Visible Quotes #4: Coffee and Cigarettes

Visible Quotes is our attempt to share some of our favorite lines in film, in their original context.  They’re always better in the movie, especially when the other option is your friend endlessly saying them.

We’ve been on a Bill Murray kick here with these visible quotes.  And this time we’ve got one of his greatest, and shortest performances.  Coffee and Cigarettes is veritable goldmine of incredible quotes.  The performances that director Jim Jarmusch pulled out of each of his stars are all amazing.

The basic idea here is several short conversations that we get to observe.  The people having the conversations are always smoking and drinking coffee, and they sometimes talk about that.  The participants include Iggy Pop with Tom Waits, Alfred Molina with Steve Coogan, several other interesting combinations, and my personal favorite, Bill Murray with RZA and GZA from Wu-Tang Clan.

I have no idea if the conversation that includes the pictured line was scripted or made up on the spot.  But regardless, its brilliant.  Just like the rest of the movie.

Cult Classics: Ginger Snaps Discussion, Part 2 of 3

Now we turn out attention to Ginger Snaps II: Unleashed with more Katharine Isabel and Emily Perkins! This installment of the Ginger Snaps series was released in January of 2004 and directed by Brett Sullivan, the film editor for Ginger Snaps.

 

Visible Quotes #3: The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou

Visible Quotes is our attempt to share some of our favorite lines in film, in their original context.  They’re always better in the movie, especially when the other option is your friend endlessly saying them.

Bill Murray is one of the greatest things to ever happen to movies.  And for the last several years, he has been at his best when he is being directed by Wes Anderson.  And my personal favorite from all of these partnerships is The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou.  The entire movie is beautiful, but Bill Murray’s performance is absolutely perfect.  And, in my opinion, this scene captures the character so wonderfully.

-david

Lara’s Jurassic Party

I recently turned the super ancient age of 24. Scary, I know. But the silver-lining (besides the gray hair) is that 24 is the DINOSAUR BIRTHDAY. Or so fate would make it seem. You see, merely days after birthday Jurassic Park was screened at my favorite place in the whole world, The Alamo Drafthouse. What a nice present from the Drafthouse! So, thanks to the genius of my friend, Aaron, it became very apparent that a JP themed meal was in order to celebrate the Life of Lara (despite the Death of Dinosaurs). I pulled together some ideas from Jurassic Park fanatics; Tyler, Brent, Daniela, Juliet, Laura, Aaron, and my own clever brain, put some of them to work (thanks be to Mitch, Jenny, Claire, Laura, Aaron, Beth, Stephanie, Juliet, Brittany, Nic, and mostofly, Tyler Boyfriend) and had the Jurassic Party of a lifetime. Hold on to your brunch.

Cult Classics: Ginger Snaps Discussion, Part 1 of 3

This Halloween, I watched a lot of horror films, as people often do around Halloween. Netflix Instant Play was awash with them (although regrettably only Ginger Snaps Back: The Beginning is on Instant Play right now. I had to find the other two movies elsewhere). I got the idea to talk about the Ginger Snaps movies because I pretty much marathoned them the week before Halloween. And so I begin with Ginger Snaps, the John Fawcett directed movie that began it all in 2000. I apologize if this takes a turn for the obnoxious. Graduate school is ruining me/making me awesome.

Top 5 Stores To Work In From A Movie

Yes, my good friends, this a Top 5 List.  Your eyes are not deceiving you.  It has been very close to a year since we did our last list.  But today marks a return to the traditions this blog was founded on.  So, without further ado, here it is.  The Top 5 Stores We Would Want To Work In That Are From A Movie.

To make this list, we had to put down a few ground rules.  Our first idea was simply jobs from a movie that we would want.  But it quickly become apparent that those would all involve Outer Space.  So, we changed it to jobs that we could actually have.  And that eventually became stores we would want to work in.  So, here it is.  As always, please let us know if we forgot anything, leave your own lists in the comments, and feel free to suggest any future Top 5 Lists.

Facial Hair Friday, #64

NEWS FLASH FHF

Here’s the deal. There’s been a lot of goings-on of late concerning my Favorite Event of the Year Every Year; the Academy Awards. And not the good kinds of goings-on, in which they announce that some movie-obsessed girl in Austin is going to be flown to the ceremony in order to sit between Will and Maggie Smith– but the kind where that same girl is stressed out of her mind because she is under the impression that her FEOTYEY is to be quashed. Let me describe to you the almost dire circumstances via men who have, at one point or another, had facial hair.

LINKS!!!

Its been a long time coming, but we here at Lara and the Reel Boy have finally added links to the side of our page.  Have you ever wondered what we read when we’re not posting fascinating thoughts for you to read?  Well, wonder no more.  Now, you can simply look to the right side of your computer screen to find the best news, opinions, and bizarre insights into film available on the internet.  And not only that, you can also find other blogs that we write for!  Who cares that there is only one entry in that category right now!  Everyone starts somewhere!

So, look through the links.  Expand your horizons.  You’ll love it!

Timothy Dalton loves to expand his horizons!

Visible Quotes #2: Flash Gordon

Visible Quotes is our attempt to share some of our favorite lines in film, in their original context.  They’re always better in the movie, especially when the other option is your friend endlessly saying them.

Today, we have Flash Gordon, one of my favorite movies.  What could be better than a comic strip/film serial from the 1930s being remade in the 1980s with tons of bright colors, a soundtrack by Queen, Timothy Dalton in bright green tights, and, most importantly, Max von Sydow as Ming the Merciless.  Ming is one of my all time favorite villains.  So, getting to see him played by one of the greatest actors of the last several decades is amazing.

His disdain for all living things, except himself.  His unending arrogance and faith in his own superiority.  His fantastic facial hair.  Its all there.  And its all perfectly captured in this scene.

-david

Visible Quotes #1: The Blues Brothers

One of the best things about movies is a good quote.  A really good quote can make just about any conversation a little bit better.  And if you’re the one that said it, you immediately become the envy of all of your friends.  But despite the joy of using film quotes in every day life, there’s nothing greater than seeing a truly amazing quote in it’s original context.  Which is why we’ve started this new feature called “Visible Quotes”.  And what better film to kick off a new feature than The Blues Brothers?