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We ran this image some time ago, but I thought I’d run it again in tribute to the late, great John Hughes. Sure, his later output was weak, but I grew up at exactly the right time for his films to be the formative movies of my adolescence. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off was my favorite film for much of my childhood, narrowly beating out Star Wars, and Sixteen Candles wasn’t far behind. Tastes may change as we get older, but certain forms of nostalgia only ripen instead of fading. Hell, as much as I loved Alexander Payne’s Election, some faint part of reptile brain was outraged (outraged!) that Matthew Broderick be portrayed as anything less than cool, despite all appearances over the years to the contrary. I also have a soft spot for the later John Candy affairs, Uncle Buck and Planes, Trains & Automobiles, enough so that I jumped at a chance to see Kamal Hassan’s Anbe Sivam, just because CSB’s Jeff described it as “a Tamil, Communist remake of Planes, Trains & Automobiles.”

Anyway, it’s been fun.