probably my favorite makes-me-happy movie of all time, Local Hero.
Me too. I had to have a moratorium on watching it for several years. I was watching it too much.
Gordon and Stella have one of the best marriages in movies.
Simon: I'm trying to put this as delicately as I can... How do I know you won't kill me in my sleep? Mal: You don't know me, son. So let me explain this to you once: If I ever kill you, you'll be awake, you'll be facing me, and you'll be armed.
'Serenity'
Buffista Movies 6: lies and videotape
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DavidS - Oct 17, 2008 8:35:10 pm PDT #8377 of 10000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Beverly - Oct 17, 2008 8:56:04 pm PDT #8378 of 10000
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
And Gordon is Wedge Antilles!
Or C-3PO. I forget which.
sumi - Oct 17, 2008 8:58:29 pm PDT #8379 of 10000
Art Crawl!!!
He's Wedge!
And Ewan's Uncle!
Gris - Oct 17, 2008 9:36:46 pm PDT #8380 of 10000
Hey. New board.
Love, Actually
Requiem for a Dream (if you like pain and suffering)
Frankenbuddha - Oct 18, 2008 3:29:38 am PDT #8381 of 10000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Martin Sheen is supercreepy and superfreaky in this.
I gotta admire the way he really committed to playing such a loathsome character. Between this and Badlands, he's lucky he didn't get thoroughly typecast a la Tony Perkins.
Barb - Oct 18, 2008 3:37:57 am PDT #8382 of 10000
“Not dead yet!”
Love, Actually
Pretty much any Richard Curtis film, although Love, Actually is probably my favorite. Also gets points for the best use of "Both Sides Now" in any movie scene. Just utterly heartbreaking.
And Bev, speaking of Peter Riegert it still gives me the giggles to think of him going from being Boone in Animal House to playing Sam, the Pickle Man. Damn, but AH had such an amazing cast.
Beverly - Oct 18, 2008 7:26:04 am PDT #8383 of 10000
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
I have Crossing Delancey and Green Card (shut up. I love the apartment. And the roof garden. And the composing on the spot scene is great. As is Bebe Neuwirth) on tape, and an unreliable vcr. I need to find them on dvd.
I never saw Animal House. Or The Blues Brothers. I have seen and read enough refs to and from them, though, that I totally grok the latter and can benignly overlook the former. Nerds, however? I & II? Oh yeah. I can't *not* recite the, "Clap your hands, everybody! Everybody clap your hands" faux rap from the techno talent show act at the end of I. Mark Greene, Elliot Weston, onstage together. Who'da thunk?
sumi - Oct 18, 2008 7:28:42 am PDT #8384 of 10000
Art Crawl!!!
Beverly - I love Green Card for the apartment and the roof garden too.
beekaytee - Oct 18, 2008 7:32:50 am PDT #8385 of 10000
Compassionately intolerant
Montichello!
Is it sad that I still know the name of the face cream that was the cause of their INS undoing?
Yes. I think it is.
le nubian - Oct 18, 2008 1:05:54 pm PDT #8386 of 10000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
I still don't get why that was a problem. I thought INS assumed people studied for the fucking interview. why is this an issue?