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A Year With Women: August 2015 in Films
So I watched less films in August than I did in July despite being less busy (I don’t even know), but I did see a lot of films in theaters this month, including finally being able to go to the New Beverly (they did a Lina Wertmüller double feature last week). I also saw four movies this month that I really, really disliked, so it was an interesting month for me. Oh, I also posted the results from my poll about essential films by women. In case you missed it, you can read that post here. As always, a list of all the films I watched can be found after the cut, as well as my five favorites.
Movie Quote of the Day – Endless Love, 2014 (dir. Shana Feste)
David: We don’t have to do this. As much as I want to, I can wait.
Jade: I don’t wanna wait. I wanna feel this with you.
Movie Quote of the Day – This Is My Life, 1992 (dir. Nora Ephron)
Dottie Ingels: I spend 16 years doing nothing but thinking about them and now I spend three months thinking about myself and I feel like I’ve murdered them.
Arnold Moss: You had to travel. It’s part of your work. Kids are happy when their mother’s happy.
Dottie Ingels: No they’re not. Everyone says that, but it’s not true. Kids are happy if you’re there. You give kids a choice: your mother in the next room on the verge of suicide versus your mother in Hawaii in ecstasy, they choose suicide in the next room. Believe me.
Movie Quote of the Day – Bessie, 2015 (dir. Dee Rees)
Ma Rainey: Now how that feel?
Bessie Smith: Like I’m about to fall.
Ma Rainey: That’s how it should feel every night. If you’re not risking nothing, neither will they.
Movie Quote of the Day – Frozen, 2013 (dir. Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee)
Anna: Olaf! You’re melting!
Olaf: Some people are worth melting for.
Movie Quote of the Day – Song One, 2015 (dir. Kate Barker-Froyland)
James Forester: You know, the best thing about playing? You know when you have a feeling and you don’t want to fade away, but you don’t really know how to keep it? Well, that feeling comes back when I play, like I can keep it. No. . .No talking, no disappointing anyone for three to five whole minutes.
Franny: You should try playing longer songs.
James Forester: Yeah, I should.
Movie Quote of the Day – Travolti da un insolito destino nell’azzurro mare d’agosto (Swept Away. . .by an Unusual Destiny in the Blue Sea of August), 1974 (dir. Lina Wertmüller)
Raffaella Pavone Lanzetti: Why don’t those shits come and get us? Why haven’t they come to get us? What have they been doing all night? Nothing! The sea is vast but it’s nothing compared to the stupidity of people.
Movie Quote of the Day – Little Accidents, 2015 (dir. Sara Colangelo)
Owen: I’m not very popular, but I have a few good friends.
Diane: Well, that’s really all you need. I think people with a lot of friends are usually not that interesting.
Movie Quote of the Day – Bachelorette, 2012 (dir. Leslye Headland)
Regan: Okay, how much cash do you guys have?
Katie: I have 5 maxed out credit cards!
Gena: I have a twen. . .actually I ripped it. I got nothing.
Regan: Well, that sums up your lives.
Movie Quote of the Day – Sudden Manhattan, 1996 (dir. Adrienne Shelly)
Dominga: You feel that you are not being loved the way you would like to be loved.
Donna: Who is?
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