Day #2 of the 30 Day Film Challenge

[shadowkat]

It's Day #2 of the 30 DAY FILM CHALLENGE - a film you like that starts with the first letter of your name.

I've decided to go with my online name "shadowkat", you may do what you wish.

This has got to be among my favorite vampire movies ever. It's clever. And a kind of meta-narrative/meta-fiction on the whole vampire film and monster movie trope - before anyone else appeared to come up with the idea. The story is about the making of the film Nostrefratu (an unauthorized version of Bram Stoker's Dracula in Germany) with an actual vampire, which the director fails to disclose to the cast and crew.

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Comments

[cactuswatcher]

Yeah, when I saw the prompt yesterday for today. I thought, nope. I'm not doing that with my real first name. If for no other reason than there aren't a lot of good movies to start with that letter and the one I thought of instantly is a good movie that I don't like! So I'll go with the first letter of my on-line last name (Cactus Watcher, two words even if they are run together on various accounts I have.) and pick not an old classic, but a more modern favorite of mine...Wonder Woman (2017)

[cjlasky7]

This is my favorite performance by Willem Dafoe. His, um, "interpretation" of Max Schrek isn't remotely human, but it has a weird charm that almost demands to be put on film. You understand why Murnau is willing to use his cast and crew as cannon fodder to capture the creature's essence.

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The movie that changed Hollywood. Ground Zero for the Summer Blockbuster. Spielberg's film making instincts turned a potential disaster into a masterpiece of suspense. Universal's p.r. department turned it into a phenomenon.

Jaws, dir. by Steven Spielberg (1975)

https://youtu.be/U1fu_sA7XhE

[atpo_onm]

Great film, great music. What more could one ask?

Falling slowly...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=726SFblz9Lk

Take this sinking ship / And point it home / We've still got time

-OnM

[petzipellepingo]

Jules et Jim .

[wendelah1]

Wizard of Oz!