Batman Returns (1992) dir. Tim Burton
The final shot of the film, in which Catwoman is seen looking at the Bat-signal, was added as an afterthought, literally weeks before the film opened. The shot had to be filmed on a weekend, less than a day after conception, with a double for Michelle Pfeiffer. That single shot cost $250,000. (x)
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…
Star Wars: The Force Awakens // 2015 // J.J. Abrams
“There has been an awakening. Have you felt it?”
So, my little Amélie, you don’t have bones of glass. You can take life’s knocks.
I’d do it all again if I had to.
In Secret (2013) dir. Charlie Stratton
73rd Golden Globe Award Nominations:
Best Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama:
Cate Blanchett // Carol
Brie Larson // Room
Rooney Mara // Carol
Saoirse Ronan // Brooklyn
Alicia Vikander // The Danish Girl
Sicario (2015, Denis Villeneuve)
You should move to a small town, where the rule of law still exists. You will not survive here. You are not a wolf. And this is the land of wolves now.
Sicario (2015) dir. Denis Villeneuve
Reality Bites (1994) dir. Ben Stiller
Time to meet God
You think I’d let him destroy me and end up happier than ever? No fucking way. He doesn’t get to win. My cute, charming, salt-of-the-earth Missouri guy. He needed to learn. Grown-ups work for things. Grown-ups pay. Grown-ups suffer consequences.
Gone Girl
dir. David Fincher
2014
I swear, you two are the most fucked up people I’ve ever known and I specialize in fucked up.
“I thought I understood it, that I could grasp it, but I didn’t, not really. Only the smudgeness of it; the pink-slippered, all-containered, semi-precious eagerness of it. I didn’t realize it would sometimes be more than whole, that the wholeness was a rather luxurious idea. Because it’s the halves that halve you in half. I didn’t know, don’t know, about the in-between bits; the gory bits of you, and the gory bits of me.”
Like Crazy (2011) dir. Drake Doremus
Sicario // 2015 // Denis Villeneuve
“Nothing will make sense to your American ears, and you will doubt everything that we do, but in the end you will understand.”
Ghosts are real, this much I know. There are things that tied them to a place, very much like they do to us. Some remain tied to a bunch of land, a time and date, a spilling of blood, a terrible crime… There are others, others that hold on to an emotion, a grief, a lost, revenge, or love. Those, they never go away.
Crimson Peak (2015) dir. Guillermo del Toro