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Movie Quote of the Day – Nightwatch, 1997 (dir. Ole Bornedal)
Katherine: You had strange dreams last night.
Martin Bells: I did?
Katherine: Mmm. You were breathing really heavily. Kept kicking your legs and moaning.
Martin Bells: You sure we weren’t having sex?
Katherine: Pretty sure. Yeah.
Movie Quote of the Day – Blue Juice, 1995 (dir. Carl Prechezer)
Sarah: So, which one are you?
Dean: Oh, did Terry tell you about us? What did he say?
Sarah: He said J.C. was a brilliant surfer, but I know you’re not him. Josh was this really big record producer. . .
Dean: Go on.
Sarah: And Dean. . .
Dean: I can take it.
Sarah: He said you had lots of unfulfilled potential.
Dean: Did he? That’s a very nice way of saying I’m a never done anything fuck-up yob.
Sarah: He didn’t say that.
Dean: Well, he should have done. [beat] You gonna be all right on your own?
Sarah: [nods]
Dean: Only I’ve gotta go and fulfill that potential.
Movie Quote of the Day – Velvet Goldmine, 1998 (dir. Todd Haynes)
Curt Wild: We set out to change the world. . .ended up just changing ourselves.
Arthur Stuart: What’s wrong with that?
Curt Wild: Nothing, if you don’t look at the world.
Oscar Vault Monday – Moulin Rouge!, 2001 (dir. Baz Luhrmann)
When this movie first came out I was dying to see it, but sadly my hometown theater didn’t get it and I had to wait for it to be a rental. I rented a shitty full frame VHS from my local rental store and I fell in love with it. Luckily, a week or so later we went out-of-town and I bought the special edition DVD and I watched it right away in all its widescreen glory. Let me tell you, I already felt pretty strongly about aspect ratios, but that little experience cinched it for me. The full frame ruined soooo much of Luhrmann’s amazing framing and ruined some of the film’s reoccurring themes. I finally got to see the film on the big screen when I was in college and boy what an experience that was! I also got to see it at the Castro Theatre last summer and boy who giant screen really brings out the power of the imagery and emotions of the film. After I saw this film the first time, I went back to my local rental store and rented absolutely every film starring either Nicole Kidman or Ewan McGregor that they had (which was actually quite a lot of films). That was a lot of fun. Moulin Rouge! was nominated for eight Oscars, winning two: Academy Award Best Art Direction (won), Best Costume Design, Best Makeup, Best Sound, Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing, Best Actress Nicole Kidman and Best Picture. Luhrmann didn’t receive a nomination for Best Director and Oscar host Whoppi Goldberg famously quipped when presenting the film that “apparently it didn’t have a director.” This was a year where two of the Best Picture films didn’t get Best Director nods (the other was Todd Field for In The Bedroom) and two directors whose films weren’t nom’d did: David Lynch for Mulholland Drive and Ridley Scott for Black Hawk Down. Always strange when that happens, though I am 100% behind Lynch’s nomination.
Movie Quote of the Day – Beginners, 2011 (dir. Mike Mills)
Hal: Well, let’s say, when you were little, you always dreamed of some day getting a lion? And you wait and you wait and you wait and you wait and the lion doesn’t come. Then along comes a giraffe. You can be alone or you can be with the giraffe.
Oliver: I’d wait for the lion.
Hal: That’s why I worry about you.
Movie Quote of the Day – Down With Love, 2003 (dir. Peyton Reed)
Catcher Block: You said she was a spinster.
Peter MacMannus: I’ve never used the word “spinster” in my life. Okay, once, when I told my mother it was technically incorrect to call her son a spinster.
Movie Quote of the Day – Shallow Grave, 1994 (dir. Danny Boyle)
Alex Law: When did anyone last say to you these exact words: “You are the sunshine of my life”?
Movie Quote of the Day – A Life Less Ordinary, 1997 (dir. Danny Boyle)
Robert: Right you asshole, I’ve got your daughter here, and I’m gonna send her back in pieces if. . .Oh! I’m sorry, madam. No, I haven’t got your daughter here, I’ve got someone else’s. No, we’re not married. Yes, I’ve read the same thing, it’s very hard to find suitable young men these days. Well, I’m sure your daughter’s very nice, in principle I’ve got no objection to meeting her. . .[Celine hangs up the phone] What is the problem?
New Trailer For Mike Mills’ “Beginners”
I saw the names Ewan McGregor, Christopher Plummer and Mélanie Laurent attached and I was interested. Then I saw the dog in the trailer and now I’m sold.
Roman Polanski’s “The Ghost Writer” Wins Big At The European Film Awards
Polanski’s film topped the 23rd European Film Awards, winning 6 awards, including Best European Film, Director and Actor – Ewan McGregor. Winners and nominees after the cut.
