readwritehand asked: 4, 15, 29, 36.

4. Top 5 directors

Joshuaaaa, why you make me do this? :P  

Okay…

1. Alfred Hitchcock

2. Wong Kar Wai

3. Stanley Kubrick

These 3 are who I would genuinely call my favourite directors. There are others I like a lot, but I’m not sure I would give them place no. 4 and 5. :P So, honourable mentions: Jean-Luc Godard, Billy Wilder, Frank Capra, Howard Hawks.

15. Favorite Disney movie (not PIXAR!) 

I haven’t really seen many Disney films…but, from what I have seen, it would have to be Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

29. A movie from your favorite director you didn’t liked 

No doubt about this, “To Catch a Thief”. (was so tempted to call it “To Catch a Fuckin Thief”, due to my annoyance with it)

That was the first Hitchcock I ever saw. And, now, after seeing 25 Hitchcocks, To Catch a Thief is still the only one I do not like.

I might give it a second chance sometime, when I’m in the mood for some pretty but meaningless imagery, uninteresting story and total lack of chemistry between two of the most beautiful film stars ever. 

36. Favorite remake

Hard one. If I had a list of all the remakes I’ve ever watched, it would be easier…also, must I have watched both the original and the remake…? If that’s the case, I don’t know if there are any at all. 

Well…I love An Affair to Remember (1957), which is a remake of the 1939 Love Affair (which I’ve never seen).

Also, I love Mogambo (1953) which is a version of the 1932 Red Dust. (which I’ve never seen)

That’s just off the top of my head. There must be others which escape me at the moment.  

hostage-prince-of-poetry asked: Your response to question 8 gave me an anxiety attack... I now have a headache from breathing too heavily after the initial shock and my heart feels like it's going to collapse... for real! Casablanca?! OVERRATED?! I can understand the rest, but CASAfuckingBLANCA?! I can't make peace with this! HOLY F...!!! Pfkjawhekjhaanyway, on another note I agree completely on what you said about Nuovo Cinema Paradiso... but CASABL-no let's leave it there. You get the point.

:P 

Truth is I only watched it once, quite a few years ago, and back then it just wasn’t my cup of tea :P. I do intend to give it another try, sometime soon :). Relax, nobody’s opinion should make you *that* anxious. :P  

hostage-prince-of-poetry asked: 6,7,8,9,31

Damn, I didn’t even look at all those questions before reblogging :P Hmmm. Here goes: 

6.  Your best experience on going to the movies

Off the top of my head, I guess I would say…the first time I went to Cineworld. In January 2011, to see “The King’s Speech”. The film was being shown in Screen No.3 which is the biggest one in Cineworld…I was pretty overwhelmed when I entered and I saw how ridiculously HUGE both the room and the screen were…and so FULL of people. Over 600 people. Probably now I wouldn’t be as overwhelmed, but then I had never seen anything like that ever! I even phoned my parents to tell them, I was *that* excited. I thought the film was very good, which also enhanced the experience. (my opinion of the film has changed quite a bit since then, though)

7. A guilty pleasure

I do love quite a few films that are widely considered not very good, or even bad. But I don’t care. I actually made something of a Top 50 favourite films yesterday, and there were quite a few of such films in there. I do just love them, can’t explain why. Here’s a few:

The Holiday (the 2006 Cameron Diaz-Kate Winslet-Jude Law-Jack Black film)

Bell Book and Candle (the 1958 James Stewart-Kim Novak film)

Mogambo (the 1953 Clark Gable-Ava Gardner-Grace Kelly film)

I also enjoy any Marilyn Monroe film, no matter how bad or silly it may be.

And, actually, I guess what would fit better in this “guilty pleasures” category would be the fact that I enjoy the Step Up films. I don’t think they’re good from a filmic perspective by any means, but the dancing in them is freakin awesome and because of that I very much enjoy watching them.

Also, the Scary Movie franchise is very funny to me.

8. An overrated movie

The King’s Speech, The Social Network, The Shawshank Redemption, Casablanca, It’s a Wonderful Life, The Graduate.

And many others. (so many from the IMDb Top 250)

(please don’t kill me, tumblr people, fans of the above mentioned films) 

9. An underrated movie  

Hal Hartley’s “Trust”

Hitchcock’s “Foreign Correspondent”

Kar Wai’s “Days of Being Wild”

That’s just off the top of my head.

And, obviously, I *have* to say Nuovo Cinema Paradiso, my favourite film, which more people should watch. It did get recognition, even an Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, but I keep noticing that barely none of the people I know have seen it…or heard of it.

31. 3 movies you’re expecting excitedly! 

Hmmm…I don’t know if I could say that I’m expecting anything *excitedly*, but I do look forward to Wong Kar Wai’s “The Grandmasters” (because he’s one of my favourite directors and hasn’t made a film in a while) and Tarantino’s “Django Unchained” (because I like most of what I’ve seen from his work, and the cast of this film looks…intriguing: Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Samuel L. Jackson, Sacha Baron Cohen, Christoph Waltz, Kurt Russell, Jamie Foxx and others).