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Movie Quote of the Day – Junior Bonner, 1972 (dir. Sam Peckinpah)
Elvira Bonner: You and Ace. Maybe you’re the lucky ones, drifting the way you do.
Junior Bonner: Maybe.
Oscar Vault Monday – Cabaret, 1972 (dir. Bob Fosse)
The first time I saw this film was during TCM’s 31 Days of Oscar in 2011 and a few days ago I gave it a much deserved re-watch. I think I liked it even more on this second viewing. There is a new Blu-ray edition coming from Warner Brothers, which I will be reviewing later this week. Cabaret holds the record for most Oscar wins (eight!) without winning Best Picture. I would be hard-pressed to choose between this film and The Godfather, too. Pretty much every year in the 70s had too many great, important, monumental and insanely entertaining pieces of cinema. In the end, I think the films’s awards are not as important as the impact of the films themselves. That said, Cabaret‘s ten Academy Award nominations were: Best Song Score or Adaptation Score (this category doesn’t exist anymore, won), Best Cinematography (won), Best Editing (won), Best Sound (won), Best Art Direction (won), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Supporting Actor Joel Grey (won), Best Actress Liza Minnelli (won), Best Director (won) and Best Picture. The other films nominated for Best Picture that year were Deliverance, The Emigrants, Sounder and winner The Godfather.
Movie Quote of the Day – Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask, 1972 (dir. Woody Allen)
Mrs. Ross: How could you?
Dr. Doug Ross: This is Mrs. Bencours, one of my patients. She thinks she’s a sheep. That’s all.
Movie Quote of the Day – Sleuth, 1972 (dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
Andrew Wyke: One black facemask, one black flat cap, a striped jersey and a bag marked “Swag”.
Milo Tindle: Why not a neon sign with “Burglar” on it?
Movie Quote of the Day – What’s Up, Doc?, 1972 (dir. Peter Bogdanovich)
Judy: I believe you dropped something.
Howard: What do you think you are doing?
Judy: I think I’m taking a bath, aren’t I?
Howard: If you’re not out of here in two minutes, I’m calling the police.
Judy: Who do you think they’ll arrest? The girl in the tub or the guy with his pants down?
Howard: I am not joking now. I do not like to act rashly, but you are the last straw that breaks my camel’s back, you are the plague, you bring havoc and chaos to everyone, but why to me? Why me? Why?
Judy: Because you look cute in your pyjamas, Steve.
Howard: GET OUT!
Judy: Right now?
Howard: YES!
[Judy starts to get out the bath]
Howard: No! Wait a minute!
Movie Quote of the Day – Cabaret, 1972 (dir. Bob Fosse)
Sally Bowles: Well, do you sleep with girls or don’t you?
Brian Roberts: Sally! You don’t ask questions like that.
Sally Bowles: I do.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Ruling Class, 1972 (dir. Peter Medak)
Lady Claire Gurney: How do you know you’re God?
Jack Arnold Alexander Tancred Gurney, 14th Earl of Gurney: Simple. When I pray to Him, I find I am talking to myself.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Godfather, 1972 (dir. Francis Ford Coppola)
Don Corleone: You look terrible. I want you to eat, I want you to rest well. And a month from now this Hollywood big shot’s gonna give you what you want.
Johnny Fontane: Too late. They start shooting in a week.
Don Corleone: I’m gonna make him an offer he can’t refuse.
Oscar Vault Monday – Sounder, 1972 (dir. Martin Ritt)
1972 is a hard year to discuss a film that was nominated but didn’t win Best Picture considering the winner that year was The Godfather. I decided to go with Martin Ritt’s Sounder because it is almost as opposite a film from The Godfather among the other nominees. Yet, in a way it’s very similar. Both films are about the lengths one will go for family. Sounder is a drama, but in the end it’s also one of the most uplifting films I’ve ever seen. The film was nominated for four Academy Awards: Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Actress Cicely Tyson, Best Actor Paul Winfield and Best Picture. The other films nominated that year were Cabaret, Deliverance, The Emigrants and winner The Godfather.
