Yearly Archives: 2015

Movie Quote of the Day – Una Noche, 2012 (dir. Lucy Mulloy)

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Lila: When I was a little girl, I made my own rules. That’s what it is to be free. As you grow up, the rules enforce themselves on you. Sometimes you have to break them. But once you break one, soon you’ll be breaking them all.

Movie Quote of the Day – Return To Me, 2000 (dir. Bonnie Hunt)

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Bob Rueland: Would you go out with me?
Grace Briggs: Yes?
Bob Rueland: Is that a question?
Grace Briggs: No, it’s a yes. Yes.
Bob Rueland: Tomorrow night?
Grace Briggs: Yes.
Bob Rueland: Eight o’clock?
Grace Briggs: Yes.
Bob Rueland: Pick you up here?
Grace Briggs: Yes.
Bob Rueland: My, you’re a very difficult woman.

Movie Quote of the Day – Alle Anderen, 2009 (dir. Maren Ade)

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Gitti: You’re so afraid of committing to something. Maybe that’s idealistic, but it’s not very brave either. I don’t mean just your work. I mean everything, you don’t even notice it. You can’t take 14 days for one decision. Or endlessly consider inviting two people to dinner. That’s total standstill. You’re so depressingly intent on not letting anything restrict you or distract you from your ideals. Sure, theoretically you’re free to go anywhere you want, but then you really have to do it. It’s always, “Should I do this or that, no this, no that. . . ” Then you don’t do any of it! Because you’re attached to your studio, bikes and books, like people are to their children. Then you show off your independence, forcing Phillip to tell you how much he misses his freedom because of his family. But what you don’t see and he probably doesn’t admit, is how nice it is to come home to where his children are sleeping. He’s free to leave the apartment again, but maybe he’d just like to lie in bed with his girlfriend. Why not take a risk? If it doesn’t work out, so what?

Movie Quote of the Day – Wendy and Lucy, 2008 (dir. Kelly Reichardt)

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Wendy: Not a lot of jobs around here, huh?
Security Guard: I’ll say. I don’t know what the people do all day. Used to be a mill. But that’s been closed a long time now. Don’t know what they do.
Wendy: You can’t get a job without an address anyway. . .or a phone.
Security Guard: You can’t get an address without an address. You can’t get a job without a job. It’s all fixed.
Wendy: That’s why I’m going to Alaska. I hear they need people.
Security Guard: I hear it’s really pretty up there.
Wendy: Yeah.

Movie Quote of the Day – Stories We Tell, 2012 (dir. Sarah Polley)

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John Buchan: In every relationship, I think, one person loves the other person more. But hopefully it’s close and hopefully it goes up and down a little bit, you know? But it seems to me you never can both equally love each other the same amount. It’s unfortunate, but it’s just sort of a fact of life.

Movie Quote of the Day – Rambling Rose, 1991 (dir. Martha Coolidge)

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Mother: You can help with the dishes, even though it’s not a man-type thing to do. Man-type things. Women-type things. What does the creative force behind the universe care about such foolishness?

Movie Quote of the Day – Jenny’s Wedding, 2015 (dir. Mary Agnes Donoghue)

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Eddie: Everybody changes. But if you’re with the right person and they change, you meet the right person all over again.

Movie Quote of the Day – Thirteen, 2003 (dir. Catherine Hardwicke)

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Tracy: [crying] Oh no, Mom. Get off of me. I hate you. Stop.
Mel: I love you and your brother more than anything in the world. I would die for you, but I won’t leave you alone right now.

A Year With Women: July 2015 in Films

Although I was gone for almost a whole week for San Diego Comic-Con (my third year in a row for work!), I managed to watch more new-to-me films in July than I have any other month this year. Most of those films, however, were short films (I will always go to bat for short films). I watched the films in the Twilight Storytellers competition (several of them were better than the films in the actual Twilight Saga film series), as well as all the films in Miu Miu’s Women’s Tales series. Both are available to watch for free online and both are well worth your time! That said, I also watched several films that have had a very large impact on cinema’s history, so I think the month balanced out. As always, the full list of what I watched is after the cut, as well as a few favorites.

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Movie Quote of the Day – The Wild Party, 1929 (dir. Dorothy Arzner)

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Stella Ames: Why do you hate me so?
James ‘Gil’ Gilmore: Hate you? How could I hate when I would have killed for you!