Photo of the Day: Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty in Bonnie and Clyde (1967) © Michael Ochs/Vanity Fair

Bonnie and Clyde (1967) © Michael Ochs/Vanity Fair
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDAuaStv2Kk

Movie of the Day: Spartacus (1960)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZ6e8-94JRE

Kirk Douglas (Spartacus) and Jean Simmons (Varinia) in Spartacus (1960)

3h 17min | Adventure, Biography, Drama | 17 November 1960 (Brazil)

Director: Stanley Kubrick

Writers: Dalton Trumbo (screenplay), Howard Fast (based on the novel by)

Stars: Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Peter Ustinov, Charles Laughton

Memorable Quotes

Antoninus: I'm Spartacus! 

[everyone around Antoninus and Spartacus takes up the shout]

Antoninus: Are you afraid to die, Spartacus? 

Spartacus: No more than I was to be born.

Marcus Licinius Crassus: One of the disadvantages of being a Patrician is that occasionally you are obliged to act like one.

Julius Caesar: I thought you had reservations about the gods. 

Gracchus: Privately I believe in none of them - neither do you. Publicly, I believe in them all.

Julius Caesar: I thought you had reservations about the gods. 

Gracchus: Privately I believe in none of them - neither do you. Publicly, I believe in them all.

Spartacus: I am not an animal! Varinia: Neither am I.

Varinia: What are you thinking about? 

Spartacus: I'm free. And what do I know? I don't even know how to read. 

Varinia: You know things that can't be taught. Spartacus: I know nothing. Nothing. And I wanna know. I want to... I wanna know. 

Varinia: Know what? S

partacus: Everything! Why a star falls and a bird doesn't, where the sun goes at night, why the moon changes shape. I wanna know where the wind comes from. 

Varinia: The wind begins in a cave: far to the north, a young god sleeps in that cave. He dreams of a girl and he sighs, and the night wind stirs with his breath. 

[laughs] 

Spartacus: I wanna know all about you. Every line, every curve. I wanna know every part of you. Every beat of your heart.

Varinia: You like him, don't you. 

Spartacus: Who wants to fight? An animal can learn to fight. But to say beautiful things, and to make people believe them...

Spartacus: And maybe there's no peace in this world, for us or for anyone else, I don't know. But I do know that, as long as we live, we must remain true to ourselves.

Varinia: Please die, my love... die, die now my darling!

Photo of the Day: Jack Nicholson chilling out on the set of The Shining. 1980. © Albert Watson

Jack Nicholson chilling out on the set of The Shining. 1980. © Albert Watson

Movie of the Day: The Graduate (1967)

"Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me. Aren't you?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9C1BCAgu2I8

Dustin Hoffman (Ben Braddock) and Anne Bancroft (Mrs. Robinson) in Graduate (1967)

1h 46min | Comedy, Drama | 22 December 1967 (USA)

Director: Mike Nichols

Writers: Calder Willingham & Buck Henry (screenplay), Charles Webb (based on the novel by)

Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, Katharine Ross

Memorable Quotes

Benjamin: Oh my God! 

Mrs. Robinson: Pardon? 

Benjamin: Oh no, Mrs. Robinson. Oh no. 

Mrs. Robinson: What's wrong? 

Benjamin: Mrs. Robinson, you didn't... I mean, you didn't expect... 

Mrs. Robinson: What? Benjamin: I mean, you didn't really think I'd do something like that. 

Mrs. Robinson: Like what? 

Benjamin: What do you think? 

Mrs. Robinson: Well, I don't know. 

Benjamin: For god's sake, Mrs. Robinson. Here we are. You got me into your house. You give me a drink. You... put on music. Now you start opening up your personal life to me and tell me your husband won't be home for hours. 

Mrs. Robinson: So? 

Benjamin: Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me. 

Mrs. Robinson: [laughs] Huh? 

Benjamin: Aren't you?

Mrs. Robinson: Benjamin. 

Benjamin: Yes? 

Mrs. Robinson: Isn't there something you want to tell me? 

Benjamin: Tell you? 

Mrs. Robinson: Yes. 

Benjamin: Well, I want you to know how much I appreciate this. Really. 

Mrs. Robinson: The number. 

Benjamin: What? 

Mrs. Robinson: The room number, Benjamin. I think you ought to tell me that. 

Benjamin: Oh, you're absolutely right. It's 568. 

Mrs. Robinson: Thank you. 

Benjamin: You're welcome. Well... I'll see you later, Mrs. Robinson.

Benjamin: Mrs. Robinson, I can't do this anymore. 

Mrs. Robinson: You what? 

Benjamin: This is all terribly wrong. 

Mrs. Robinson: Do you find me undesirable? 

Benjamin: Oh no, Mrs. Robinson. I think, I think you're the most attractive of all my parents' friends. I mean that.

[last lines] 

Mrs. Robinson: Elaine, it's too late! 

Elaine: Not for me!

Photo of the Day: Billie Perkins, Jodie Foster and Robert De Niro on the set of Taxi Driver (1976)

Billie Perkins, Jodie Foster and Robert De Niro on the set of Taxi Driver. New York City. 1976. 
© Steve Schapiro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAGSoti_ejA

Movie of the Day: Strangers on a Train (1951)

1h 41min | Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller | 30 June 1951 (USA)

Director:  Alfred Hitchcock

Writers: Raymond Chandler (screen play), Czenzi Ormonde (screen play)

Stars: Farley Granger, Robert Walker, Ruth Roman

Memorable Quotes

[first lines] 

Bruno Anthony: I beg your pardon, but aren't you Guy Haines?

Senator Morton: Poor unfortunate girl. 

Barbara Morton: She was a tramp. 

Senator Morton: She was a human being. Let me remind you that even the most unworthy of us has a right to life and the pursuit of happiness. 

Barbara Morton: From what I hear she pursued it in all directions.

Bruno Anthony: I admire people who do things.

Bruno Anthony: When's the wedding? 

Guy Haines: The what? Bruno Anthony: The wedding. It's in the papers. Guy Haines: Well, it shouldn't be. Not unless they legalized bigamy overnight.

Bruno: My theory is that everyone is a potential murderer.

Mrs. Cunningham: You know, I read of a case once. I think it would be a wonderful idea! I can take him out in the car, and when we get to a very lonely spot, knock him on the head with a hammer, pour gasoline over him and over the car, and set the whole thing ablaze! 

[giggles] 

Bruno Anthony: [scowls] And have to walk all the way home? Oh, no. 

Mrs. Cunningham: [meek] No? Oh... 

Bruno Anthony: No, no. I have the best way, and the best tools. 

[raises hands] 

Bruno Anthony: Simple, silent, and quick - the silent part being the most important. Let me show you what I mean. You don't mind if I borrow your neck for a moment, do you? 

Mrs. Cunningham: [simpers] Well... if it's not for long!

Guy Haines: I may be old-fashioned, but I thought murder was against the law.

Barbara Morton: Oh, Daddy doesn't mind a little scandal. He's a senator.

Senator Morton: I'll have him called up immediately. 

Barbara Morton: Obstructing the wheels of justice, Daddy?

Guy Haines: It's pretty late to start flirting with a discarded husband.

Mrs. Anthony: Well, I do hope you've forgotten about that silly little plan of yours. 

Bruno Anthony: Which one? 

Mrs. Anthony: About blowing up the White House. 

Bruno Anthony: Oh, Ma, I was only fooling. Besides, what would the President say? 

Mrs. Anthony: You're a naughty boy, Bruno.

Barbara Morton: I still think it would be wonderful to have a man love you so much he'd kill for you.

Mrs. Anthony: Come see my painting. 

[walks into next room] 

Mrs. Anthony: Bruno, I do wish you would take up painting. It's such a soothing pastime. 

Bruno Anthony: [prolonged laugh] Oh, Mother, you're wonderful. That's the old boy, alright. That's Father. 

Mrs. Anthony: Is it? Oh. I was trying to paint Saint Francis.

Bruno: I have the perfect weapon right here: these two hands.

Bruno Anthony: Everyone has somebody that they want to put out of the way. Oh now surely, Madam, you're not going to tell me that there hasn't been a time that you didn't want to dispose of someone. Your husband, for instance?

Bruno Anthony: I have a theory that you should do everything before you die.

Bruno Anthony: How do you do, sir? I'd like to talk with you sometime, sir, and tell you about my idea for harnessing the life force. It'll make atomic power look like the horse and buggy. I'm already developing my faculty for seeing _millions_ of miles. And Senator: can you imagine being able to smell a flower - on the planet Mars? I'd like to have lunch with you someday soon, sir. Tell you more about it.

Guy Haines: You crazy maniac! Would you please get out of here and leave me alone? 

Bruno Anthony: But Guy... I like you. 

[offended, Guy punches Bruno in the face]

Senator Morton: One doesn't always have to say what one thinks.

Barbara Morton: Who's the interesting-looking Frenchman with the Darvilles? 

Guy Haines: His name's Antony... he's not French.

Bruno Anthony: Don't worry, I'm not going to shoot you, Mr. Haines. It might disturb Mother.

Det. Leslie Hennessey: [jumps into nearby car] Excuse me, madam. We need your help. We're chasing a man. 

Dowager: Really? How exciting.

Senator Morton: You had no trouble, of course, with the police once they verified your alibi? 

Guy Haines: When an alibi is full of bourbon, sir, it can't stand up.

Minister: [Last Lines] I beg your pardon, but aren't you Guy Haines? 

[Guy and Anne get up and walk away without saying a word to the man]

Movie of the Day: Some Like It Hot (1959)

2h | Comedy, Romance | 14 April 1959 (Japan)

Director:  Billy Wilder

Writers: Billy Wilder (screenplay), I.A.L. Diamond (screenplay)

Stars: Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon

Memorable Quotes

Jerry: Have I got things to tell you! 

Joe: What happened? 

Jerry: I'm engaged. 

Joe: Congratulations. Who's the lucky girl? 

Jerry: I am!

[at the booking office, trying to be hired] 

Joe: What kind of a band is this, anyway? 

Sig Poliakoff: You gotta be under twenty-five. 

Jerry: We could pass for that. 

Sig Poliakoff: You gotta be blonde. 

Jerry: We could dye our hair. 

Sig Poliakoff: And you gotta be girls. 

Jerry: We could... 

Joe: No, we couldn't!

Jerry: Now you've done it! Now you have done it! 

Joe: Done what? 

Jerry: You tore off one of my chests!

Joe: There's another problem. 

Jerry: Like what? 

Joe: Like, what are you gonna do on your honeymoon? 

Jerry: We've been discussing that. He wants to go to the Riviera but I kinda lean towards Niagara Falls.

Junior: Syncopators. Does that mean you play that very fast music... jazz? 

Sugar: Yeah. Real Hot. 

Junior: I guess some like it hot. I personally prefer classical music.

Junior: [Kissing] I think you're on the right track. 

Sugar: I must be. Your glasses are beginning to steam up.

Osgood: [referring to his mother] Right now, she thinks I'm out there on my yacht - deep sea fishing! 

Daphne: Well, pull in your reel, Mr. Fielding, you're barking up the wrong fish!

Sugar: Been waiting long? 

Junior: [gallantly] It's not how long you wait, it's who you're waiting for!

Junior: Look, if all you're interested in is whether I am married or not... 

Sugar: Oh, I'm not interested at all. 

Junior: Well, I'm not. 

Sugar: That's very interesting!

Sugar: If my mother could only see me now. 

Joe: I hope *my* mother never finds out.

Sugar: Story of my life. I always get the fuzzy end of the lollipop.

Osgood: I am Osgood Fielding the third. 

Daphne: I'm Cinderella the second.

[last lines] 

Jerry: Oh no you don't! Osgood, I'm gonna level with you. We can't get married at all. 

Osgood: Why not? 

Jerry: Well, in the first place, I'm not a natural blonde. 

Osgood: Doesn't matter. 

Jerry: I smoke! I smoke all the time! 

Osgood: I don't care. 

Jerry: Well, I have a terrible past. For three years now, I've been living with a saxophone player. 

Osgood: I forgive you. 

Jerry: [tragically] I can never have children! 

Osgood: We can adopt some. 

Jerry: But you don't understand, Osgood! Ohh... 

[Jerry finally gives up and pulls off his wig] 

Jerry: [normal voice] I'm a man! 

Osgood: [shrugs] Well, nobody's perfect!

Movie of the Day: The Night of the Hunter (1955)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7B7A_dawI8

1h 32min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 24 November 1955 (Argentina)

Director:  Charles Laughton

Writers: James Agee (screenplay), Davis Grubb (based on the novel by)

Stars: Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish

Memorable Quotes

Rev. Harry Powell: [when he notices John staring at the words "love" and "hate" tattooed across his knuckles] Ah, little lad, you're staring at my fingers. Would you like me to tell you the little story of right-hand/left-hand? The story of good and evil? H-A-T-E! It was with this left hand that old brother Cain struck the blow that laid his brother low. L-O-V-E! You see these fingers, dear hearts? These fingers has veins that run straight to the soul of man. The right hand, friends, the hand of love. Now watch, and I'll show you the story of life. Those fingers, dear hearts, is always a-warring and a-tugging, one agin t'other. Now watch 'em! Old brother left hand, left hand he's a fighting, and it looks like love's a goner. But wait a minute! Hot dog, love's a winning! Yessirree! It's love that's won, and old left hand hate is down for the count!

Rachel Cooper: I'm a strong tree with branches for many birds. I'm good for something in this world and I know it too.

Rachel Cooper: You know, when you're little, you have more endurance than God is ever to grant you again. Children are man at his strongest. They abide.

Rachel Cooper: It's a hard world for little things.

Rachel Cooper: [to Ruby, sobbing in her lap] 
Child... You were looking for love, Ruby, in the only foolish way you knew how.

Rachel Cooper: Lord save little children. The wind blows, and the rains are cold. Yet they abide.

Pearl Harper: [singing] Once upon a time there was a pretty fly, he had a pretty wife, this pretty fly. But one day she flew away, flew away. She had two pretty children, but one night these two pretty children flew away, flew away, into the sky, into the moon.

Rachel Cooper: A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit. Neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Wherefore by their fruits, ye shall know them.

Rachel Cooper: She'll be losing her mind to a tricky mouth and a full moon, and like as not, I'll be saddled with the consequences.

[repeated line] 
Rev. Harry Powell: [singing] Leaning... leaning... safe and secure from all alarms. Leaning... leaning... leaning on the everlasting arms.

Rev. Harry Powell: Lord, you sure knew what you were doing when you brung me to this very cell at this very time. A man with ten thousand dollars hid somewhere, and a widder in the makin'.

[last lines] 
Rachel Cooper: They abide, and they endure.

Movie of the Day: Rebel Without a Cause (1955)

1h 51min | Drama | 29 October 1955 (USA)

Director:  Nicholas Ray

Writers: Stewart Stern (screen play), Irving Shulman (adaptation)

Stars: James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo

Memorable Quotes

Jim Stark: I woke up this morning, you know... and the sun was shining, and it was nice, and all that type of stuff. And the first thing, I saw you, and, uh, I said, "Boy, this is gonna be one terrific day, so you better live it up, because tomorrow you'll be nothing." You see? And I almost was.

Jim Stark: Nobody talks to children. 

Judy: No, they just tell them.

Buzz Gunderson: You know something? I like you. 

Jim Stark: Why do we do this? 

Buzz Gunderson: You've gotta do something. Don't you?

Jim Stark: You can wake up now, the universe has ended.

Frank Stark: We give you love and affection, don't we? Well, then, what is it? Was it because we went to that party? Well, you know what kind of drunken brawls those kind of parties turn into. It's not a place for kids. 

Mrs. Carol Stark: A minute ago, you said you didn't care if he drinks. 

Mrs. Stark, Jim's grandmother: He said a little drink. 

Jim Stark: You're tearing me apart! 

Mrs. Carol Stark: [shocked] What? 

Jim Stark: You, you say one thing, he says another, and everybody changes back again! 

Mrs. Carol Stark: That's a fine way to behave! 

Mrs. Stark, Jim's grandmother: Well, you know who he takes after.

Jim Stark: 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?

Jim Stark: [sitting down, hugging his father's legs helplessly] Help me! 

Frank Stark: Look, Jim. You can depend on me. Trust me. Whatever comes, we'll, we'll fix it together. I swear it. Now Jim, stand up. I'll stand up with you. I'll try and be as strong as you want me to be. Come on.

Jim Stark: I don't know what to do anymore. Except maybe die.

Judy: I love somebody. All the time I've been... I've been looking for someone to love me. And now I love somebody. And it's so easy. Why is it easy now? 

Jim Stark: I don't know; it is for me, too.

Judy: I love you, Jim. I really mean it. 

Jim Stark: Well, I'm glad.

[Looking up at stars in a planetarium] 
Jim Stark: Once you been up there you know you've been someplace.

Ray Fremick: Do you go by another name? 

Plato: They call me Plato. 

Crawford Family Maid: He was a Greek philosopher. They 

[Plato turns away]

 Crawford Family Maid: You talk nice to the man, John, he's going to help you. 

Plato: Nobody can help me.

Plato: I used to lay awake in my crib at night and listen to them fight. 
Jim Stark: Can you really remember back that far? I can't even remember what happened yesterday.

Jim Stark: I don't think I want anything, I'm nervous. 
Frank Stark: My first day of school, I was so nervous, Mother made me eat so much, I couldn't swallow until recess.

Movie of the Day: North by Northwest (1959)

Cary Grant (Roger O. Thornhill) and Eva Marie Saint (Eve Kendall)

2h 16min | Action, Adventure, Mystery | 26 September 1959 (Japan)

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Writers: Ernest Lehman

Stars: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason

Memorable Quotes

[Thornhill is wearing sunglasses to hide his identity] 

Ticket Seller: Something wrong with your eyes? 

Roger Thornhill: Yes, they're sensitive to questions.

Eve Kendall: [Hanging by their fingers from Mount Rushmore] What happened with your first two marriages? 

Roger Thornhill: My wives divorced me. 

Eve Kendall: Why? 

Roger Thornhill: They said I led too dull a life.

Roger Thornhill: I didn't realize you were an art collector. I thought you just collected corpses.

Phillip Vandamm: Mr. Kaplan, you are quite the performer. First you're the outraged Madison Avenue advertising executive who claims that he has been mistaken for someone else. Next, you play the fugitive from justice supposedly trying to clear himself of a crime he knows he didn't commit. And now, you're the jealous lover spurned by love and betrayal. 

Roger Thornhill: Apparently the only performance that will satisfy you is when I play dead. 

Phillip Vandamm: Your very next role, and you'll be quite convincing, I assure you.

Roger Thornhill: No. No, Mother, I have not been drinking. No. No. These two men, they poured a whole bottle of bourbon into me. No, they didn't give me a chaser.

Roger Thornhill: Now you listen to me, I'm an advertising man, not a red herring. I've got a job, a secretary, a mother, two ex-wives and several bartenders that depend upon me, and I don't intend to disappoint them all by getting myself "slightly" killed.

Eve Kendall: I'm a big girl. 
Roger Thornhill: Yeah, and in all the right places, too.

Phillip Vandamm: What possessed you to come blundering in here like this? Could it be an overpowering interest in art? 

Roger Thornhill: Yes, the art of survival. 

Eve Kendall: He followed me here from the hotel. 

Leonard: He was in your room? 

Roger Thornhill: Sure. Isn't everybody?

Roger Thornhill: In the world of advertising, there's no such thing as a lie. There's only expedient exaggeration.

Eve Kendall: I tipped the steward five dollars to seat you here if you should come in. 

Roger Thornhill: Is that a proposition? 

Eve Kendall: I never discuss love on an empty stomach. 

Roger Thornhill: You've already eaten! 

Eve Kendall: But you haven't.

The Professor: War is hell, Mr. Thornhill, even when it's a cold one.

Roger Thornhill: How do we know it's not a fake? It looks like a fake. 

Bidder: Well, one thing we know. You're no fake. You are a genuine idiot.

Roger Thornhill: What's wrong with men like me? 

Eve Kendall: They don't believe in marriage. 

Roger Thornhill: I've been married twice. 

Eve Kendall: See what I mean?

Roger Thornhill: I don't like the way Teddy Roosevelt is looking at me.

Roger Thornhill: When I was a little boy, I wouldn't even let my mother undress me. 

Eve Kendall: Well, you're a big boy now.

Roger Thornhill: How does a girl like you get to be a girl like you? 

Eve Kendall: Lucky, I guess.

Eve Kendall: While I'm calling, you can change your clothes. 

Roger Thornhill: Where do you propose I do that? In Marshall Fields' window? 

Eve Kendall: I sort of had the men's room in mind. 

Roger Thornhill: Did you, now? You're the smartest girl I ever spent the night with on a train.

Roger Thornhill: Handle with care, fellas. I'm valuable property.

Eve Kendall: I want you to do a favor for me. A big, big favor. 

Roger Thornhill: Name it. 

Eve Kendall: I want you to leave right now, stay far away from me, and don't come near me again. We're not going to get involved. Last night was last night, and it's all there was, and it's all there is. There isn't going to be anything more between us. So please. Goodbye, good luck, no conversation, just leave.

Roger Thornhill: [to Eve] Who are you kidding? You have no feelings to hurt.

Roger Thornhill: [... ] it's something about my face. 

Eve Kendall: It's a nice face. 

Roger Thornhill: You think so? 

Eve Kendall: I wouldn't say it if I didn't. 

Roger Thornhill: Oh, you're that type. 

Eve Kendall: What type? 

Roger Thornhill: Honest.

Roger Thornhill: Tell me, why are you so good to me? 

Eve Kendall: Shall I climb up and tell you why?

Eve Kendall: How do I know you aren't a murderer? 

Roger Thornhill: You don't. 

Eve Kendall: Maybe you're planning to murder me right here, tonight. 

Roger Thornhill: Shall I? 

Eve Kendall: Please do.

Roger Thornhill: Sorry love, I'm sentimental.

Eve Kendall: Roger O. Thornhill. What does the O stand for? 

Roger Thornhill: Nothing.

Roger Thornhill: I may go back to hating you. It was more fun.

Roger Thornhill: When we get out of this, you can ride the train with me again. 

Eve Kendall: Is that a proposition? 

Roger Thornhill: It's a proposal, sweetie!