This is the first of a weekly column in which I’ll list random things I love from movies I’ve seen over the years. Performances, scenes, a line of dialogue, a look or a glance, a piece of wardrobe, any random thing I love that comes to mind. An entry on the list might even be something great from a bad movie, or something funny from a sad movie; a bit of music or a particular shot. Perhaps a continuity mistake or a particularly striking image. If it’s on the list, I love it. I swiped the idea for this column from Alex Maidy at the movie fan site JoBlo Movie Network. Thanks to them for the inspiration.
Take a look, have a listen … and tell me in the comments something YOU love from the movies.
I LOVE the opening credits for Alfred Hitchcock’s PSYCHO, brilliantly designed by graphic designer Saul Bass, nerve-shredding music by Bernard Herrmann. Check it out …
I LOVE Madeline Kahn as Eunice Burns in Peter Bogdanovich’s hilarious WHAT’S UP, DOC?
I LOVE this image, the very first shot in Stanley Kubrick’s A CLOCKWORK ORANGE.
I LOVE that there was a movie written by Dr. Seuss way back in 1953 — THE 5,000 FINGERS OF DR. T — and hardly anyone I know has seen it. And if you haven’t seen it, I envy you … because now you can find and enjoy it for the first time! And I REALLY love this insane song from the movie. Remember, this is 1953!
I LOVE the must-see trailer for the must-not-see 1978 movie MAGIC.
I LOVE a sadly irrelevant Joan Crawford putting everything she has — bad wig, cheap jewelry, awful dress and a ton of Crawford attitude — into her role in a lousy Hitchcock rip-off thriller, STRAIT JACKET.
I LOVE the scene where Reese Witherspoon as a juvenile delinquent Little Red Riding Hood comes face to face with her would-be murderer, Keifer Sutherland’s Big Bad Wolf serial killer, weeks after she got the better of him in the wonderfully twisted 1996 cult movie FREEWAY.
I LOVE that evil — but oh so fucking beautiful! — 1957 Plymouth Belvedere from the Stephen King movie CHRISTINE.
I LOVE the heartbreak of the unlikely friendship between these two characters in MIDNIGHT COWBOY.
I LOVE this movie.




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Freeway is such a fantastic movie. I love that you included it.
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Jen, I’ve loved FREEWAY since the night I saw it at some small, low-rent theater in San Francisco back in 1996. A favorite cult flick.
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I LOVE seeing all of these snippets and things you love – they’re an awful lot of fun to enjoy again and several of them are new for me: 5000 Fingers of Dr. T and The Sweet Smell of Success. Looking forward to more…
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Patti, SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS is GREAT! Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, noir, jazz, conniving press agents, evil newspaper columnists, corrupt police officers, scandalous 1950s use of marijuana … what more can you ask for in an old movie?!
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