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1. Just curious – what was the criteria of how these films were chosen? I know when I see a film, unlike you, I am uneducated and go for the entertainment value and escape value. I went down the list and saw almost every one of them except for some of the foriegn films.

2. Could it be that I took a film class at Webster without you being present? I know that we saw The Apartment, Double Indemnity, and Rashomon in Modern World Cinema. If you weren’t in that class that you never witnessed the “break-up” Blake and I had to stage so everyone would believe we weren’t dating. I miss Webster. 🙁

3. Never got around to Modern World Cinema. I was an English major.

4. Votes from IMBD.com, so basically this is the top 100 films as chosen by video store clerks, record collectors, comic book fans and guys who were virgins until college.

5. whew, thanks……….. didn’t want to look like a complete idiot, Now………. out of that list give me your top 10 or top 25 just out of curiosity. I know curiosity killed the cat.

6. Taxi Driver
   Fight Club
   Goodfellas
   Pulp Fiction
   Raging Bull
   12 Angry Men
   Vertigo
   Clockwork Orange
   The Matrix
   Apocalypse Now!
   Stuff not on the list:
   The King of Comedy
   Naked
   Blue Velvet
   Dead Ringers

7. hmmmmmm………. that was fast
   I know your reasoning is different than mine, and that is great, and would agree with you about the ones you picked as being great films, except……. and these are personal reasons too, Clockwork Orange and Apoalypse Now, I didn’t care for. Reasons: Don’t much care for English films, and Apocalypse Now even though was based upon Viet Nam, it had nothing to do with it. It could have taken place in any time frame in history and perhaps I would have liked it better.
   Didn’t see King of Comedy, Naked, or Dead Ringers, but NOW I am damn curious to see them.
   Thanks for your insight. I am NOT even going to tell you my favorites! 😉 You’d laugh. Most of them are sappy.

8. But he was a film critic for a few years and that sets him apart.

9. for the record, Apocalypse Now, while set in Vietnam was based on Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness which took place, I believe, in Africa and was writtien before the Vietnam War

10. I know. I worked for him. He was my editor.

11. If you were on staff at Intermission, just who were you?

12. No one of consequence. Just a girl that occasionally emailed David a rather lengthy and sometimes caustic opinion on a film for which she was given free tickets.

13. Lucky you, young woman of mystery

14. It was long rumored at Intermission that I wrote all the film reviews and that Daniela Droke and Foxy Krupensky were pen names, but they were in fact real people. Michael meet Daniela, Daniel meet Michael, the former photo editor of Intermission.
    BTW: Who could make up a name like Foxy Krupensky?

15. I remember Foxy! She existed… honest. 🙂

16. Hello mysterious lady, Daniela
    I love women who are mysterious
    and worked for Intermission

17. That’s not the proper syllable pattern for a haiku at all!
    –AC

18. Heh.

19. Who in the hell worries about Japanese poetry?
    it is too structured, and so out of style

20. The haiku constraints
    Channel and focus the mind
    Letting the art flow
    –AC

21. and 17 is a prime # too

22. *curtsies* Greetings and salutations, Dark Count. You’ll have to ask David if I meet the mysterious quota.

23. The picture of you, and I do asume that IS you, is in itself very mysterious and clouded, but I must say beautiful none the less

24. *smirks* And this is me fuzzy.

25. watch how the doors open here……… might make me want to take a picture of you in my studio………. http://www.dragastudios.com

26. And me Goth…
    Of course, your studio is in Missouri, kind Sir. I’m currently in NYC and am moving to California in a few weeks for grad school.
    Lovely work though….

27. I am thinking we may have met in between the times you were here and in NYC when writing for the paper, is that possible?
    And why don’t you go ahead and add me to your friends list, as I will you.
    Never can tell when I may travel to photograph a beautiful woman………… I have gone as far as England to make someone eternal. Oh, thanks for the kind words. My e-mail is cmdraga@swbell.net so we don’t have to clutter up Dave’s page.
    And what are you doing at 11:27 am in NYC this fine morning?

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