Monthly Archives: February 2013
Movie Quote of the Day – Love and Death, 1975 (dir. Woody Allen)
Boris: The question is: have I learned anything about life? Only that… only that human beings are divided into mind and body. The mind embraces all the nobler aspirations, like poetry and philosophy, but the body has all the fun. The important thing, I think, is not to be bitter. You know, if it turns out that there IS a God, I don’t think that He’s evil. I think that the worst you can say about Him is that, basically, He’s an underachiever. After all, you know, there are worse things in life than death. I mean, if you’ve ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman, you know exactly what I mean. The key here, I think, is to… to not think of death as an end, but think of it more as a very effective way of cutting down on your expenses. Regarding love, heh, you know, what can you say? It’s not the quantity of your sexual relations that count. It’s the quality. On the other hand, if the quantity drops below once every eight months, I would definitely look into it. Well, that’s about it for me folks. Goodbye.
Movie Quote of the Day – Bell Book and Candle, 1958 (dir. Richard Quine)
Gillian ‘Gil’ Holroyd: Oh, Pye, Pye, Pyewacket. What’s the matter with me? Why do I feel this way? It’s such a rut. The same old thing day after day. Same old people. I know I’m feeling sorry for myself but it’s true. Why don’t you give me something for Christmas, Pye?
Pyewacket: Meow.
Gillian ‘Gil’ Holroyd: What would I like?
Pyewacket: Meow.
Gillian ‘Gil’ Holroyd: I’d like to do something different. I’d like to meet someone different.
Pyewacket: Meow.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Fountain, 2006 (dir. Darren Aronofsky)
Tom Creo: All these years, all these memories, there was you. You. . .you pulled me through time.
Oscar Vault Monday – Four Weddings and a Funeral, 1994 (dir. Mike Newell)
I’m pretty sure I’ve seen Four Weddings and a Funeral at least forty times. I used to have it on VHS tape and I would watch it A LOT as a child. Re-watching it for the first time in years recently, I realized just how much it affected me as a person. I love when I go back and look at the things I loved as a child and realize that even if I didn’t realize it, a film really impacted me. I’ll go into more details about how what I mean later in this piece. The film was only nominated for two Academy Awards: Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay. The only other film I can think of that was nominated for so few Oscar, but was in the running for Best Picture is the 1931 winner Grand Hotel, which was only nominated for Best Picture. Richard Curtis lost the Best Original Screenplay award to Tarantino for Pulp Fiction. The other films nominated for Best Picture that year were Pulp Fiction, Quiz Show, The Shawshank Redemption and winner Forrest Gump. Despite its few Oscar nominations, it received nine BAFTA nominations, winning four, included Best Film: Best Original Screenplay (lost to Pulp Fiction), Best Music (lost to Breakbeat), Best Supporting Actor Simon Callow, John Hannah (lost to Samuel L. Jackson for Pulp Fiction), Best Supporting Actress Charlotte Coleman, Kristin Scott Thomas (she won), Best Actor Hugh Grant (won), Best Director (won) and Best Film (won).
Movie Quote of the Day – Suddenly, Last Summer, 1959 (dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
Catherine Holly: Is that what love is? Using people? And maybe that’s what hate is – not being able to use people.
Movie Quote of the Day – Citizen Ruth, 1996 (dir. Alexander Payne)
Clinic Nurse: Let me just ask you something, Ruth. Have you ever really taken the time to think about what it means to have an abortion?
Ruth: Yeah, um, it means that I don’t have to go to jail and it means I don’t have to have another baby and it means that I can start getting my life together …
Clinic Nurse: I, I, I, I, I. Don’t you think that’s all just a little selfish?
Movie Quote of the Day – Another Woman, 1988 (dir. Woody Allen)
Marion: I closed the book and felt this strange mixture of wistfulness and hope and I wondered if a memory is something you have or something you’ve lost.
Enter To Win a $25 Gift card from Fandango
The lovely people at Fox are offering a $25 gift card to Fandango (you buy movie tickets from them, for those of you not in the know). All you have to do is tweet your best John McClane inspired philosophical life statement. Make sure you use the hashtag: #BookofJohnMcClane and then leave a link to the tweet as a comment on this post. I will pick my favorite tweet and that person will win the gift card.
[edit] winner is Eric. Congrats!
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Celebrate An Endless Summer With Social Cinema
Hopefully you’ve had a chance to check out the films I’ve curated for Milyoni’s Social Cinema over the last few weeks. They are a one-of-a-kind way to experience watching a film – almost like I am right there with you. One more film has been added – the seminal surf film The Endless Summer. So if you are stuck in that awful blizzard or just want to feel like you are catching some wave, why not give it a shot? It was a load of fun to curate and I promise you will have a blast following these two dudes on their mission to follow the summer waves across the globe.
You can watch all of the films right here on Facebook.
Movie Quote of the Day – Grumpy Old Men, 1993 (dir. Donald Petrie)
Ariel Truax: Gay or straight?
John Gustafson: Huh?
Ariel Truax: Heterosexual or homosexual?
John Gustafson: Geez Louise!
Ariel Truax: Well, it’s a perfectly legitimate question.
John Gustafson: Well, maybe in California, but here in Minnesota. . .Oho-ho-ho-ho!
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