Author Archives: Marya E. Gates
Movie Quote of the Day – Dinner At Eight, 1933 (dir. George Cukor)
Kitty Packard: I was reading a book the other day.
Carlotta Vance: Reading a book?
Kitty Packard: Yes. It’s all about civilization or something. A nutty kind of a book. Do you know that the guy says that machinery is going to take the place of every profession?
Carlotta Vance: Oh, my dear, that’s something you need never worry about.
New Trailer For Clint Eastwood’s “J. Edgar”
Words cannot express how much I cannot wait for this movie. This new trailer (watch it here at Apple trailers) makes me want to watch it even more. I pretty much love everything I’ve seen out of Leonardo DiCaprio for the last ten years and Armie Hammer looks to be following up his breakthrough turn in The Social Network last year with another show stopping performance.
The film is set for a November 9th release.
Oscar Vault Monday – Mildred Pierce, 1945 (dir. Michael Curtiz)
This is one of my favorite films from the “film noir” era of classical Hollywood (although, you could argue it’s pre-noir, since a lot of scholars place 1946 as the first year of that era; but that’s neither here nor there). Joan Crawford gives one of the greatest performances of her long and diverse career and director Michael Curtiz (whose most famous film is probably Casablanca) hits all the right notes. The film was nominated for six Academy Awards, winning one: Best B&W Cinematography, Best Screenplay, Best Supporting Actress Ann Blyth, Best Supporting Actress Eve Arden, Best Actress Joan Crawford (won) and Best Picture. The other films nominated that year were Anchors Aweigh, The Bells of St. Mary’s, Spellbound and winner The Lost Weekend.
Movie Quote of the Day – Gilda, 1946 (dir. Charles Vidor)
Ballin Mundson: Gilda, are you decent?
Gilda: Me?
[beat]
Gilda: Sure. I’m decent.
Movie Quote of the Day – Soylent Green, 1973 (dir. Richard Fleischer)
Det. Thorn: You tell everybody. Listen to me, Hatcher. You’ve gotta tell them! Soylent Green is people! We’ve gotta stop them somehow!
Movie Quote of the Day – Somewhere, 2010 (dir. Sofia Coppola)
Johnny Marco: Hi, Cleo.
Cleo: Hey. [beat] Why are you taking a bath next door? Is yours broken?
Johnny Marco: . . .yeah.
Movie Quote of the Day – Shallow Grave, 1994 (dir. Danny Boyle)
Alex Law: When did anyone last say to you these exact words: “You are the sunshine of my life”?
Movie Quote of the Day – She Done Him Wrong, 1933 (dir. Lowell Sherman)
Lady Lou: You know, I always did like a man in a uniform and that one fits you grand. Why don’t you come up some time and see me?
New Trailer For Cameron Crowe’s “We Bought A Zoo”
This trailer depresses me. I love Cameron Crowe. I love Matt Damon. I love Sigur Ros. But this trailer depresses me.
It looks like a rehash of every other Cameron Crowe movie, instead of something new. It’s got a scene eeriely similar to when Jerry Maguire quits his job, only this time with Damon instead of Crowe. Even the scene in the photo I posted looks like it was ripped out of Vanilla Sky. I hated Elizabethtown and this trailer is not making me want to give Crowe another chance despite how much I love his earlier work…
Movie Quote of the Day – Down By Law, 1986 (dir. Jim Jarmusch)
Roberto: [looking through his notebook of English phrases] If looks can kill, I am a-dead now.
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