Author Archives: Marya E. Gates
Movie Quote of the Day – East of Eden, 1955 (dir. Elia Kazan)
Cal: I took Aron there tonight because I was jealous. I’ve been jealous all my life. Jealous, I couldn’t even stand it. Tonight, I even tried to buy your love. But now I don’t want it anymore. I can’t use it anymore.
Abra: Don’t talk to your father like that.
Cal: I don’t want any kind of love anymore. It doesn’t pay off. No future in it.
Female Filmmaker Friday: Desperately Seeking Susan, 1985 (dir. Susan Seidelman)
Last week I covered Susan Seidleman’s debut film Smithereens and now I will be discussing her second film, the mainstream hit Desperately Seeking Susan. Check back over the next few weeks as I look at three more of her films from the 1980s.
Movie Quote of the Day – Lethal Weapon 4, 1998 (dir. Richard Donner)
Detective Lee Butters: [Phone rings] Hello? Hello? [No one’s there] Shit! Fucking phones, man! You get a call, they cut you off. You make a call, they cut you off! What’s the point?
Leo Getz: Don’t you know what they’re doing, kid? They fuck you with cell phones. That’s what it is. They love when you get cut off. You know why? Huh? You know why? Because when you call back – which they know you’re gonna do – they charge you for that fucking first minute again at that high rate.
Detective Lee Butters: If you’re lucky enough to be able to call back because the 3-hour battery you got only lasts 20 fucking minutes.
Leo Getz: Or what if you’re behind a fucking hill and it’s going [makes crackle sounds].
Detective Lee Butters: Or you’re going through a damn tunnel or some shit, man. And they keep making it smaller! You know why they make them this small? So you can lose it. Why? So you buy more phones. I never lost my mother’s phone! Take you two hours to make a long-distance call. Duh-duh-duh four, duh-duh-duh five. Duh-duh-duh-oh! I messed up! Hang up. Gotta do it again! Duh-duh-duh four, duh-duh-duh five. I never lost my Sports Illustrated swimsuit phone.
Leo Getz: And scanners! These idiots, they get your number and call all over the world!
Detective Lee Butters: Somebody took my number and called Afghanistan! Afghanistan! I’ve never been to Afghanistan! I don’t know nobody in Afghanistan! I don’t know what fucking Afghanistan look like. And even if I did, I would not talk to their Afghan ass for 3 hours! I won’t talk to my daddy for 3 hours!
Leo Getz: They fuck you, they fuck you, they fuck you with the cell phones! Hey, you know when you go to a drive-through? [phone rings] Hold on.
Detective Lee Butters: Why am I talking. . .?
Movie Quote of the Day – La nuit américaine (Day for Night), 1973 (dir. François Truffaut)
Director Ferrand: Shooting a film is like a stagecoach ride in the Old West. When you start, you are hoping for a pleasant trip, but pretty soon, you just hope you’ll reach your destination.
Movie Quote of the Day – Miami Vice, 2006 (dir. Michael Mann)
Isabella: Once I had a fortune, it said: “Live now. Life is short. Time is luck”.
Det. James ‘Sonny’ Crockett: You got assets somewhere? Insurance?
Isabella: Why?
Det. James ‘Sonny’ Crockett: Things go wrong. The odds catch up. Probability is like gravity: you cannot negotiate with gravity. One day. . .one day you should just cash out, you know? Just cash out and get out.
Isabella: Yeah?
Det. James ‘Sonny’ Crockett: Yeah. As far and as fast as you can.
Isabella: Would you find me?
Det. James ‘Sonny’ Crockett: Yes, I would.
Movie Quote of the Day – Jubal, 1956 (dir. Delmer Daves)
Shep Horgan: I like my coffee strong enough to float a pistol.
Movie Quote of the Day – Heaven’s Gate, 1980 (dir. Michael Cimino)
Ella Watson: Do you think a woman can love two men?
James Averill: Sure you can. Why not three? But it sure as hell isn’t convenient.
Ella Watson: I can manage it.
“I’m an artist, you know?” – Philip Seymour Hoffman as Rusty in “Flawless”
“Yeah, great art is about conflict and pain and guilt and longing and love disguised as sex, and sex disguised as love.” – Lester Bangs, Almost Famous
The thing that was so great about Philip Seymour Hoffman was that he really was an artist who disappeared into every one of his roles. He’s Dusty from Twister, he’s Brandt from The Big Lebowski, Lester Bangs, Truman Capote and so many more memorable roles. No matter how big or how small the role was, you knew he would be good and you know he would bring something different to the table. He was a big, bright, shining star who burned out far too soon.
Movie Quote of the Day – Groundhog Day, 1993 (dir. Harold Ramis)
Phil: What do you say? What do you say? What do you say? You little brat! You have never thanked me!
Lady Directors, Aidan Quinn and Oscar Contenders: January 2014 in Films
Forgive me for posting this a day late. Somehow I totally forgot it was February until I realized today is Groundhog Day and I still haven’t watched Groundhog Day. Needless to say, I will be watching Groundhog Day soon. This month’s round up will be pretty brief. I’ve been trying to watch more movies directed by ladies and I’ve done a pretty stellar job of it (though I could be watching more!) and I’ve started a new feature called Female Filmmaker Friday that I hope you all enjoy. As always, after the cut you can read what I’ve been watching, as well as a few featured films.
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