“I wonder what the nice people are doing tonight.” –Dana Andrews, in While the City Sleeps   Director John Waters isn’t noted for making movies

“Somehow everything comes with an expiry date.  Swordfish expire.  Meat sauce expires.  Even cling film expires.  Is there anything in the world which doesn’t?” –Badge

–“Are you happy?” –“I’m not unhappy.” If you haven’t seen Jacques Demy’s The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, and this review piques your interest, I’ve got a

BEN, giving great weight to each word, and with a certain vicious audacity:  William, when I walked into the jungle, I was seventeen.  When I

“If there had been no Rasputin, there would have been no Lenin.”  –Alexander Kerenskey, Premier of the short-lived Provisional Government that followed the overthrow of

‘Fess up.  When was the last time you actually read a Henry James novel?  Even if you’re a fan of Great Dead White Authors, and

Sylvia’s father: “Shouldn’t you be getting out [of the car]?” Ben: “It’s Sinatra [on the radio].  You don’t walk out on Frank, Sir.  It would

If we have enjoyment, suffering, and birth in dreams, what about death?….What if you dream you have killed somebody? You may become upset and say

“And I made a rural pen, And I stain’d the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs Every child may joy to hear.” *****

“I always felt I was involved in a literary form. I had literary pretensions. I was a frustrated writer, and a frustrated artist. I took

“Sickened by virtue he rebelled and cried   For all things horrible to be his bride   For through the hot red tides of sin

“May you be painted by Picasso!”—Parisian curse James Ivory’s Surviving Picasso (1996) is a fascinating failure.  It’s as if someone made a pretty good film about