My Cinematic Alphabet
Everyone likes a good list. And the latest craze that is going around all the cool cats at the moment is the “My Cinematic Alphabet” meme.
I have seen some really good ones, Tom Clift’s and Ruth @ Flixchatter to name two. It seemed like a fun thing to do, and it is also about finding cool screen stills.
Here is mine, not very high brow, just some films I love. Sorry for listing X Men (again) that X is a toughy!!!!
A is for American History X
B is for Black Hawk Down
C is for Cider House Rules
D is for Donnie Darko
E is for Edward Scissorhands
F is for Fight Club
G is for The Green Mile
H is for La Haine
I is for Into the Wild
J is for ……….?
K is for Kalifornia
L is for Last King of Scotland
M is for Master and Commander
N is for Nightbreed
O is for O’ Brother where art thou
P is for Pan’s Labyrinth
Q is for Quadrophenia
R is for Road to Perdition
S is for Scott Pilgrim vs The World
T is for Terminator 2
U is for Up
V is for Valkyrie
W is for Watchmen
X is for X men
Y is for Young Frankenstein
Z is for Zulu
Thanks for reading, I hope you enjoyed it. If you have any additions of ideas on others (especially for X) I would love to know, also why not do your own and link it here I would love to read them.
Scott Lawlor
I haven’t seen many of these films, and the alphabet looks very interesting
Thanks Lesya, I had great fun putting it together.
C
Very unusual choices! Love it!
Thanks. I tried to steer clear of films I had seen on other lists and stick to the ones I love!! (be they good or bad)
C
Cool list! I still need to find spare time to do this. Probably next weekend
You definitely should. Its great fun putting them together and finding interesting images to go with them, shame I couldnt think of one for J
C
I'm looking for the pictures now
I have all the alphabet
Cool Novroz, I look forward to seeing it!!
Getting the images was my favourite part!!
C
I'm one of those who liked WATCHMEN. They were quite unusual, and plus they featured two of my most favourite actors – Patrick Wilson and Matthew Goode.
I enjoyed WATCHMEN too. I know it got slated by others but I thought it was cool.
I loved the comics though
C
I love the choices, very well done.
I've seen most of them and the only one I had never heard of before is Nightbreed, is it a horror film?
By the way, I recently saw Quadrophenia, I loved it so much I watched the other rock opera by the Who, Tommy. Both were pretty amazing… Thanks for recommending Quadrophenia!
Cool Jack, Yeah nightbreed isn’t a big film. Its a horror based on a clive barker book. Bit of a cult flick.
I am happy you liked Quadrophenia, thats my home town in the background too. BRIGHTON!!
Tommy is a good show too!!
C
Wahoo Custard, glad you gave in and do this list, too. Great pics, matey, and I see we both have a Russell Crowe movie (actually I have two), I LOVE Master and Commander. Great to see Road to Perdition as well which I had just seen and was impressed with. I like that picture of Eric Bana (so B is for Bana, too eh?
) in Black Hawk Dawn, though I'm too chicken to see it as my friends have warned me it's super gory.
I threw caution to the wind and got it done!! It was great fun finding the images quite therapeutic. Black Hawk Down is pretty gory in places, its certainly no period drama so maybe not for you Ruth
Who doesn’t love Russell Crowe? hehe
Nice List. A few of these almost made it into mine(Scott Pilgrim, Last King of Scotland, and Pans Labyrinth) but didn't end up making the final cut(I think i meant to put Scott Pilgrim in my list and then forgot about it, and the rest i just had movies that i liked more).
And i'm happy to know that i'm not the only one who couldn't find one for every letter
Thanks!!
I don't know what happened with J. All I could think of was Juno, and although I did enjoy it my colleague would never let me live it down….he hated the film!!
Very nice of you to pop by DwC
C
Awesome list! I especially love "F", "T" and "W" (not surprising since they were the same on mine). Thanks for linking back!
Hey Tom, Thanks for popping over. hehe F,T and W kick a**!! LOL
Thanks for inspiring me to do my own….
No problem on the link your list is very deserving of it!
C
Great pics Custard, they really stand out. Went down your list saying 'seen it'/haven't seen it'. It's about 50:50. Need to put that right. Zulu is supposed to be great, my Dad loves that film.
Thanks Ronan, I really enjoyed putting this together and hunting down different images. I love Zulu, such a great (and traumatic) film.
C
Wow, a terrific list. I especially love to see some love for La Haine.
Hi Matt, Thanks so much for popping over. It is always nice to see a new face.
La Haine had to be in there, marvelous film!!
Nice eclectic list! Surprised to see Valkyrie in there, that movie really came and went.
Thanks Castor, It was great fun to put together.
I really liked Valkyrie, but I am a very interested in all things second world war.
Thanks for popping by, You are always welcome
J is for Joe versus the volcano of course.
also
C should be for CONAN the barbarian.
greatest movie ever.
thank you for this post Custard!