"Hi everybody!" (in the voice of Dr. Nick Riviera)

Hi everybody!

I have severely neglected my cinephilia the past 6-12 months, and I am desperate for a structured means of re-invigorating interest in my number one passion. I received a book this past Christmas entitled "1001 Movies To See Before You Die". Sounds like something right up my Bucket-List alley. After some rough calculations and a quick assessment of my temperament, I deduced that it would be a futile endeavor. As my volatile nature would surely leave me at 8 movies viewed, bored, angry at the requirement and abandoning the project. After daily reading of Roger Ebert's home on the web (http://www.rogerebert.com), I've deduced that tackling Ebert's "Great Movies" list, at 334 titles, was a much more reasonable endeavor. Hence, the impetus of this blog. Well... enjoy.

The balcony is open,
Ford

Thursday, March 3, 2011

Annie Hall - 1977 (4 of 334)


Utterly timeless. I rewatch this once a year. Very, very funny.

Favorite lines...
- "There's an old joke - um... two elderly women are at a Catskill mountain resort, and one of 'em says, "Boy, the food at this place is really terrible." The other one says, "Yeah, I know; and such small portions." Well, that's essentially how I feel about life - full of loneliness, and misery, and suffering, and unhappiness, and it's all over much too quickly. The... the other important joke, for me, is one that's usually attributed to Groucho Marx; but, I think it appears originally in Freud's "Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious," and it goes like this - I'm paraphrasing - um, "I would never want to belong to any club that would have someone like me for a member." That's the key joke of my adult life, in terms of my relationships with women."

- "Annie, there's a big lobster behind the refrigerator. I can't get it out. This thing's heavy. Maybe if I put a little dish of butter sauce here with a nutcracker, it will run out the other side."

- "After that it got pretty late, and we both had to go, but it was great seeing Annie again. I... I realized what a terrific person she was, and... and how much fun it was just knowing her; and I... I, I thought of that old joke, y'know, the, this... this guy goes to a psychiatrist and says, "Doc, uh, my brother's crazy; he thinks he's a chicken." And, uh, the doctor says, "Well, why don't you turn him in?" The guy says, "I would, but I need the eggs." Well, I guess that's pretty much now how I feel about relationships; y'know, they're totally irrational, and crazy, and absurd, and... but, uh, I guess we keep goin' through it because, uh, most of us... need the eggs."

SAW IT BEFORE! MANY, MANY TIMES...

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