December 7, 2010

Cinematic rainbow!

Meme alert! A cinematic rainbow for a gloomy winter day! (As always, I have seen and can recommend all of these).

Red River (1948)
    A Clockwork Orange (1971)
        Golddiggers of 1933 (1933)
            The Night of the Hunter* (1955)
                The Moon is Blue (1953)
                    The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)
                        Grey Gardens (1975)
                            Black Narcissus (1947)
                                The White Ribbon (2009)

* Hunter is totally a shade of green, you guys. What? The Green Hornet and The Green Lantern don't come out til next year. JUST LET ME HAVE MY RAINBOW, DAMMIT.

2 comments:

joem18b said...

just to chip in (some movies that i've seen):

The Yellow Handkerchief
By the Light of the Silvery Moon
The Brown Bunny
The Pink Panther
Like Water for Chocolate
The Crimson Rivers
Jade
Magnolia
Lavender and Old Lace
Pumpkin
The Slammin' Salmon

Finian's Rainbow

Anonymous said...

Your blog got me thinking and I thought of some too :)

The Green Promise (1949)
The Corn is Green (1948)
Green Fire (1954)
The Blue Veil (1951)
The White Sister (1923)
Four Girls in White (1939)
White Cargo (1942)
The Scarlet Letter (1926)
The Red Pony (1949)
Broken Blossoms (or the Yellow Man and the Girl) (1919)
The Purple Plain (1954)
Heller in Pink Tights (1960)
Gold Rush (1925)
Silver Queen (1942)
The Pumpkin Eaters (1964)