Film Balm

23/08/2021

"What are you doing here?"
"A couple of things. Taking a break from my wife, forgetting my son's birthday and getting paid two million dollars to endorse a whiskey when I could be doing a play somewhere. The good news is, the whiskey works."

Lost in Translation (2003)

dir. Sofia Coppola

21/08/2021

"I'm sorry, I don't know how to dance like Cassidy."
"Hey. You dance like Aimee, and that's perfect."

The Spectacular Now (2013)

dir. James Ponsoldt

20/08/2021

“I'll see you in the beginning, friend.”

Tenet (2020)

dir. Christopher Nolan

20/08/2021

"He's a monster for doing that to her."
"I understand that you're angry—"
"How does someone do that?"
"—you have every right to be. You hear me? But your brother — he's not a monster. He's not evil. He's just a human being."

Waves (2019)

dir. Trey Edward Shults

20/08/2021

“Show me your war face.”

Monos (2019)

dir. Alejandro Landes

19/08/2021

“I have no control over this, this evil thing inside of me — the fire, the voices, the torment!”

M (1931)

dir. Fritz Lang

19/08/2021

"I'm sorry, I don't know how to dance like Cassidy."
"Hey. You dance like Aimee, and that's perfect."

The Spectacular Now (2013)

dir. James Ponsoldt

19/08/2021

"With Major Lawrence, mercy is a passion. With me, it is merely good manners. You may judge which motive is the more reliable."

Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

dir. David Lean

18/08/2021

"He's a monster for doing that to her."
"I understand that you're angry—"
"How does someone do that?"
"—you have every right to be. You hear me? But your brother — he's not a monster. He's not evil. He's just a human being."

Waves (2019)

dir. Trey Edward Shults

18/08/2021

Moonlight (2016)

dir. Barry Jenkins

"I wasn't never worth s**t. Never did anything I actually wanted to do, was all I could do to do what other folks thought I should do. I wasn't never myself."

17/08/2021

The Su***de Squad (2021)

dir. James Gunn

"Recently, I made a promise to myself that the next time I got a boyfriend, I'd be on the lookout for red flags. And if I saw any, I would do the healthy thing and I would murder him."

17/08/2021

“In a very deep well, you can see a star even on the brightest day.”

Ivan's Childhood (1962)

dir. Andrei Tarkovsky

17/08/2021

Ivan's Childhood (1962)

dir. Andrei Tarkovsky

“In a very deep well, you can see a star even on the brightest day.”

16/08/2021

Magnolia (1999)

dir. Paul Thomas Anderson

“I have to take everything and play as it lays. Sometimes people need a little help. Sometimes people need to be forgiven. And sometimes they need to go to jail. And that's a very tricky thing on my part... making that call. I mean, the law is the law, and heck if I'm gonna break it. You can forgive someone... well, that's the tough part. What can we forgive? Tough part of the job. Tough part of walking down the street.”

16/08/2021

Yi Yi (2000)

dir. Edward Yang

“Every day in life is a first time. Every morning is new. We never live the same day twice.”

15/08/2021