Apocalypse Now (1979)
Watched: 10 March
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Cast: Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Dennis Hopper
Synopsis: During the U.S./Vietnam War, Captain Willard is sent on a dangerous mission into Cambodia to assassinate a renegade colonel who has set himself up as a god among a local tribe.
Favorite quote: I've seen horrors... horrors that you've seen. But you have no right to call me a murderer. You have a right to kill me. You have a right to do that... but you have no right to judge me. It's impossible for words to describe what is necessary to those who do not know what horror means. Horror... Horror has a face... and you must make a friend of horror. Horror and moral terror are your friends. If they are not, then they are enemies to be feared. They are truly enemies! - Colonel Walter E. Kurtz, Marlon Brando
Bachelorette (2012)
Watched: 04 May
Director: Leslye Headland
Cast: Kirsten Dunst, Isla Fisher, Lizzy Caplan, Rebel Wilson, James Marsden, Adam Scott
Synopsis: Three friends are asked to be bridesmaids at a wedding of a woman they used to ridicule back in high school.
Favorite Quote: Dale (Hayes MacArthur): You know how there are, like, serial killers, and then there's Hannibal Lecter? Trevor (James Marsden): Yeah? Clyde (Adam Scott): There are girls, and then there's Regan.
Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid (1969)
Watched: 11 March
Director: George Roy Hill
Cast: Robert Redford, Paul Newman
Synopsis: Two Western bank/train robbers flee to Bolivia when the law gets too close.
Favorite Quote: Butch Cassidy (Paul Newman): Alright. I'll jump first. Sundance Kid (Robert Redford): No. Butch Cassidy: Then you jump first. Sundance Kid: No, I said. Butch Cassidy: What's the matter with you? Sundance Kid: I can't swim. Butch Cassidy: Are you crazy? The fall will probably kill you. Sundance Kid: Oh, shit...
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Watched: 26 June
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Cast: Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee
Synopsis: In future Britain, charismatic delinquent Alex DeLarge is jailed and volunteers for an experimental aversion therapy developed by the government in an effort to solve society's crime problem, but not all goes to plan.
Favorite Quote: Alex (Malcolm McDowell): You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me that all this ultraviolence and killing is wrong, wrong, and terribly wrong. I've learned me lesson, sir. I've seen now what I've never seen before. I'm cured! Praise god! Dr. Brodsky (Carl Duering): You're not cured yet, boy.
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
Watched: 19 March
Director: David Fincher
Cast: Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Taraji P. Henson, Tilda Swinton
Synopsis: Tells the story of Benjamin Button, a man who starts aging backwards with bizarre consequences.
Favorite Quote: For what it's worth: it's never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There's no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again. - Benjamin Button, Brad Pitt
Fight Club (1999)
Watched: 29 April
Director: David Fincher
Cast: Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, Helena Bonham Carter
Synopsis: An insomniac office worker looking for a way to change his life crosses paths with a devil-may-care soap maker and they form an underground fight club that evolves into something much, much more.
Favorite Quote: And then, something happened. I let go. Lost in oblivion. Dark and silent and complete. I found freedom. Losing all hope was freedom. - Narrator, Edward Norton
Friends With Kids (2011)
Watched: 20 October
Director: Jennifer Westfeldt
Cast: Jennifer Westfeldt, Adam Scott, Jon Hamm, Kristen Wiig, Chris O'Dowd, Maya Rudolph
Synopsis: Two best friends decide to have a child together while keeping their relationship platonic, so they can avoid the toll kids can take on romantic relationships.
Favorite Quote: You think that we don't love each other? You know, I have loved this girl for nineteen years, Ben. That is fully half my life. I know everything there is to know about her. I know the mood she's in when she wakes up in the morning - always happy, ready for the day. Can you imagine? I know that she is honest; she won't even take the little shampoo bottles from the hotel room, or sneak into the movie theater for a double feature. She always buys a second ticket. Always. I know that we have the same values, we have the same taste, we have the same sense of humor. I know that we both think that organized religion is completely full of shit. I know that if she is ever paralyzed from the neck down, she would like me to unplug her - and I will. I know her position on just about everything, and I am on board. I am on board with everything about her, so you tell me, Ben. What better woman could I have picked to be the mother of my child? - Jason Fryman, Adam Scott
The Game (1997)
Watched: 23 April
Director: David Fincher
Cast: Michael Douglas, Sean Penn
Synopsis: Wealthy financier Nicholas Van Orton gets a strange birthday present from wayward brother Conrad: a live-action game that consumes his life.
Favorite Quote: Discovering the object of the game *is* the object of the game. - Daniel Schorr
Heathers (1989)
Watched: 08 June
Director: Michael Lehmann
Cast: Winona Ryder, Christian Slater, Shannen Doherty
Synopsis: A girl who half-heartedly tries to be part of the "in crowd" of her school meets a rebel who teaches her a more devious way to play social politics.
Favorite Quote: People will look at the ashes of Westerburg and say, 'Now there's a school that self-destructed, not because society didn't care, but because the school was society.' Now that's deep. - J.D., Christian Slater
"Jagten" (The Hunt) (2012)
Watched: 13 May
Director: Thomas Vinterberg
Cast: Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larson, Annika Wedderkopp
Synopsis: A teacher lives a lonely life, all the while struggling over his son's custody. His life slowly gets better as he finds love and receives good news from his son, but his new luck is about to be brutally shattered by an innocent little lie.
Favorite Quote; The world is full of evil but if we hold on to each other, it goes away. - Lucas, Mads Mikkelsen
Les Misérables (2012)
Watched: 15 April
Director: Tom Hooper
Cast: Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried, Eddie Redmayne, Helena Bonham Carter, Sacha Baron Cohen, Samantha Barks, Aaron Tveit
Synopsis: In 19th-century France, Jean Valjean, who for decades has been hunted by the ruthless policeman Javert after he breaks parole, agrees to care for factory worker Fantine's daughter, Cosette. The fateful decision changes their lives forever.
Favorite Quote: This is the land I fought for liberty, now when we fight, we fight for bread... here is the thing about equality, everyone's equal when they're dead. - Gavroche, Daniel Huttlestone
No Country For Old Men (2007)
Watched: 04 May
Director: Joel and Ethan Cohen
Cast: Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Tommy Lee Jones, Kelly MacDonald
Synopsis: Violence and mayhem ensue after a hunter stumbles upon a drug deal gone wrong and more than two million dollars in cash near the Rio Grande.
Favorite Quote: Man who hires Wells (Stephen Root): [about Chigurh (Javier Bardem)] Just how dangerous is he? Carson Wells (Woody Harrelson): Compared to what? The bubonic plague?
Pump Up The Volume (1990)
Watched: 21 June
Director: Allan Moyle
Cast: Christian Slater, Samantha Mathis
Synopsis: Mark runs a pirate radio station and causes an uproar when he speaks his mind and enthralls fellow teens.
Favorite Quote: You hear about some kid who did something stupid, something desperate; what possessed him? How could he do such a terrible thing? Well, it's really quite simple, actually. Consider the life of a teenager - you have parents, teachers telling you what to do, you have movies, magazines and TV telling you what to do, but you know what you have to do. Your job, your purpose is to get accepted, get a cute girlfriend, think up something great to do with the rest of your life. What if you're confused and can't imagine a career? What if you're funny looking and can't get a girlfriend? You see, no-one wants to hear it. But the terrible secret is that being young is sometimes less fun than being dead. - Mark Hunter (Hard Harry), Christian Slater
Trance (2013)
Watched: 16 September
Director: Danny Boyle
Cast: James McAvoy, Vincent Cassel, Rosario Dawson
Synopsis: An art auctioneer who has become mixed up with a group of criminals partners with a hypnotherapist in order to recover a lost painting.
Favorite Quote: To be yourself you have to constantly remember yourself. - Elizabeth, Rosario Dawson
Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)
Watched: 27 May
Director: Woody Allen
Cast: Javier Bardem, Scarlett Johansson, Rebecca Hall, Penélope Cruz
Synopsis: Two girlfriends on a summer holiday in Spain become enamored with the same painter, unaware that his ex-wife, with whom he has a tempestuous relationship, is about to re-enter the picture.
Favorite Quote: Cristina (Scarlett Johansson): What's in Oviedo? Juan Antonio (Javier Bardem): I go to see a sculpture, that is very inspiring to me. A very beautiful sculpture. You will love it. Vicky (Rebecca Hall): Oh, right. you're asking us to fly to Oviedo and back. Juan Antonio: Mmmm. No, we'll spend the weekend. I mean, I'll show you around the city, and we'll eat well. We'll drink good wine. We'll make love. Vicky: Yeah, who exactly is going to make love? Juan Antonio: Hopefully, the three of us.
The Way We Were (1973)
Watched: 05 May
Director: Sydney Pollack
Cast: Robert Redford, Barbara Streisand
Synopsis: Two desperate people have a wonderful romance, but their political views and convictions drive them apart.
Favorite Quote: Your girl is lovely, Hubbell. - Katie Morosky Gardner, Barbara Streisand
When Harry Met Sally... (1989)
Watched: 19 June
Director: Rob Reiner
Cast: Meg Ryan, Billy Crystal
Synopsis: Harry and Sally have known each other for years, and are very good friends, but they fear sex would ruin the friendship.
Favorite Quote: Harry Burns (Billy Crystal): There are two kinds of women: high maintenance and low maintenance. Sally Albright (Meg Ryan): Which one am I? Harry Burns: You're the worst kind; you're high maintenance but you think you're low maintenance. Sally Albright: I don't see that. Harry Burns: You don't see that? Waiter, I'll begin with a house salad, but I don't want the regular dressing. I'll have the balsamic vinegar and oil, but on the side. And then the salmon with the mustard sauce, but I want the mustard sauce on the side. "On the side" is a very big thing for you. Sally Albright: Well, I just want it the way I want it. Harry Burns: I know; high maintenance.
There Will Be Blood (2007)
Watched: 05 June
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano
Synopsis: A story of family, religion, hatred, oil and madness, focusing on a turn-of-the-century prospector in the early days of the business.
Favorite Quote: Do you think God is going to come down here and save you for being stupid? He doesn't save stupid people, Abel. - Eli Sunday, Paul Dano
