12th Edition
12.31.08
( 
= vote for Audience Award
)
40 Inspirational Speeches in 2 Minutes
via overthinkingit.com
WALL·E [Chris]
opening
4 [MDA]
opening
OUTSIDERS, THE [Xta]
walking through town
LA DOLCE VITA [Laura]
Trevi fountain 
ENCHANTED [Harriet]
"Happy Working Song"
WIZARD OF OZ, THE [Xta]
meeting Professor Marvel
THX 1138 [Matt]
confession
KUNG FU PANDA [Warren]
panda's dream
KING AND I, THE [Deirdre]
dancing arm in arm
WHO'S MINDING THE STORE? [Paul]
The Typewriter
IRON MAN [Chris]
€rst test of the rocket boots
PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO, THE [Laura]
Tom steps off the screen
DHOOM 2 [Harriet]
train confrontation
KING OF KONG, THE: A FISTFUL OF QUARTERS
[Anne & Jim]
"Daddy, wipe my bottom"
LA TRAVIATA [Sara]
"Of my ardent senses"
MAIN HOON NA [Tim]
"Gori Gori" 
SKY HIGH [Paul]
hero or sidekick?
SADDEST MUSIC IN THE WORLD, THE [Laura]
Siam vs. Mexico
SOUND OF MUSIC, THE [Xta]
discovered by Rolfe
COUNTRY BEARS, THE [Deirdre]
the arm farter
HAIRSPRAY [Chris]
"Run and Tell That"
< intermission >
SCANNER DARKLY, A [Bryce]
18-speed bicycle
GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS [Chris & Matt]
Alec Baldwin
BARFLY [Tod]
the angels are everywhere 
RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK [Xta]
drinking contest
THEY LIVE [Matt]
trying on the sunglasses 
GREY GARDENS [Deirdre]
unusual fashion statement
GRADUATE, THE [David]
"April Come She Will"
FISH CALLED WANDA, A [Chris]
"Disappointed"
THERE WILL BE BLOOD [Paul]
oil rig accident 
TROUBLE IN TAHITI [Sara]
"Trouble in Tahiti"
POINT BREAK [Tod]
foot chase
BREAKIN' 2: ELECTRIC BOOGALOO [Jim]
hospital boogie
PERSEPOLIS [Laura S]
Iron Maiden cassette
MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE, THE [David]
garden party brainwashing
BILL & TED'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE [A&J]
strange things afoot at the Circle K
MINORITY REPORT [Tim]
spiders search building
ALL THAT JAZZ [MDA]
table read
BRICK [Tony]
"I want to see The Pin"
KRAMER VS. KRAMER [Xta]
playground accident
DR. STRANGELOVE OR: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB [Paul]
phone call with Moscow
JERK, THE [Chris]
"You Belong to Me"
< intermission >
VIDEODROME [Matt]
the television speaks
THE QUICK AND THE DEAD [Harriet]
DiCaprio v. Hackman
NAPOLEON DYNAMITE [Warren]
big game nostalgia
CASSHERN [Tim]
walking out of the €fire
NOSFERATU [Jim]
the death ship
GALAXY QUEST [Chris]
the chompers
THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE [Harriet]
chloroform & elevator 
SITA SINGS THE BLUES [MDA]
"Who's That Knockin' at My Door?" 
RAGING BULL [Chris]
La Motta v. Cerdan
LIGHTNING ROUND
clips by Chris except as noted
THEY LIVE "I'm all out of bubblegum"
RESERVOIR DOGS slow motion walk in pro€le
HELLO DOLLY "Put on your sunday clothes"
ROXANNE "the ladder is up"
GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS [Matt] "the leads are weak"
OCEAN'S 11 "the thing with the guy in the place"
RETURN FROM WITCH MOUNTAIN "Now cause total chaos"
IT CAME FROM BENEATH THE SEA [Tim] SF Ferry Building
LION KING, THE "So, where're you from?"
MODERN TIMES [Jim] shift relief
GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS [Matt] "What's your name?'
THE FIFTH ELEMENT cab chase
ROXANNE "earn more sessions by sleeving"
THE PRINCESS BRIDE "My name is Inigo Montoya"
SIMPSONS MOVIE, THE [Paul] naked Bart
ME AND YOU AND EVERYONE WE KNOW "Is it a classic?"
LOGAN'S RUN [Bryce] "Fish. And plankton."
TOMORROW NEVER DIES hallway kicks
ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK "I heard you were dead"
OCEAN'S 11 "You think we need one more."
GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS [Matt] "ABC"
KISS KISS BANG BANG [Tod]
cold read
MY WINNIPEG [MDA]
frozen horse heads
RATATOUILLE [Laura S]
Remembrance of things past
MATRIX, THE [Matt]
red or blue pill --> hive
WAY OUT WEST [Chris]
cowboy song
ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST [Tim]
Harmonica arrives on the train
KABLUEY [Paul]
can of beer
GODFATHER, THE [David]
baptism
HELLO, DOLLY! [Chris]
"It Only Takes a Moment"
- end -
Apologies, first, for the tardiness of the wrap-up. Figure I should already
be sending out deadlines for Edition #13.
Thanks once again to everyone who contributed clips to the madness. It
would be a sad little party indeed without you.
Next come my thanks to everyone for giving up their New Year's Eve.
Just because I can't imagine a better way to spend it doesn't mean
the rest of you didn't give up some attractive alternatives.
And while we're all getting another year older, the clips from our second-
generation partygoers were standouts this year. It is encouraging and
humbling to realize that of David's three contributions, the most recent
(THE GODFATHER) was released more than two decades before he
was born. And Bryce's one clip (from A SCANNER DARKLY), one of the
funniest of the night, also tapped into a rich vein of Year 12's zeitgeist,
by featuring both Robert Downey, Jr. and Keanu Reeves.
Downey made two other appearances during the night and Reeves three.
Keanu's foot race with a Reagan-mask-wearing Patrick Swayze (Tod's clip
from POINT BREAK) was a corker; enough to inspire an entirely new category
of award, for The Bodhi: the Best Chase Scene of the
night.
The final clip starring Reeves was also an award winner--the third
in a tryptych of scenes (THEY LIVE, VIDEODROME, THE MATRIX)
showing the moment of awakening from the dream of "reality".
The Baxter goes to Matt.
Another accidental (yet unmistakeable) dual appearance was by
maverick Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin. Laura thought she was
a shoo-in for the What the Hell Was That? Award with
her clip from Maddin's THE SADDEST MUSIC IN THE WORLD. But she was
outflanked by Mike's clip from Maddin's autobiographical faux-
documentary MY WINNIPEG (Mike had previously won the award
in Year Three with a clip from Maddin's CAREFUL.)
The two Maddin clips kept either from standing out as the strangest
clip of the night, however. That distinction went instead to
the colorful, bloody, Betty Boop-inspired Indian folktale set to
1920s jazz that was SITA SINGS THE BLUES.
Weeks later the film would be lauded by Roger Ebert, then featured
in the NYT Sunday Magazine. But back on New Year's Eve, our
august voting body bestowed its own stamp of approval by awarding
it (and Mike, who brought it) the Miriam Engelberg Audience Award
(on top of the What the Hell Was That?).
The Montalban gave us a three-way horse race between
the baptism/massacre of THE GODFATHER (David), the war room phone call
from DR. STRANGELOVE (Paul), and Anita Ekberg's wade in Trevi Fountain
from LA DOLCE VITA. For this last clip Laura took the prize--and maddeningly
close to even another award. In the end, however, (and at the end of the
scene) Il Bacio (Best Kiss) was denied.
The two contenders for The Jessie (Best Dramatic Scene)
formed a striking yet accidental Baxter, juxtaposing Dustin Hoffman running
with his injured son in his arms through the streets of Manhattan (Christa's
KRAMER VS. KRAMER) with Daniel Day Lewis doing the same across a Texas
oilfield (Paul's THERE WILL BE BLOOD). The heightened danger and Jonny
Greenwood's striking soundtrack did what the best winners of The Jessie
do--knock us out of the chortles and ironic detachment that accompany
the clips that surround them. Advantage: Paul.
Tim's high-gloss dance-off from MAIN HOON NA edges out the hunt for bootleg
heavy metal cassettes in PERSEPOLIS to win The Kurosawa
for the best clip from outside the USA. Tod earns The Pepe
(Best Clip Under a Minute) for a small aside from BARFLY, and Harriet
takes home The Teller (Best Wordless Clip) for the jarringly
whimsical white slavery abduction from THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE.
I'd like to single out Harriet here for her submission of the best mix
of clips that I can remember since I stopped handing out an award for
"Best Clip Choices". I nearly created new award categories for
the expertly staged musical number from ENCHANTED, the ridiculous train-top
confrontation of DHOOM 2, and the tightly compacted, operatic mini-drama
of DiCaprio facing Hackman in THE QUICK AND THE DEAD.
Any of which I might have awarded had Harriet not submitted all of these
kickass clips a week past the deadline.
People. Seriously.
Speaking of which: Early Deadline is Labor Day. Get on it. 8^)