Monthly Archives: September 2012
Movie Quote of the Day – Forbidden Planet, 1956 (dir. Fred M. Wilcox)
Commander John J. Adams: Whatever you know in here, your other self knows out there.
Dr. Edward Morbius: I’m not a monster, you. . .
Commander John J. Adams: We’re all part monsters in our subconscious, so we have laws and religion!
Site Update: The Contenders
Since today is officially the first day if Autumn, I’ve updated the side column called “The Contenders” with various thoughts of who might get nominated come Oscar. This is just a preliminary list, mostly sight-unseen, based on the pedigrees of the projects. As we get further into “awards season,” I’ll continue to update. For now, I’ll post the list after the cut as well.
Movie Quote of the Day – I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, 1932 (dir. Mervyn LeRoy)
Helen: Jim! Why haven’t you come before?
James Allen: I couldn’t; I was afraid to.
Helen: You could have written! It’s been almost a year since you escaped!
James Allen: But I haven’t escaped. They’re still after me. They’ll always be after me. I’ve had jobs, but I can’t keep them. Something happens. Someone turns up. I hide in rooms all day, travel by night. No friends, no rest, no peace.
Helen: Oh, Jim!
James Allen: Keep moving; that’s all that’s left for me. Forgive me, Helen, I. . .I had to take a chance to see you tonight, just to say goodbye.
Helen: Oh, Jim, it was all going to be so different.
James Allen: It is different. They’ve made it different. I’ve got to go!
Helen: I can’t let you go like this!
James Allen: I have to.
Helen: Can’t you tell me where you’re going?! Will you write? Do you need any money? But you must, Jim! How do you live?!
James Allen: I steal.
From The Warner Archive: Two Offbeat Westerns
If you follow me on Tumblr, y’all know how much I love westerns, so I was really excited to find out about these two newly remastered films from the Warner Archive. The first is a Zapata spaghetti western Un esercito di cinque uomini aka The Five Man Army, from producer/director Italo Zingarelli with a screenplay co-written by master of Italian horror Dario Argento (who also co-wrote Once Upon a Time in the West). A Zapata spaghetti western, fyi, is an Italian western from the late-1960s/early-1970s that is set in Mexico and usually they have political (i.e. dealing with the revolution, etc.) themes. The second film is 1972’s The Wrath of God directed by Ralph Nelson (not to be confused with Werner Herzog’s similarly named film, which also came out in 1972).
Movie Quote of the Day – Caddyshack, 1980 (dir. Harold Ramis)
Carl Spackler: Incredible Cinderella story. This unknown, comes outta nowhere to lead the pack at Augusta. He’s at his final hole. He’s about 450 yards away. He’s gonna hit about a two iron, I think. Oh, he got outta that. The crowd is standing on its feet here at Augusta. The normally reserved Augusta crowd, going wild, for this young Cinderella, who’s come outta nowhere. He’s got about 350 yards left. He’s gonna hit about a five iron, it looks like, dontcha think? He’s got a beautiful back swing. That’s it! Oh! He got outta that one! He’s gotta be pleased with that! The crowd is on its feet here. He’s a Cinderella boy. Tears in his eyes, I guess, as he lines up this last shot. He’s got about 195 yards left. He’s gonna. . .it looks like he’s got an eight iron. This crowd has gone deadly silent. A Cinderella story. Outta nowhere. Former greenskeeper. And now about to become the Masters champion. It looks like a mirac. . .it’s in the hole! It’s in the hole!
Movie Quote of the Day – In The Mood For Love, 2000 (dir. Wong Kar-Wai)
Su Li-zhen Chan: Am I hopeless?
Chow Mo-wan: Not really.
[beat]
Chow Mo-wan: I won’t see you again.
Movie Quote of the Day – Playing By Heart, 1998 (dir. Willard Carroll)
Max: I uh… I like your tight body. It looks like it would do what I tell it.
Joan: What?
Max: I said. . .
Joan: No, I heard what you said. And I’ll admit ‘What?’ was a rather banal, cliché, noncolorful response. What I really meant to say was: ‘Why don’t you do the world a big fat fucking favor and crawl back into your mother’s womb?’
Movie Quote of the Day – Ninotchka, 1939 (dir. Ernst Lubitsch)
Iranoff: What a charming idea of Moscow to surprise us with a lady Comrade.
Kopalski: If we had known, we would have greeted you with flowers.
Ninotchka: Don’t make an issue of my womanhood.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Usual Suspects, 1995 (dir. Bryan Singer)
Verbal Kint: Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say his father was German. Nobody believed he was real. Nobody ever saw him or knew anybody that ever worked directly for him, but to hear Kobayashi tell it, anybody could have worked for Soze. You never knew. That was his power. The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.
Movie Quote of the Day – Angel Heart, 1987 (dir. Alan Parker)
Louis Cyphre: You know, some religions think that the egg is the symbol of the soul, did you know that?
Harry Angel: No, I didn’t know that.
Louis Cyphre: Would you like an egg?
Harry Angel: No thank you, I got a thing about chickens.
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