On the Tenth Day of Christamas and The Other 15 Films Meme

illustration from Beatrix Potter's Rabbits' Christmas Party

I am almost out of steam for the last two days of Christmas but I'm still all fired up about the lists of fifteen films some of you groovy readers have left for me in comments or on your blog. Those of you who said fifteen films is too few to list - I agree!

Here is the second list of fifteen and I'm sure I could still come up with more, quite quickly.

 1. Hannah and Her Sisters - Woody Allen

 2. Priscilla of the Desert 

 3. Boys Don't Cry 

 4. Fargo (thanks for the reminder!)

 5. Run, Lola, Run

 6. E.T. (another one I was reminded of)

 7. The Wizard of Oz

8.  Love and Anarchy - Lina Wurtmuller

9.  The Red Violin

10.The Song Remains the Same - the Led Zeplin movie

11. Pecker - John Waters

12. I Shot Andy Warhol

13. Capote

14. The Last Picture Show

15. Monster's Ball

Well Dressed Animals

The Art of Beatrix Potter

Tom Kitten was very fat, and he had grown; several buttons burst off. His mother sewed them on again

The Rabbits Christmas Party

This book is a series of six paintings, containing only a few words and no other text. The paintings depict a traditional English Christmas, rabbit style. Two of the six paintings are represented here.

note: I have a particular fondness for rabbits. Though I have never eaten rabbit pie, my mother makes the most delicious Portuguese rabbit stew that you will ever taste.

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...and we will have something so very nice. I am baking it in a pie-dish--a pie-dish with a pink rim. You never tasted anything so good! And you shall eat it all! From The Pie and the Patty-Pan

note: this little story is about an invitation to tea (above) by a cat named Ribby, where the recipient, a dog named Duchess, becomes worried that lunch will be made of mouse. She panics because she doesn't like mouse one bit. So she concocts a plan...read more


"Now, my dears," said old Mrs. Rabbit one morning, "you may go into the fields or down the lane, but don't go into Mr. McGregor's garden: your Father had an accident there; he was put in a pie by Mrs. McGregor." read more

Jemima Puddle Duck

SHE set off on a fine spring
afternoon along the cart-
road that leads over the hill.

She was wearing a shawl
and a poke bonnet.

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"Thank goodness, my education was neglected," Potter later wrote in an article, but actually she was much interested in science and spent much time in developing a theory of the germination of fungus spores...read more