Yearly Archives: 2011
Movie Quote of the Day – Giant, 1956 (dir. George Stevens)
Leslie Benedict: Money isn’t all, you know, Jett.
Jett Rink: [laughs] Not when you got it.
A Look At Week Two of TCM’s 31 Days of Oscar
So how did your viewings fair during the first week of TCM’s 31 Days of Oscar? Before I go to bed tonight I hope to have seen about 30 or films (blame the DVR). This coming week has some really great stuff scheduled. Especially on Saturday; they will be showing every sing film nominated for Best Picture for 1939, widely considered the greatest year in cinema. I’m excited for that day, though I will admit I’ve only not seen two of those films. But hey, after Saturday, I’ll’ve seen them all!
Oscar Vault Monday – The Divorcee, 1930 (dir. Robert Z. Leonard)
While I think the Academy definitely made the right choice with their Best Picture winner for the 1929/1930 season (this was before they gave out their awards according to calendar years), there were a few films that year that are way too much fun to ever be forgotten. One of those films was the 1930 film The Divorcee, starring “The Queen of MGM” – Norma Shearer. The film was nominated for four Academy Awards, winning one:Best Writing, Best Actress Norma Shearer (won), Best Director, Best Picture. The other nominees that year were The Big House, Disraeli, The Love Parade and winner All Quite on the Western Front.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Pride of the Yankees, 1942 (dir. Sam Wood)
I have been walking onto ball fields for sixteen years, and I’ve never received anything but kindness and encouragement from you fans. I have had the great honor to have played with these great veteran ballplayers on my left – Murderers’ Row, our championship team of 1927. I have had the further honor of living with and playing with these men on my right – the Bronx Bombers, the Yankees of today. I have been given fame and undeserved praise by the boys up there behind the wire in the press box, my friends, the sportswriters. I have worked under the two greatest managers of all time, Miller Huggins and Joe McCarthy. I have a mother and father who fought to give me health and a solid background in my youth. I have a wife, a companion for life, who has shown me more courage than I ever knew. People all say that I’ve had a bad break. But today…today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.
Movie Quote of the Day – Sense and Sensibility, 1995 (dir. Ang Lee)
Marianne: No—he is not so unworthy as you think him.
Elinor: Not so unworthy! Did he tell you that he loved you?
Marianne: Yes. No—never absolutely. It was every day implied, but never declared. Sometimes I thought it had been, but it never was. He has broken no vow.
Elinor: He has broken faith with all of us, he made us all believe he loved you!
Marianne: He did! He did—he loved me as I loved him.
Christopher Nolan Wins Best Original Screenplay At WGA
This could mean good things for Inception come Oscar night. But like I said earlier, The King’s Speech was ineligible due to David Seidler not being a member of the WGA. So really, Oscar night wills still be a showdown between these two screenplays.
Aaron Sorkin Wins At WGA, USC Scripter Awards
Aaron Sorkin can add a few more feathers to his cap on his way to the Oscars later this month, winning Best Adapted Screenplay at the Writers Guild of America awards. The Social Network screenwriter also won the top prize at the USC Scripter Awards, which gives its prize to the best adapted screenplay of the year. Sorkin sure seems like he cannot lose come Oscar night; he’s won almost every single award he’s been nominated for.
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Movie Quote of the Day – Dead Poets Society, 1989 (dir. by Peter Weir)
Todd Anderson: O Captain, my Captain!
Mr. Nolan: Sit down, Mr. Anderson. Do you hear me? Sit down, sit down!
Knox Overstreet: O Captain, my Captain!
Mr. Nolan: Mr. Overstreet, I warned you, sit down!
[rest of class joins in]
John Keating: Thank you boys, thank you.
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