A list of lists.

Richard T Kelly's Ten Bad Dates with De Niro: A Book of Alternative Movie Lists has a site that's barely a month old but already hopping. The real fun seems to be in the book itself, though, and it comes out on Thursday. To drum up interest, the Guardian's running quite a few sample lists:

• Ethan and Joel Coen: "Five films we'd like to see remade."

• Steven Soderbergh: "Let me just say that I'm sick of people digging up obscure masterpieces designed to make me feel like a philistine; or, worse, arguing that an acknowledged masterpiece isn't, in fact, a masterpiece at all, but the beneficiary of some collective cultural hypnosis. I'm going in the opposite direction: I'm going to call attention to a classic that, in my opinion, is even better than we all think it is." Go take a look.

• DBC Pierre: "Five films to avoid on medication."

• Mike Figgis: "Five films with great sex - or at least interesting sensuality."

• Mavis Cheek: "Five embarrassingly sentimental film scores to make the spine tingle."

• David Hare: "Five great films that defy genre."

• Andrew O'Hagan: "Five of the baddest hair days on film."

• Ryan Gilbey: "Five great drag acts."

Posted by dwhudson at October 13, 2007 12:33 PM