Author Archives: Marya E. Gates
Movie Quote of the Day – Meet Me in Montenegro, 2015 (dir. Alex Holdridge & Linnea Saasen)
Anderson: Maybe when I was young I could fall in love at the drop of a hat, but as you get older you just. . .you don’t feel as much.
Stephen: You don’t feel as much?
Anderson: Yeah. I’d love my heart to race, but it just can’t.
Movie Quote of the Day – Sleeping With The Fishes, 2013 (dir. Nicole Gomez Fisher)
Alexis: How long have I been home?
Kayla: Long enough to remember why you left.
Movie Quote of the Day – Jackie & Ryan, 2015 (dir. Ami Canaan Mann)
Jackie: You ask yourself, “How’d I get here?” You know? You chose to be here. You chose this song, not that one, that city, that condo, that loan, that man. Here you are. Here you are, you know?
Ryan: No.
Jackie: You don’t ever ask yourself how you got here?
Ryan: No.
Jackie: Not ever?
Ryan: Every day I say, “Where am I gonna go next? How am I gonna get there?”
Movie Quote of the Day – How to Make an American Quilt, 1995 (dir. Jocelyn Moorhouse)
Finn: Oh, look at that!
Anna: I never liked full moons. They give people an excuse to do foolish things.
Finn: Well, I’m young. I’m supposed to do foolish things.
Anna: And spend the rest of your life paying for them?
Finn: Well, it’s better than spending the rest of my life wondering what I missed.
Anna: I’d rather wonder than kick myself.
Finn: I’d rather kick myself.
Anna: Fine. You will end up with a deeply sore backside.
Movie Quote of the Day – Pasqualino Settebellezze, 1975 (dir. Lina Wertmüller)
Pasqualino: I appeal to the ladies. I used to appeal to them. The fact is without any exaggeration I haven’t looked at the mirror in years. And since I know from the beginning that I’ve always been an ugly man I’ll admit it’s been bothering me. How have I turned out? My teeth have become loose. I can’t keep my eyes open. My ass has dropped. Look at me and tell me honestly. How do I look?
Francesco: Awful, to be quite honest.
Movie Quote of the Day – Twitch, 2005 (dir. Leah Meyerhoff)
Daughter: [spits out milk]
Mother: What?
Daughter: Everything in this house is rotten.
Movie Quote of the Day – Zero Dark Thirty, 2012 (dir. Kathryn Bigelow)
Justin: Okay, so how do you know it’s bin Laden? ‘Cause the truth is, we’ve been on this op before. It was ’07, and it wasn’t bin Laden, and we lost a couple of guys.
Maya: Totally understand. Bin Laden uses a courier, to interact with the outside world. By locating the courier, we’ve located bin Laden.
Patrick: That’s really the intel. That’s it?
Maya: Quite frankly, I didn’t even want to use you guys, with your dip and velcro and all your gear bullshit. I wanted to drop a bomb. But people didn’t believe in this lead enough to drop a bomb. So they’re using you guys as canaries. And, in theory, if bin Laden isn’t there, you can sneak away and no one will be the wiser. But bin Laden is there. And you’re going to kill him for me.
A Year With Women: June 2015 in Films
June was kind of a hectic month, with traveling and family visiting, so my new-to-me watching was kind of low (but I *am* two films away from 5000 new-to-me films ever, so that’s pretty sweet). I did, however, write a great guide to female filmmakers for Dazed and Confused Magazine, guested on the Battleship Pretension Podcast and was interviewed by Authoright (skip to page 16), so all and all it was a good month. As always, my thoughts on a few choice favorites, as well as a list of everything I watched this month can be found after the cut.
Movie Quote of the Day – Poulet aux prunes, 2012 (dir. Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud)
Faringuisse: What are you doing in bed at this hour?
Nasser-Ali Khan: I’ve decided to die.
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