Monthly Archives: February 2016
Movie Quote of the Day – The Wedding, 1998 (dir. Charles Burnett)
Shelby Coles: There’s nothing to make a day more beautiful than to see the truth for yourself, especially when the truth has to do with love.
Movie Quote of the Day – Nas: Time Is Illmatic, 2014 (dir. One9)
Nas: Early on my Pops told me, you know, “You’re gonna be the man of the house. I’m out.” My Moms told us, you know, “He’s still your father, he’s still loves you.” You know, all that story and it was like, I’m sure I wasn’t happy about it, but you know, to me, I’ve always been like, “That’s life. Keep pushing.”
Movie Quote of the Day – Down In The Delta, 1998 (dir. Maya Angelou)
Earl Sinclair: Now here’s a man, walks into a post office in Shaker Heights, pulls out a gun, shoots everybody, then turns the gun on himself and shoots himself. You don’t think that’s terrible?
Loretta Sinclair: Of course I think it’s terrible.
Earl Sinclair: Hmm.
Loretta Sinclair: But where we live, that kind of shooting happen every day, but nobody be on the news and in the paper talking about what a tragedy it is.
Movie Quote of the Day – Idlewild, 2006 (dir. Bryan Barber)
Angel Davenport: You know, Percival, you got real talent. I don’t know why you want to waste it in a silly little town like Idlewild. Don’t you want to see the bright lights? I mean, there’s a whole movement going on in Harlem and you’re down here watching the seasons pass by. I’m waiting on a telegram from Chicago as we speak. Then I’m gonna hop on over to New York City. Honey, I am going to travel the world! What about you, huh? What are you doing working in a stiff place like this?
Movie Quote of the Day – Cadillac Records, 2008 (dir. Darnell Martin)
Geneva Wade: You’re trouble, you know that?
Muddy Waters: I know it. How ’bout you?
Movie Quote of the Day – The Wood , 1999 (dir. Rick Famuyiwa)
Lisa: Ya’ll must think I’m stupid like one of those Thelma & Louise bitches!
Mike: Nah, Nah—-
Lisa: Car broke down?! Tell that fool he could at least faced me like a man!
Mike: But, But—
Lisa: I’m not gon’ cry! I’m not! I spent too much time on this damn make-up!
Mike: Lisa, calm down. . .
Lisa: I am calm!
Mike: So then why are you yellin’?
Movie Quote of the Day – Their Eyes Were Watching God, 2005 (dir. Darnell Martin)
Janie Starks: You ain’t even told me your name.
Tea Cake: My momma named me Virgil Woods, but everybody call me Tea Cake.
Janie Starks: Tea Cake, huh? You as sweet as all that?
Tea Cake: Why don’t you try me and see?
Movie Quote of the Day – Groundhog Day, 1993 (dir. Harold Ramis)
Phil: What would you do if you were stuck in one place and every day was exactly the same, and nothing that you did mattered?
Ralph: That about sums it up for me.
#52FilmsByWomen, Denzel Washington, and More: January 2016 in Films
In case you missed it, here’s my wrap-up for A Year With Women one more time. As I slowly ease myself back into watching films directed by men, I’ve definitely felt a bit of a culture shock. I’ve tried to keep my watching very women-centric, because I don’t know if I could handle a lack of women characters too. It’s been a relatively steady transition, although you will see my favorite films I watched last month were still mostly those directed by women! As always, you can see all the films I watched as well as a few favorites after the cut.
Movie Quote of the Day – Brown Sugar, 2002 (dir. Rick Famuyiwa)
Dre: Why you have to say it like that?
Syd: Say what?
Dre: Puh-lease. Like I ain’t shit.
Syd: ‘Cause you ain’t.
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