My Movie Alphabet Blogathon

Mettel Ray has a great idea for a blogathon, tasking bloggers with creating their specific movie alphabet. The one rule in effect is to simply match every letter of the alphabet with something relating to film. And the only rule I’ve set for myself is that I will list the very first thing that pops into my mind for each corresponding letter. Challenge accepted!

# – 12 Angry Men

Because everyone should see this movie. Even you. (Again.)

A – Arbogast

Because he’s the voice of reason we believe in. If only he hadn’t been so curious.

B – Biutiful

Because I have yet to meet someone who loves this film as much as I do. Are you out there?

C – Carey Mulligan

Because she’s perfect.

D – Dreama Walker

Because her star making performance in Compliance deserves to do just that: make her a star.      

E – Elephant

Because I watched it again recently and was once again floored by its power. A remarkable achievement.

F – “Fuck.”

Because Nicole Kidman makes this one of the best closing lines in film history.

G – Gordon Willis

Because no one shot and used shadows more effectively.

H – He Got Game

Because it is Spike Lee at his most flawlessly ghetto.

I – I’m Not Scared

Because it’s a fantastic Spanish thriller that more people need to see.

J – Jackie Brown

Because I can’t stop thinking if its proposed prequel will actually work.

K – Killing Them Softly

Because I still cannot wait to see it. Feels like I’ve been waiting forever for this one.

L – Leos Carax

Because I’d kill to know what goes on in that man’s head.

M – Michael Fassbender

Because he’s a man whose talent I am consistently in awe of. Can’t wait to see what he does next.

N – Nick Nolte

Because his performance in Warrior is acting. Period.

O – O

Because this movie had power back in the day. I should give it another go.

P – Persona

Because I can never talk about it enough.

Q – Quiz Show

Because it’s a damn fine film, with a solid Scorsese cameo to boot.

R – Rust and Bone

Because it’s just that good.

S – Steven Soderbergh

Because I wish I could convince him to not retire. Please, dude. Please.

T – Travis Bickle

Because he is, and shall forever remain, my favorite movie character of all time.

U – Undertow

Because it was one of the last great films David Gordon Green made.

V – V

Because: “Voila! In view humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the ‘vox populi’ now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a bygone vexation stands vivified, and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin, van guarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition.

The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous.

Verily this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it’s my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V.”

W – “With or Without You”

Because I just rewatched Tell No One, and was stunned by how flawlessly this song is used in it.

X – Xander Berkeley

Because he’s a fine character actor whose never been given his fair due.

Y – “You know, we are sitting here, you and I, like a couple of regular fellas.”

Because this scene will be forever iconic.

Z – Z

Because: “Concurrently, the military banned long hair on males; mini-skirts; Sophocles; Tolstoy; Euripedes; smashing glasses after drinking toasts; labor strikes; Aristophanes; Ionesco; Sartre; Albee; Pinter; freedom of the press; sociology; Beckett; Dostoyevsky; modern music; popular music; the new mathematics; and the letter ‘Z,’ which in ancient Greek means ‘He is alive!’”