Category Reviews
The Year of Living Dangerously
The Year of Living Dangerously (dir. Peter Weir, 1984) “In focus, it’s pornography. Out of focus, it’s art.” – Billy Kwan played by Linda Hunt “As with all these movies, casting is the biggest rewrite.” – Pete Weir “That’s a story you journos don’t want to tell.”“Nobody wants to hear it.”“Tell them anyway.” – Billy […]
Against All Odds
Against All Odds (dir. Taylor Hackford, 1984) “If you’re playing a king in a movie and nobody treats you like a king, well, then you ain’t a king. Same goes for being an alien in a movie too.” – Jeff Bridges on acting “A righteously generically American film movement that exposited one great theme, and […]
Capricorn One
Capricorn One (dir. Peter Hymas, 1978) “My generation thought that if it’s on television, it’s true. I was sitting there one day watching TV and CBS News was covering the space shots. They would cut to a simulation in St. Louis, Missouri of what was going on with the Apollo missions. I realized that the […]
Running On Empty
Running on Empty (dir. Sidney Lumet, 1988) “but I’ve done three movies, Daniel, Running on Empty, and Family Business, that are thematically the same thing—the cost that others pay for one’s passions—and I only recognized this afterwards…. Any deep emotional commitment on the part of the parents is going to cost something… not just […]
The Beguiled
The Beguiled (1971, dir. Don Siegel) “You mean I shoot him in the back?” “Yeah, you get rid of him.” “I don’t shoot anyone in the back.” “….Clint Eastwood would shoot him in the back.” – Don Siegel directing a scene with John Wayne in The Shootist When it was announced that Sophia Coppola’s […]
Alien Nation
Alien Nation (1988, dir. Graham Baker) “We are not the same. I am a martian.” – Lil Wayne “Why the fuck… Why would you bring up that?” – James Caan when asked by the AV Club about his role in Alien Nation “Detect this!” – Detective Sykes (James Caan) as he throws a fellow detective’s keys […]
Year of the Dragon
Year of the Dragon (dir. Michael Cimino, 1985) “They’d have to get three actors to play me because two of them would die.” – Mickey Rourke when asked about his Biopic “Well, I guess if you fight a war long enough, you end up marrying the enemy.” – Oliver Stone’s original final line for Year […]
Single. White. Female.
Single White Female (dir. Barbet Schroeder, 1992) “Nothing more important… than to know… someone’s listening” – Wilco “Probably the best metaphor for the State was sexual obsession. An absorbing parallel world, a clandestine organizing principle. Men moved mountains for the sake of a few muscle contractions in the dark.” – Jonathan Franzen We’ve all had […]
Tangled Up in Blue
Devil in a Blue Dress ( 1995, dir. Carl Franklin) “In a very good mystery, the detective comes into question and the investigator is forced to face his, or her, own prejudices, expectations and limitations. In a great mystery, we find that the crime being investigated reveals a deeper rot.” – Walter Mosley “The most […]
Wolf
Wolf (dir. Mike Nichols, 1994) “They looked at each other bleakly, and laughed. Then they announced—they admitted—what weighed on them. It was the innocence of these husbands—the hearty, decent, firm, contented innocence. That is a wearying and finally discouraging thing. It makes intimacy a chore.” – Alice Monroe “Mike Nichols has chosen to do things […]
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