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Movie Quote of the Day – Les enfants du paradis (Children of Paradise), 1945 (dir. Marcel Carné)

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Baptiste: I love you. Garance, do you love me?
Garance: You talk like a child. People love that way in books, in dreams. Not in real life.
Baptiste: Dreams, life. . .they’re the same. Else life’s not worth living. But it’s not life I love. It’s you.

May 2012 in Films: French Films, Student Films and One Year in San Francisco

Sunday marked the one year anniversary of my return to San Francisco and boy what a year it has been. So much cinema. So many opportunities. I’m glad you all came along for the ride. I have some exciting news! The book that I contributed the foreword to is finally available for pre-order! It is called Lew Ayres: Hollywood’s Conscientious Objector by Lesley L. Coffin and you can pre-order it here. I watched a lot of student films at the Academy of Art University’s Epidemic Film Festival and did a few interviews/went to some Q&As with industry professionals. There’ll be content from that posted at YAM Magazine sometime soon. I also finished the Antoine Doinel cycle by François Turffaut and it was amazing. As always, the full list is after the cut, plus five favorites.

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