Yearly Archives: 2014
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.
Movie Quote of the Day – Imitation of Life, 1934 (dir. John M. Stahl)
Delilah: What’s my baby want?
Peola: I want to be white, like I look.
Delilah: Peola!
Peola: Look at me. Am I not white? Isn’t that a white girl there?
Delilah: Oh, honey. We’s had this out so many times. Can’t you get it out of your head?
Peola: No, I can’t! You wouldn’t understand that, would you? Oh, what is there for me anyway!?
Movie Quote of the Day – Because I Said So, 2007 (dir. Michael Lehmann)
Daphne: And who am I supposed to choose anyway, huh? Who do you think is better?
Johnny: Me.
Daphne: What?
Johnny: I like you. And I have an odd instinct that I’d like her too. Maybe I should meet her.
Daphne: Let me be perfectly honest with you, okay? You’re a very charming guy, irresistible, in fact. And that’s why I know you would be a horrendous choice because I’m not looking for a great affair for my daughter. You know, like, a gorgeous musician who’s gonna break her heart. I’m looking for a life partner.
Johnny: That’s great. Thanks. Yeah, no, I love being reduced to a cultural cliché. That’s just terrific. Because only musicians break people’s hearts. Wow.
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