49 more things

1. The convertible scene at the end of Ariel

2. Jack Nicholson in Five Easy Pieces

3. Nancy Allen in Blow Out

4. The barn raising sequence in The Witness

5. Bring out the gimp, Pulp Fiction

6. The Johnny Cash song in the Dawn of The Dead remake

7. Stacy Keach in Fat City

8. Who's laughing now?, Evil Dead 2

9. He was sweeping, you sons of bitches, he was sweeping! The Last Picture Show

10. The bar fight in The Quiet Man

11. The crawling head in The Thing

12. Gary Oldman in Leon

13. The helicopter / Wagner sequence in Apocalypse Now

14. The imaginary tennisball scene at the end of Blow Up

15. Jack Lemmon in The Apartment

16. The two lobster scenes in Annie Hall

17. Teach me to dance, will you?, at the end of Zorba the Greek

18. The You'd better talk to my mother scene in The Big Sleep

19. The Ruprecht scenes in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

20. Marlon Brando eating a banana in One Eyed Jacks

21. Splitting the car in two in Malcolm

22. Fred Astaire drunk, wrecking a bar in The Sky's The Limit

23. Leatherface running after the girl in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

24. Edwige Fenech in Strip Nude For Your Killer

25. Steve McQueen in Papillon

26. The final scene in One False Move

27. Steve Buscemi in Reservoir Dogs

28. The spiderweb in Night of The Hunter

29. Robert Redford drunk in Walking Barefoot in The Park

30. The opening scene of The Naked Gun

31. Nic Cage in Moonstruck

32. Paul Newman eating all those eggs in Cool Hand Luke

33. The trainride in Dead Man

34. I am your father, The Empire Strikes Back

35. Roberto Benigni in Down by Law

36. Dustin Hoffmann crashing the wedding in The Graduate

37. Get away from her, you bitch!, Aliens

38. John Cazale in every film he did

39. The dance sequence in Simple Men

40. The «cow» in Top Secret

41. The showing of scars scene in Jaws

42. The scene with the wolf in Fantastic Mr. Fox

43. What's the use? The Killing

44. Is it safe? Marathon Man

45. Michelle Pfeiffer in Married to the Mob

46. The T-1000 in Terminator 2.

47. The bluesmobile falling apart at the end of Blues Brothers

48. The bank robbery /getaway in Heat

49. John Lurie telling a joke in Stranger Than Paradise

Okay, that's 99 things I love about movies.

D.V.

This was the first Darth Vader strip I did.

50 things

I enjoyed this list: http://cinema-fanatic.com/2011/04/22/100-things-i-love-about-the-movies/

I managed to come up with half that number, 50 things I love about the movies:

1. Christina Ricci tapdancing in Buffalo 66

2. Harry Dean Stanton's monologue in Paris, Texas

3. Eric Blore in the Fred Astaire / Ginger Rogers films

4. Dean Martin and Ricky Nelson singing in Rio Bravo

5. The opening of the box at the end of Kiss Me Deadly

6. The Marseillaise scene in Casablanca

7. The ending of The Third Man

8. Woody Allen's blind date in Play It Again Sam

9. The dance scene in Bande à Part

10. Michael Keaton in Beetlejuice

11. Gene Kelly doing the Singing in The Rain number

12. Cary Grant in His Girl Friday

13. The whole car chase in Mad Max 2

14. John Wayne lifting Natalie Wood into his arms in The Searchers

15. Henry Fonda in My Darling Clementine

16. The spaceship sequence in Life of Brian

17. Bill Murray, divingboard scene in Rushmore
    

18. The attack on the Death Star in Star Wars

19. The creature with eyes in its hands in Pan's Labyrinth

20. The Oh, Captain, my Captain scene at the end of Dead Poet's Society

21. The train station sequence in The Untouchables

22. The decapitated woman laughing in The Brain That Wouldn't Die

23. The bank robbery in one long take in Gun Crazy

24. The mirror sequence in The Lady From Shanghai

25. Tony Curtis disguised as a millionnaire in Some Like It Hot

26. Steve Martin making coffee in Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

27. Adrienne Shelly in Trust

28. Buster Keaton buying a new hat with his dad in Steamboat Bill Jr.

29. The wedding in The Deer Hunter

30. The pre-title sequence in Raising Arizona

31. The German woman singing for the French soldiers at the end of Paths of Glory

32. The car / subway chase in The French Connection

33. The dead guy in yellow jacket standing upright towards the end of Blue Velvet

34. The breaking into the CIA computer room sequence in Mission Impossible

35. Diane Keaton in Love and Death

36. The knights descending from their "horses" in The Holy Grail

37. James Stewart being drunk in Philadelphia Story

38. The swimming pool scene in Let The Right One In

39. The sound of Lee Marvin walking in Point Blank

40. Brad Pitt chasing the killer in Seven

41. Kurt Russel in Escape From New York

42. Indiana Jones shooting that one guy in Raiders of The Lost Ark

43. The duel at the end of The Good, The Bad and the Ugly

44. Audrey Hepburn in Roman Holiday

45. Shout! dance sequence in Animal House

46. Jeff Bridges hitting the ball on a string, on the roof in The Fabulous Baker Boys

47. Linda Manz' voiceover in Days of Heaven

48. The scene with The Mystery Man and the telephone in Lost Highway

49. The heist in Rififi

50. Jon Polito in Miller's Crossing

I'm going to have to think some more to come up with another 50 things. And yeah, I should go back to working on my next book...

De Lillos

Illustration of Norwegian band De Lillos for a review in a Norwegian music paper, late 80s.

Dressed To Kill

Michael Caine is a therapist, Angie Dickinson is one of his clients, Dennis Franz is a sleazy cop and Nancy Allen is the call girl who is witness to a murder. Directed by Brian De Palma.

Ah, they don't make movies like this anymore... Over thirty years old, it's still quite a powerful film. De Palma is riffing on Hitchcock, especially Vertigo and Psycho (including the psychiatrist who explains everything in the end). It has some great set pieces: the museum scene, the elevator scene and the subway scene (later improved upon in Carlito's way). De Palma could possibly be criticized for also copying himself; the opening and ending of the film is very similar to Carrie. The first shower scene (yes, there are two!) must have given him the idea to his later film Body Double.

Caine and Dickinson are good in their roles, but the film really belongs to Nancy Allen, very appealing as the witness. Franz is a lot of fun as the cop. De Palma originally wanted Liv Ullmann in the Dickinson role, but she turned it down. Too bad, since Ullmann in a De Palma film really would have been something, and it's probably too late now...

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

Michael Caine and Steve Martin are a couple of con men on the French Riviera. Also starring Glenne Headly, directed by Frank Oz.

Michael Caine lost a lot of credibility in the eighties for doing all kinds of crap movies, but between the films taken for the paycheck he did some good work, like this film. It has a classy direction by Oz and a good script. Both Caine and Martin are very good. The film is possibly a bit off balance, the way the early scenes with Martin as the idiot brother, «not mother?», are really funny, and then the rest of the film doesn't quite reach those same heights. Also, a little nitpick: They couldn't find a French actor for the Inspector role, instead getting an English actor who's faking a French accent?

Dead Mickey