Hype Movie Club

[flickchick85]

My picks:

Blue Velvet
The Elephant Man

 

[blueharvest]

Hard to believe he only directed ten movies.

My picks:

Eraserhead and
Mulholland Drive

 

[Kane52630]

Blue Velvet
Mulholland Drive

 

[Luigi]

Lost Highway
Mulholland Drive

 

[emielaen]

Mulholland Drive
Episode 8 of The Return

 

[Link]

Oh, I didn't see this until now.

If late votes are still welcome I'll go for Eraserhead and Lost Highway.

 

[CaptainWagner]

Mulholland Drive
Inland Empire

 

[Link]

Mulholland Drive
Inland Empire

OH, Inland Empire. If some of y'all haven't seen it you absolutely should. This could be another cool, weird one for the club.

Let me switch up my vote:

Inland Empire
Lost Highway

 

[flickchick85]

Ok folks, our belated March selections:


Mulholland Dr. (2001)

Directed By: David Lynch
Written By: David Lynch
Starring: Naomi Watts, Laura Harring & Justin Theroux
What's It About? After a car wreck on Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesiac, she and a Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality.


Lost Highway (1997)

Directed by: David Lynch
Written by: David Lynch & Barry Gifford
Starring: Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette & Balthazar Getty
What's It About? Anonymous videotapes presage a musician's murder conviction, and a gangster's girlfriend leads a mechanic astray.


Blue Velvet (1986)

Directed by: David Lynch
Written by: David Lynch
Starring: Kyle Maclachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper & Laura Dern
What's It About? The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child.


Inland Empire (2006)

Directed by: David Lynch
Written by: David Lynch
Starring: Laura Dern, Jeremy Irons, & Justin Theroux
What's It About? As an actress begins to adopt the persona of her character in a film, her world becomes nightmarish and surreal.


Thanks for voting, and RIP to an absolute, one-of-a-kind, mad genius. ​

 

[CaptainWagner]

Busy with a theatre show this month but hoping to catch the ones I haven't seen at least! Got an embarrassing amount of holes in my Lynch watchlist.

 

[flickchick85]

Once again found myself traveling at the end of the month so apologies again for my lateness, but our category for April:


Musicals!


Yes, the exclamation point was necessary. Any decade goes. Everyone gets up to 5 picks, voting will be open until Saturday. ​

 

[flickchick85]

My musical picks:

Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical
Singin' in the Rain
Moulin Rouge!
West Side Story (2021)
The Wiz

 

[DKDetective]

Cabaret
Fiddler on the Roof
Tommy
Rocketman
A Hard Day's Night

 

[Black Narcissus]

Cats- Tom hooper

 

[emielaen]

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)

 

[squeekness]

Hard day's night
Tommy
Rockertman

 

[Luigi]

Anna and the Apocalypse
Little Shop of Horrors (Never seen)
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut

 

[Snow Queen]

Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Anna and the Apocalypse
Singin' in the Rain
Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical
West Side Story 2021

 

[DarthSkywalker]

 

[flickchick85]

@DarthSkywalker If you don’t post names they don’t count!*

*aka, I Don’t Know What That Second One Is That Stars Your Crush That May Or May Not Be Daisy Edgar-Jones.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

@DarthSkywalker If you don’t post names they don’t count!*

*aka, I Don’t Know What That Second One Is That Stars Your Crush That May Or Not Be Daisy Edgar-Jones.

It's musicals. I went for the showmanship! And that's Ella Hunt. Who I believe once played the sister of Daisy Edgar-Jones.

Moulin Rouge!
Anna and the Apocalypse
Reefer Madness
West Side Story
Wona

 

[Ninjablade]

West Side Story (2021)
Singin' in the Rain
Cabaret
Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Moulin Rogue

 

[Luigi]

The guy with the wand made the most out of his screen time.

 

[flickchick85]

Looks like we've got a nice variety of musical picks this month! First our winner with 4 votes:


West Side Story (2021)

Directed By: Steven Spielberg
Written By: Tony Kushner & Arthur Laurents
Starring: Rachel Zegler, Ansel Elgort, Ariana DeBose, Mike Faist & Rita Moreno
What's it About? When young Tony and Maria fall in love in 1957 New York City, their romance helps to fuel the fire between the warring Jets and Sharks, two rival gangs vying for control of the streets.

And we had a 5-way tie for runner-up, with 3 votes each:


Anna and the Apocalypse (2017)

Directed by: John McPhail
Written By: Alan McDonald, Tommy Reilly & Ryan McHenry
Starring: Ella Hunt, Malcolm Cumming & Sarah Swire
What's It About? A zombie apocalypse threatens the sleepy town of Little Haven - at Christmas - forcing Anna and her friends to fight, slash and sing their way to survival, facing the undead in a desperate race to reach their loved ones. But they soon discover that no one is safe in this new world, and with civilization falling apart around them, the only people they can truly rely on are each other.


Moulin Rouge! (2001)

Directed by: Baz Luhrmann
Written by: Baz Luhrmann & Craig Pearce
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGregor, John Leguizamo, Jim Broadbent & Richard Roxburgh
What's It About? A poor Bohemian poet in 1890s Paris falls for a beautiful courtesan and nightclub star coveted by a jealous duke.

Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical (2005)

Directed by: Andy Fickman
Written by: Kevin Murphy & Dan Studney
Starring: Kristen Bell, Christian Campbell, Alan Cumming, Neve Campbell, Ana Gasteyer, Steven Weber, John Kassir & Amy Spanger
What's It About? An outrageous tongue-in-cheek musical comedy adaptation of the classic anti-marijuana propaganda film Reefer Madness (1936).



Singin' in the Rain (1952)​

Directed by: Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly
Written by: Betty Comdeen & Adolph Green
Starring: Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds & Jean Hagen
What's It About? A silent film star falls for a chorus girl just as he and his delusionally jealous screen partner are trying to make the difficult transition to talking pictures in 1920s Hollywood.

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)

Directed by: Jaques Demy
Written by: Jacques Demy
Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Nino Castelnuovo, Marc Michel & Anne Vernon
What's It About? A young woman separated from her lover by war faces a life-altering decision.

Thanks for voting, y'all!
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