Monthly Archives: December 2013
Movie Quote of the Day – All the Fine Young Cannibals, 1960 (dir. Michael Anderson)
Salome: You gotta love your family.
Chad: Like you love yours?
Salome: Sure, I love ’em.
Chad: Do ya?
Salome: Well, I want to kill them all the time, but that’s only natural. But, sure, I love ’em.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Reader, 2008 (dir. Stephen Daldry)
Michael: Have you spent a lot of time thinking about the past?
Hana: You mean, with you?
Michael: No. No. I didn’t mean with me.
Hana: Before the trial I never thought about the past. I never had to.
Michael: And now? What do you feel now?
Hana: It doesn’t matter what I feel. It doesn’t matter what I think. The dead are still dead.
Michael: I wasn’t sure what you’d learned.
Hana: I have learned, kid. I’ve learned to read.
Movie Quote of the Day – Before Midnight, 2013 (dir. Richard Linklater)
Jesse: I’m okay with you being a complicated human being! I don’t wanna live a boring life where two people own each other, where two people are institutionalized in a box that others created – because that is a bunch of stifling bullshit!
Movie Quote of the Day – The Awful Truth, 1937 (dir. Leo McCarey)
Jerry Warriner: What did you tell him? That our cars broke down and we had to spend the night at your apartment because it was the taxi strike?
Lucy Warriner: No, no, I didn’t tell him that. I told him the truth. And, strangely enough, he believed me.
Jerry Warriner: Oh.
Lucy Warriner: Yes, it was very refreshing.
Movie Quote of the Day – Jarhead, 2005 (dir. Sam Mendes)
D.I. Fitch: What the fuck are you even doing here?
Anthony ‘Swoff’ Swofford: Sir, I got lost on the way to college, sir.
Yesterday Was The Site’s 4th Anniversary. . .
. . .and I totally missed it.
And I don’t have any fancy graphics or any big long essays about how great this year was (even though it really was!). But I do have this video:
Also, here are some highlights from this last year of blogging/my life:
- Went to New York City and recorded the Oscars podcast with Ryan from The Matinee.
- Went to TCMFF for the third year, did great interviews, was on TCM.
- GOT A JOB AT WARNER BROS.
- Moved to Los Angeles.
- Met William Friedkin, David Lynch, Paul Schrader, Shirley Jones, Clu Gulager and many other awesome people.
- Graduated with my MFA in Screenwriting (this just happened).
Things that will be happening:
- Oscar Vault Monday will come back soon!
- Hopefully more other writing.
- Maybe sell a screenplay? That would be nice.
I’m so glad you all have been along for the ride for the last few years. I’m sorry I dropped the ball and posted this thing so late!
Movie Quote of the Day – I’m Not Rappaport, 1996 (dir. Herb Gardner)
Midge Carter: I just got to hang in till I get my Christmas tips. They just gotta keep me four more
months–
Nat Moyer: Christmas?. Compromises?. How do you think we lost Poland?.
Midge Carter: Poland?.
Nat Moyer: Stalin sits at Yalta with a twinkle in his eye. Who knew?
Midge Carter: Stalin?.
Nat Moyer: Danforth has no right to dismiss you before your time.
Midge Carter: Man, I am eighty-one!
Nat Moyer: After we finish with him, tomorrow we go after the rest of his kangaroo court.
Midge Carter: Why, Lord?. Why are you doing this to me?. Lord, I ask you for help, and you send me a weird, commie, blind man!
Movie Quote of the Day – The Accidental Tourist, 1988 (dir. Lawrence Kasdan)
Julian: Call it something catchy. The Reluctant Tourist. And you are the fella to write it.
Macon: But I hate to travel.
Julian: I thought so, but so do businessmen. They would rather be at home in their living rooms. So you will be helping them
to pretend that that’s where they are. What do you think? Your logo. You get it? While armchair travelers
dream of going places…traveling armchairs dream of staying put.
Toronto Film Critics Association Names “Inside Llweyn Davis” Best Picture
BEST PICTURE: “Inside Llewyn Davis”
Runners-up: “Her”, “12 Years a Slave”
BEST ACTOR: Oscar Isaac, “Inside Llewyn Davis”
Runners-up: Chiwetel Ejiofor, “12 Years a Slave”, Matthew McConaughey, “Dallas Buyers Club”
BEST ACTRESS: Cate Blanchett, “Blue Jasmine”
Runners-up: Julie Delpy, “Before Midnight”, Greta Gerwig, “Frances Ha”
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Jared Leto, “Dallas Buyers Club”
Runners-up: Michael Fassbender, “12 Years a Slave”, James Franco, “Spring Breakers”
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Jennifer Lawrence, “American Hustle”
Runners-up: Lupita Nyong’o, “12 Years a Slave”, June Squibb, “Nebraska”
BEST DIRECTOR: Alfonso Cuarón, “Gravity”
Runners-up: Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, “Inside Llewyn Davis”, Steve McQueen, “12 Years a Slave”
BEST SCREENPLAY, ADAPTED OR ORIGINAL: Spike Jonze, “Her”
Runners-up: Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke & Julie Delpy, “Before Midnight”, Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, “Inside Llewyn Davis”
BEST FIRST FEATURE: “Neighboring Sounds”, directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho
Runners-up: “Fruitvale Station”, directed by Ryan Coogler, “In a World …”, directed by Lake Bell
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE: “The Wind Rises”
Runners-up: “The Croods”, “Frozen”
BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM: “A Touch of Sin” (Films We Like)
Runners-up: “Blue Is the Warmest Color”, “The Hunt”
BMO ALLAN KING DOCUMENTARY AWARD: “The Act of Killing”
Runners-up: “Leviathan”, “Tim’s Vermeer”
ROGERS BEST CANADIAN FILM AWARD FINALISTS:
“The Dirties”
“Gabrielle”
“Watermark”
Movie Quote of the Day – The Last Emperor, 1987 (dir. Bernardo Bertolucci)
Reginald Fleming ‘R.J.’ Johnston: Words are important.
Pu Yi, at 15: Why are words important?
Reginald Fleming ‘R.J.’ Johnston: If you cannot say what you mean, your majesty, you will never mean what you say and a gentleman should always mean what he says.
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