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List favourite films for various groups, Butchers, Bakers & Candlestick Makers.
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The Englishman who Went up a Villanelle and Came Down a Quatrain
No Country for Ode Men
Haiku Noon

Iamb Legend
Gunfight at the Trochee Corral
Spondee, Bloody Spondee
Anapest and the King
and of course, the classic (thank you imdb)
Pterodactyl Woman from Beverly Hills
e e cummings to America
The Good, the Bard and the Ugly
The Trochee Horror Picture Show
One Or Two Sonnets That I Wrote About Her
The Rhyme Machine
Quatrain Man
Investiture of a Laureate Above Suspicion
Batman and Catalexiswoman
Last Man Stanza
Ditty, Ditty, Bang, Bang!
Burns After Reading
Julius Caesura
Reservoir Doggerel
Bring Me The Head Rhyme Of Alfredo Garcia
ABBA: The Movie
Four Readings and a Funeral
[Phil] Nice one.
Grosse Pointe Blank Verse
Shall I Compare Thee to a Day Last Summer When I Know What You Did?
Homer Alone
[jim] Which can only really be followed by The 40 Year Old Virgil
[jim] Thanks - I was genuinely rather chuffed with that one :-)
Metre and the Wolf
Meet The Parents, Who Fuck You Up
The Wasteland That Time Forgot
Ode To A Big Fat Grecian Urn
Stanza By Me
The Jingle Book
A Tale Of Two Ditties
The Fifth Quartet
Bring Me The Head Of Onoma Topoeia
The Good, The Ballad And The Ugly
Ace Ventura: Petrarch Detective [Phil] What jim said
Oh, and this one comes totally from an imdb search, which always feels a bit like cheating -- especially since I doubt if anyone has ever heard of the (Oscar-nominated!) 1936 original:
Wintercet
A Rhyme for Clockwork Orange
[CdM] In return, I should mention your "Iamb Legend" - very hard to top.
[Kim] Nice (onoma topeia, that is)
Alexandrine
Clerihew Framed Roger Rabbit
Scansion Police Academy
An American Beowulf In London [Phil] Ta. You're right, the others were mediocre.
Singing in the Refrain
Black Bard's Ghost
[Kim] tish, tosh and piffle! The others were just fine and dandy, but "onoma" tickled me more than usual - as did American Beowulf, while we're on the subject.
Iamb Legend [Phil] No, please, don't, stop.
[Kim] That's a Bzzzzzzt! on behalf of CdM.
Apostrophe Now
or ... Apocellipsis Now
Movies for Politicians and Diplomats
Thatcher in the Rye
A Mandleson for All Seasons
Grosse Pointe Blunkett
The Spy Who Cameron From The Cold
Investigation of an Expenses Claim Above Suspicion which is giving me some déjà vu.
The Cabinet of Dr Caligari
Bring me the Head of State of Antigua and Barbuda
Hansard
Star Trek: The Early-Day Motion Picture
Gove Actually
The Referendum Story
Watergate Down
Brotherhood of the Travelling Sycophants
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
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