The Twelve Movie Meme

Piper tagged JA who tagged Glenn who tagged me so . . . here goes nothing. The general idea is to program your own 6 night mini-film festival. I tried to 'program' each night with two films with similar themes or aesthetics.

NIGHT #1

À la folie... pas du tout (Laetitia Colombani, 2002) and
Jeux d'enfants (Yann Samuell, 2003)

Two quirky French comedies with surprisingly wicked edges

NIGHT #2

The China Syndrome (James Bridges, 1979) and
The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974)

Two paranoia driven thrillers of the innovative American film movement of the 1970s

NIGHT #3

Diva (Jean-Jacques Beineix, 1981) and
Mauvais Sang (Leos Carax, 1986)

Two classic entries into the New French New Wave Movement of the 1980s

NIGHT #4

Targets (Peter Bogdanovich, 1968) and
The Day of the Jackal (Fred Zinnemann, 1973)

Two narratives following the path of killing spree inspired by true events

NIGHT #5

Murder on the Orient Express (Sidney Lumet, 1974) and
Nashville (Robert Altman, 1975)

Two character packed features directed by masters of the cinema of the 1970s

NIGHT #6

Children of Men (Alfonso Cuarón, 2006) and
28 Days Later (Danny Boyle, 2002)

Two recent and bleak looks at mankind on the verge of collapse

And, hey . . . there's a whole day of the week left over for me to screen all 6 hours of La Meglio gioventù (Marco Tullio Giordana, 2003)


Technically, I'm supposed to tag 5 people, but I'm pretty sure anyone who plans on doing this already has. If I'm forgetting you, just leave a comment and consider yourself tagged.