September 2009
71 posts
In Bruges (2008) On midgets...
Ray: A lot of midgets tend to kill themselves. A disproportionate amount, actually. Hervé Villechaize off of Fantasy Island. I think somebody from the Time Bandits did. I suppose they must get really sad about like... being really little and that... people looking at them, laughing at them, calling them names. You know, "short arse". There's another famous midget. I miss him but I can't remember. It's not the R2D2 man; no, he's still going. I hope your midget doesn't kill himself. Your dream sequence will be fucked.
Chlo: He doesn't like being called a midget. He prefers dwarf.
Ray: This is exactly my point! People going around calling you a midget when you want to be called a dwarf. Of course you're going to blow your head off.
The Oscar winning musical score for the movie The...
Craig Wedren—Roger Dodger End Credits
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“In Issue Number 141 of The Fantastic Four published in November 1973, Reed Richards has to use his anti-matter weapon on his own son, who Annilus has turned into a human atom bomb. It was a typical predicament for the Fantastic Four, because they weren’t like other superheroes. They were more like a family. And the more power they had, the more harm they could do to each other without even...
an evening with Miloš Forman
Legendary Czech director, Miloš Forman, appeared for a Q&A after a screening of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest last week as part of the Reykjavík Independent Film Festival (RIFF) (there was also a screening of Amadeus, one of my favorite films, with Q&A). The Q&A was as enjoyable as the movie because Forman was so candid with his responses.
Forman mentioned several times that...
“Donny was a good bowler, and a good man. He was one of us. He was a man who...”
– Walter Sobchak’s elegy for Donny, The Big Lebowski (1998)
King Crimson — The Court of the Crimson...
Jim Jarmusch’s choices of music and...
“To hate injustice and stand on righteousness is a difficult thing. Furthermore, to think that being righteous is the best that one can do and to do one’s utmost to be righteous will, on the contrary, bring many mistakes. The Way is in a higher place than righteousness. This is very difficult to discover, but it is the highest wisdom. When seen from this standpoint, things like...
“That’s one of the tragedies of this life - that the men who are most in...”
– The Palm Beach Story (screenplay by Preston Sturges)
Theme (from Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind)...
Josh: What's this?
Scotty Brennen: Pay day.
Josh: A HUNDRED AND EIGHTY SEVEN DOLLARS?
Scotty Brennen: Yeah. They really screw you don't they?
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