Monthly Archives: February 2015
Movie Quote of the Day – Night Catches Us, 2010 (dir. Tanya Hamilton)
Patricia: I can’t go with you.
Marcus: I can’t stay.
Patricia: Because this is not the life you want to live?
Marcus: Because I want more. For both of us.
Movie Quote of the Day – Palo Alto, 2014 (dir. Gia Coppola)
April: I wish I didn’t care about anything. But I do care. I care about everything too much.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Dish & the Spoon, 2011 (dir. Alison Bagnall)
Boy: I don’t really understand Thanksgiving. Like, what. . .I thought you annihilated the indians, not sat down and had a big dinner with them.
Rose: No, we did. Both.
Boy: What? You. . So you celebrate killing them? That’s. . .that’s the celebration?
Rose: No, no-no-no, the indians did end up all dead but what we celebrate is the meal that happened before we killed them, because when we got here, they had things that we wanted, and we had things that they wanted – like guns and drinks – and it was a mutually beneficial relationship; and then, at some point, our needs conflicted – and when needs conflict, most of the time, one person gets what they want and the other person doesn’t – so we gave them smallpox on purpose, and then we continued to sort of systematically kill them – but what we celebrate is. . .the meal that we had before any of that happened, when everything was good.
Boy: Hitler. . .Hitler was popular before the killing. You know? People don’t celebrate that.
Rose: But he didn’t have dinner with the Jews. You see my point?
Boy: No.
Movie Quote of the Day – Ginger & Rosa, 2012 (dir. Sally Potter)
Roland: The only life is the one we have now which is why we must seize it and live while we have the chance.
Movie Quote of the Day – My American Cousin, 1985 (dir. Sandy Wilson)
Mother: Sandra, as you get older you’ll see, boys are like busses: if you miss one, another one will be around before you know it.
Movie Quote of the Day – Frida, 2002 (dir. Julie Taymor)
Frida Kahlo: Everything hurts, but the leg, the leg is the worst. But I’m alright. At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.
Movie Quote of the Day – Groundhog Day, 1993 (dir. Harold Ramis)
Phil: You want a prediction about the weather, you’re asking the wrong Phil. I’ll give you a winter prediction: It’s gonna be cold, it’s gonna be grey, and it’s gonna last you for the rest of your life.
A Year With Women: January 2015 in Films
So January was officially my first month in A Year With Women and boy was it a great start to the year! For the first time in the longest time I pretty much loved everything I watched. I got to a bunch of films I had been meaning to watch for ages and saw some things I probably would never has sought out ordinarily. You can watch my video reviews of everything I watched in January here on YouTube. As always, after the cut is a full list of what I watched in January and a little bit on my five favorite films from the month.
Movie Quote of the Day – Fish Tank, 2009 (dir. Andrea Arnold)
Mia: I’m leaving then.
Joanne: This is one of your CDs.
Mia: Yeah.
Joanne: Yeah, it’s alright.
Mia: Yeah. It’s Nas. He’s good. You can keep it.
Joanne: Well, go on then. Fuck off. What are you waiting for?
the diary of a film history fanatic 