Yearly Archives: 2013
Movie Quote of the Day – Mr. Arkadin, 1955 (dir. Orson Welles)
Mily: You know, you’re kind of cute in a weird sort of a way. After a person gets over being scared of you. Why’d you grow that awful beard?
Gregory Arkadin: To scare people with.
Movie Quote of the Day – Witness for the Prosecution, 1957 (dir. Billy Wilder)
Leonard Vole: How about a cup of coffee? I’ve got a tin of coffee.
Christine Helm: How much?
Leonard Vole: I don’t know. What’s the rate of exchange?
Christine Helm: Depends whether it’s fresh coffee or powdered coffee.
Leonard Vole: It’s instant coffee.
Christine Helm: Ohhh.
Movie Quote of the Day – Roman Holiday, 1953 (dir. William Wyler)
Princess Ann: Can I have a silk nightgown with rosebuds on it?
Joe Bradley: I’m afraid you’ll have to rough it tonight. . .in these.
Princess Ann: Pajamas?
Joe Bradley: Sorry Honey, but I haven’t worn a nightgown in years.
From The Warner Archive: Forbidden Hollywood Vol. 6
The Forbidden Hollywood collections have been bringing us some of the greatest pre-code films to DVD for the first time for almost a decade. Originally released through the TCM Vault Collection, the last few editions have come from the Warner Archive Collection. Vol. 6 has been out for a few weeks now, but I was finally able to sit down and watch the four films included: The Wet Parade, Downstairs, Mandalay and Massacre. It’s a pretty great collection – all of films I hadn’t heard of before. Vol. 7 will be coming out shortly (and I will hopefully report on that collection as well). After the cut, I’ll briefly discuss the four films that are included in this excellent manufactured on demand set.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Great Lie, 1941 (dir. Edmund Goulding)
Sandra Kovac: I’m not one of you anemic creatures who can get nourishment from a lettuce leaf – I’m a musician, I’m an artist! I have zest and appetite and I like food! I’ve been lying awake thinking about food and now I’m gonna have it!
Movie Quote of the Day – Dark Victory, 1939 (dir. Edmund Goulding)
Judith: I’ve never taken orders from anyone. As long as I live, I’ll never take orders from anyone. I’ll tell you something else. I’m well, absolutely well. I’m young and strong and nothing can touch me.
TCM Film Festival and April 2013 New-To-Me Films
April was a crazy month for me. I watched more films than I had in any other month this year (though not as much as some months in 2011). I also went to the TCM Classic Film Festival for the third year in a row, during which I was featured in a promo that aired on TCM over the weekend. You can watch it here. That said, I watched A LOT of film this month and a lot of them were in theatres. Oh, I also saw two of my all-time favorite films on the big screen at the Castro Theatre this month: Pretty in Pink and The Last Unicorn. After the cut is all of the films I watched this month. I have cheated below and picked seven films to talk about instead of the usually five. I make my own rules!
Movie Quote of the Day – Dear Heart, 1964 (dir. Delbert Mann)
Harry Mork: Patrick, you just can’t go around sleeping with girls at all.
Patrick: Haven’t you ever?
Movie Quote of the Day – Dogville, 2003 (dir. Lars von Trier)
Grace: There’s a family with kids. Do the kids and make the mother watch. Tell her you’ll stop if she can hold back her tears. I owe her that. [beat] I’m afraid she cries a little too easily.
Movie Quote of the Day – White Oleander, 2002 (dir. Peter Kosminsky)
Ingrid: Love humiliates you. Hatred cradles you. It’s soothing.
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