The Hurt Locker
“The rush of battle is a potent and often lethal addiction, for war is a drug.” – Chris Hedges quotation from the opening credits.
Tag: Best Picture
The 87th Academy Awards – My Picks – and how it all played out.
My Picks for the 2015 Oscars
The Godfather: Part II
“There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.” – Al Pacino as Michael Corleone
The Grapes of Wrath
“I been thinking about us, too, about our people living like pigs and good rich land layin’ fallow. Or maybe one guy with a million acres and a hundred thousand farmers starvin’. And I been wonderin’ if all our folks got together and yelled…” – Henry Fonda as Tom Joad
Slumdog Millionaire
“When somebody asks me a question, I tell them the answer.” – Dev Patel as Jamal Malik
Amadeus
“He was my idol. Mozart, I can’t think of a time when I didn’t know his name.” – F. Murray Abraham as Antonio Salieri
All About Eve
“Fasten your seatbelts, it’s going to be a bumpy night!” – Bette Davis as Margo Channing
Lawrence of Arabia
“So long as the Arabs fight tribe against tribe, so long will they be a little people, a silly people, greedy, barbarous, and cruel, as you are.” – Peter O’Toole as T.E. Lawrence
Did You See That One? 