Monthly Archives: October 2012
Movie Quote of the Day – Plan 9 from Outer Space, 1959 (dir. Edward D. Wood Jr.)
Col. Edwards: Is the, uh, girl safe?
Lt. Harper: Mrs. Trent you’d better stay with the car.
Mrs. Trent: Stay here alone? Not on your life.
Lt. Harper: Modern women. . .
Col. Edwards: Yeah, they been that way all down through the ages. Especially in a spot like this.
Movie Quote of the Day – Carnival of Souls, 1962 (dir. Herk Harvey)
Mary Henry: It’s funny. . .the world is so different in the daylight. In the dark, your fantasies get so out of hand. But in the daylight everything falls back into place again.
Oscar Vault Monday – Ghost, 1990 (dir. Jerry Zucker)
I love this movie way too much. It has always been a favorite of mine and I think it always will be. I just feel like it is one of the most passionate films ever made. I think it has aged well (yes, even the special effects) and I think that is because of the strength of the story and the performances of all the actors involved. Ghost was ranked #19 on AFI’s 100 Years. . .100 Passions list and was nominated for five Academy Awards, winning two: Best Original Score (Maurice Jarre), Best Film Editing (Walter Murch), Best Original Screenplay (won), Best Supporting Actress and Best Picture. The other films nominated for Best Picture that year were Awakenings, The Godfather Part III, Goodfellas and winner Dances With Wolves. There will be quite a few spoilers for this film if you haven’t seen it, so beware.
Movie Quote of the Day – Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, 1931 (dir. Rouben Mamoulian)
Mr. Hyde: Free at last! Mad, Lanyon? Carew? You hypocrites, deniers of life. If you could see me now. . .what would you think? Ahahahahaha!
Movie Quote of the Day – The Hunger, 1983 (dir. Tony Scott)
John: Forever…?
Miriam: What?
John: Forever and ever?
Movie Quote of the Day – Mr. & Mrs. Smith, 1941 (dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
Ann: If you had it all to do over again, would you still have married me?
David: Honestly, no.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Holiday, 2006 (dir. Nancy Meyers)
Arthur Abbott: You know what I’ve been asking myself all night?
Iris: What? Why I’m bothering you with all these questions?
Arthur Abbott: I’m wondering why a beautiful girl like you would go to a strangers’ house for their Christmas Vacation, and on top of that spend Saturday night with an old cock-up like me.
Iris: Well, I just wanted to get away from all the people I see all the time!… Well, not all the people… one person. I wanted to get away from one… guy.[sobs] An ex-boyfriend who just got engaged and forgot to tell me.
Arthur Abbott: So, he’s a schmuck.
Iris: As a matter of fact, he is… a huge schmuck. How did you know?
Arthur Abbott: He let you go. This is not a hard one to figure out. Iris, in the movies we have leading ladies and we have the best friend. You, I can tell, are a leading lady, but for some reason you are behaving like the best friend.
Iris: You’re so right. You’re supposed to be the leading lady of your own life, for god’s sake! Arthur, I’ve been going to a therapist for three years, and she’s never explained anything to me that well. That was brilliant. Brutal, but brilliant.
Movie Quote of the Day – A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, 1966 (dir. Richard Lester)
Pseudolus: I say! You are in need of a soothsayer.
Erronius: How did you know?
Pseudolus: I’d be a fine soothsayer if I didn’t.
Books on Film: Jaws: Memories From Martha’s Vineyard
This is my first foray into book reviews, so bear with me. I’m also going to tell you straight away that I have not read through all 312 pages of this amazing book, but what I have read has been incredible. Now out from Titan Books is a second edition of Matt Taylor’s Jaws: Memories From Martha’s Vineyard, which recounts the making of Steven Spielberg’s blockbuster Jaws from December 16th, 1973 all the way through the premier of the film on June 20th, 1975.
Movie Quote of the Day – Make Way For Tomorrow, 1937 (dir. Leo McCarey)
Barkley Cooper: In case. . .I don’t see you again. . .
Lucy Cooper: What?
Barkley Cooper: Well, anything might happen. The train could jump off the tracks. If it should happen that I don’t see you again, it’s been very nice knowing you, Miss Breckenridge.
Lucy Cooper: Bark, that’s probably the prettiest speech you ever made. And in case I don’t see you ag. . .well, for a little while. I just want to tell you, it’s been lovely, every bit of it, the whole fifty years. I’d sooner have been your wife, Bark, than anyone else on Earth.
Barkley Cooper: Thank you, Lucy.
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