Author Archives: Marya E. Gates
Movie Quote of the Day – Army of Darkness, 1992 (dir. Sam Raimi)
Ash: Good. Bad. I’m the guy with the gun.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Others, 2001 (dir. Alejandro Amenábar)
Grace: Where’s my daughter? What have you done with my daughter?
Anne: Are you mad? I am your daughter.
Auteur of the Week: Steven Spielberg (2 of 4)
Continuing my four-part Auteur of the Week series on Steven Spielberg (you can see the first part here) I’m now going to be talking about the rest of Spielberg’s work in the 1980s. Throughout the 80s Spielberg produced hit after hit after hit, establishing himself even more as one of the greatest directors working in the business. There’s only one film in this era of his filmmaking that I don’t like, and it has nothing to do with the quality of the film. I’ll explain later. I’ve also included a film wherein he only directed a segment – the ill-advised Twilight Zone: The Movie.
Movie Quote of the Day – A Knight’s Tale, 2001 (dir. Brian Helgeland)
Wat: You have been weighed.
Roland: You have been measured.
Kate: And you have absolutely…
Chaucer: Been found wanting.
William: Welcome to the New World. God save you, if it is right that he should do so.
Movie Quote of the Day – In The Heat of the Night, 1967 (dir. Norman Jewison)
Sheriff William O. ‘Bill’ Gillespie: What do they call you up there?
Det. Virgil Tibbs: They call me MISTER Tibbs!
Oscar Vault Monday – Funny Girl, 1968 (dir. William Wyler)
I’m going to admit this straight up: this is mostly going to be an “I love Barbra Streisand in this movie” post. I’d never been a big fan of Babs until I saw this film and I’ve been converted forever. This was her debut film performance and she won the Best Actress Academy Award for it – in the only tie in that category’s history with Katharine Hepburn in The Lion In Winter. Somehow, though, the Academy decided to give the top prize of the night to Carrol Reed’s overblown, boring and trite musical Oliver! I mean, if they were going to give the top prize one last time to a musical, well until Chicago‘s win 34 years later, why couldn’t they have gone with Funny Girl?! The film was nominated for seven Academy Awards and only won the one: Best Actress Barbra Streisand (won), Best Supporting Actress – Kay Medford, Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing, Best Original Song, Best Score of a Musical Picture (Original or Adaptation), Best Sound and Best Picture. William Wyler wasn’t even nominated for Best Director! The other films nominated for Best Picture that year were: Rachel, Rachel, Romeo and Juliet, The Lion in Winter and winner Oliver!
Movie Quote of the Day – Watchmen, 2009 (dir. Zack Snyder)
Nite Owl II: What happened to us? What happened to the American Dream?
The Comedian: “What happened to the American Dream?” It came true! You’re lookin’ at it…
Movie Quote of the Day – All Dogs Go To Heaven, 1989 (dir. Don Bluth)
Anne-Marie: Charlie, will I ever see you again?
Charlie: Sure you will, kid. You know goodbyes aren’t forever.
Anne-Marie: Then goodbye, Charlie. I love you.
Charlie: Yep… I love you too.
Movie Quote of the Day – Trainspotting, 1996 (dir. Danny Boyle)
Tommy: Doesn’t it make you proud to be Scottish?
Mark “Rent-boy” Renton: It’s SHITE being Scottish! We’re the lowest of the low. The scum of the fucking Earth! The most wretched, miserable, servile, pathetic trash that was ever shat into civilization. Some hate the English. I don’t. They’re just wankers. We, on the other hand, are COLONIZED by wankers. Can’t even find a decent culture to be colonized BY. We’re ruled by effete assholes. It’s a SHITE state of affairs to be in, Tommy, and ALL the fresh air in the world won’t make any fucking difference!
New Posters For “Made in Dagenham” and “For Colored Girls”
I love Sally Hawkins and pretty much everyone else in Nigel Cole’s Made in Dagenham and For Colored Girls is perhaps the only Tyler Perry film I’ve ever actually wanted to see.
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