Movie Meme answers

[koganbot]

Movie meme from four days ago, this time with answers for the ones no one got.

1. "That'll be the day." The Searchers, frequently uttered by the John Wayne character, inspired the Buddy Holly song. Screenplay by Frank S. Nugent. ludickid got the answer.

2. "Well, there is our Donovan. Three children and not one marriage. Oh, I do not say that he's the first man to put the cart before the horse, but three carts and no horse? Huh?" Cesar Romero to Elizabeth Allen in Donovan's Reef. Screenplay be James Edward Grant and Frank S. Nugent.

3. J: "Señor, the widow Gomez has delivered a son this morning - a boy."
M: "Bully for the widow Gomez!"
J: "But señor, it has been more than a year ago since Señor Antonio Gomez has been buried in the church house."
M: "Well, there are some men you just can't trust to stay where you put 'em." Jimmy Stewart in Two Rode Together, screenplay be Frank S. Nugent

4. "There is a Foreign Legion of women, too." Marlene Dietrich in Morocco, screenplay by Jules Furthman based on the play by Benno Vigny.

5. L: "The morning review compared you to a young Mozart."
S: "I was, very young. There was that much resemblance." Joan Fontaine and Louis Jourdan in Letter From An Unknown Woman, screenplay by Howard Koch and Max Ophüls.

6. "Whoever double-crosses me and leaves me alive, he understands nothing about Tuco." Eli Wallach to Clint Eastwood in The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly. Screenplay by Agenore Incrocci, Furio Scarpelli, Luciano Vincenzoni, and Sergio Leone. ludickid got the answer.

7. "I was born when she kissed me. I died when she left me. I lived a few weeks while she loved me." In A Lonely Place, starring Humphrey Bogart and Gloria Grahame. Screenplay by Andrew Solt. ludickid got the answer.

8. "Giulia is like Oscar Wilde; give her the superfluous and she will do without the essential." James Addams in L'Avventura. Screenplay by Michelangelo Antonioni.

9. "I fuck you right where you breathe." Johnny Boy (Robert DeNiro) to Michael in Mean Streets. Screenplay by Martin Scorsese and Mardik Martin. Guessed by dubdobdee.

10. "Listen Delly, I know it doesn't make much sense when you're sixteen. Don't worry. When you get to be forty, it isn't any better." Gene Hackman to a teenage Melanie Griffith in Night Moves. Screenplay by Alan Sharp.

Comments

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

where would you see these films in the US? only on DVD presumably? the ones that were got are on TV here now and then but not the other ones so much

[koganbot]

I'm don't really know what gets shown on TV these days, but a couple cable channels (TBS and AMC) showed plenty of old movies a decade ago when I still had access to a set. And maybe some regular stations fill up their late nights with movies, since there's no network fare, and they're likely to play any old thing. I'd guess that L'Avventura and Morocco get shown in reperatory theaters (to the extent that rep theaters still exist) in places like San Francisco and New York, probably also get shown in film classes. Those two are at least as well known as In A Lonely Place. I'd be surprised if Mean Streets gets shown on TV in the U.S. Too many cuss words. They're almost nonstop.

Where I first saw these:

College Film Society (early '70s, before I was in college): The Searchers, Letter From An Unknown Woman

College Film Society (mid '70s, when I was in college): Morocco, The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly

Rep theater ('70s): L'Avventura

First run ('70s): Mean Streets, Night Moves (I'm one of the few people in existence who saw Night Moves in its first run)

TV ('70s): In A Lonely Place

TV ('80s): Two Rode Together, Donovan's Reef

Of course later viewings could be in different venues; e.g., Morocco, Mean Streets, Letter From An Unknown Woman, The Searchers, The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly in rep theaters (latter two also on TV a lot but those may be the only two ever that I absolutely refuse to see in anything but the original ratio), In A Lonely Place and Night Moves at college. Don't think I've seen Two Rode Together or Donovan's Reef anywhere but on TV, though I suspect that they're not shown as much anymore, the first being a western and the second John Wayne, both passé.

Of course, VHS and DVD have superseded many of these other options.

[(Anonymous)]

AKinCLE pipes up:

That man you work with: I don't like him. It's not that I don't
like him. I think he's silly. His energy goes in the wrong places.

Did you know that Manny Farber has died?

[koganbot]

Hadn't heard about Manny Farber. He'd have been over 90. Great inspiration, of course. Creative.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

91: but those of my family who got this far (mum's mum and dad's mum) pretty much declared they were bored and wanted out, but sad for those left behind

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

Donovan's Reef is available through Netflix (stuck it on my list). Two Rode Together's a funny one -- no Region 1 (USA-format) DVD of it, but plenty of Region 2 (Europe) DVDs, particularly from England and France. Easiest thing to do is to order it from England and just pay the overseas shipping (dubdobdee could just get it for about four pounds).

http://www.amazon.com/Rode-Together-NON-USA-FORMAT-Reg-2/dp/B000F2UYHW/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1219617953&sr=1-1

What I'm trying to do now is get myself a region 2 DVD, which I can then rip to unspecified or different format on my computer.

A bunch are also available on VHS, but they probably screw up the aspect ratio.

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

Woops, wrong Amazon link. The thing to do is search Amazon UK:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-listing/B000C4ETEC/ref=sr_1_olp_1?ie=UTF8&s=gateway&qid=1219617989&sr=8-1