Yearly Archives: 2015
Movie Quote of the Day – Pet Sematary, 1989 (dir. Mary Lambert)
Jud Crandall: Women are supposed to be the ones who are good at keeping secrets, but any woman who knows anything at all would tell you she’s never seen into a man’s heart. The soil of a man’s heart is stonier, Louis. . .like the soil up there in the old Micmac burying ground.
Movie Quote of the Day – Near Dark, 1987 (dir. Kathryn Bigelow)
Caleb Colton: What the fuck is goin’ on?
Severen: It ain’t what’s goin’ on, son. It’s what’s comin’ off. Your face. Clean off.
Movie Quote of the Day – Carrie, 2013 (dir. Kimberly Peirce)
Sue Snell: No! Carrie please don’t hurt me.
Carrie White: Why not? I’ve been hurt my whole life.
Movie Quote of the Day – A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, 2014 (dir. Ana Lily Amirpour)
Atti: You’re watching me?
The Girl: At night.
Atti: So. . .what did you see all this time watching me?
The Girl: You’re sad. You don’t remember what you want. You don’t remember wanting. It passed long ago. And nothing ever changes.
Atti: Idiots and rich people are the only ones who think things can change.
A Year With Women: September 2015 In Films
So September was a bit of a tumultuous month for me. At the beginning of the month I had a wisdom tooth extracted and towards the end of the month I got into a car accident (relatively minor), so between those two things I did not watch a film a day. It was also the end of the Dorothy Arzner retrospective at UCLA, and not only did I get to see two of her films I’d never seen before, I also got to see two of my favorite films in 35mm (Merrily We Go To Hell and The Bride Wore Red). Regardless of the month’s ups and downs, I did watch several films I really loved (and one I really hated). As always, find the complete list after the cut, as well as a few of my favorites.
Movie Quote of the Day – Drool, 2009 (dir. Nancy Kissam)
Imogene Cochran: So, um, was that your husband leaving the house this morning?
Anora Fleece: Uh, yeah. He works at a rubber factory outside of Tulsa.
Imogene Cochran: Rubber. As in condoms?
Anora Fleece: Oh, uh, no. They make inner tubes, pool linings, that kind of thing.
Imogene Cochran: Made of rubber.
Anora Fleece: Oh, yeah.
Imogene Cochran: Huh. Interesting, I guess.
Anora Fleece: Not really.
Imogene Cochran: Nah, I was just being polite.
Anora Fleece: Uh, what does your husband do?
Imogene Cochran: He don’t do nothing, he dead.
Anora Fleece: Oh. Must be nice.
Imogene Cochran: Mmm-hmm.
Movie Quote of the Day – Salt of this Sea, 2008 (dir. Annemarie Jacir)
Emad: If you had a child, would he get an American passport? So he could go wherever he wanted?
Soraya: Sure. If I wanted a baby.
Emad: I think it’d be nice to have a kid. Someone with your name and your blood. Doing the things you couldn’t.
Movie Quote of the Day – Sugar Cane Alley, 1983 (dir. Euzhan Palcy)
Medouze: All things in creation have their secrets. The soil has a secret. Water has a secret. Fire has a secret! Life! Don’t think that water and fire are enemies. No! They’re the forces of creation. Each needs the other to create life! Yes. . .they create life!
Movie Quote of the Day – Talk To Me, 2007 (dir. Kasi Lemmons)
Petey Greene (over the P.A.): Yo, I was reading my court papers the other day, y’all. They say, “Ralph Waldo ‘Petey’ Greene versus the United States of America.” I say, “Goddamn! No wonder I’m up in this motherfucker!” So I’m gonna dedicate this next one to my baby. Man, she gonna be up here in a minute, and this gal, Lord have mercy, she’s fine as frog’s hair, yeah. So while this is playing, I want y’all to think about the one y’all love. And I’m talking about the one sends you them pictures, man, not the cat in the next bunk.
Milo Hughes: [laughs]
Dewey Hughes: I guess you’re pretty hard up for entertainment around here.
Milo Hughes: Yeah, man. This is prison.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Brady Bunch Movie, 1995 (dir. Betty Thomas)
Mike Brady: Jan, a real friend likes you for who you are, not what’s on your face. If you judge your friends for passing judgment on you, you’re not only judging yourself you’re judging your friends for judging you. And that would be using bad judgment.
Jan Brady: I never thought of it that way.
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