Monthly Archives: July 2012
Movie Quote of the Day – Footlight Parade, 1933 (dir. Lloyd Bacon)
Nan Prescott: I’ve got an idea.
Chester Kent: Keep it to yourself, or the wife’ll cash in on it.
Nan Prescott: And when I’ve got an idea, I do something about it.
Chester Kent: Most dames do.
The 17th Annual San Francisco Silent Film Festival
In case you missed it on Facebook, Tumblr and Twitter (I’m not sure how many of you just subscribe to these updates and don’t follow me elsewhere; and if that’s the case, why don’t you?!), I have been covering the 17th Annual San Francisco Silent Film Festival for YAM Magazine all weekend. Here are all my posts:
Movie Quote of the Day – Gentleman’s Agreement, 1947 (dir. Elia Kazan)
Anne Dettrey: Every morning, I ask my mirror who’s the most brilliant of all.
Phil Green: And what does the mirror say?
Anne Dettrey: Well, that mirror ain’t no gentleman.
Movie Quote of the Day – Moon, 2009 (dir. Duncan Jones)
GERTY: I hope life on Earth is everything you remember it to be.
Sam Bell: Thanks, GERTY. [beat] Are you going to be OK?
GERTY: Of course.
Movie Quote of the Day – Höstsonaten (Autumn Sonata), 1978 (dir. Ingmar Bergman)
Eva: A mother and a daughter–what a terrible combination of feelings and confusion and destruction! Everything is possible and everything is done in the name of love and solicitude. The mother’s injuries are to be handed down to the daughter, the mother’s disappointments are to be paid for by the daughter, the mother’s unhappiness is to be the daughter’s unhappiness. It’s as if the umbilical cord had never been cut. The daughter’s grief is the mother’s secret pleasure.
Movie Quote of the Day – Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, 1989 (dir. Steven Spielberg)
Sallah: Please, what does it always mean, this. . .this “Junior”?
Professor Henry Jones: That’s his name. . .[points to self] Henry Jones. . .[points to Indy] Junior.
Indiana Jones: I like “Indiana.”
Professor Henry Jones: We named the *dog* Indiana.
Marcus Brody: May we go home now, please?
Sallah: The dog? [laughing] You are named after the dog? AHAHAHA!
Movie Quote of the Day – Freaks, 1932 (dir. Tod Browning)
Hercules: They’re going to make you one of them, my peeeeeacock!
Movie Quote of the Day – The King and I, 1956 (dir. Walter Lang)
King Mongkut of Siam: When I shall sit, you shall sit. When I shall kneel, you shall kneel. Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera!
Movie Quote of the Day – Venus, 2006 (dir. Roger Michell)
Maurice: I am about to die and I know nothing about myself.
Ian: You have been loved, though, Maurice. You’ve been adored.
Maurice: Yes. And so have you, Ian, a little bit. Except you didn’t always notice it.
Movie Quote of the Day – Philadelphia, 1993 (dir. Jonathan Demme)
Andrew Beckett: Congratulations, Counselor.
Joe Miller: Congratulations?
Andrew Beckett: You’ve survived what I assume to be your first gay party intact.
Joe Miller: Let me tell you something, Andrew, when you’re brought up the way I am, the way most people are in this country, there’s not a whole lot of discussion about homosexuality or what do you call it, alternate lifestyles. As a kid you’re taught that queers are funny, queers are weird, queers dress up like their mother. That they’re afraid to fight, that they’re a danger to little kids and that all they want to do is get into your pants. [beat] That pretty much sums up the general thinking out there if you want to know the truth about it.
Andrew Beckett: Thank you for sharing that with me.
Joe Miller: You’re very welcome.
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