La Cage aux Folles
French gay couple bests homophobe
Personal Best
Aspiring Olympic athletes train, love
Kiss of the Spider Woman
Prisoners bond under great adversity
Next: Movies that treat LGBTQ issues offensively or clumsily
Zorro the Gay Blade
Being gay: one campy joke.
Blazing Saddles
“It sounds like steam escaping.”
Can’t Stop The Music
The Village People were straight???
Next: Movies with significant rainbows.
Going with symbolic rainbows, as well as real rainbows.
Finian’s Rainbow
Just follow Finian’s rainbow.
The Wizard of Oz
Toto, we’re over the rainbow!
Rainbow
Search for end of…y’know.
Next: movies where a tough street kid learns to accept love from someone who won’t give up.
Going My Way
Empathetic priest forms a choir
Finding Forrester
Reclusive novelist inspires teen writer
Stand and Deliver
Math teacher motivates badass students
Next: Three more favorite films of yours
Fantasia
Love it start to finish.
Young Frankenstein
Funnier each time I watch.
Twister
This one’s a guilty pleasure.
Next: Films of Gene Kelly
Inherit the Wind
Scopes trial dramatized: played Hornbeck.
Marjorie Morningstar
Jewish angst by Hollywood. Weird.
Singin’ in the Rain
Seriously? this needs a comment?
Next: war films about post-Vietnam conflicts.
Tumbledown
Falklands officer badly wounded, adapts
Salvador
Photojournalist tries to make difference
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
Afghan quagmire played for laughs
Next: Other films of Tina Fey
Muppets Most Wanted
She’s Russian, she loves Kermit.
Megamind
She voices Lois Lane character.
Mean Girls
Teen comedy: she wrote, acts.
**Next: ** Movies set during the French Revolution
A Tale of Two Cities
Truly noble sacrifice by Carton
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Twelve film adaptations to date!
Scaramouche
Has very long, swashbuckling swordfight
Next: Movies set during the Russian Revolution or its immediate aftermath
Mockery (1927, starring Lon Chaney)
Peasant rescues, obsesses over countess.
Романовы. Венценосная семья (2000; The Romanovs: An Imperial Family)
Last days of Romanov family.
Конец Санкт-Петербурга (1927; The End of St. Petersburg)
Commissioned for Revolution’s tenth anniversary.
Honorary mention:
Ninotchka
The tagline was “Garbo laughs!”
Next: British movies (or movies set in Britain) set during the time of the American revolution, even if it is only mentioned in passing. TV movies and mini-series OK.
Did I make that one too hard? Let’s change it to movies about the American Revolution, either epic, or about some aspect of it.
The Madness of King George
Madness is genetic, you know?
1776
Rousing song and dance history
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
Capt. Jack meets George III
Next: Films of Goldie Hawn
Wiki says it was George II, which would’ve put the movie no later than 1760. So:
The Patriot
South Carolinian radicalized; fights redcoats
In play:
Films of Goldie Hawn
Private Benjamin
Army life has many surprises
Foul Play
Ditz, detective must save Pope
Snatched
Mom, daughter share awful vacation
Next: Films of Kurt Russell
Big Trouble In Little China
My grandson’s favorite Russell film.
Escape from New York
Snake Plissken saves the mayor.
Swing Shift
Co-starred with Goldie, moved in.
Next: Movies with an actor playing multiple roles (different actors, please)
Dr. Strangelove
Sellers as Muffley, Mandrake, Merkwurkdigliebe
*
From Dusk till Dawn*
Cheech as Guard, Chet, Carlos
*
Kill Bill v2*
Parks as Esteban and McGraw.
Next:
Cross franchise movies.
Alien vs. Predator
The winner is [SPOILER ALERT].
Freddy vs. Jason
I fell asleep during this.
The LEGO Batman Movie
Biff! Bam! Pow! Lego goodiness.
Next: Lillian Gish non-silent movies.
Nitpick: the President.
Lillian Gish non-silent movies
Hamlet
Admitted she played “lewd Ophelia”
Duel in the Sun
Nominated for Oscar in 1946
The Whales of August
Her last role, age 93
Next: Movies about radio or radio stations
Pump up the Volume
Teen is subversive ham operator.
Radio Days
Before TV, lives orbited radio.
Who Done It?
Abbot, Costello are aspiring writers.
Next: movies about real psychologists, analysts, sociologists, or other such scientists.
A Dangerous Method
Jung, patient cross several lines
Kinsey
Liam Neeson plays pioneering sexologist
The Seven Percent Solution
Freud (real) treats Sherlock (not)
Next: Pre-1980 Sherlock Holmes movies
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939; Basil Rathbone)
Holmes investigates ghost hound legend.
A Study in Terror (1965; John Neville)
Holmes seeks Jack the Ripper.
Murder by Decree (1979; Christopher Plummer)
Holmes seeks Jack the Ripper.
Next: movies with “Puzzle” in the title.