Movie lines I love:

BROWNIE: You hungry? [rubs stomach] Hungry?
 
INGE: I could eat a horse.

BROWNIE: Well we could find dat.

-from Sweet Land (2005)

Numerous awards including:
2005: Hamptons International Film Festival
         Audience Award - Best Narrative Feature

2006: Florida Film Festival
          Audience Award - Best Narrative Feature

2006: Newport Beach Film Festival
          Jury Award - Best Actress, Feature Film, Elizabeth Reaser

2007: Independent Spirit Awards
          Independent Spirit Award - Best First Feature



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Movie lines I love:

  
ELLIE: [her last message to Carl] Thanks for the adventure. Now go have one of your own.

- from Up (2009)

Up won 2010 Oscar for:
Best Animated Feature Film of the Year
Pete Docter  
Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score
Michael Giacchino

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Movie lines I love:

POOKIE ADAMS: Some people guzzle God like He was a keg of beer.

POOKIE ADAMS: It's gonna be nice to get away from all these weirdos.


POOKIE ADAMS: Sometimes you have to get away from the noise, you know?

POOKIE ADAMS: I think I've kept him alive waiting for me to die.

POOKIE ADAMS:  (Referring to her mother dying in childbirth) My first victim!

-from The Sterile Cuckoo (1969) 

The last three quotes above are all from this poignant scene:





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Movie lines I love: this time in honor of the Year of the Rabbit

I cannot think of a better way to usher in the YEAR OF THE RABBIT than by paying tribute to the quixotic and quirky film Harvey, starring Jimmy Stewart as Elwood P. Dowd. 



ELWOOD P. DOWD:  I'd just put Ed Hickey into a taxi. Ed had been mixing his rye with his gin, and I just felt that he needed conveying. Well, anyway, I was walking down along the street and I heard this voice saying, "Good evening, Mr. Dowd." Well, I turned around and here was this big six-foot rabbit leaning up against a lamp-post. Well, I thought nothing of that because when you've lived in a town as long as I've lived in this one, you get used to the fact that everybody knows your name. And naturally I went over to chat with him. And he said to me... he said, "Ed Hickey was a little spiffed this evening, or could I be mistaken?" Well, of course, he was not mistaken. I think the world and all of Ed, but he was spiffed. Well, we talked like that for awhile and then I said to him, I said, "You have the advantage on me. You know my name and I don't know yours." And, and right back at me he said, "What name do you like?" Well, I didn't even have to think twice about that. Harvey's always been my favorite name. So I said to him, I said, "Harvey." And, uh, this is the interesting thing about the whole thing: He said, "What a coincidence. My name happens to be Harvey."

ELWOOD P. DOWD:  Harvey and I sit in the bars... have a drink or two... play the juke box. And soon the faces of all the other people they turn toward mine and they smile. And they're saying, "We don't know your name, mister, but you're a very nice fella." Harvey and I warm ourselves in all these golden moments. We've entered as strangers - soon we have friends. And they come over... and they sit with us... and they drink with us... and they talk to us. They tell about the big terrible things they've done and the big wonderful things they'll do. Their hopes, and their regrets, and their loves, and their hates. All very large, because nobody ever brings anything small into a bar. And then I introduce them to Harvey... and he's bigger and grander than anything they offer me. And when they leave, they leave impressed. The same people seldom come back; but that's envy, my dear. There's a little bit of envy in the best of us.


ELWOOD P. DOWD:  Well, I've wrestled with reality for 35 years, Doctor, and I'm happy to state I finally won out over it. 

 - from Harvey (1950)

1951 Best Supporting Actress Oscar won by Josephine Hull for her role as Veta Louise Simmons in Harvey.

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Movie lines I love: this time, from my favorite film

It's a wrap on the Movies Lines I Love series with this quote from my favorite movie. Where I don't plan on doing future extended series of movie quotes as I have for the past two weeks, I do plan on posting one from time to time because I have loved reliving these movies, the emotions they stir, and the personal memories they evoke, plus having you share your thoughts (and other movie quotes). I needed a break from "regular" blogging and this series, just as The Movies themselves are, have been a great escape for me......oh! The Great Escape was such an exciting movie and a possible future post topic.

Old Postcard Wednesday will resume next week. As I said, I needed a break from my regular blogging themes.

JACK:  I want you to come to New York with me... 
LOUISE: What as?
JACK: Huh? 
LOUISE: What as? -- your wife; colleague; concubine; partner? What as?
JACK: Well, it's almost Thanksgiving... you can come as a turkey, if you like.

-from REDS (1981)

1982: Oscar, Best Actress in a Supporting Role - Maureen Stapleton
          Oscar, Best Cinematography - Vittorio Storaro
          Oscar, Best Director - Warren Beatty

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Movie lines I love:

 
GEORGE: You always could see through me, couldn't you?
DORIS: But that's okay, because... I've always loved what I've seen.

-from Same Time Next Year (1978)

Ellen Burstyn won the Tony Award for her performance as Doris on Broadway prior to playing the role in the film. 
She won the Golden Globe Award in 1979 for Best Motion Picture Actress - Musical/Comedy - for the movie role. 






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Movie lines I love:

      

   

Little girls! I am in the business of putting old heads on young shoulders, and all my pupils are the crème de la crème. Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.

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Deep in most of us is the potential for greatness or the potential to inspire greatness. 

-from The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969), Jean Brodie addressing her class

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Sandy, please try to do as I say and not as I do. Remember, you are a child, Sandy, and far from your prime.

-spoken by Miss Brodie

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A man with a wife and six children plus a schoolgirl for a mistress can be called any number of rude names, but "coward" is not one of them. 

-spoken by Teddy Lloyd

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JEAN BRODIE:  It was you who betrayed me!
SANDY:  I didn't betray you - I put a stop to you!

1970: Best Actress in a Leading Role

Maggie Smith in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

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Movie lines I love: on a full moon and always

If I knew I was dying and that I had time to watch only one movie that movie would be Moonstruck. When we walked our dogs on Saturday evening and saw the brittle-looking November full moon up there in a sky that may bring some snow flurries our way by early next week I knew what my next post would be. I took some photos from our yard after we returned home from our walk and you can view them at the end of this post.

La bella luna! The moon brings the woman to the man. Capice? 

-from Moonstruck (1987), spoken by Old Man

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RONNY CAMMARERI: I love you.
LORETTA CASTORINI: [slaps him twice] Snap out of it!

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Loretta, I love you. Not like they told you love is, and I didn't know this either, but love don't make things nice - it ruins everything. It breaks your heart. It makes things a mess. We aren't here to make things perfect. The snowflakes are perfect. The stars are perfect. Not us. Not us! We are here to ruin ourselves and to break our hearts and love the wrong people and die. The storybooks are bullshit. Now I want you to come upstairs with me and get in my bed!

-spoken by Ronny Cammareri

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COSMO CASTORINI: A man understands one day that his life is built on nothing,                        and that's a bad, crazy day.
ROSE: Your life is not built on nothing! Ti amo.

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LORETTA CASTORINI: I'm getting married.
COSMO CASTORINI: Again?
LORETTA CASTORINI: Yeah.
COSMO CASTORINI: You did this once before, it didn't work out.
LORETTA CASTORINI: The guy died!

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It's Cosmo's Moon!

-spoken by Cosmo's brother-in-law

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ROSE: Do you love him, Loretta?

LORETTA CASTORINI: Aw, ma, I love him awful.
ROSE: Oh, God, that's too bad.

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COSMO CASTORINI: You'll have your eyes opened for you, my friend.
JOHNNY: I have my eyes open.
COSMO CASTORINI: Oh yeah? Well, stick around. Don't go on any long trips.
JOHNNY: I don't know what you mean.
COSMO CASTORINI: I know you don't. That's the point. I'll say no more.
JOHNNY: You haven't said anything!
COSMO CASTORINI: And that's all I'm saying. 

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Everything is temporary!

-spoken by Loretta Castorini

1988: Oscar, Best Actress in a Leading Role - Cher
         Oscar, Best Actress in a Supporting Role - Olympia Dukakis
         Oscar, Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen

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Movie lines I love:

[Kinder has just finished a psychiatric evaluation of Reisman's troops]
MAJOR JOHN REISMAN: So what does that give you?
CAPT. STUART KINDER: Doesn't give me anything. But along with these other results, it gives YOU just about the most twisted, anti-social bunch of psychopathic deformities I have ever run into! And the worst, the most dangerous of the bunch, is Maggott. You've got one religious maniac, one malignant dwarf, two near-idiots... and the rest I don't even wanna think about!
MAJOR JOHN REISMAN: Well, I can't think of a better way to fight a war.
CAPT. STUART KINDER: These people don't know their enemy is the Germans. They think the enemy is their own United States Army!
MAJOR JOHN REISMAN: Maybe that's because the Germans haven't done anything to them yet. 

-from The Dirty Dozen (1967)

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I never went in for embroidery, just results.

-from The Dirty Dozen (1967), spoken by Major John Reisman

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Very pretty, General. Very pretty. But, can they fight? 

-from The Dirty Dozen (1967), spoken by Pinkley [impersonating a general]

1968: Oscar - Best Effects, Sound Effects

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Movie lines I love:

Life should be lived on the edge of life. You have to exercise rebellion: to refuse to tape yourself to rules, to refuse your own success, to refuse to repeat yourself, to see every day, every year, every idea as a true challenge - and then you are going to live your life on a tightrope. 

-from Man on Wire (2008), by Philippe Petit, highwire artist extraordinaire

2009: Oscar for Best Documentary, Features

         numerous other awards 2008-2009

And below. A song and video that have nothing to do with the documentary Man on Wire, but still seem apropros ......(We have tickets to see Leonard Cohen perform in Portland on December 8th and I am quite beside myself with anticipation) . . . . . .

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Movie lines I love: on Old Postcard Wednesday--Washoe County Library, Reno, Nevada

Well, it's a job just like any other. Good work with lots of variety. Monday, we burn Miller; Tuesday, Tolstoy; Wednesday, Walt Whitman; Friday, Faulkner; and Saturday and Sunday, Schopenhauer and Sartre. We burn them to ashes and then burn the ashes. That's our official motto.

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To learn how to find, one must first learn how to hide.

-from Fahrenheit 451 (1966), spoken by fireman Guy Montag

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Is it true that a long time ago, firemen used to put out fires and not burn books?

-from Fahrenheit 451 (1966), question from Clarisse

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THE CAPTAIN: Come on now, madam. We're going to burn the house.
BOOK LADY: No!
THE CAPTAIN: What do you want, martyrdom?
BOOK LADY: I want to die as I've lived.
THE CAPTAIN: You must have read that in there. Now, look, I'm not going to ask you again. Are you going?
BOOK LADY: These books were alive! They spoke to me!

-from Fahrenheit 451 (1966), conversation before a blaze

(Text on back of postcard:)

My hometown library, the library of my youth. A great and wondrous place where the dense air common around quantities of old books was freshened by live, lush foliage.....

Grab a book and sit next to a growing indoors tree and share in precious moments of absorption. Research for hours until you are seeing spots, then give your eyes a rest and your body some movement by tracing the circular stairs up and down each level. No running; the librarians will not tolerate it.

From the top level look out over the inside landscape of the library and feel in your bones that it is a part of you. Sense that you are blessed to have it. Fall in love with a place for the first time in your life and know you will never forget it.......

Decades later return to the library in downtown Reno to show it to your spouse. See that it is older but well maintained and appreciated, and is now a part of an area-wide library system. Breathe the library's tropical air. Touch a branch of a third-generation philodendron. Feel an inner peace and delight; remember. Select this postcard as a keepsake. Fifteen years later, share it on something called a BLOG for Old Postcard Wednesday. Provide a link to the Washoe County Library website, where the following information may be found:

By 1966, Washoe County had two libraries on wheels. In May of 1966, Reno saw the grand opening and dedication of the Downtown Reno Library, a gift from the Max C. Fleischmann Foundation to the people of Washoe County. The architecturally unique building designed by Hewitt C. Wells continues to serve residents and visitors to Downtown Reno. 

Be thankful that Fahrenheit 451 is only fiction.


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Movie lines I love:

Nobody's perfect. There was never a perfect person around. You just have half-angel and half-devil in you. 

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This farmer, he had a big spread and a lot of money. Whoever was sitting in the chair when he'd come around, why did they stand up and give it to him? Wasn't no harm in him. You'd give him a flower, he'd keep it forever. He was headed for the boneyard any minute. But he wasn't really goin' around squawkin' about it like some people. In one way, I felt sorry for him, 'cause he had nobody to stand out for him, be by his side, hold his hand when he needs attention or somethin'. That's touchin'. 

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I'm been thinkin' what to do with my future. I could be a mud doctor, checkin' out the earth underneath.

-from Days of Heaven (1978), voice-over narration of 13-year-old Linda.

1979: Best Cinematography
Néstor Almendros for Days of Heaven 

Hollywood Outsider review of film: Lost Treasures--Days of Heaven


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