Monthly Archives: March 2011
Movie Quote of the Day – The Hangover, 2009 (dir. Todd Phillips)
Stu: You fucking calm down! He drugged us. I lost a tooth. I married a whore.
Alan: How dare you! She’s a nice lady.
Stu: You are such a fucking moron.
Alan: Your language is offensive.
Stu: Fuck you!
Movie Quote of the Day – Gun Crazy, 1950 (dir. Joseph H. Lewis)
Bart: You were going to kill that man!
Annie Laurie Starr: He’d have killed us if he had the chance!
Movie Quote of the Day – Walk The Line, 2005 (dir. James Mangold)
Johnny Cash: Tell me you don’t love me.
June Carter: I don’t love you.
Johnny Cash: You’re a liar.
Movie Quote of the Day – Valley Girl, 1983 (dir. Martha Coolidge)
Randy: Fuck off, for sure, like totally!
RIP Dame Elizabeth Taylor
I can’t remember life without Elizabeth Taylor. I’ve always loved her. I think for the longest time it was mostly because we both had brown hair and blue eyes (it’s amazing how powerful that kind of connection can be when you are six years old). Over the last year or so I have seen about 9 of her films (prior to that I think I’d seen five others) and I’ve grown to appreciate her talent. She was an amazing woman on and off the screen and she will be sorely missed.
Movie Quote of the Day – Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, 1966 (dir. Mike Nichols)
Martha: I swear, if you existed, I’d divorce you.
Site Update: The Japanese Cinema Blogathon, Some Contenders and More
A few things
- The Japanese Cinema Blogathon has concluded. I think it was a wonderful success. We had 63 contributed posts over seven days. I’m not sure how much money we raised, but based just on the clicks to the donation page from my site alone, I think we raised quite a bit. I hope everyone who participated had fun. I know I did!
- I’ve added some new names and films to the “The Contenders” list on the right side of the site. This is basically the films I think have a good chance being nominated in various categories. This is all sight-unseen, and based on the pedigree of the films.
- Oscar Vault Monday is about a month away from its 1 year Anniversary! There were two weeks at the beginning of the feature’s inception wherein I made no posts, so when it does reach the 1-year milestone, it will only be 50 posts. But that’s still quite a bit. More news on that as the date approaches.
- I just finished reading Sidney Lumet’s Making Movies. It is a fabulous book and I recommend it to anyone who loves films.
- On a personal note, my mother is raising money for the Avon “In It To End It” Breast Cancer Walk in Washington D.C. If you’d like to contribute, you can do so here (every little bit helps!)
- I signed up for a Formspring.me account, so if you have any questions or comments or anything that need a longer answer, feel free to drop me a line.
- Lastly, as many of you know I watch a lot of films. Well, I am going to try to review at least one film a week for YAM Magazine. You can see my reviews here.
Movie Quote of the Day – White Heat, 1949 (dir. Raoul Walsh)
Cody Jarrett: Made it, Ma! Top of the world!
Oscar Vault Monday – Hannah and Her Sisters, 1986 (dir. Woody Allen)
I remember distinctly the first time I saw this film: it was about two days before I was moving away from San Francisco (that story is a whole other kettle of fish) and it came on PBS and I decided I would watch it. I was blown away. At that point I think I’d only seen about 8 other Woody Allen films (I’ve seen 31 now) and I just loved this film to pieces. I rewatched it again Saturday as part of TCM’s The Essentials and I fell in love with it all over again. Woody Allen won his only sole Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for this film (his only other writing win was for Annie Hall, which he shared with Marshall Brickman). The film was nominated for seven Academy Awards, winning three: Best Art Direction, Best Film Editing, Best Supporting Actor Michael Caine (won), Best Supporting Actress Dianne Wiest (won), Best Original Screenplay (won), Best Director, Best Picture. The films also nominated for Best Picture that year were Children of a Lesser God, The Mission, A Room with a View and winner Platoon.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Third Man, 1949 (dir. Carol Reed)
Holly Martins: Heard of Harry Lime?
Crabbin: Well, I’ve heard of him, of course, but I don’t exactly know him.
Holly Martins: I was going to stay with him, but he died Thursday.
Crabbin: Goodness, that’s awkward.
Holly Martins: Is that what you say to people after death? “Goodness that’s awkward…”
the diary of a film history fanatic 