Kreativ!

At last I have time to get around to thanking Lolita of Lolita's Classics for honouring Movietone News with the Kreativ Blogger Award.
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In fact, she gave us three: one for Movietone, one for The Marx Brothers Council of Britain and one for my horror movie blog Carfax Abbey.
According to Lolita, in accepting the award, one must list seven other blogs to receive the award, and 'seven things you don't know about me'.
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The latter could be tricky... I like to think of this site as searingly autobiographical, and I'm not sure there are any earth-shattering revelations left to be revealed. Already disclosed somewhere in the mass of postings below is the fact that I have never drunk tea, coffee, beer or water in my life, that I don't have a mobile phone or watch any television, that I once spent an afternoon in Michael Winner's living room listening to him as he sat next to me trying to operate his tv remote control in the dark, that I abhor Obama and his ghastly wife, that I've lost count of the number of times I've seen A Night at the Opera at the cinema, that I have a genuine regard for Sylvester Stallone and that I can be briefly glimpsed in the video for 'Going Out' by Supergrass.
So here, instead of any personal disclosures, are a few movie sevens, covering areas I rarely if ever touch upon under normal circumstances.
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Since this blog is concerned overwhelmingly with films I love, here are the seven films that I most hate:
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Pleasantville, Apocalypse Now, A Clockwork Orange, Dr Strangelove, The Deer Hunter. (You may have noticed that this is only six films. That's because I have a space reserved for Fight Club: one day I'll confirm my instinctive hatred by actually watching it.)

And since the blog is concerned overwhelmingly with movies made in the golden age, here are my seven favourite films of the past 25 years:
Crimes and Misdemeanors, Ghost World, Funny Bones, The Straight Story, Cop Land, Blue Velvet, Marie Antoinette.

And lastly, since this blog is, obviously, about films I have seen with my own two orbs, here's seven that, somehow and to my considerable red-faced embarrassment, I've never got around to seeing:
Intolerance, Shadow of a Doubt, The Best Years of Our Lives, The Grapes of Wrath, La Regle du Jeu, Seven Samurai, The Long Weekend.
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Now to the blogs I wish to pass the Kreativ Blogger award on to. My initial criterion was that I shouldn't give it to any that I have passed awards on to before, or to any that were honoured by Lolita at the same time I was. (Otherwise: Kate, Casey, Mikal, Juliette etc etc... it goes without saying.)
This, of course, does not mean that somewheres back along the line my choices haven't already been tipped by someone else. So if you've already got one of these some time backaways... well, what are ya squawking about? Now you've got two. And anyway, only one of them came from me. So ditch the other one if it's like some big problem already.

They are:
The Crowd Roars
The Painted Woman
Time Machine to the Twenties
Behind the Couch
Kinetografo
Silver Screen Suppers
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Now to a little hypocrisy. I am aware that I am breaking my own rule by flinging my final gong in the direction of The Flapper's Personal Kinetoscope Parlour. I've just double-checked Lolita's list and it seems she beat me to it. But I have been enjoying this site so much lately that I must make an exception. Elizabeth's heroic resistance to modernity makes my own look positively half-hearted, and she only ever watches and writes about the coolest imaginable stuff. For her, even sitting through Gone With the Wind (and for the sake of a near-subliminal Cliff Edwards cameo, what's more) was a sacrifice of principles. Whereas as far as I'm concerned, I may talk big about losing interest after 1939, but the uncomfortable truth is that if it's got Keira Knightley or Drew Barrymore in it I'll happily trot along to any old horseshit.
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So thanks to all the above for being both creative and kreativ - often simultaneously - and for giving me so many hours of reading pleasure.