Friday Fire: What’s Your Favorite Movie of All Time?
I have a post about race that will be up later in the afternoon. The Cole Wiley interview will be posted early next 
week after I receive a couple of quotes. Things have been getting real serious around here, so I wanted to lighten it up a bit and get your favorite movie choice. I have many favorites. The top three are Spike Lee joints: Malcolm X, Do the Right Thing and Mo’ Better Blues (in that order). Menace II Society, Aliens, Strange Days, Rosewood, Training Day, Goodfellas, Less Than Zero, Love Jones, Juice, Return of the Jedi, Mission to Mars, The Best Man, Dead Presidents, Friday, Friday After Next, Belly, Sugar Hill, Pulp Fiction, Gia, Full Metal Jacket and Predator are some of the others. I also love a Terrance Blanchard score.
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September 19th, 2008 at 2:00 pm
easy… Vision Quest, Any Given Sunday, The Crow. But if I had to pick one I’d say… The Crow.
September 19th, 2008 at 2:30 pm
Too many to name, too many genres but here we go: Do The Right Thing, The Good, The Bad and The Ugly and One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest (the book may be better than the movie)
September 19th, 2008 at 2:37 pm
I like all of those. Stylistically, though, I have to say my prefeence is for Sergio Leone’s westerns. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly; Once Upon in the West; and several others have an unbelievable gritty look and an eerie use of music that is simply spectacular. The wide angle shots of the desert contrasted with the super tight shots of gunfighters make his movies legendary.
He always had the baddest bad guys (Eli Wallach as Tuco; Van Cleef as Angel Eyes; “Ramon” - Shoot for the HEART!!)– and none of the good guys were all that good (Eastwood as conflicted bounty hunter helping defenseless family; Van Cleef as war soldier out for revenge)…just like the REAL world.
September 19th, 2008 at 2:46 pm
Shawshank Redemption
All you need to know about this movie came from Morgan Freeman’s description of the main character Andy Dufresne.
“Andy crawled to freedom through five hundred yards of shit smelling foulness I can’t even imagine, or maybe I just don’t want too. Five hundred yards… that’s the length of five football fields, just shy of half a mile.”
Purple Rain
The Purple One Formerly Known As The Baddest Man In The Land especially in high heels. A staple of my ’80s experience. Lest we forget about Morris Day and The Time.
The Longest Yard
(A young Burt Reynolds and one of my favorite movie quotes ever “I think I broke his fuckin neck…I think he broke his fuckn neck.”
Romeo and Juliet Movie Adaptation
A young Leonard DiCaprio fresh off of his stint on sit-com Growing Pains. Set in the city, finally Shakespeare makes sense.
Pulp Fiction
I never saw a movie like this ever.
September 19th, 2008 at 2:58 pm
Temple - I also love A Fistfull of Dollars and For a Few Dollars More, the scene where they scare Eastwood’s mule away with gunshots is classic. Tuco was awesome in TG,B,U.
CDM - Love the Longest Yard, Purple Rain was the first time I saw a woman completely naked. I never looked at Ving Rhames the same after that scene in the basement of the pawn shop in Pulp.
September 19th, 2008 at 3:20 pm
Prolly won’t get a lot of mentions but I loved the Cosby-Poitier Blaxploitation joints. Let’s Do It Again, Uptown Saturday Night and A Piece of the Action. Hella funny and the first time I saw black folk in the movies as a kid.
The Blues Brothers — “It’s 106 miles to Chicago, we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it’s dark, and we’re wearing sunglasses. Hit it.” I’m surprised Common or Kanye never sampled that no brainer.
September 19th, 2008 at 3:24 pm
One of my favorite comedys is The Big Lebowski, after that movie I can’t watch Jeff Bridges in a serious role. John Goodman was hilarious.
Reservoir Dogs???
September 19th, 2008 at 3:35 pm
DAMN Reservoir Dogs…also the Usual Suspects.
September 19th, 2008 at 3:47 pm
Greatest ending ever.
September 19th, 2008 at 3:50 pm
Maybe its cause Redman and Meth already tapped that Blues Bros. well dry…sorry, just thinking aloud.
Mr. Kobiyashi…geez. I did not see that coming.
September 19th, 2008 at 4:03 pm
Tarantino gets absolutely ZERO love here. I could go on and on, but honestly –
September 19th, 2008 at 4:16 pm
I love this Bog Site! Can’t pin down a fav. of all time, sorry. Here are my top 5:
1. Lady Sings The Blues: Ms. Ross got royally gypped out of that 1973 Best Actress Oscar! Billie Holiday, she was passionate, sexy, sad, soulful, sultry, vulnerable, and sensationally gifted. “Good Morning Heartache” is one of my favorite tracks from the movie.
2. Shawshank Redemption: I’ve seen this movie a dozen times, and never tire of it. Favorite sceen of all time: When Andy puts on the LP of the Italian Opera singers and blast it from here to kingdom come out into the prison yard. And Red (Morgan Freeman) says, “I have no idea to this day what those two Italian ladies were singing about. Truth is, I don’t want to know. Some things are best left unsaid. I’d like to think they were singing about something so beautiful, it can’t be expressed in words, and makes your heart ache because of it. I tell you, those voices soared higher and farther than anybody in a gray place dares to dream. It was like some beautiful bird flapped into our drab little cage and made those walls dissolve away, and for the briefest of moments, every last man in Shawshank felt free.” It is a brilliant illustration of the transforming power of music.
3.1 993 Posse: Mario Van Peeples- He really did a commendable job in accurately depicting blacks in the Spanish -American War. It had action, drama, and sex. Made me really want to fall in love with the “bad boy.” Stephen Baldwin was the token white guy. I love Black Cowboys. Heehaw!
4.1994 Pulp Fiction: Ok I love Samuel Jackson in every movie he’s starred in except for SNAKES! Jules and vincent fit together better than those gloves did on O.J.s hand. It was dangerous, smart, edgy, and funny as all hell. The themes played on homophobes, mysogonist, druggies, gun totters, bible thumpers …For me, the message was: You have choices. Find your own savior.
5. 1962 To Kill a Mocking Bird: Harper Lee classic- I was 7 years old when I first saw this movie with my 7 sisters and 3 brothers. Groundbreaking! It is as relevatnt today as it was in 1962. My favorite line:The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box. As you grow older, you’ll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don’t you forget it - whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash. Atticus Finch (Greogry Peck to his daughter Scout and his son Jem. So, there ya have it! Thanks for the opportunity to post.
September 19th, 2008 at 5:16 pm
Only quibble I have with LSTB as a movie is that to make a bio about Billie is impossible because no singer could ever come close to doing what she do. I’d gladly give up every recording of every singer ever made, any in my 600 CD collection, inorder to say my Billie.
On to the top 10
1. Charots of Fire-fortold the coming of a new century
2. Crouching Tiger/Hiden Dragon-possibly the greatest ending ever
3. Do the Right thing!Too black, too strong
4. Godfather II
5. A Bronx Tale
6. Flirting-teenage Thandie Newton, Nicole Kidmand and Naiomi Watts hagd tiether
7. The Wood-Mckin’ hanging”
September 19th, 2008 at 5:37 pm
1. 25th Hour
2. Do The Right Thing
3. Shawshank
4. Brewsters Millions
5. American Psycho
September 19th, 2008 at 5:55 pm
Follow up question—If there was a remake of Lady Sings The Blues who would you want to see play Billie?
September 19th, 2008 at 7:00 pm
My favorite five movies are kinda electic
1. Clockwork Orange - Took Violence and social decay and made it art and it’s impact on movies and popular culture can’t be underestimated.
2. The Producers (the zero mostel/gene wilder ) Mel Brooks satrizes the Holocaust and the old axiom “be careful what you wish for because it always backfires
3. The Spook Who Sat by the Door - Very underrated Black Movie by Ivan Dixon during the first Black Movie explosion and probaly the best of the early 70’s
4. Mississppi Masala - The only American movie that dealt with Interracial Relationships realistically without sterotypes , violence or fake utopian sentiment and it was done by an Indian Woman ironic ain’t it.
5. Akira - The single greatest anime movie of all time with a plot rooted in reality and the beauty of the movie lingers long after you’ve seen it.
September 19th, 2008 at 7:12 pm
Damn E, you on some artsy ish. That’s wsup.
UH KEEEEEEEE RAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!! Bananas. I think Ghost In The Shell is up there in terms of ts influence on cinema.
September 19th, 2008 at 7:21 pm
Alicia Keys
September 19th, 2008 at 7:28 pm
Mike, it may sound corny, but My childhood and all time favorite is still “Brian’s Song” No political messages, nothing in the movie to change the world, and somewhat bad acting. But damn, makes me cry every time
September 19th, 2008 at 7:44 pm
Sally Richardson I believe w/Denzel. Nice story w/o the mushy stuff.
September 19th, 2008 at 7:59 pm
I don’t know if Alicia is tragic enough or has enough pipes for Miss Billie. Still thinkin.
September 19th, 2008 at 8:15 pm
There’s no one who has the pipes. Alicia would be my choice with Rhianna back a ways. It would have to be somebody not yet famous who is hungry enough to make it happen. Hmmm interesting. I wonder if this has been discussed.
September 19th, 2008 at 8:21 pm
The only person close enough to Billy Holiday’s range is dead also - Phyllis Hyman. Maybe Jennifer Hudson?
September 19th, 2008 at 8:27 pm
Phyllis Hyman…hmmmmm perfect. God bless.
The voice and pathos to understand Miss Billie’s pain.
Erykah Badu perhaps?
September 19th, 2008 at 8:29 pm
Sorry for the (sp) Billie
September 19th, 2008 at 8:39 pm
The Color Purple
September 19th, 2008 at 8:40 pm
Good Fellas
September 19th, 2008 at 8:49 pm
Yeah Phyllis would be my choice every single time.
September 19th, 2008 at 9:14 pm
Jill Scott has the pipes. Badu would be good too.
September 19th, 2008 at 9:18 pm
@ Cre8tv, Phyllis H. would have been damn near perfect! :-)hearing you! Badu aint too shabby either. I Still think Alicia can pull off.
September 19th, 2008 at 9:22 pm
While we’re at it, a few favorite comedies: Chris Rock, Bigger & Blacker, Blazing Saddles-Cleavon Little and gang knocked me out. My Cousin Vinnie, and Car Wash.
September 19th, 2008 at 9:51 pm
KevDog, love the car opening door scene with the X & Y Chromosomes in A Bronx Tale.
September 20th, 2008 at 12:34 am
To all
Sorry about the spelling this morning. I was writing before I went ot sleep after my shift and while I wanted to finish the post, I was just too see let alone proof what I wrote.
TheBrotherReport
I agree here with you and others who say Phyllis Hyman. But I did want to address the ossue of range. Billie, while considered by many and perhaps most, as the greatest American singer of all time, and IMO, it isn’t even close, had a very samll range. It spanned only about 13 notes even when she was young. But she made up for that by having this remarkably fluid voice that seemed to have 5 or so tembres. Her sense of timing and rhythym have never been equalued by any singer Period. And this allowed her to create and reslve musical tension in a way only the absolute greatest of Jazz MUSICIANS ever have. Jazz revolves around standards and individual musicians’ interpretations. Many musicians or singers have one of two songs with which they are associated and appears to be “Their ssong.” Billie had a dozen at least, to which she sung the definitive version. She was simply amazing.
Phyllis Hyman was a completely different singer than Billie, more along the lines of Sarah Vaughn without the harmonic depth. But she had an emptional resonance to her singing-Her version of “betcha by golly wow” simply retires the song IMO. And her persona, large, tragic, passionate exactly mirrors Billie. Yes, I think she should have definitely played the part.
ED
Loved your inclusion of “spook.” I remember it from my youth. What do you think of “Brother from another planet?”
TBR
Just mentioning Sally Richardson gets a shout out in these here parts!
Michelle and CDM
Sappy as they were” Brian’s Song” and “Purple” were can’t miss movies
Arlene
ABT is very highly under-rated IMO. I did love that scene and reference it often.
September 20th, 2008 at 12:48 am
Miz
That clip of Billie was notable because it had some of the greatest Jazz musicians of all time playing alongside Billie, including Lester Young. Lester had been Billie’s close friend for decades, and in the movie, the Richard Pruor character was based on him. At some point, they had a falling out and didn’t speak for years. The taping of this song was their reunion. During Lester’s solo, you can see Billie being taken back to when they were both young and the world was full of possibilities. Sadly, they were both dead within a year of this taping and they never saw each other again after it.
The trumpet player is Roy Eldridge, who was pretty much the transition figure, along wth the tragic Fats Navarro, in Jazz trumpet from Louis Armstrong to the Beboppers. Back in those days, the best of the best congregated at Mintons Chili House after their paying gigs were over and when Dizzy arrived in town, he took to going to Mintons. It was there that he, Charlie Parker, Max Roach and T. Monk invented Bebop. For three years though, the King, Roy Eldridge, held off the young lion Diz, kicking his ass time after time in cutting contests until the one night when Diz finally bested him and took over the mantle of baddest MF in the joint!
September 20th, 2008 at 1:33 am
Damn KevDog, Getting all jazzed up in here. Love it! Don’t want to assume anything, but I’d love to hear about your jazz collection. Nina Simone?
Mizzo, apologies for hitting the snooze button earlier. Mission to Mars with Don Cheadle, NICE! One of those sleepers, and pardon the pun- Out-o-this-world visuals.
September 20th, 2008 at 1:44 am
Doc, I wanted to post my version of that history but was preoccupied with something else this morning. Thanks.
Yeah Arlene, Doc is definitely the Jazz authority around here. Whenever I post something TSF jazzy, he’s definitely in mind. Glad he’s back.
Mission to Mars is one of those movies that takes me back to the boy who wondered.
Archie! Sup brothaman? Thanks for coming on the site. You are right about Brian’s song. I was at my grandmother’s (R.I.P.) in Chester the first time I saw it.
September 20th, 2008 at 8:12 am
I haven’t dropped in on the TSF for a while, but believe me I read everything while I’m at my work spot. Circumstances don’t allow me the time to chime in…
Favorite movies:
Boogie Nights…if you haven’t seen it, you really need to. Cast is amazing.
Heat - Deniro, Pacino, all time classic
Boondock Saints - PLEASE someone back me up on this one.
North Dallas Forty
Bachelor Party - 80s hijinx, no regard for race, creed, nationaltity…all about the ladies and partyin!
September 20th, 2008 at 8:59 pm
Scott, can’t back you up on Boondock Saints, but you’re right about Bachelor Party. It’s so off the chart from beastiality to a husband chasing his new bride around the house with a rotary cake batter mixer! My girls and I load up the player with it when we want some good nonsensical laughs.
September 20th, 2008 at 9:15 pm
1. Malcolm X
The quintessential great American movie. Scope, redemption, impact, relevance. I could go on but I’ll settle it by saying every time I watch this movie, when “A Change Gonna Come” starts up the tears come to my eyes.
2. The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
If you’re going to shoot somebody, shoot. Don’t talk.
Classic
3. The Usual Suspects
Who is Keyser Soze? The best thing Bryan Singer has ever done.
4. City of God
Read the subtitles and learn about the baddest gangster this side of Tony Montana in Lil Zee.
5. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
The 99 cents movies of my youth writ large and I’ll take Michelle Yeoh any day of the week.
6. Nothing But A Man
If you only know Ivan Dixon from Hogan’s Heroes and Car Wash then rectify that and watch this hidden gem. Ably assisted by Abby Lincoln, Dixon skillfully portrays a Black man trying to be Black and a man in Civil Rights Era Alabama. In glorious black and white but not dated at all.
7. Across 110th Street
‘In the Heat of the Night’ may be the more beloved movie but this is a more realistic treatment of two detectives working together while trying to work through their own racial resentments. Bleak, spare, and unrepentant.
8. Unforgiven
I guess they had it comin’, huh?
We all got it comin’, kid. It’s a hell of a thing to kill a man. You take away every thing he ever was and ever will be.
Say that second line in the classic Eastwood growl and the meaning of those words will hit you dead between the eyes.
9. Snatch
Who the hell knew what Brad Pitt was saying but no subtitles needed to get the twist in this classic.
10. The Dark Knight
I finally got my real close up in a Batman movie and no I didn’t die when Batman knocked me out of that building.
I could keep going on and on with this list but just remember it is on a sliding scale and subject to change.
No disrespect to the people that listed ‘Pulp Fiction’ as one of their faves but damn Quentin Tarantino. All I need to say is dead nigger storage. I rest my case.
September 20th, 2008 at 9:58 pm
Damn I forgot about that shit. “Say what again!” is a running thing with me and my boys.
September 21st, 2008 at 1:35 am
My list goes like this.
1. Malcolm X
2. Blues Brothers
3. Do the Right Thing
4. School Daze
5. Dead Presidents
6. Jungle Fever
7. The spook who sat by the door
8. Deep cover
9. Menace II Society
10. Predator
11. The Hidden
12. Star Trek Wrath of Kahn
13. Drumline
14. Aliens
15. How Stella Got Her Groove Back (Yeah I said it)
16. Star Wars
17. Boyz in the Hood
18. Star Wars Return of the Jedi
19. Matrix Reloaded
20. Transformers the movie (And no not that crap that came out last year by Michael Bay who loves to have black men look like fools in his movies) I am talking about the cartoon. The original cartoon movie where megatron turns into a gat. When optimus got smoked trying to save hot Rod. When the original Unicron (not Jason Whitlock) was flying around in space eating planets.
Honorable mentions
1. When the levees broke.
2. Supersize me.
3. Why did I get married
4. Hoodlum
5. Clockers
And like many of you I can’t stand Quentin Tarrintino and will not watch any of his movies. Thumbs down to all his stuff and screw that fool Samuel Jackson for even defending that mess and caling him a honorary brotha. I can’t stand his @ss either.
September 21st, 2008 at 1:40 am
Dang Scotty I forgot about Boogie nights.
Also forgot about the professional.
They would both get an Honorable mention.
And if you are throwing in made for TV movies/Mini Series then it would be
1. Roots
2. The Day After
3. V and V final Battle
4. The Stand
September 21st, 2008 at 1:57 am
Hands down, Vanilla Sky.
September 21st, 2008 at 5:43 am
Kev Dog loved “The Brother from another planet” and love John Sayles movies here are “some mo” movies I love
1. Sunshine State - Another great ensemble movie about development and loss of community with Angela Bassett, Timothy Hutton, Ralph Waite and Eugene Mc Daniel
2. Titus - A great Shakespere movie by Julie Traymor and Larry Lennix is totally fiendish along with Jessica Lange and Anthony Hopkins
3. School Daze - 20 years have been kind to Spike Lee’s classic movie on class and color conscious and slamming soundtrack and score
4. Who Framed Roger Rabbit - Groundbreaking with Christopher Lloyd and Bob Hopkin and Charles Fleischer as Roger Rabbit
5. Kagemusha - One of Akira Kurosawa underrated movies, saw it with a friend of mine at his house and could’nt believe how good it was in my opinion better than “Ran”
6. Revenge of the Nerds - Sometimes I just like dumb shit that makes no sense it’s anti P.C. attitude is still funny.
7. I Got the Hook - Up - A movie so bad that it’s entertaining to watch Master P do a movie that is not interested in being a postive black movie for neither whites or blacks. A B-Movie classic, watching Helen Martin smoke weed is hillarous.
8. Wattstax - a better music festival movie than Woodstock a reminder of what we used to be as a race that somehow got lost being more concerned about utopian politics
9. Return of the Living Dead - Linnea Quigley (the sexy red-headed punk dancing on the tomb ) can eat my brain anytime great scary movie and soundtrack and watching Miguel Nunez with a Jheri Curl bought back memories of my mullet.
10. Paris Is Burning - My favorite Documentray about the gay/drag balls in Harlem during the 80’s that started the vouge dance revolution. A touching and sad protrayal of black and latino gay people developing their own scene with great humor and strength.
September 21st, 2008 at 12:19 pm
Maybe I missed it…but did anyone say “A Soldier’s Story”? Now that was beyond great…some of the best acting and directing ever put on film.
I absolutely LOVED the original Carmen Jones - Dorothy Dandridge was all that as the vixen Carmen!
I could watch The Color Purple, Boomerang,The Birdcage on constant loops too.
September 22nd, 2008 at 11:31 am
Man, there are too many good ones to choose from, so i’ll list a few in no particular order……….
1. Antwone Fisher
2. The Lord of The Rings Trilogy
3. The Fugitive (Harrison Ford/Tommie Lee Jones’ version)
4. Batman Begins
5. Malcolm X
6. The Game (Michael Douglas & Sean Penn)
7. Shawshank
8. Trading Places
9. The Matrix
10. Coming to America
September 22nd, 2008 at 1:11 pm
Damn, I forgot about A Soldier’s Story. Talk about a tragic life, Howard Rollins was poised to become the next Poitier. Got chewed up in the Hollywood grinder.
I was thinking about Car Wash this weekend. “I am the Fly, bbbbbbbbbbuuuzzzzzzzzz.”
Also curious, why don’t we like Tarantino? I like his movies. Please don’t jump on me.
September 22nd, 2008 at 1:14 pm
Last one from me, before he fell off.
Hollywood Shuffle.
“You killed my brutha, he was my only brutha and you kilt him.” and Winky Dinky Dogs. Wow.
September 22nd, 2008 at 1:52 pm
Ho cakes! Hos gotta eat too!
September 22nd, 2008 at 2:07 pm
Hahahaha! too funny. Enjoyed everyone’s reviewing everyone’s picks. Even picked up one that I hadn’t seen before and one I had. Saw it from completely new perspectives. Cre8tv, I’m not attached to any of my picks, or care if someone else doesn’t like them. That’s the beauty of cinema. Something for everyone’s state of consciousnes.
September 23rd, 2008 at 2:47 pm
Reading this list makes me want to update the video library.
Wow forgot about Boggie Nights, Dead Presidents, The Professional, The French Connection, Unforgiven.
Classic line from Eastwood in that movie:
Gene Hackman: “You sonofabitch, you just shot an unarmed man.”
Eastwood: “Well he shoulda armed himself if he was gonna decorate his saloon with my friend.”
September 23rd, 2008 at 9:32 pm
A break fm the serious stuff…great!
In no particular order;
Kug Fu Hustle
Black Hawk Down
Malcolm X (although I have to be rested to watch it)
Snatch
Menace II Society (made “Boys” seemlike an after school special)
Star Wars (the original)
The Matrix
Run Lola Run
Do the Right Thing
Revolver
September 28th, 2008 at 3:58 am
Yeah I know I’m late:
1. Tie between ” The Godfather” and ” The God father, Part II “.
The two greatest American films ever made.
2. ” Do The Right Thing”.
I still get chills when I see the cops throw the lifeless Radio Raheem in the squad car and drive away.
3. ” Good Fellas ”
” For as long as I can remember, i always wanted to be a gangster.”
4. ” Malcolm X “.
You knew what was going to happen, but you had to see it for yourself. Spike’s high water mark as a director.
5. ” Traffic”.
The drug war shown from three different perspectives. When Erika Christansen first did heroin, the look on her face made me understand how some one could get hooked.
6. ” Cadyshack”
This movie could not be made in today’s PC-driven society. I still laugh watching it.
7. ” Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back.”
Far and away, the best of the original trilogy.
8. ” The Killer”
John Woo’s American movies are pure crap, but this, ” Hard Bolied”, and ” A Better Tomorrow”, should be watched by those who want to make action films.
9. ” Once Upon A Time In America”
DeNiro and James Woods. Chec out the Directors Cut.
10. ” The Last King Of Scotland.”
Forest Whitaker as Idi Amin. One of the best performances ever.
11. ” Rocky”
Just a raw, real movie. When I watch this, it makes me sad to see what became of Stallone.
12. ” The Matrix”
The first ten minutes hooked me. If I have another girl, I’m gonna name her Trinity
13. ” True Romance ”
” I’m not gay, but I’d fuck Elvis.”
14. ” Heat ”
Great cast. Pacino & DeNiro, but Val Kilmer, Tom Sizemore, Dennis Haysbert, Ashley Judd.
15. ” Belly ”
Hype Williams’ movie debut. Nas, DMX, Taral Hicks, and Method Man. Wow.
16. ” La Femme Nikita”
If you’re familiar with this film, the american version, ” Point Of No Return” should disgust you.
17. ” Love Jones”
Made the spoken word sexy. Nia Long, yeah.
18. ” Pulp Fiction ”
I’m sorry, it was like nothing I’d ever seen before. Great cast, and dialogue I’d never forget.
19. ” The Dark Knight ”
I went to a 10AM show the day after it opened. It lived up to the hype and then some.
20. ” Boogie Nights ”
Another great cast.
March 6th, 2009 at 12:40 pm
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November 17th, 2009 at 2:22 pm
KevDog: Minton’s was not a “chili house.” Dan Wall’s Chili House on 7th Avenue (between 138th & 140th Streets) was where Charlie Parker, in 1939, glimpsed the possibility of what would become bebop while watching and listening carefully to guitarist Biddy Fleet. Not to be confused with Jimmy’s Chicken Shack (763 St. Nicholas Ave) where Bird once washed dishes and Malcolm X once waited tables (but not at the same time!). I say this only because Robin Kelley, in his great, not-to-be-missed new bio of Monk, conflates the House with the Shack (but only in passing on p. 61, and a Google search will show that he is not alone in innocently propating that error).