Rock-down Classix Name Explosion #3: Jolene

In anticipation of our next 18 weeks of films, we present a daily countdown of great songs with a single name in the title.

Today's selection: "Jolene" by Dolly Parton, off of the album Jolene.

Bonus Video!  The White Stripes perform "Jolene" under Blackpool Lights.

Rock-down Classix Name Explosion #4: Sara

In anticipation of our next 18 weeks of films, we present a daily countdown of great songs with a single name in the title.

Today's selection: "Sara" by Bob Dylan, off of the album Desire.

Rock-down Classix Name Explosion #5: Carmelita

In anticipation of our next 18 weeks of films, we present a daily countdown of great songs with a single name in the title.

Today's selection: "Carmelita" by Warren Zevon, off of his first album.

Top 5 Top 5 Lists Related To, But Not Including, Rebecca

Top 5 Joan Fontaine Films:

1. Letter from an Unknown Woman (Max Ophuls, 1948)
2. Suspicion (Alfred Hitchcock, 1941)
3. Gunga Din (George Stevens, 1939)
4. September Affair (William Dieterle, 1950)
5. A Damsel in Distress (George Stevens, 1937)



Top 5 Laurence Olivier Films:

1. 49th Parallel (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 1941)
2. Henry V (Laurence Olivier, 1944)
3. Bunny Lake is Missing (Otto Preminger, 1965)
4. Hamlet (Laurence Oliver, 1948)
5. Sleuth (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1972)



Top 5 Judith Anderson Films:

1. Laura (Otto Preminger, 1944)
2. The Furies (Anthony Mann, 1950)
3. The Ten Commandments (Cecil B. DeMille, 1956)
4. Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (Leonard Nimoy, 1984)
5. The Strange Love of Martha Ivars (Lewis Milestone, 1946)



Top 5 David O. Selznik Films:

1. Gone with the Wind (Victor Fleming, 1939)
2. King Kong (Merian Cooper & Ernest Schoedsack, 1933)
3. Portrait of Jennie (William Dieterle, 1948)
4. Nothing Sacred (William Wellman, 1937)
5. Manhattan Melodrama (WS Van Dyke, 1934)

Top 5 Films of 1940:

1. The Shop Around the Corner (Ernst Lubitsch)
2. The Philadelphia Story (George Cukor)
3. His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks)
4. Waterloo Bridge (Mervyn LeRoy)
5. Fantasia (Various)

Rock-down Classix Name Explosion #6: Maybellene

In anticipation of our next 18 weeks of films, we present a daily countdown of great songs with a single name in the title.

Today's selection: "Maybellene" by Chuck Berry.

Rock-down Classix Name Explosion #7: Sheila

In anticipation of our next 18 weeks of films, we present a daily countdown of great songs with a single name in the title.

Today's selection: "Sheila" by the Grumpies, off of the album Who Ate Stinky?

Coming Attractions: Rebecca

Wednesday, August 3rd at 6:45 and 9:10 PM.

Rock-down Classix Name Explosion #8: Marie

In anticipation of our next 18 weeks of films, we present a daily countdown of great songs with a single name in the title.

Today's selection: "Marie" by Randy Newman, originally appearing on the album Good Old Boys.

Rock-down Classix Name Explosion #9: Jane

In anticipation of our next 18 weeks of films, we present a daily countdown of great songs with a single name in the title.

Today's selection: "Jane" by Dead Moon, originally appearing on the album Stranded in the Mystery Zone.

Rock-down Classix Name Explosion #10: Ramona

In anticipation of our next 18 weeks of films, we present a daily countdown of great songs with a single name in the title.

Today's selection: "Ramona" by the Ramones, off of the album Rocket to Russia.

Rock-down Classix Name Explosion #11: Irma

In anticipation of our next 18 weeks of films, we present a daily countdown of great songs with a single name in the title.

Today's selection: "Irma" by the Magnetic Fields, off of the album i.

Rock-down Classix Name Explosion #12: Michelle

In anticipation of our next 18 weeks of films, we present a daily countdown of great songs with a single name in the title.

Today's selection: "Michelle" by the Beatles, off of the album Rubber Soul.

Rock-down Classix Name Explosion #13: Isobel

In anticipation of our next 18 weeks of films, we present a daily countdown of great songs with a single name in the title.

Today's selection: "Isobel" by Bjork, off of the album Post.

Rock-down Classix Name Explosion #14: Tania

In anticipation of our next 18 weeks of films, we present a daily countdown of great songs with a single name in the title.

Today's selection: "Tania" by Camper Van Beethoven, originally appearing on the album Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart.

Rock-down Classix Name Explosion #15: Melanie

In anticipation of our next 18 weeks of films, we present a daily countdown of great songs with a single name in the title.

Today's selection: "Melanie" by "Weird Al" Yankovic, off of the album Even Worse.

Rock-down Classix Name Explosion #16: Billie

In anticipation of our next 18 weeks of films, we present a daily countdown of great songs with a single name in the title.

Today's selection: "Billie" by Pavement, off of the album Terror Twilight.

Rock-down Classix Name Explosion #17: Jamie

In anticipation of our next 18 weeks of films, we present a daily countdown of great songs with a single name in the title.

Today's selection: "Jamie" by Weezer, a b-side off of the DGC Rarities Vol. 1 compilation.

Rock-down Classix Name Explosion #18: Monica

In anticipation of our next 18 weeks of films, we present a daily countdown of great songs with a single name in the title.

Today's selection: "Monica" by the Kinks, off of Village Green Preservation Society.

Metro Classics All-Stars!

Major League Baseball's All-Star game is tomorrow in Arizona.  The All-Star game is pretty much the most pointless thing in the entire universe and it is even more annoying because it keeps us all away from real, tangible baseball for three whole days.  (How, oh how can we go that long without seeing the Mariners slide ever further down the AL West ladder?)  I thought I would attempt to one-up the utter uselessness of the grandstanding exhibition by posing a question to Sean.  If we could pick a Metro Classics All-Stars calendar, what films would make the cut?   Of course, being the two of us I had to turn it into a competition.  The rules were simple: we could only pick one film from each series and we alternated first round picks.  Below are our two teams, I mean lists.  Let your voice be heard and vote in the poll on the left to choose the superior series.  If you went to the Metro every Wednesday and these films were playing next door to one another, which one would you plop down mama's Visa for?  Keep in mind, I will consider all of Sean's votes as those cast in pity.  Also, feel free to post your All-Star series in the comments.  You're probably better at all of this than we are anyway.

The Goofy Gilmans  vs  The Superior (Not the City) Strenskis

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans                        Duck Soup

Days of Heaven                                                The New World
Funny Face                                                       The Red Shoes
Black Narcissus                                                La Strada
The Band Wagon                                            Some Like it Hot
Kiss Me Kate                                                  Pennies from Heaven
Charade                                                         F for Fake
Chungking Expres                                             Rio Bravo
All That Jazz                                                   Barton Fink
The Shop Around the Corner                       The Princess Bride
The Rules of the Game                                     The Iron Giant
Vertigo                                                          Seven Samurai


Play ball! 

CLOSED: Classics Contest Part II (Now With Helpful Hints) !!

Update, the 2nd: We have a winner!  The unveiling of the final four films can be found at the bottom of this post.  


Update: We have added helpful hints to the films pictured below.  You have until 10:00 post meridiem Friday, the 15th of July to enter. Good luck!

We have received final confirmation on the last four films for the first half of our upcoming series!  Everything is now booked!  In celebration of this momentous occasion we have decided to give away free stuff, namely a free admission to our inaugural film, Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca, which screens Wednesday, 3 August.  To win, be the first person to correctly identify all four films shown below on our Facebook wall.  Keep the five titles previously unveiled in mind because they share similar titular qualities.

A highly collectible flyer should debut in about a week's time.  Stay tuned to this page for more information on giveaways, showtimes and other malarkey.

10 August:

(Both Vincent Gallo and S.F. band Girls share a song title with this film noir.)

31 August:

(A Grammy Award-winning Coen brothers film stole its title from this comedy.)

7 September:

(One of this film's co-stars released his film Faces the same year.)

21 September:

(If this film's subtitle was poorly translated it may have wound up Ghostly Women Above the City of Love.)

10 August - Laura

31 August - Sullivan's Travels

7 September - Rosemary's Baby

21 September - Celine and Julie Go Boating (Phantom Ladies Over Paris)

Hail Freedonia!