Monthly Archives: April 2014
Movie Quote of the Day – An Unmarried Woman, 1978 (dir. Paul Mazursky)
Erica: You know what I did yesterday? I threw out a whole new jar of blackberry jam. Martin loved blackberry jam. I think the problem was that I didn’t do things as myself, you know? I did things as this Martin & Erica, Martin & Erica. It wasn’t his fault. I liked it.
Saul: Saul & Erica will be different from Martin & Erica.
Erica: You wanna see other women?
Saul: I want you.
Erica: You’re free to.
Saul: I don’t want to.
Erica: Then don’t.
Saul: Do you want to see other men?
Erica: Not today.
Saul: I’m getting a headache.
Movie Quote of the Day – Empire Records, 1995 (dir. Allan Moyle)
A.J.: Lucas, do you think it’s possible for a person to be in love with someone else and not even know it?
Lucas: In this life there are nothing but possibilities.
Female Filmmaker Friday: Girlfriends, 1978 (dir. Claudia Weill)
I first saw this film last fall and I fell head over heels for it. It was directed, produced and co-written by Claudia Weill, who collaborated with friend Vicki Polon on the screenplay. Weill directed the film on weekends over a the course of a year. Somehow it got picked up by Warner Bros. and was given a limited run. Stanley Kurbick saw the film and said in a 1980 interview that it was one of the most interesting American films he had seen in recent years. Anyone who enjoyed last year’s Frances Ha, will love this film. They’re surprisingly similar and I wouldn’t be shocked if Baumbach and Gerwig drew some inspiration for their film from it. 
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Movie Quote of the Day – The World’s End, 2013 (dir. Edgar Wright)
Oliver: WTF, Gary. WTF.
Gary King: What the fuck does WTF mean?
Peter Page: (emerging from stall) What the fuck?
Gary King: Ooohh yeah!
Movie Quote of the Day – Breezy, 1973 (dir. Clint Eastwood)
Frank: Hello, my love.
Breezy: Hello, my life.
Frank: I don’t know. If we’re lucky, we might last a year.
Breezy: A year? Just. . .just think of it Frank! A whole year!
Movie Quote of the Day – Top Gun, 1986 (dir. Tony Scott)
Carole: Hey, Goose, you big stud!
Goose: That’s me, honey.
Carole: Take me to bed or lose me forever.
Goose: Show me the way home, honey.
Movie Quote of the Day – Saving Mr. Banks, 2013 (dir. John Lee Hancock)
Ralph: Welcome, Mrs. P.L. Travers, to the city of angels.
P.L. Travers: It smells. . .of. . .
Ralph: Jasmine?
P.L. Travers: Chlorine, and sweat.
Movie Quote of the Day – Hollywoodland, 2006 (dir. Allen Coulter)
Louis Simo: He shoots himself, you all wait 45 minutes to call the police. That’s unusual.
Carol Van Ronkel: You ever been to a party where a man goes upstairs and blows his head off?
Louis Simo: No.
Carol Van Ronkel: Then how do you know what’s unusual?
Movie Quote of the Day – Damn Yankees!, 1958 (dir. George Abbott, Stanley Donen)
Lola: Joe, would you like to take Lola some place tonight?
Joe Hardy: Gee, I – I sure would like to but, uh, you know what Mr. Van Buren would say.
Lola: He’d say you lucky boy.
Joe Hardy: No, no! He’d say it’s late. He likes us to get to bed early.
Lola: Any particular place?
Movie Quote of the Day – What Happened Was…, 1994 (dir. Tom Noonan)
Jackie: So now I just come home.
Michael: To your lonely apartment.
Jackie: You know what it’s like.
Michael: No.
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