My Favourite Films of All Time - Part 5

Amour, Michael Haneke (2012)

"Anne: It's beautiful.
Georges: What?
Anne: Life. So long."


Chocolat, Lasse Hallstrom (2000)

"You don't misbehave here. It's just not done, did you know that? If you don't go to confession, if you don't... dig your flowerbeds, or if you don't pretend, if you don't pretend... that you want nothing more in your life than to serve your husband three meals a day, and give him children, and vacuum under his ass, then... then you're... then you're crazy."


Bonnie and Clyde, Arthur Penn (1967)

"You know what you done there? You told my story, you told my whole story right there, right there. One time, I told you I was gonna make you somebody. That's what you done for me. You made me somebody they're gonna remember." 


This is England, Shane Meadows (2006)

 "I just wondered if you'd like to be my girlfriend. I think you're lovely."


Full Metal Jacket, Stanley Kubrick (1987)

"These are great days we're living, bros. We are jolly green giants, walking the Earth with guns. These people we wasted here today are the finest human beings we will ever know. After we rotate back to the world, we're gonna miss not having anyone around that's worth shooting."


 Mona Lisa Smile, Mike Newell (2003)

  
 "I've heard her called a quitter for leaving and aimless wanderer. But not all who wander are aimless, especially those who seek truth beyond tradition, beyond definition, beyond the image. I'll never forget you."


Notting Hill, Roger Michell (2003)

 "Anna Scott: Can I stay for a while?
William: You can stay forever."


The Blues Brothers, John Landis (1980)

"They're not gonna catch us. We're on a mission from God." 


Citizen Kane, Orson Welles (1941)

"Mr. Kane was a man who got everything he wanted and then lost it. Maybe Rosebud was something he couldn't get, or something he lost. Anyway, it wouldn't have explained anything... I don't think any word can explain a man's life. No, I guess Rosebud is just a... piece in a jigsaw puzzle... a missing piece." 



The Woman Next Door, Francois Truffaut (1981)

"I suspect that Mathilde and Bernard won't be buried together. if I had to select an epitaph for them it would be, "Neither with you, nor without you.", but I doubt whether I'll be asked." 

My Favourite Films of All Time - Part 4

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, F.W. Murnau (1927)

 "For wherever the sun rises and sets, in the city's turmoil or under the open sky on the farm, life is much the same; sometimes bitter, sometimes sweet."

The Searchers, John Ford (1956)

 "That'll be the day." 

Rebel Without a Cause, Nicholas Ray (1955)

"If I had one day when I didn't have to be all confused and I didn't have to feel that I was ashamed of everything. If I felt that I belonged someplace. You know?"

Juno, Jason Reitman (2007)

 "Juno MacGuff: I think I'm in love with you.

Paulie Bleeker: You mean as friends?

Juno MacGuff: No... I mean for real. 'Cause you're, like, the coolest person I've ever met, and you don't even have to try, you know..."

 Girl, Interrupted, James Mangold (1999)

  

 "Have you ever confused a dream with life? Or stolen something when you have the cash? Have you ever been blue? Or thought your train moving while sitting still? Maybe I was just crazy. Maybe it was the 60s. Or maybe I was just a girl... interrupted."

Red, Krzysztof Kieslowski (1994)

 "Perhaps you're the woman I never met."

The Breakfast Club, John Hughes (1985)

"Dear Mr. Vernon, we accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for whatever it was we did wrong. What we did *was* wrong. But we think you're crazy to make an essay telling you who we think we are. You see us as you want to see us... In the simplest terms, in the most convenient definitions. But what we found out is that each one of us is a brain...

...and an athlete...

...and a basket case...

...a princess...

...and a criminal...

Does that answer your question?... Sincerely yours, the Breakfast Club."

Thelma and Louise, Ridley Scott (1991)

 "You finally got laid properly, I'm so proud."


Solaris, Andrej Tarkovskij (1972)

 "You love that which you can lose, yourself, a woman, a country."


Gone With the Wind, Victor Fleming (1939)

 "No, I don't think I will kiss you, although you need kissing, badly. That's what's wrong with you. You should be kissed and often, and by someone who knows how."