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‘American Hustle’ Named Best Film of Year By New York Film Critics Circle
Best Non-Fiction Film (Documentary): Stories We Tell
Best First Film: Ryan Coogler – Fruitvale Station
Best Cinematography: Bruno Delbonnel – Inside Llewyn Davis
Special Award: Frederick Wiseman
Best Screenplay: American Hustle
Best Animated Film: The Wind Rises
Best Supporting Actor: Jared Leto – Dallas Buyers Club
Best Foreign Language Film: Blue is the Warmest Color
Best Supporting Actress: Jennifer Lawrence – American Hustle
Best Director: Steve McQueen – 12 Years a Slave
Best Actress: Cate Blanchett – Blue Jasmine
Best Actor: Robert Redford – All Is Lost
Best Picture: American Hustle
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Movie Quote of the Day – George of the Jungle, 1997 (dir. Sam Weisman)
Narrator: Later, in the Men’s Department, after discovering his long lost brothers, the jungle king was pleased to find he looked pretty good in Armani.
George: Pretty darn good.
Movie Quote of the Day – Employees’ Entrance, 1933 (dir. Roy Del Ruth)
Kurt Anderson: With your looks, you shouldn’t have any trouble getting a job.
Madeleine: Thank you. But, I’d rather be employed for my brains.
Noirvember 2013 in Films
I hope you guys all had a great Noirvember, I know I did. You can see all the films noir I watched after the cut, as will as a list of my favorites. I saw some great things in the theatres this month, some new-to-me and others old favorites. Last night I saw a double feature at the New Bev of The Maltese Falcon and Casablanca. So good. So so so good. I managed to watch a little more than 30 new-to-me films noir, actually, as well as a few repeat viewings. Next year will be Noirvember Five and I’m hoping it’ll be the most epic yet.
Movie Quote of the Day – Radio Days, 1987 (dir. Woody Allen)
Mother: You’ve got this sixth sense for picking losers. Sometimes I wonder. . .do you really want to get married?
Bea: More than anything! Don’t you think I want to have a child before it’s too late? God, how I envy you. I just want it to be perfect.
Mother: Well, it’s never perfect. If you wait for perfect, you don’t get pregnant. You wind up with your teeth in a glass of water.
Movie Quote of the Day – High Wall, 1947 (dir. Curtis Bernhardt)
Dr. Ann Lorrison: What’s the matter, Mr. Kenet? Something seems to be disturbing you. What is it?
Steven Kenet: I don’t know.
Dr. Ann Lorrison: Something bothering you?
Steven Kenet: Could it happen in a single second?
Dr. Ann Lorrison: What, Mr. Kenet?
Steven Kenet: Could you strangle someone in just one second?
Movie Quote of the Day – Crime Wave, 1954 (dir. André De Toth)
Girl: We had sort of a lover’s quarrel.
Jess: It was nothing, nothing at all!
Girl: We don’t really fight. We’re just sort of playful. The last time I threw a lamp at him, he thought it was cute. But tonight he forgot himself and screamed and the neighbors called the police.
Jess: It was ridiculous of them to call the police. Especially as we have invited them to all our parties.
Movie Quote of the Day – Odds Against Tomorrow, 1959 (dir. Robert Wise)
Helen: Would you do a thing like that?
Earle: Like what?
Helen: Leave me alone like he did.
Earle: Not for a minute.
Movie Quote of the Day – My Name Is Julia Ross, 1945 (dir. Joseph H. Lewis)
Nurse: Who’d she say you were?
Sparkes: Oh, some woman from some agency. Last week she thought I was the Queen.
Nurse: Comin’ down in the world, aren’t you?
Movie Quote of the Day – Pickup on South Street, 1953 (dir. Samuel Fuller)
Capt. Dan Tiger: You’ll always be a two-bit cannon. And when they pick you up in the gutter dead, you’re hand’ll be in a drunk’s pocket.
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