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3 things about Norman Lear’s COLD TURKEY
Cold Turkey [1971] 1. The Cold Turkey Doll says, “I love you. Smoking gives you cancer.” 2. Dick Van Dyke wears black socks with his running shoes. Was this as uncool in 1971 as it is in 2008? 3. Jean … Continue reading
LIKE LITTLE STARS
LIKE LITTLE STARS I remember the broken window of my grandfather’s garage, the broken lawnmower which hung from the rafters. I remember waiting until 5 to wake up. About 15 years later, remembering the past in a dream I’d just … Continue reading
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Senso [1954] 1. He lifts her veil to kiss her, but only lifts it high enough to uncover her lips.2. She sits down in a chair. He rushes over to her, kneels at her feet and rests his head in … Continue reading
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New York, New York [1977] 1. Liza Minnelli, complete with jazz hands: “Girls! Girls! Girls!”2. Tommy Dorsey taking a trombone solo, his wrist deftly making the changes on his plunger. Wriggling around to get that vibrato.3. The long corridor of … Continue reading
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Another for the quote file: “Love is space and time made perceptible to the heart.” –Marcel Proust
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from an old notebook
19 JUNE 1997 I dreamed I was having an affair with George Sanders in Rebecca. He called me up, asked me to spend the weekend at Manderley. I said, “Can you pick me up? It might be hard since I … Continue reading
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Giant [1956] 1. Mercedes McCambridge: “Yer gonna meet some folks! Yer gonna meet some folks!”2. Extreme long shot: she’s riding the bucking horse, trying to get it under her control. Cut to close up: her spur digs into the horse’s … Continue reading
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Demon Seed [1977] 1. The sizzling fragments of egg on the floor, smoking. The gas jets burning high. Julie Christie draped over the kitchen table, her sweaty nightgown clinging to her.2. Proteus: “Nothing is the answer to the question.”3. The … Continue reading
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3 things about Bernhard Wicki’s MORITURI
Morituri [1965] 1. Brando: Is my music bothering you? Trevor Howard: No. Brando: Would you like to hear the second movement? Howard: No. 2. A fairly astonishing shot where the camera starts out high above the ship then swoops down … Continue reading