Sometime, maybe about ten years ago, John Cribbs and Christopher Funderburg founded The Pink Smoke.
To commemorate this vaguely recalled anniversary, they put together one of their "100 Moments" lists - one focusing on some of the things that brought them together to create the site and sustain it. If The Pink Smoke has to explain itself, this is the explanation.
Buñuel.
James Remar.
Claire Denis.
Charles Willeford.
Charles Burnett.
Charles Bronson.
Dekalog 6.
Chameleon Street.
Frederick Wiseman.
Italo Calvino.
John Goddman dancing to "Wild Wild Life" in True Stories.
Lucrecia Martel.
Videodrome.
Feathers McGraw.
Ingrid Caven.
Miyazaki.
Jan Svankmajer.
Domes Thunder & Pleasure.
Milan Kundera.
J. G. Ballard.
Touchez Pas Au Grisbi.
Craig R. Baxley.
Wuxia Pian.
Isabelle Huppert.
Days of Being Wild.
Maggie Cheung.
Ed Lachman leaving his spectacles behind at La Soufrière.
High and Low.
Warren Oates.
A Brighter Summer Day.
Jean-Paul Belmondo.
Shinobu Hashimoto.
Harakiri (1962 & 2011.)
Mati Diop.
Henenlotter’s perfect 6.
Terrence Rafferty.
"Hearing about what someone likes is always more interesting than hearing about what they dislike."
Gene Kelly.
Rohmer’s Comedies & Proverbs.
John Flynn.
Company Limited.
Errol Morris.
Turtle Power.
Mike Leigh’s most miserable humans.
Madeline Kahn.
Barbara Hammer.
George Armitage.
Michelle Yeoh.
R.W. Fassbinder.
Three completely different shared screenings at TIFF: Life Without Principle, Kotoko, Tom Tykwer's 3.
Ida Lupino.
The Argento/Nicolodi bloodline.
Blue Velvet.
Donald Westlake.
Jean-Claude Carrière.
Imamura's sea creatures.
Hollis Frampton.
The Candlelight Inn.
"American comedies.. .are funny!"
"I screamed like a little girl."
"Luckily I brought guns, which I forgot to mention before."
“Goddamn, movie magic!”
Any number of classic lines from James Gunn & Lloyd Kaufman’s All I Need to Know About Filmmaking I Learned from The Toxic Avenger.
Truffaut’s disgust for Anatole Litvak.
Sergio Aragones.
Martin Donovan yelling in frustration.
Preston Sturges.
"All these jerks are dead."
Robocop.
La Cérémonie.
“Everything about the film is perfect.”
Desson Howe’s review of Baby’s Day Out.
Roger Ebert’s rave review of Garfield: A Tale of Two Kitties, written as Garfield.
Agnes Godard.
Giant tanuki testicles.
The Lady Eve Sedgwick.
Feed the Kitty.
Pat Hingle.
Joe Dante.
The Soft Skin
& Two English Girls.
The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit.
A child singing “la la la la” - the theme to Deep Red.
Naked space vampires & a haunted Aztec ceremonial cloak tailored into a form-fitting cocktail dress by Madchen Amick.
El Sur.
The music video for Big Trouble in Little China’s eponymous theme-song.
Quintet.
Softcore genius (Sidaris, Possessed by the Night, In the Heat of Passion, The Harvest.)
Patricia Highsmith.
"Porque te Vas?"
Ma Line de Chance
& the Madison.
Blood Tea & Red String.
Disagreements on Russ Meyer, Sam Fuller & the Before Sunrise films.
Dick Miller.
Not caring how many entries there are on our "Annual Top 10" & "100 Moments" lists.
Barbara Sukowa doing "Capri Fisher" in Lola.
The poster for The Bank Job.
Meeting Jim Wynorski and Fred Olen Ray.
The competing hot dog trucks on either side of the outskirts of SUNY Purchase.
Coming out of Happy-Go-Lucky and making fun of the audience member who hated it.
Star Trek VI: the best one.
Galaxy Quest.
Loïs Lane singing the eponymous theme to Amsterdamned.
Neil Jordan’s seaside trilogy.
Cassavetes the actor > Cassavetes the director.
"Shrek? That movie's not gonna make any money!"
Jason Lee's unseen impression of Jeremy London on the Mallrats commentary track.
Laszlo Szabo. Les yeux et les Guinness.
Anaïs Nin’s Anger inauguration.
"You're a good looking man... more or less."
Tucker and Dale vs. Evil.
The mispronunciation of Werner Herzog, Tobe Hooper and Takashi Miike.
The commentary tracks for The Limey, Brother Bear and Cannibal: The Musical.
Carice Van Houten on the back of a bicycle.
Carl Franklin.
"Hate the Sport."
Renting all 8 VHS tapes of Berlin Alexanderplatz from Rick's Piermont Video.
No one can stop the dancing chicken.
“Hell, I got lots of friends.”
“I don’t.”
