Author Archives: Marya E. Gates
Movie Quote of the Day – His Girl Friday, 1940 (dir. Howard Hawks)
Walter Burns: There’s been a lamp burning in the window for ya, honey… here.
Hildy Johnson: Oh, I jumped out that window a long time ago.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Devil is a Woman, 1935 (dir. Josef von Sternberg)
Antonio Galvan: You’re a very beautiful woman. It’s easy to see why men should lose their heads over you.
Concha Perez: Is it easy?
Movie Quote of the Day – The Outlaw Josey Wales, 1976 (dir. Clint Eastwood)
Laura Lee: Kansas was all golden and smelled like sunshine.
Josey Wales: Yeah, well, I always heard there were three kinds of suns in Kansas, sunshine, sunflowers, and sons-of-bitches.
Oscar Vault Monday – The Longest Day, 1962 (dir. Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton and Bernhard Wicki)
The trailer for The Longest Day calls this one of the most ambitious films ever made and I think that is still true today. It would take multiple posts to write about everything there is to write about with this film. Instead, I am going to write about a few of my favorite performers in the film (look at that cast list; it’s insane!). You can read a lot about the production of the film here. I used to love this movie when I was a kid and was lucky enough to see it on the big screen at the TCM Film Festival in 2012 (first thing in the morning, too!). If you ever get a chance to see it on the big screen, don’t miss it! It’s amazing. The film was nominated for five Academy Awards, winning two: Best Film Editing, Best B&W Art Direction, Best B&W Cinematography (won), Best Special Effects and Best Picture. The other films nominated for Best Picture that year were: The Music Man, Mutiny on the Bounty, To Kill a Mockingbird and winner Lawrence of Arabia.
Movie Quote of the Day – Gremlins 2: The New Batch, 1990 (dir. Joe Dante)
Dr. Catheter: Cute, isn’t it?
Martin: We’re not sure if that is genetic. No.
Lewis: Oh no, we’re not. No, no.
Movie Quote of the Day – Jackie Brown, 1997 (dir. Quentin Tarantino)
Jackie Brown: Max, how do you feel about getting old?
Max Cherry: You’re not old. You look great.
Movie Quote of the Day – Six Days Seven Nights, 1998 (dir. Ivan Reitman)
Quinn: They come here looking for the magic, hoping to find romance, when they can’t find it anywhere else.
Robin: Maybe they will.
Quinn: It’s an island, babe. If you didn’t bring it here, you won’t find it here.
From The Warner Archive: Forbidden Hollywood, Vol. 7
At this point y’all should be pretty well-versed in Pre-Code Hollywood and all its glory. The Warner Archive is at it again, releasing Vol. 7 of the ever-popular Forbidden Hollywood series. This set features film that, while not the “best” films of the era, feature some of the most salacious scenarios that Hollywood had to offer at the time. These are the kind of morally “loose” films that caused the Catholic church to call the industry indecent. They’re also more sexually charged than most current Hollywood films. The films included in this set are: William A. Wellman’s The Hatchet Man, Edgar Selwyn’s Skyscraper Souls, Roy Del Ruth’s Employees’ Entrance and Robert Florey’s Ex-Lady.
Movie Quote of the Day – Up In Smoke, 1978 (dir. Lou Adler)
Pedro De Pacas: Man, what is in this shit, man?
Anthony “Man” Stoner: Mostly Maui Waui man.
Pedro De Pacas: Yeah?
Anthony “Man” Stoner: But it’s got some Labrador in it.
Pedro De Pacas: What’s Labrador?
Anthony “Man” Stoner: It’s dog shit.
Pedro De Pacas: What?
Anthony “Man” Stoner: Yeah, my dog ate my stash, man. I had it on the table and the little motherfucker ate it, man.
Pedro De Pacas: Yeah?
Anthony “Man” Stoner: So I had to follow him around with a little baggie for three days, man, before I got it back. Really blew the dog’s mind.
Pedro De Pacas: You mean we’re smokin’ dog shit, man?
Anthony “Man” Stoner: Gets ya high, don’t it? I think it’s even better than before, you know?
Pedro De Pacas: I wonder what Great Dane tastes like, man.
Movie Quote of the Day – Cloud Atlas, 2012 (dir. Tom Tykwer, Lilly Wachowski and Lana Wachowski)
Robert Frobisher: Sixsmith. I climb the steps of the Scot monument every morning and all becomes clear. Wish I could make you see this brightness. Don’t worry, all is well. All is so perfectly, damnably well. I understand now that boundaries between noise and sound are conventions. All boundaries are conventions, waiting to be transcended. One may transcend any convention if only one can first conceive of doing so. Moments like this, I can feel your heart beating as clearly as I feel my own, and I know that separation is an illusion. My life extends far beyond the limitations of me.
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