just shown? What's the earliest example of spermatozoid representation y'all can think of?  

The Square -- Claes' Condom Caper

I was surprised that this scene popped up in my brain so quickly, as I haven't seen Ruben Östlund's terrific arthouse smash The Square since it came out in 2017 -- and holy shit is it possible that movie's very nearly five already? Anyway I probably just wanted to think about Claes Bang's bang-bag a bit, knowing me. But this scene really is so wildly well-played and funny -- as much praise as she gets for suffering well on The Handmaids Tale Elisabeth Moss always delivers a full comedy load too. You can watch the entire scene here.  

And finally.......

Look Who's Talking -- The Opening Credits

Classic cum comedy for the whole family!

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So what are some of your favorite big screen load blows?

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Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)

Hedwig: Our apartment was so small that Mother made me play in the oven. Late at night I would listen to the voices of the American masters, Tony Tennille, Debby Boone, Anne Murray who was actually a Canadian working in the American idiom. And then there were the crypto-homo rockers: Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, David Bowie who was actually an idiom working in America and Canada. These artists, they left as deep an impression on me as that oven rack did on my face. To be an American in muskrat love, soft as an easy chair not even the chair, I am I said, have I never been mellow? And the colored girls sing... doo do doo do doo do doo... but never with the melody. How could I do it better than Tony or Lou... HEY BOY, TAKE A WALK ON THE WILD SIDE!

John Cameron Mitchell's queer rock-musical masterpiece was dropped into limited release 20 years ago this very day! This is one of the ones I can always point to and say, "SEE? I don't hate ALL musicals. I just need them to actually have decent music for me to like them." And my god does this show ever. I ended up seeing the recent stage revival three times! PS I very much recommend y'all pick up the Criterion disc that came out in 2019, every nook and cranny of Hedwig's squalid experience looks so stunning it'll knock your wig straight across the mobile home.

Two Tiger Princes

I still don't know where I stand on the subject of a fictionalized Tiger King miniseries -- when I posted about John Cameron Mitchell and Kate McKinnon getting cast as the reality-show's lead rivals Joe Exotic and Carol Baskin I basically said that was enough to get me to watch, and it still is, but I admit that whole Tiger King moment is one born on the insanity of its pandemic Trump-fatigue moment and it wouldn't be a bad moment to be buried under a mile of dirt. That said they have cast the actors who will play Joe Exotic's husbands and... I have to mention it. I just have to. Nat Wolff seen above will be playing the tragic Travis, while Sam Keely, seen below, will be playing the memorably toothless and tatted John Finlay. 

I have never seen Keeley in anything and didn't know of him until this news so I say this with total ignorance but it'd be cool if one of these actors was gay? I appreciate that with Mitchell they hired a gay man to play the lead, but one of the actually fascinating sociological aspects of the original Tiger King miniseries was seeing entirely different kinds of queer people represented -- granted none of them should be Pride float ambassadors any time soon! But we deserve full representation, even of the despicable sort, and the gays of Tiger King were a whole side of our community I for one had never seen splayed out for public consumption. 

I guess the question remains whether Joe Exotic's husbands were even actually gay, or just straight trade, and that's an entire can of worms I'm not going to dive headfirst into for this post. But having grown up in a small redneck town myself I knew plenty of these types in my early days and I admit I'd rather watch actors I know are gay tackle these characters responsibly. Especially with the way Travis's story plays out. There's a needle to be threaded here, and I hope they don't go for easy jokes. Anyway if you've got thoughts share 'em in the comments and hit the jump for more of Keeley...

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Shortbus (2006) 

Justin Bond: These bitches sucking cock and eating ass...

then they show up at the buffet and say they're vegan.

A very happy birthday to John Cameron Mitchell today! I have to believe that y'all saw the news from earlier this week that the actor-director-Hedwig been cast to play "Joe Exotic" in the Tiger King miniseries... ever since that news broke (my brain) I have been trying to think of a way to post about it and... brain, broken. What the fuck does one even say to that headline?  It's so genius and so unexpected that it validates the entire project. I mean I love me some Kate McKinnon with all my being but she was in Bombshell, her presence doesn't immediately signal "I will move the sun and stars to get at this thing." John Cameron Mitchell playing Joe Exotic shoots a fuckin' rocket through every moon and star there is, laying a glittering path straight to paradise. I have seen the light, and it has a stringy bleached-out mullet.

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Shortbus (2006)

Justin Bond: As my dear departed friend Lotus Weinstock used to say: "I used to wanna change the world. Now I just wanna leave the room with a little dignity." 

A happy 57 to director, actor, and legend John Cameron Mitchell today! I finally started watching the second season of Shrill this week so JCM as an actor is at the forefront of my mind -- it took me a second to go oh right, he's also one of our greatest living directors too. True he's only made four feature films but I adore all four of them -- yes even How To Talk To Girls At Parties and if you don't you're off-base, baby, it's a space-age punk-frilled blast.

As for Shortbus I'll admit I haven't seen it in a decade -- well I have watched a couple of scenes, you know the ones, here and there -- so I'm not sure if it holds up... it does seem very much a movie of its precise moment. But I imagine in that sense it'll at least age into a nice time capsule. With self-sucking. The best sort!

Pic of the Day

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Portrait of John Waters walking by me in the MOMA lobby #johnwaters #film #nyc

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I've had my picture taken with John Waters before but I'm almost more thrilled by that photo I took of him at MoMA last night because one senses half a sneer in it, as if he's thinking, "Who's this fucker taking my picture without permission?" And to be genuinely sneered at by John Waters is TO LIVE. I have LIVED. If a bus runs me over this afternoon tell everyone you know, HE FUCKING LIVED. 

John and I were at MoMA hate-fucking each other with our eyes for a screening of 30/30 Vision: 3 Decades of Strand Releasing, which is a collection of 30 short films by prominent filmmakers who've worked with the Strand Releasing film distributor, who I'm sure you're aware of, especially if you're a gay man. I mean...

... how many of us came of age thanks to that little poof of smoke? Strand turns 30 this year and they celebrated with this collection, which included shorts by Mr. Waters, Gregg Araki, Cindy fucking Sherman, Bruce La Bruce -- whose short was called "Homage to Blowjob" and was a static shot of some guy's face as BLB himself (or presumably since he was credited) loudly, and I do mean loudly, choked on the guy's dick out of frame; for anyone who's enjoying the arty simplicity of Warhol's original "Blowjob" Bruce's valiantly obscene update was a terrific in-joke. The list goes on and on, see all the filmmakers included here, and below's a photo of some of the ones who showed up to the screening last night.

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Now THAT’s a Fam! Lulu, John, Ira, Roddy, Elizabeth, JCM, Tom, Brian, Rose, Lynn, Brady, Aggie!! And of course - Marcus and Jon. Happy 30th @strandreleasing 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

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Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)

Hedwig: Love the front of me, honey!

I'm trying to ignore the fact that John Cameron Mitchell is doing a Hedwig-adjacent show here in New York for a few days later this week since I don't have tickets -- thankfully I do have the just released yesterday Criterion blu-ray of this film and I can soak my sadness in its glorious reams of special features. Docs and a cast reunion and a 4K restoration, oh my goddess it's great. If that's not enough, and Hedwig would agree that too much is never, there's a terrific chat with JCM at Vanity Fair this week where he talks the film and manages to bitch-slap a certain recent cinematic abortion while he's at it, bless him:

"Everyone knew Bohemian Rhapsody was gonna suck. 

Why did they go see it? I don’t get it.”

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Gods and Monsters (1998)

Clayton: The monster's lonely. He wants a friend.
A girlfriend. Somebody. What's so sick about that?

This post is for me, and not just for me to look at Brendan Fraser in this movie - this post is a reminder for me to watch G&M over my long holiday weekend (starting tomorrow we're off until Tuesday, by the way) because a re-watch has been burning us up at the back of my brain but I keep forgetting. And it's a good weekend to watch it, what with the Mary Shelley movie now out in theaters...

(Sidenote: My review of that will be up tomorrow, I'll link over when it is.) This is a big weekend for Elle Fanning Fans though - not only is Mary Shelley out but so is John Cameron Mitchell's new film How To Talk To Girls At Parties starring Elle and Nicole Kidman - we reviewed that last week, read our thoughts right here. Quick gist: I had a lot of fun with it but your mileage may vary depending upon your mood; it is very silly. In a good way though!

Hey Hey We're The Punkys

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Have you ever seen an episode of The Monkees? I'm trusting some of my audience here to be of an age where they have seen an episode of The Monkees - it was my mother's favorite show when I was little (it was airing on reruns, I am not quite that old) - but I'm sure that John Cameron Mitchell, who just turned 55, has seen the show, was probably raised with it. Now imagine that The Monkees had been set a decade or so after it was set - 1977, the year I was born, the year Never Mind the Bollocks was born -  would Davey Jones have pierced a nipple on stage? Might Peter Tork have vomited on his keyboard?

Who knows, but that's kind of what John Cameron Mitchell has imagined with How to Talk To Girls at Parties, his hellaciously goofy new flick starring Tony winner Alex Sharp as Enn (short for Henry, natch), who you guessed it goes to some parties and with his best mates John (Ethan Lawrence) and Vic (the dreamily Billy-Idol'd up Abraham Lewis) learns the language of talking to girls there, and other places. Only they're not... quite girls? We kind of figure that out quick when they answer the door in rubber jumpsuits - it takes the boys, distracted as boys will be, a little bit longer.

Turns out they're aliens, six strange tribes who've banded together to survive space and time inside an endless cycle of creation and destruction and seeing the sights. Or something such - there are mystical gems and sex-swings and high-ponies and artfully baby-pinned shredded-tees, there are mad-cap romps through the streets of Croyden shot like snappy Super-8 stills in fast succession - it's like A Hard Day's Night starring The Clash with Nicole Kidman occasionally screaming "Abortions!" - what's not to love? 

I guess a lot? This movie's gotten hella mixed reviews since premiering at Cannes last year, but I personally found it too sincere and sweet-hearted about its vomit-kisses and shit-tomatoes to pass up. It doesn't concern itself with labels - it's a sci-fi musical sex dramedy about an alien invasion inside the British Punk Scene for god's sake; like piercing your tongue it's hard to pin down. Just let the goofiness wash over you and you'll have a good time.
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How to Talk To Girls at Parties opens on May 25th.

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Rabbit Hole (2010)

Becca: Does it ever go away? 

Nat: No, I don't think it does. Not for me, it hasn't - 

has gone on for eleven years. But it changes though. 

Becca: How? Nat: I don't know... the weight of it, I guess. 

At some point, it becomes bearable. It turns into something 

that you can crawl out from under and... 

carry around like a brick in your pocket. And you... 

you even forget it, for a while. But then you reach in 

for whatever reason and - there it is. Oh right, that. 

Which could be aweful - not all the time. It's kinda... 

Nat: not that you'd like it exactly, but it's what you've got 

instead of your son. So, you carry it around. And uh... 

it doesn't go away. Which is... 

Becca: Which is what? 

Nat: Fine, actually. 

A happy 54 to John Cameron Mitchell today!

High School is the End of the World

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I once did a joke list of fancy-pants auteurs who should direct the fourth Jurassic Park movie (this was awhile back before Jurassic World became an actual thing) - therein I imagined what Woody Allen's version would look like, or what Werner Herzog would make of a dilophosaurus. Well if there's one thing I love almost as much as I love those damn dinos it's a Disaster Movie, and so I thought of that old list while watching the new animated thing called My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea -- because here we have what is essentially Wes Anderson's The Poseidon Adventure.

My Entire High School wasn't directed by Anderson - it was directed by graphic-novelist Dash Shaw, who's published several books but this is his first feature-length animated film. Anyway it's not just that the leading man is voiced by Jason Schwartzman that made me feel plunked down in Anderson-Town; Shaw has clearly spent some of his days making sweet sweet love to Fantastic Mr. Fox (as have we all) and the whole lot of quirky deadpan well-spoken fools populating those films. 

That's not a negative, and Shaw carves out his own little slice of heaven there. And anyway it's beautiful and funny and surprisingly mean-spirited at times (think of the scene in Moonlight Kingdom where the cute puppy gets an arrow, I guess)... and anyway it's a Disaster Movie and I'm literally incapable of not recommending a Disaster Movie, any Disaster Movie. This one is so its own thing in its own little world that it will sit proudly beside the genre greats... or it will at least have its own spot at the Freaks Table in the High School Cafeteria of the Disaster Movie Genre. Twister and Dante's Peak are high-fiving at the Cool Kid's Table, Rollercoaster is jerking off in the bathroom, and My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea is furiously scribbling in its spiral notebook in the corner nearest the exit.

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10 Off My Head: Siri Says 2001

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Hey guys, remember 2001? What a boring year, am I right? Nothing happened in 2001 that we're still shuddering through the after-pains of at all. Nothing that shook the very foundation of our democracy and planted fear and horror in the American heart, undermining our faith in our institutions and our leaders so deeply that a decade and a half later we've very nearly turned against all the values we once held dear, or anything. Nope, nothing like that. But some movies came out! And that's why we're here today. I asked my telephone to give me a number between 1 and 100 and the minx said "ONE!" this morning! Made me think of this, quite frankly...

... and that seems about right. Today's Mood, y'all! Anyway let's just go with it. At first glance The Movies of 2001 seemed kind of barren (it wasn't the best year for studio movies) but then I started looking at the low-budget and foreign films and shocker, it started getting good. So good in fact that I can't contain it to just five films like usual, I just can't. So instead here are...

My 10 Favorite Movies of 2001

Mulholland Drive

(dir. David Lynch)

-- released on October 19th, 2001 --

Donnie Darko

(dir. Richard Kelly)

-- released on October 26th, 2001 -- 

The Royal Tenenbaums

(dir. Wes Anderson)

-- released on December 14th, 2001 --

The Piano Teacher

(dir. Michael Haneke)

-- released on September 5th, 2001 -- 

Ghost World

(dir. Terry Zwigoff)

-- released on September 21st, 2001 -- 

The Devil's Backbone

(dir. Guillermo Del Toro)

-- released on April 20th, 2001 -- 

 Moulin Rouge!

(dir. Baz Luhrmann)

-- released on June 1st, 2001 -- 

The Others

(dir. Alejandro Amenábar)

-- released on August 10th, 2001 --
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Spirited Away

(dir. Hayao Miyazaki)

-- released on July 20th, 2001 -- 

Hedwig and the Angry Inch

(dir. John Cameron Mitchell)

-- released on 2001 -- 

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Runners-up:  Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (dir. Peter Jackson), Gosford Park (dir. Robert Altman), Memento (dir. Nolan), Amelie (dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet), A.I: Artificial Intelligence (dir. Spielberg), Bubble Boy (dir. Blair Hayes), Jeepers Creepers (dir. Salva), Monsters Inc. (dir. Pete Docter)...

... Das Experiment (dir. Oliver Hirschbiegel), The Happiness of the Katakuris (dir. Takashi Miike), Kairo (dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa), Lovely & Amazing (dir. Holofcener), Wet Hot American Summer (dir. Wain), Storytelling (dir. Solondz), Session 9 (dir. Brad Anderson)

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 What are your favorite movies of 2001?

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