My Favorite Movie of All Time

Many people have asked me the same question over the years :

"What's your favorite movie?"

And I would always reply:

"What genre? Can I give you a top 5?"

I could never answer that.

But just recently, I watched a movie for the 6th or 7th time... and I realized that I still got goosebumps at all the right times, and that I came away from the movie feeling more renewed and hopeful than I had the LAST time I watched it. I realized that this movie gives me hope when I want it, affirmation when I need it, and it nourishes my soul each time I watch it.

If that doesn't qualify it as my favorite movie, than what does?

The movie in question:

Next post, I'll tell you all exactly why this is, in my opinion, the greatest movie of the modern era.

Stardust

Everyone who knows me knows of my Neil Gaiman obsess... ahem... fascination. From the first Sandman comic I read to the *signed* copy of American Gods I just re-read, Gaiman has been an integral part of my literary life for the past 16 years or so. And it's been great. His best stories resonate like no other for me, and even his worst stories are better than most trash available in the market right now.

And now, he's doing movies.

He's already done a few, like Mirrormask (excellent!), A SHort Film About John Bolton (great!), and is working on the script from Roger Zemeckis' animated Beouwulf.

But next on the horizon is a film based on one of my favorite works: Stardust.

Starring Michelle Pfeiffer, Robert De Niro, and Claire Danes, the film is based on a fairy tale written by Neil Gaiman to prove that Fairy Tales are still important. And it IS an important story to read, I feel. I won't attempt to summarize the story for people who have not read it, as I would be ruining half the pleasure of reading the book.

But I will offer this teaser:

What if you saw a falling star and went to find it... and when you found it, it was no lifeless hunk of rock and minerals, but instead a beautiful young girl with silvery hair and a broken leg.

What would you do?

Best Movie of the Year

No real time to blog. Quick updates:

• Rally freakin missing Kathy.
  
• Just finished my first screenplay (109 pages). Tired and happy.
• Working on my Spec script for Supernatural. Tired and Happy.
• Really freakin missing Kathy.
• Wrote up about 6 skecthes (skits) for class. Tired.
• Writing a documentary. Tired and not so happy with this. Hate documentary.
• Writing a short film for another film student to direct. Happy as fuckin hell. Tired though.
• Really freakin missing Kathy.

That's it. Writing. A lot.

I do get to watch movies though, as homework.

Best movie I've seen all year. Possibly the best one I'll see ALL year. Watch it if you get a chance:

Pan's Labyrinth
a film by:
Guillermo del Toro