Monthly Archives: December 2014
Movie Quote of the Day – The One I Love, 2014 (dir. Charlie McDowell)
Sophie: This is something that we’ve been talking about in therapy. Exploring new options, creating a new relationship Not going back to the past and re-creating old things that happened but starting with new things.
Ethan: Yeah. Point taken.
Sophie: I know that this is sort of extreme.
Ethan: I didn’t imagine this sort of new thing.
Sophie: Absolutely, but. . .
Ethan: I imagined like horseback riding with a little satchel of wine, you know? Not exploring other dimensions in some weird version of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Movie Quote of the Day – The Immigrant, 2014 (dir. James Gray)
Bruno: ‘Til now, I never killed nobody before, but it don’t make a difference because if you could lick my heart, you’d taste nothing but poison. See, you think there’s goodness in everybody, but there ain’t!
Movie Quote of the Day – Romancing the Stone, 1984 (dir. Robert Zemeckis)
Jack Colton: God dammit man, the Doobie Brothers broke up! Shit! When did that happen?
Joan Wilder: How long have you been down here?
Jack Colton: Aww man. Forever. I don’t know.
Female Filmmaker Friday: Little Women, 1994 (dir. Gillian Armstrong)
Full disclosure: I have not actually read Louisa May Alcott’s book (it’s the first thing I am going to read in 2015, though.) I have, however, seen Gillian Armstrong’s masterpiece more times than any other movie. I first saw it when it was in theaters. I went with my mother and we both loved it so much and when it was over she told me all about how much she loved the book (and its sequel), and yet for some reason I still haven’t read the book! *holds head in shame* This movie celebrates its 20th anniversary on Sunday and as far as I can tell the studio that has the distribution rights doesn’t give a hoot and isn’t doing anything for it; no anniversary Blu-ray, no anniversary screenings in LA, nothing! So I thought I would pay tribute to this beautiful film by writing about it for Female Filmmaker Friday right around its anniversary.
Movie Quote of the Day – Flashdance, 1983 (dir. Adrian Lyne)
Nick: I was just buying you lunch.
Alex: I don’t want you buying me anything. I don’t want you buying me, period!
Movie Quote of the Day – Starstruck, 1982 (dir. Gillian Armstrong)
Jackie: My cousin Angus, he’s reading this book: Sex Psychology. And he reckons guitars are like phallic symbols and guitarists masturbate for a living. So God knows why you need me.
It’s Cinema Fanatic’s 5th Anniversary!
Isn’t that exciting?! I’ve got a really big announcement to make, but first I want to run through a few highlights of this last year.
Movie Quote of the Day – Where the Wild Things Are, 2009 (dir. Spike Jonze)
Ira: He’s going to make us happy, Judy.
Judith: Yeah, but happiness isn’t always the best way to be happy.
Movie Quote of the Day – Legends of the Fall, 1994 (dir. Edward Zwick)
Alfred: I followed all of the rules, man’s and God’s. And you, you followed none of them. And they all loved you more. Samuel, Father, and my. . .even my own wife.
Movie Quote of the Day – Cold Mountain, 2003 (dir. Anthony Minghella)
Ruby: Every piece of this is man’s bullshit. They call this war “a cloud over the land” but they made the weather and then they stand in the rain and say “Shit, it’s rainin’!”
the diary of a film history fanatic 