Showing posts with label Film. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Film. Show all posts
Saturday, 8 September 2018
Saturday, 16 June 2018
Sunday, 13 May 2018
Film quotes, #14: Rust and Bone
What am I to you? A friend? A girlfriend? A sort of mate? Like Fouad and the others? Do you fuck your mates? If you want us to continue, we have to do things well. We have to have manners. I’m talking about delicacy. You know what that is, you haven’t stopped being delicate with me. Shall we do it like this? Continue, but not like animals.
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Monday, 7 May 2018
Monday, 16 April 2018
Film quotes, #13: 25th Hour
You'll get a job somewhere, a job that pays cash, a boss who doesn't ask questions, and you make a new life and you never come back. Monty, people like you, it's a gift, you'll make friends wherever you go. You're going to work hard, you're going to keep your head down and your mouth shut. You're going to make yourself a new home out there. You're a New Yorker, that won't ever change. You got New York in your bones. Spend the rest of your life out west but you're still a New Yorker. You'll miss your friends, you'll miss your dog, but you're strong. You got your mother's backbone in you, you're strong like she was. You find the right people, and you get yourself papers, a driver's license. You forget your old life, you can't come back, you can't call, you can't write. You never look back. You make a new life for yourself and you live it, you hear me? You live your live the way it should have been. But maybe, this is dangerous, but maybe after a few years you send word to Naturelle. You get yourself a new family and you raise them right, you hear me? Give them a good life, Monty. Give them what they need. You have a son, maybe you name him James, it's a good strong name, and maybe one day years from now years after I'm dead and gone reunited with your dear ma, you gather your whole family around and tell them the truth, who you are, where you come from, you tell them the whole story. Then you ask them if they know how lucky there are to be there. It all came so close to never happening. This life came so close to never happening.
Sunday, 25 February 2018
The Shape of Water and the politics of cinema
Guillermo del Toro, quoted in Playback: Guillermo del Toro on ‘The Shape of Water’ and Taking a Political Stance in Art, by Kristopher Tapley, Variety
We told a story not through the agents and the scientists, but through the janitors, the cleaning women who had to wipe the toilets, emptying the trash bins, and from that moment, you are already taking a political stance.
Guillermo del Toro, quoted in Guillermo del Toro Explains How The Shape of Water Is About ‘The Beauty of the Other’, by Scott Huver, Vulture
[The amphibious creature] represents ‘the other.’ We’re living in a time where we demonize the Other. We are told we’ve got to fear. [We’re being told] everywhere, constantly, why we have to divide the world between ‘us’ and ‘them,’ whether race, religion, government [,] sexual preference, gender — anything that creates this fake division between us and them, and there’s only us. [...]
The movie tries to embody the beauty of the Other [...] What makes us different is what makes us great. It’s sort of Beauty and the Beast in a way that shows you that Beauty doesn’t have to be the perfect princess, she doesn’t have to look like a perfume-commercial model … and the Beast doesn’t have to be transformed to be loved, and he doesn’t have to turn into a boring fucking prince and renounce the essence of who he is. [...] Because, to me, love is not transformation. [...] Love is acceptance and understanding.
Excerpt from Guillermo del Toro's speech at the 2018 Golden Globes
Since childhood, I’ve been faithful to monsters. I have been saved and absolved by them, because monsters, I believe, are patron saints of our blissful imperfection, and they allow and embody the possibility of failing.
Sunday, 18 February 2018
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Thursday, 2 November 2017
Film quotes, #12: Fantastic Mr. Fox
Mr. FOX: [To the WOLF]: Where'd you come from? What are you doing here?
[Pause.]
Mr. FOX [Pointing at the WOLF]: Canis lupus! [Pointing at himself]: Vulpes Vulpes!
[Pause.]
Mr. FOX: I don't think he speaks English or Latin. [To the WOLF]: Pensez-vous que l'hiver sera rude? [To KYLIE, ASH and KRISTOFFERSON]: I'm asking if he thinks we're in for a hard winter.
[Pause.]
Mr. FOX: He doesn't seem to know. [To the WOLF]: I have a phobia of wolves!
[Pause. Mr. FOX raises his paw. The WOLF raises his paw in return.]
Mr. FOX: What a beautiful creature. Wish him luck, boys.
KYLIE: Good luck to you.
ASH: Good luck, wolf.
KRISTOFFERSON: Good luck out there.
Saturday, 28 October 2017
Friday, 18 August 2017
Film quotes, #11: Runaway Train
MANNY: I'll tell you what you gonna do. You gonna get a job. That's what you gonna do, you're gonna get a little job, some job a convict can get, like scraping off trays in a cafeteria, or cleaning out toilets, and you're gonna hold onto that job like gold, because it is gold. Let me tell you Jack, that is gold, you listenin' to me? And when the man walks in at the end of the day, and he comes to see how you done, you ain't gonna look in his eyes, you gonna look at the floor because you don't want to see that fear in his eyes when you jump up and grab his face and slam him to the floor, and make him scream and cry for his life, so you look right at the floor Jack, pay attention to what I'm sayin' motherfucker. And then he's gonna look around the room, see how you done, and he's gonna say, oh you missed a little spot over there, jeez you didn't get this one here, what about this little bitty spot? And you're gonna suck all that pain inside you and you're gonna clean that spot, and you're gonna clean that spot until you get that shiny clean. And on Friday you pick up your paycheck, and if you could do that, if you could do that you could be president of Chase Manhattan, corporations, if you could do that.
BUCK: Not me man, I wouldn't do that kind of shit. I'd rather be in fuckin' jail.
MANNY: More's the pity, youngster. More's the pity.
Saturday, 12 August 2017
Film quotes, #10: Sideways
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I like to think about the life of wine. How it's a living thing. I like to think about what was going on the year the grapes were growing; how the sun was shining; if it rained. I like to think about all the people who tended and picked the grapes. And if it's an old wine, how many of them must be dead by now. I like how wine continues to evolve, like if I opened a bottle of wine today it would taste different than if I'd opened it on any other day, because a bottle of wine is actually alive. And it's constantly evolving and gaining complexity. That is, until it peaks, like your '61. And then it begins its steady, inevitable decline. And it tastes so fucking good.
Friday, 23 June 2017
Art and social protest: Words Fly Away | Söz Uçar
The short film Words Fly Away (Söz Uçar) was directed by Tufan Taştan and is based on a story by Barış Bıçakçı. It refers to Nuriye Gülmen, a professor of literature, and Semih Özakça, a primary school teacher, who are on hunger strike to protest against the dismissal from their jobs and have been arrested and detained by the police in Turkey, as well as to Veli Saçılık, a sociologist, who has also been dismissed and was attacked by the police and hit with dozens of plastic bullets while protesting.
Kitaplardan geliyorlar | They flourished from books
"Nuriye, Semih, Veli..."
Sunday, 2 April 2017
Film quotes #9: Amadeus
SALIERI: Can you recall no melody of mine? I was the most famous composer in Europe. I wrote forty operas alone! [Suddenly inspired] Here, what about this one?
[SALIERI begins to play the First Movement: Allegro of Eine kleine Nachtmusik on the piano. FATHER VOGLER instantly responds by singing the melody]
FATHER VOGLER: [Happily] Yes, I know that! Oh, that's charming! I'm sorry, I didn't know you wrote that.
SALIERI: I didn't. [Pause] That was Mozart. [Pause] Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
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