Author Archives: Marya E. Gates
Movie Quote of the Day – Alfie, 2004 (dir. Charles Shyer)
Alfie: It seems to me the problems you worry yourself sick about never seem to materialize. It’s the ones that catch you unexpectedly on a Wednesday afternoon that knock you sideways.
Movie Quote of the Day – Murder with Pictures, 1936 (dir. Charles Barton)
Hester Boone: Aw, you know how it is, junior: a girl’s got her pride.
Kent Murdock: But you could swallow it… if it was mixed with a little gin, couldn’t ya?
Hester Boone: Yes, dear, in a silver fizz.
Movie Quote of the Day – Seven Years in Tibet, 1997 (dir. Jean-Jacques Annaud)
Dalai Lama: We have a saying in Tibet: If a problem can be solved there is no use worrying about it. If it can’t be solved, worrying will do no good.
Female Filmmaker Friday: 2014 Wrap Up
As I announced last week, next year I will be only watching films directed (or written) by women. This means films in theaters, as well as those I watch at home (new-to-me and re-watches). You can see the entire year of Female Filmmaker Friday pieces here. This feature will not be continuing, as my entire year will be spotlighting films by women. I thought for my final Female Filmmaker Friday for the year, I would list out all the films by women I watched in 2014, which comes to 46 out of a total 361 so far this year:
- News From Home (1977) – Chantal Akerman
- Desperately Seeking Susan (1985) – Susan Seidelman
- Making Mr. Right (1987) – Susan Seidelman
- Cookie (1989) – Susan Seidelman
- Smithereens (1982) – Susan Seidelman
- Ritual in Transfigured Time (1946) – Maya Deren
- That’s What She Said (2012) – Carrie Preston
- Starstruck (1982) – Gillian Armstrong
- She-Devil (1989) – Susan Seidelman
- The Pretty One (2014) – Jenée LaMarque
- Orlando (1992) – Sally Potter
- Miele (Honey) (2014) – Valeria Golino
- The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years (1988) – Penelope Spheeris
- The Decline of Western Civilization (1981) – Penelope Spheeris
- The Decline of Western Civilization Part III (1998) – Penelope Spheeris
- Belle (2014) – Amma Asante
- The Bride Wore Red (1937) – Dorothy Arzner
- Décalage horaire (2002) (Jet Lag) – Danièle Thompson
- Palo Alto (2014) – Gia Coppola
- Obvious Child (2014) – Gillian Robespierre
- Used People (1992) – Beeban Kidron
- Los insólitos peces gato (The Amazing Catfish) (2014) – Claudia Sainte-Luce
- Sweetie (1989) – Jane Campion
- The Prince of Tides (1991) – Barbra Streisand
- Night Catches Us (2010) – Tanya Hamilton
- Middle of Nowhere (2012) – Ava DuVernay
- Small, Beautifully Moving Parts (2011) – Annie J. Howell, Lisa Robinson
- Serious Moonlight (2009) – Cheryl Hines
- Hester Street (1975) – Joan Micklin Silver
- Something New (2006) – Sanaa Hamri
- Advanced Style (2014) – Lina Plioplyte
- Un jour Pina m’a demandé (One Day Pine Asked) (1983) – Chantal Akerman
- Enough Said (2013) – Nicole Holofcener
- Fort Bliss (2014) – Claudia Myers
- Nirgendwo in Afrika (Nowhere in Africa) (2001) – Caroline Link
- Love & Basketball (2000) – Gina Prince-Bythewood
- Carrie (2013) – Kimberly Peirce
- Laggies (2014) – Lynn Shelton
- Monkey Rag (2013) – Joanna Davidovich
- Beyond the Lights (2014) – – Gina Prince-Bythewood
- A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014) – Ana Lily Amirpour
- The Bigamist (1953) – Ida Lupino
- Elle s’en va (2014) – Emmanuelle Bercot
- Zero Motivation (2014) – Talya Lavie
- The Babadook (2014) – Jennifer Kent
- Selma (2014) – Ava DuVernay
Lastly, I’m just going to see you better go see Selma if you’re in one of the four cities it’s currently playing in (L.A., NYC, Atlanta, D.C.) and if you’re not, go see it when it opens wide on January 9th.
Movie Quote of the Day – There’s No Business Like Show Business, 1954 (dir. Walter Lang)
Vicky Hoffman: Maybe it’s crazy to try and explain anything to you the way you are now, but, Tim, try to understand, to you, this is just another show. You’re part of this business. You were born to it. You never had to pound on doors to get people to listen to you. Your family did it all. It’s different with me. I’ve been on my own since I was 15. This show is my big chance. It’s make or break.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Bells of St. Mary’s, 1945 (dir. Leo McCarey)
Sister Mary Benedict: If we don’t fail sometimes, our successes won’t mean anything. You must have courage. Don’t give up.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Snows of Kilimanjaro, 1952 (dir. Henry King)
Harry Street: Darling, there’s a war going on there.
Cynthia Green: There’s a war going on here too right at this table! There’s a dandy little war going on!
Movie Quote of the Day – Snowpiercer, 2014 (dir. Joon-ho Bong)
Edgar: What does steak taste like again? I had it once, but I can’t remember.
Curtis: If you can’t remember then it’s better to forget.
Movie Quote of the Day – The One I Love, 2014 (dir. Charlie McDowell)
Sophie: This is something that we’ve been talking about in therapy. Exploring new options, creating a new relationship Not going back to the past and re-creating old things that happened but starting with new things.
Ethan: Yeah. Point taken.
Sophie: I know that this is sort of extreme.
Ethan: I didn’t imagine this sort of new thing.
Sophie: Absolutely, but. . .
Ethan: I imagined like horseback riding with a little satchel of wine, you know? Not exploring other dimensions in some weird version of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Movie Quote of the Day – The Immigrant, 2014 (dir. James Gray)
Bruno: ‘Til now, I never killed nobody before, but it don’t make a difference because if you could lick my heart, you’d taste nothing but poison. See, you think there’s goodness in everybody, but there ain’t!
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