Sunday, September 26, 2010

Rough Top 10 (Happy birthday to me!)

Because it’s my birthday weekend, and I felt like being a little indulgent.

#. Film title (Release year; Director)

1. Big Fish (2003; Tim Burton)
“They say when you meet the love of your life, time stops.”


2. Fantasia (1940; Various)
“Musically and dramatically, we have here a picture of the struggle between the profane and the sacred.”


3. The Trial (1962; Orson Welles)
“It is said that the logic of this story is that of a dream… or a nightmare.”


4. The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928; Carl Theodor Dreyer)
“Are you in a state of grace right now?”
“If I am, then may God keep me there.”


5. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968; Stanley Kubrick)
“I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do.”


6. The Night of the Hunter (1955; Charles Laughton)
“It’s a hard world for little things.”


7. The Godfather Part II (1974; Francis Ford Coppola)
“I don’t feel that I need to wipe out everybody, Tom. Just my enemies.”


8. Fargo (1996; Joel Coen)
“Two more months.”


9. Princess Mononoke (1997; Hayao Miyazaki)
“Pay attention, everyone. I’m going to show you how to kill a God.”


10. The Mirror (1975; Andrei Tarkovsky)
“And I can't wait to see this dream in which I'll be a child again and feel happy again because everything will still be ahead, everything will be possible...”



[Next time, I'll have an actual piece of writing prepared. Cross my heart.]

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