Pic of the Day: “What’s he waiting for out there? What’s he doing?” “He’s whittling on a piece of wood. I got a feeling, when he stops whittling, something’s gonna happen.” (50th Anniversary)
Pic of the Day: “You found a flop, huh?” “No. Calling this a flop would be an insult to flops. We’ve found an apocalypse, a catastrophe, an outrage, a career-buster, a guaranteed-to-close-before-it-opens beauty! This is wine and women and song, and more women! Read it and weep.” “‘Springtime For Hitler: a gay romp with Adolf, Eva, and Company at Berchtesgaden’.” Wow!” “It’s practically a love-letter to Nazi Germany!” “This wouldn’t run an hour!” “An hour? That’s being generous. This play promises to close by page four!” (50th Anniversary)
Pic of the Day: “Rock him.” “You’re trying to get me to be his mother.” “Aren’t you his mother?” (50th Anniversary)
Pic of the Day: “And in the end I think I’ve learned the final lesson from my travels in time; and I’ve even gone one step further than my father did. The truth is I now don’t travel back at all, not even for the day. I just try to live every day as if I’ve deliberately come back to this one day, to enjoy it, as if it was the full final day of my extraordinary, ordinary life.”
Pic of the Day: “You fathers will understand. You have a little girl. She looks up to you. You’re her oracle. You’re her hero. And then the day comes when she gets her first permanent wave and goes to her first real party, and from that day on, you’re in a constant state of panic.”
Pic of the Day: “Honey?” “What?” “Where’s my super suit?” “What?” “Where. Is. My. Super. Suit?” “I, uh, put it away.” “Where?” “Why do you need to know?” “I need it!” “Uh-uh! Don’t you think about running off doing no derring-do. We’ve been planning this dinner for two months!” “The public is in danger!” “My evening’s in danger!” “You tell me where my suit is, woman! We are talking about the greater good!” “’Greater good?’ I am your wife! I’m the greatest good you are ever gonna get!”
Pic of the Day: “You’ve been tryin’ to get yourself hung for the last fifteen years Kid. This time I think you might have made it.”
Pic of the Day: “Maman, I am leaving here. I am going to Paris. I shall become a painter. I shall try to make a life for myself.” “You will… you will be lonely there, Henri!” “I will be lonely anywhere, Maman.”
Pic of the Day: “Maybe he loves you” “Me?” “Why not? He is like dogs. A dog looks at you, wants to talk, and only barks.”
Pic of the Day: “We don’t need each other anymore. When that happens to two people, there’s nothing left.”
Pic of the Day: “Fuck off, Logan.” “Oh. So, you remember who I am now.” “I always know who you are. It’s just sometimes I don’t recognize you.”
Pic of the Day: “What happened? You came here to tell me what happened. Why did you change your mind? Scared of hurting me? Look, Nettie… I’m the kind of guy you can’t hurt. It doesn’t matter.”
Pic of the Day: “Would you look at how fast they put the names of all our guys who got killed?” “That’s a World War One memorial.” “But the name’s are the same.” “They always are.”
Pic of the Day: “You gonna focus up now, motherfucker and say it! ‘It’s me, Tugg!'” “It’s Me Tugg.” “That’s right! Now, Tugg who?” “Tugg who? I don’t know. Who are you?” “Me? I know who I am. I’m a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude.”
Mike’s Top Ten of 1989
And we’re finally done with the 80s.
This is a very strong year, and I think that has to do with the growing independent film movement that would take over the 90s. You also get very strong top of the line stuff here. All the Best Picture nominees made the top 20 this year, and there were at least another two more options that could have made it and still kept the field as strong as it is.
Plus, the below the line stuff is all around solid. You can definitely tell we’re getting out of the 80s. Everything is starting to trend upward again. Even Disney! The Renaissance stars this year!
I feel like the top ten or fifteen will be largely the same for most people this year, with the exception of the two or three movies that are quintessentially ones that appeal specifically to me and likely are ones that most people haven’t seen as often as I have or don’t even know about.
But that’s what you come here for, isn’t it? (more…)
Pic of the Day: “You can lower your pistols, Lady Margaret.” “Unfortunately, I have no pistols.” “Your eyes. I’ve looked into pistol barrels that are warmer.”
