Monthly Archives: August 2013
Movie Quote of the Day – Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould, 1993 (dir. François Girard)
Glenn Gould: I don’t know what the effective ratio would be but I’ve always had a sort of intuition that for every hour you spend with other human beings, you need X number of hours alone. Now what that X represents, I don’t really know, whether it be 2 and 7/8ths or 7 and 2/8ths, but it’s a substantial ratio.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Year of Living Dangerously, 1982 (dir. Peter Weir)
Guy Hamilton: Billy, you’re a professional. Is that pornography or art?
Billy Kwan: If it’s in focus, it’s pornography, if it’s out of focus, it’s art.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Fighter, 2010 (dir. David O. Russell)
Alice Ward: Hello.
Mickey Ward: Alice, this is Charlene.
Charlene Fleming: Hi.
Alice Ward: I’ve heard a lot about you.
Charlene Fleming: Really? I’ve heard a lot about you, too.
Alice Ward: What’s that supposed to mean?
Charlene Fleming: Same thing you meant.
Oscar Vault Monday – Dog Day Afternoon, 1975 (dir. Sidney Lumet)
I think the first time I saw this film was on a hot August afternoon. I do know it was sometime in 2008 because it was the summer I moved to San Francisco the first time and I did a lot of Netflixing that summer. It was right around the same time I saw Sunset Blvd. for the first time. It was a good summer. This is a film just chock full of talent and energy and heart and soul and gravity and gaiety. It’s got everything. If you Google around, you can read about the events on which it was based; I won’t be discussing them here. The film was nominated for six Academy Awards, winning one: Best Film Editing (for Dede Allen, who was nominated for threes Oscars, though she never won and was in and of herself a ig player in the Hollywood New Wave), Best Supporting Actor Chris Sarandon, Best Actor Al Pacino, Best Original Screenplay Frank Pierson (won; more on this in a bit), Best Director and Best Picture. The other films nominated for Best Picture that year were Barry Lyndon, Jaws, Nashville and winner One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. There will be many spoilers after the cut.
Movie Quote of the Day – How To Deal, 2003 (dir. Clare Kilner)
Marion Smith: Lydia, the man of your dreams is sitting out there right now waiting to hear from you. Speak to him.
Lydia Martin: I don’t think the perfect man is gonna want to hear what I have to say.
Marion Smith: Sure he does, Sweetie. Speak to him. Go on.
Lydia Martin: I’m sorry, Mr. Perfect, but if you’re waiting for me, it’s gonna be a hell of a long wait. See, I’ve had it with men like you. I think it’s terrific that you have a great job, and you’re sensitive to the needs of others, and you jog three times a week to keep the belly at bay. But the second some silicon-breasted, butt-kissing, airhead climber half your age comes along, you can’t keep your pants zipped. Well, fuck you! That’s right, Mr. Middle-age, think-you’re-a-big-shot, phony asshole. You ain’t gettin’ any from me.
Movie Quote of the Day – Les enfants du paradis (Children of Paradise), 1945 (dir. Marcel Carné)
Baptiste: I love you. Garance, do you love me?
Garance: You talk like a child. People love that way in books, in dreams. Not in real life.
Baptiste: Dreams, life. . .they’re the same. Else life’s not worth living. But it’s not life I love. It’s you.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Tourist, 2010 (dir. Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck)
Frank Taylor: Fuck!. . .you’re ravenous.
Elise: Do you mean ‘ravishing’?
Frank Taylor: I do.
Elise: You’re ravenous.
Frank Taylor: I am.
Movie Quote of the Day – Ordinary People, 1980 (dir. Robert Redford)
Jeannine: What kind of music do you like?
Conrad “Con” Jarrett: Oh, uh. . .modern jazz. I like folk rock. . .spoon on a glass.
Jeannine: Spoon on a glass? Oh, you mean, like, table spoons? Oh dear. Why do I ask dumb questions? I’m just showing off. Why is it so hard the first time you talk to somebody?
Conrad “Con” Jarrett: You make it look easy.
Jeannine: Really?
Movie Quote of the Day – Changing Lanes, 2002 (dir. Roger Mitchell)
Doyle Gipson: So, now what?
Gavin Banek: I’m going to dinner with my wife. . .her parents. And this weekend, I’m gonna go look at a boat. And then on Monday, I’m gonna come back in here and go to work. And then magically this whole incredible day just somehow. . .becomes a memory. It’s like you go to the beach. You go down to the water. It’s a little cold. You’re not sure you want to go in. There’s a pretty girl standing next to you. She doesn’t want to go in either. She sees you, and you know that if you just asked her her name, you would leave with her. Forget your life, whoever you came with, and leave the beach with her. And after that day, you remember. Not every day, every week… she comes back to you. It’s the memory of another life you could have had. Today is that girl.
Movie Quote of the Day – Shopgirl, 2005 (dir. Steve Martin)
Mirabelle: Are we going in?
Jeremy Kraft: Go in? Oh, no. I just thought we’d look at it.
Mirabelle: So. . .we would just sit here, then?
Jeremy Kraft: Yeah, or walk around. This place is called City Walk. It got eight out of ten in my date book. It’s not called “City-Go-and-See-a-Movie”. Tickets are, like, ten bucks too, so. . .
the diary of a film history fanatic 