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Movie Quote of the Day – Viaggio sola (A Five Star Life), 2014 (dir. Maria Sole Tognazzi)
Kate: Real luxury is the pleasure of a real life, lived to the full and full of imperfections! Don’t you think?
Movie Quote of the Day – Fort Bliss, 2014 (dir. Claudia Myers)
Maggie: I didn’t expect you to understand.
Luis: Why not? Because I wasn’t there? Because I don’t know what it’s like?
Maggie: You don’t.
Luis: You don’t have to be in a war to see people get killed for no reason.
Movie Quote of the Day – About Last Night, 2014 (dir. Steve Pink)
Danny: I don’t want to spend tonight, of all night’s, doing what we’re going to be doing all next year. . . fighting.
[Debbie leaves.]
Bernie: That’s my cue.
Joan: No. No. Debbie! No!
Danny: Fuck. Fuck.
Joan: Fuckin’ wonderful, asshole!
Bernie: You fucked that up, I’ll be the first to tell you that.
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!
Movie Quote of the Day – La Vénus à la fourrure (Venus in Fur), 2014 (dir. Roman Polanski)
Thomas: Shall I make some coffee?
Vanda: [laughs]
Thomas: What?
Vanda: Are you coming on to me, Tom?
Thomas: Certainly not! I’m just offering you coffee.
Vanda: Symbolic coffee?
Thomas: Not at all! Real coffee.
Vanda: Would your wife like you offering me “real” coffee?
Female Filmmaker Friday: Elle s’en va, 2014 (dir. Emmanuelle Bercot)
I wanted to see this film when it was in theaters earlier this year (I’m calling it a 2014 releases because that’s its U.S. release date; sue me), but somehow I missed it and was really bummed. Then the other day I was looking for something to watch on Netflix and it was in the suggested list! Sometimes Netflix gets it so right! This is Emmanuelle Bercot’s third film (she started out as an actress). I haven’t seen her other films, though I want to because this film had a very distinctive tone and I’m curious to see if her other films feel the same. She wrote this script specifically for Catherine Deneuve and it’s wonderful to see the actress really tear into the material.
Movie Quote of the Day – Vi är bäst! (We Are the Best! ), 2014 (dir. Lukas Moodysson)
Bobo: Say one good thing about my life.
Klara: You’re in the world’s greatest band.
Bobo: I guess that’s one thing, but that’s all there is.
Klara: You have a friend that really likes you. Two friends, actually. That’s all a person needs!
Female Filmmaker Friday: Obvious Child, 2014 (dir. Gillian Robespierre)
This is the movie all rom-com lovers needed. This is the movie we all deserve. This is a rom-com about women, for women, by women. This movie is everything. It’s also has some important things to say about very serious, timely political issues. It’s basically a perfect film and I can’t wait to see more from writer-director Gillian Robespierre.
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