elaine, 25, film student always, and the last to leave the theatre.

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May 29th
11:00

Fuck you! And your eyebrows!

May 24th
11:52

Now that I’ve met you, would you object to never seeing me again?

Claudia Wilson Gator: I’m really nervous that you’re gonna hate me soon. You’re gonna find stuff out about me and you’re gonna hate me.
Jim Kurring: No. Like what? What do you mean?
Claudia Wilson Gator: You have so much - so many good things. And you seem so together. You’re a police officer and you seem so straight and put together - without any problems.
Jim Kurring: I lost my gun today.
Claudia Wilson Gator: What?
Jim Kurring: I lost my gun today when I left you and I’m the laughingstock of a lot of people. I wanted to tell you. I wanted you to know and it’s on my mind. And it makes me look like a fool. And I feel like a fool. And you asked that we should say things - that we should say what we’re thinking and not lie about things. Well, I can tell you that, this, that I lost my gun today - and I am not a good cop. And I’m looked down at. And I know that. And I’m scared that once you find that out you may not like me.
Claudia Wilson Gator: Jim. That, that was so…
Jim Kurring: I’m sorry.
Claudia Wilson Gator: - great. What you just said.

April 17th
23:47

Jurassic Park kitchen scene.

DEAN CUNDEY (DP): That was actually one of the most complex and thoughtful sequences, and it’s always been one of my favourites in the film. Partly because when we walked into the set as it was being built, and I looked and saw that everywhere there was steel. But also it’s brushed stainless steel, which is particularly difficult because it reflects light and things in all directions. So we were constantly devising ways to hide the things that shouldn’t be seen, like lights and so forth, and yet create surfaces that the animators and compositors could put reflections in so that the illusion of reality was followed through with. 

Would you say that was the most taxing bit of the film? 

DEAN CUNDEY (DP): I think it probably was, because we were combining puppetry with visual effects, creatures…and again, doing Jurassic Park, nobody had photorealistic creatures in the computer before, so none of us knew anything about what they were going to look like when they were in, composited, any of the techniques we were just inventing them as we went along. Every shot required a great deal of thought. I think that a lot of the credit goes to the fact that Steven [Spielberg] was willing to find ways to accommodate all of the unknown, and as I would think of a potential difficulty on a particular shot and explain it to him, he would say, “Oh, okay, well how do we fix it?” and he was willing to listen to it rather than dismissing it and saying “Don’t worry about it”, and finding out later that it was less rewarding than you had hoped.  (via)
April 11th
06:28
Via

mappeal:

M. Night Shyamalan is somewhat the butt of the jokes right now but let’s remember Unbreakable

Four Pieces of Unbreakable, commentary by Jim Emerson

April 10th
07:58

Miss Misery by Elliott Smith. From Good Will Hunting.

April 4th
22:01

”..now I’ll pull my arms out with my face.” 

March 29th
16:50

Spoiler alert if you haven’t seen this movie, but Sean Bean is the bad guy, yet I still spent the entire time rooting him on. Especially after this sequence.

March 27th
08:19

“THINGS ARE WORSE THAN EVER.”

March 15th
22:47

“Done with fish.” 

March 14th
16:26

“Chuck your boyfriend, have a sandwich.”

March 13th
22:04

“Whenever I hear M83’s ‘Midnight City’, I think of the Sax Man in The Lost Boys.” - C.

March 1st
20:25
Via
bohemea:

And that scene also begins with dialogue that seems like fun, while it’s also laying more groundwork. We meet Lance’s girlfriend Jody, who is pierced in every possible place and talks about her piercing fetish. Tarantino is setting up his payoff. When the needle goes into the heart, you’d expect that to be one of the most gruesome moments in the movie, but audiences, curiously, always laugh. In a shot-by-shot analysis at the University of Virginia, we found out why. QT never actually shows the needle entering the chest. He cuts away to a reaction shot in which everyone hovering over the victim springs back simultaneously as Mia leaps back to life. And then Jody says it was “trippy” and we understand that, as a piercer, she has seen the ultimate piercing. The body language and the punchline take a grotesque scene and turn it into dark but genuine comedy. It’s all in the dialogue and the editing. 
- Roger Ebert on Pulp Fiction

bohemea:

And that scene also begins with dialogue that seems like fun, while it’s also laying more groundwork. We meet Lance’s girlfriend Jody, who is pierced in every possible place and talks about her piercing fetish. Tarantino is setting up his payoff. When the needle goes into the heart, you’d expect that to be one of the most gruesome moments in the movie, but audiences, curiously, always laugh. In a shot-by-shot analysis at the University of Virginia, we found out why. QT never actually shows the needle entering the chest. He cuts away to a reaction shot in which everyone hovering over the victim springs back simultaneously as Mia leaps back to life. And then Jody says it was “trippy” and we understand that, as a piercer, she has seen the ultimate piercing. The body language and the punchline take a grotesque scene and turn it into dark but genuine comedy. It’s all in the dialogue and the editing. 

- Roger Ebert on Pulp Fiction