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To hell with it. All this week are Robert Redford movies. We actually kicked things off yesterday, so go back and play that one if you haven’t already. CineQuote was a fan, and from time to time, this is how we eulogize the departed. Redford did so much in front of the camera, so much behind the camera, and so much to ensure cameras are needed by promoting independent film. The Sundance Film Festival may have become too much of a scene in recent years and lost the original thread, but gripes aside, the pros far outweighed the cons. A titan has fallen, folks, and so, in our little way we’d like to honor a friend to cinema. We’ll see ya down the road, Bob. Save us a good seat.
Last Week’s Highlights
Highest Win Percentage94.7% | Lowest Win Percentage41.0%  Before Sunset (2004) |
Despite not giving you even a sprinkling of Itzhak Perlman’s violin, most players deduced correctly we were in Kraków/Płaszów in the early 1940’s and while there are other movies that pertain to that area, none as far as we remember have Liam Neeson. Some of you are too young to remember this, but Liam Neeson was once not an acclaimed comedic actor, but instead focused primarily on dramas. Crazy, I know! Perhaps his Naked Gunning will be restrained to just the one movie, but we’ll see if money talks and a few more roll out. FYI, did you know Neeson got the role in SCHINDLER’S LIST because he made lists?
Nowhere close to getting a 94.7% Win Rate was a Paris-set sequel. We used two voices in the five clips for BEFORE SUNSET, fitting as there really are only two speaking characters in the entire movie (aside from a handful of French.) Both Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy are centric to the “Before” Trilogy by Richard Linklater, where two college-aged youths fall in love over a day or so in Vienna, and then spend the next two movies figuring out whether or not they should have just left it there. But a 41% Win Rate speaks to not many remembering or caring about the woes of Jesse and Céline. Quelle tristesse!
 Frida Kahlo (Natalia Cordova-Buckley) presents her artistic vision to Miguel in | Ace of the Week15.2%"And from the darkness, a giant papaya!” |
Not too many movies with giant papayas, so Roald Dahl adaptations aside, your options were limited, that is if your memories of COCO were as strong as your heart...
Here are the numbers for all the games last week.
CineQuote Movie | Win % | Ace % |
|---|---|---|
Schindler’s List (1993) | 94.7% | 4.6% |
A Star Is Born (2018) | 86.6% | 11.4% |
Coco (2017) | 84.8% | 15.2% |
Labyrinth (1986) | 82.8% | 13.0% |
Night of the Living Dead (1968) | 79.1% | 8.1% |
Jennifer's Body (2009) | 78.3% | 3.2% |
Before Sunset (2004) | 41.0% | 2.3% |
CQ Recommends
Tell me something girl, aren’t you looking for a good recommendation?
 Revanche (2008) | Ex-con Alex plans to flee to the South with his girlfriend after a robbery, until a run-in with a local policeman twists the plan awry… Luckily this is streaming on HBO MAX and Criterion, so that should allow some of you to check it out. An entirely different Vienna than the one we get to know through Hawke and Delpy, Götz Spielmann’s dark and dramatic REVANCHE. narrowly lost out to Departures at the ‘09 Oscars for Best Foreign Film. I was fortunate enough to see this at a festival, and it’s stuck with me for years. Gonna keep my mouth shut, but this here section is to recommend movies I’ve liked in the past, usually ones that are less well-known, and Revanche satisfies both of those criteria. -Sean |
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