Sunday, January 2, 2022

A Fourth Wave of Postcards

Entering our second pandemic winter we find ourselves very much ahead with global vaccinations on the rise, but still very much in it with the success of the Omicron variant. It's back to movies in this house. See you in the spring!

"Their vanity is greater than their misery." Burt Lancaster in Visconti's Il gattopardo (The Leopard), 1963.
"You think we're any better?" Anouk Aimée in Fellini's La Dolce Vita, 1960.
"It should be so easy to be happy, shouldn't it?" Julie Christie and Dirk Bogarde in John Schlesinger's Darling, 1965.
"Turns out lonely people are all the same." Tony Leung in Wong Kar-Wai's 春光乍洩 (Chun Gwong Cha Sit/Happy Together), 1997.
"What do you suppose my time's for?" Mae West in Lowell Sherman's She Done Him Wrong, 1933.
"What if we trusted each other?" Robert Downey Jr. and Rachel McAdams in Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes, 2009
"But one mustn't always forgive." Max Cartier in Visconti's Rocco e i suoi fratelli (Rocco and His Brothers), 1960.
"Do you lie to him often?" Romain Duris and Anaïs Demoustier in François Ozon's Le nouvelle amie (The New Girlfriend), 2014
"I hate lying." Amanda Langlet and Melvil Poupaud in Éric Rohmer's Conte d'été (A Summer's Tale), 1996.
"It's human to lie."  Toshirô Mifune in Akira Kurosawa's 羅生門 (Rashomon), 1950
"There are no liars." Caroline Proust in Engrenages (Spiral), Season 1, episode 4, 2005.
"Nightmares are alibis." Françoise Prévost in Jacques Rivette's Paris nous appartient (Paris belongs to us), 1961
"It's horrible, isn't it." Olivia de Havilland and Leo Genn in Anatole Litvak's The Snake Pit, 1948.
"This will end badly, mark my words." Kristin Scott Thomas and Fabrice Luchini in François Ozon's Dans la maison (In the House), 2012.
"That's when Miss Wang began talking to herself." Faye Wong in Kar-Wai Wong's 2046, 2004.
"No one can say what I will do, once I am back in my element." Utpal Dutt (right) in Satyajit Ray's Agantuk (The Stranger), 1991.

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3 comments:

  1. Quite the tour of cinema!
    I like your found lines very much.
    Lisa RR

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  2. Great selection! Thanks for the blog post. I am not sure I am "ready" for 2022, but here it is.
    Lisa RR
    I think the browser ate my previous post ...

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  3. Glad you enjoyed, Lisa. We were just a bit slow on the comment approvals. All fixed now.

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