Daily Dialogue 2009

All of the Daily Dialogue posts from 2009.

January 1 — All the President’s Men: “Half the country never even heard of the word Watergate…”

January 2 — Howl’s Moving Castle: “I’m such a big coward, all I do is hide. All of this magic is to keep…”

January 3 — Serenity: “So here is us, on the raggedy edge. Don’t push me, and I won’t push you…”

January 4 — Moonstruck: “We are here to ruin ourselves and to break our hearts and love the wrong…”

January 5 — Parenthood: “You know, Mrs. Buckman, you need a license to buy a dog, or drive a car.”

January 6 — Midnight Cowboy: “…Hansel’s a fag and Gretel’s got the hots for herself, so who cares, right?”

January 7 — Romancing the Stone: “I could’ve been a cosmetic surgeon, five hundred thou a year…”

January 8 — Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1958): “I’d hate to wake up some morning and find out…”

January 9 — The Cocoanuts: “I can see it now: you and the moon — wear a necktie so I’ll know you.”

January 10 — Valkyrie: “I am involved in high treason with all means available to me. Can I count you in?”

January 11 — Being John Malkovich: “Did it disappear? How could that be? Is it still in Malkovich’s head?”

January 12 — Brazil: “Information Transit got the wrong man. I got the right man…”

January 13–8 Million Ways to Die: “Sometimes in the course of doing business, it becomes necessary…”

January 14 — Reds: “…why do we have an economy where the poor have to pay so the rich won’t lose…”

January 15 — Little Caesar: “Mother of Mercy! Is this the end of Rico?”

January 16 — The French Connection: “All right! You put a shiv in my partner. You know what that means?”

January 17 — Chasing Amy: “I love you. And not, not in a friendly way, although I think we’re great…”

January 18 — O Brother, Where Art Thou?: “I am a man of constant sorrow, I’ve seen trouble all my days.”

January 19 — Legends of the Fall: “I followed all of the rules, man’s and God’s. And you, you followed…”

January 20 — Deliverance: “…this thing’s gonna be hangin’ over us the rest of our lives. We’ve gotta get…”

January 21 — Munich: “We deposit money from a fund that doesn’t exist into a box we don’t know…”

January 22 — Fanny and Alexander: “…I love this little world inside the thick walls of this playhouse…”

January 23 — Shane: “There’s no living with a killing. There’s no goin’ back from one. Right or wrong…”

January 24 — Some Kind of Wonderful: “I like art, I work in a gas station, my best friend is a tomboy…”

January 25 — The Big Lebowski: “See, this Lebowski, he called himself ‘The Dude.’”

January 26–8 1/2: “I thought my ideas were so clear. I wanted to make an honest film…”

January 27 — Caddyshack: “And he says, “Oh, uh, there won’t be any money, but when you die…”

January 28 — Dead Poets Society: “Carpe, carpe diem, seize the day boys, make your lives extraordinary.”

January 29 — The Longest Day: “For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day…”

January 30 — Zorba the Greek: “You’ve got everthing except one thing: madness! A man needs a little…”

January 31 — Vicky Cristina Barcelona: “I’ll go to your room, but you’ll have to seduce me.”

February 1 — The Pink Panther Strikes Again: “It is obvious to my trained eye, that there is much more…”

February 2 — Fatal Attraction: “Well, what am I supposed to do? You won’t answer my calls, you change…”

February 3 — That Obscure Object of Desire: “Kiss my hand. Kiss the hem of my dress and my foot…”

February 4 — Frances: “Now you can send me away and pretend I’m crazy and you can pretend I’m…”

February 5 — The Wizard of Oz: “What makes the elephant charge his tusk in the misty mist…”

February 6 — Ulee’s Gold: “There’s all kinds of weakness in the world, not all of it is evil. I forget that…”

February 7 — The Visitor: “You can’t just take people away like that. Do you hear me?”

February 8 — Milk: “All men are created equal. No matter how hard you try, you can never erase…”

February 9 — Bend It Like Beckham: “…’coz I wear trakkies and play sport does not make me a lesbian!”

February 10 — The Searchers: “Nope, I’ve still got my saber, Reverend. Didn’t beat it into no plowshare…”

February 11 — The Truth About Cats and Dogs: “If you were trapped in Biosphere 2 for three years, who…”

February 12 — Educating Rita: “She only come in for a demi-wave, she’ll come out looking like a flippin’…”

February 13 — Wonder Boys: “I was reading a story to my Advanced Writers’ Workshop…”

February 14 — Memento: “I have to believe that when my eyes are closed, the world’s still there…”

February 15 — Belle du Jour: “Belle de Jour is a tragedy of a divorce. A divorce between the soul and…”

February 16 — Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?: “But you don’t own me! You can’t tell me when or where…”

February 17 — Flirting With Disaster: “Do you mind if I look at your armpit? It’s my favorite part of…”

February 18 — Jumanji: “You think that mosquitoes, monkeys, and lions are bad? That is just the…”

February 19 — A Fish Called Wanda: “You know what Nietzsche said about animals? “They were God’s…”

February 20 — Babe: “Christmas dinner, yeah. Dinner means death. Death means carnage!”

February 21 — The Karate Kid: “Wax on, right hand. Wax off, left hand. Wax on, wax off…”

February 22 — Frost/Nixon: “Looking for a way back into the sun. Into the limelight. Back onto the…”

February 23 — A Taxing Woman: “When it’s half-full, you’re thirsty, so you drink. But that’s stupid. Wait…”

February 24 — The 39 Steps: “I know what it is to feel lonely and helpless and to have the whole world…”

February 25 — Victor Victoria: “You know, pretending to be a man does have its disadvantages.”

February 26 — This Is Spinal Tap: Look, right across the board, eleven, eleven, eleven and… Well, it’s…”

February 27 — I Heart Huckabees: “Nobody sits like this rock sits. You rock, rock. The rock just sits…”

February 28 — The Punisher: “”Si vis pacem, para bellum — If you want peace, prepare for war…”

March 1 — Slumdog Millionaire: “When somebody asks me a question, I tell them the answer.”

March 2 — The Fortune Cookie: “…down the street in front of the May Company. From them you can…”

March 3 — The Limey: “That’s what prison teaches you, if nothing else. Bide your time…”

March 4 — Six Feet Under: “If we live our lives the right way, then everything we do can become…”

March 5 — The Party: “…all the rest have 29, except my brother who got six months…”

March 6 — Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf: “You bring things to the saddest of all points, to the point…”

March 7 — Napoleon Dynamite: “Sir Cort Godfrey of the Nessie Alliance summoned the help of…”

March 8 — The United States of Tara: “Oh my God, you are so smart. I can’t believe you never finished…”

March 9 — To Have and Have Not: “You know how to whistle, don’t you, Steve? You just put your lips…”

March 10 — Heathers: “She said, real life sucks losers dry. You want to fuck with the eagles…”

March 11 — Election: “…but maybe if certain older, wiser people hadn’t acted like such little babies…”

March 12 — The Mechanic: “You always have to be dead sure. Dead sure or dead.”

March 13 — Sixteen Candles: “I can’t believe my grandmother actually felt me up.”

March 14 — Little Man Tate: “And for every week that you do them correctly, we’ll do something fun…”

March 15 — Terms of Endearment: “And you’re gonna realize that you love me. And maybe you’re…”

March 16 — Back to School: “We were doomed from the start. I’m an Earth sign. She’s a Water sign…”

March 17 — Pushing Tin: “If you ever want to sleep at night, don’t marry a beautiful girl.”

March 18 — Tuck Everlasting: “If there’s one thing I’ve learned about people, it’s that many will do…”

March 19 — Hiroshima Mon Amour: “They make advertisements for soap. Why not for peace?”

March 20 — The Sweet Hereafter: “A place with its own special rules and its own special laws. A town…”

March 21 — The Princess Bride: “You only think I guessed wrong! That’s what’s so funny! I switched…”

March 22 — The Third Man: “Victims? Don’t be melodramatic. Look down there. Tell me…”

March 23 — She’s Gotta Have It: “It’s really about control, my body, my mind. Who was going to own it?”

March 24 — Sleepless in Seattle: “Destiny is something we’ve invented because we can’t stand…”

March 25 — Ed Wood: “It’s about this guy, he’s crazy about this girl, but he likes to wear dresses…”

March 26 — Meet Me in St. Louis: “Meeting him across the lawn for the first time would be so ordinary…”

March 27 — Trainspotting: “Choose Life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family…”

March 28 — Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest: “Dividing him from her and her from him would…”

March 29 — The Lookout: “I don’t know if that will happen, but I guess I’ll just have to work backwards…”

March 30 — Forbidden Planet: “I’m in command of 18 competitively selected super-perfect physical…”

March 31 — Mighty Joe Young: “You have to get bitten by a Mahooky Spider, you’ll get a fever…”

April 1 — Moll Flanders: “I kept kissing frogs looking for a prince.”

April 2 — A Tale of Two Cities: “It’s a far, far better thing I do than I have ever done…”

April 3 — A Trip to Bountiful: “I guess when you’ve lived longer than your house and your family…”

April 4 — A Prairie Home Companion: “…and if you should feel really happy, be patient: this will pass.”

April 5 — Capote: “Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me pegged…”

April 6 — Love in the Time of Cholera: “The only thing that hurts me is that I don’t have enough…”

April 7 — Snow White and the Seven Dwarves: “Next thing you know, she’ll be tyin’ your beards up…”

April 8 — Roxanne: “I, uh, notice you don’t have any tattoos. I think that’s a wise choice…”

April 9 — The Fly (1986): “I’m talking about penetration beyond the veil of the flesh!”

April 10 — Smoke Signals: “Some days, it’s a good day to die. And some days, it’s a good day to…”

April 11 — The Spitfire Grill: “Most folks would rather hear a colorful lie over the truth any day…”

April 12 — The Crucible: “I have given you my soul; leave me my name!”

April 13 — The Big Picture: “I don’t know you. I don’t know your work. But I think you are a genius.”

April 14 — The Graduate: “I want to say one word to you. Just one word. Plastics.”

April 15 — Under Siege: You tried to kill me you son of a bitch… so welcome to the revolution.”

April 16 — The Philadelphia Story: “The time to make up your mind about people is never.”

April 17 — Looking for Mr. Goodbar: “Most guys first time out they try to score, they expect it…”

April 18 — Michael Clayton: “Try and make believe this is not just madness because this is not just…”

April 19 — Where the Buffalo Roam: “There are two kinds of people in this country, the doomed and…”

April 20 — Close Encounters of the Third Kind: “You have no right to make people crazy!”

April 21 — The Palm Beach Story: “Don’t you know that the greatest men in the world have told lies…”

April 22 — Das Boot: “They made us all train for this day. “To be fearless and proud and alone…”

April 23 — Ordinary People: “Hate him! How could I hate him? Mothers don’t hate their sons!”

April 24 — Wall*E: “Oh, Eve.”

April 25 — Kill Bill: Part 1: “As I said before, I’ve allowed you to keep your wicked life for two reasons…”

April 26 — Little Miss Sunshine: “Do you know who Marcel Proust is? French writer. Total loser…”

April 27 — Cinema Paradiso: “It’s not possible. Right now you’re blinder than I am.”

April 28 — The Jewel of the Nile: “Every wacko, drippy, open-sored low-life was in that joint, all of them…”

April 29 — Hudson Hawk: “I want to do community service; I want to teach the handicapped how to yodel.”

April 30 — Blow Out: “Ya know, the only trouble I ever got into was when I was TOO careful!”

May 1 — The 7th Voyage of Sinbad: “For another such kiss, I’d invent a whole continent.”

May 2 — The Last Waltz: “When we were working with Bob Dylan and we moved to Woodstock…”

May 3 — Four Christmases: “Boys, I don’t want to speak ill of your mother on Christmas, but…”

May 4 — South Pacific: “When all you care about is here, this is a good place to be.”

May 5 — City of Angels: “She said, what good would wings be if you couldn’t feel the wind…”

May 6 — Mr. Holland’s Opus: “It’s almost funny. I got dragged into this gig kicking and screaming, and…”

May 7 — Meatballs: “We import two hundred hookers from around the world, and each camper…”

May 8 — Three Kings: “Walter, just stand outside so Chief can translate my Iraqi ass map… okay?”

May 9 — The Lion King: “Well the buzz from the bees is that the leopards are in a bit of a spot…”

May 10 — Serpico: “The reality is that we do not wash our own laundry — it just gets dirtier…”

May 11 — Baby Boom: “We are two summa cum laudes. We can handle one little baby for eight hours…”

May 12 — Stagecoach: “Look, Miss Dallas. You got no folks… neither have I. And, well, maybe I’m takin’…”

May 13 — The Great Escape: “I haven’t seen Berlin yet, from the ground or from the air…”

May 14 — About Last Night: “Are you getting serious? Well, she seemed like a hell of a girl…”

May 15 — Hope and Glory: “That was a googly… I taught him how, and now he turns it against me!”

May 16 — The Bicycle Thief: “Why should I kill myself worrying when I’ll end up just as dead?”

May 17 — Planes, Trains & Automobiles: And by the way, when you’re telling these little stories…”

May 18 — Delicatessen: “You think this is a safari, bitch?”

May 19 — Harvey: “Harvey and I sit in the bars… have a drink or two… play the juke box…”

May 20 — Ghost Busters: “He slimed me!”

May 21 — Nixon: “They can’t impeach me for bombing Cambodia. The president can bomb anybody…”

May 22 — Roman Holiday: “I’ve never been alone with a man before, even with my dress on…”

May 23 — Barefoot in the Park: “Paul, I think I’m gonna be a lousy wife. But don’t be angry with me…”

May 24 — The Island: “It — it’s just… all right, Tuesday night is tofu night, and I’m asking myself…”

May 25 — Pull My Daisy: “There’s nothing out there except 90 year-old screaming men…”

May 26 — North by Northwest: “Now you listen to me, I’m an advertising man, not a red herring…”

May 27 — Weird Science: “So, what would you little maniacs like to do first?”

May 28 — Gone With The Wind: “No, I don’t think I will kiss you, although you need kissing, badly…”

May 29 — The Tin Drum: “My dear Oskar, trust an experienced colleague. Our kind must never sit…”

May 30 — Darkman: “I’m everyone — and no one. Everywhere — nowhere. Call me… Darkman.”

May 31 — Finding Nemo: “I remember things better with you. I do, look. P. Sherman, forty-two…”

June1 — Apocalypse Now: “I’ve seen horrors… horrors that you’ve seen. But you have no right…”

June 2 — The Exorcist: “Especially important is the warning to avoid conversations with the demon…”

June 3 — McCable & Mrs. Miller: “You boys gotta make up your minds if you want to get your cookies…”

June 4 — Taxi Driver: “You talkin’ to me? You talkin’ to me? You talkin’ to me? Then who the hell else…”

June 5 — The King of Marvin Gardens: “You notice how it’s Monopoly out there? Remember Boardwalk…”

June 6 — The Godfather: Part II: “There are many things my father taught me here in this room…”

June 7 — Midnight Express: “To the Turks, everything is ‘shurla burla’, which means ‘like this, like that’…”

June 8 — The Call of the Wild: “Wishing never got anybody anyplace. It’s owning something that counts…”

June 9 — The Informer: “And now the British think I’m with the Irish, and the Irish think…”

June 10 — The Warriors: “The problem in the past has been the man turning us against one another…”

June 11 — Down By Law: “It is a sad and beautiful world.”

June 12 — Saving Private Ryan: “I’m a schoolteacher. I teach English composition… in this little town…”

June 13 — Star Wars: A New Hope: “The Force is what gives a Jedi his power. It’s an energy field created…”

June 14 — Tender Mercies: “I don’t trust happiness. I never did, I never will…”

June 15 — I, Robot: “Um, look, this isn’t what I do, but I’ve got an idea for one of your commercials…”

June 16 — Get Shorty: “Rough business, this movie business. I’m gonna have to go back to…”

June 17–52 Pick-Up: “When a man pulls shit on me he is either very brave or very stoned…”

June 18–3:10 to Yuma: “You ever read the bible, Dan? I read it one time. I was eight years old…”

June 19 — Out Of Sight: “I know a guy who walks into a bank with a little glass bottle. He tells everyone…”

June 20 — Analyze This: “If I talk to you, and you turn me into a fag… im gonna kill you , you understand?”

June 21 — Clerks: “Pack o’ wraps, my brotherman, time to kick back, drink some beers and…”

June 22 — Summer School: “Group sex. No, that’s tomorrow. Today is independent study, right after…”

June 23 — Summer of ’42: “Nothing from that first day I saw her, and no one that has happened…”

June 24 — One Crazy Summer: (reading obituaries): “Hey, Hoops, you ever notice how people die…”

June 25 — Summer Lovers: “Jealousy doesn’t show how much you love someone, it shows how…”

June 26 — Summer Rental: “Come on thru. I’m Joe Public, welcome to my beach…”

June 27 — State and Main: “Who designed these costumes? It looks like Edith Head puked…”

June 28 — Coraline: “Oh my twitchy witchy girl, I think you are so nice, I give you bowls of porridge…”

Jun 29 — The Thin Red Line: “Everything a lie. Everything you hear, everything you see…”

June 30 — Boys Town: “I know that a mother can take a whip to the toughest boy in the world…”

July 1 — Rudy: “Son, in 35 years of religious study, I have only come up with two incontrovertible facts…”

July 2 — The Sixth Sense: “I see dead people…”

July 3 — Carrie: “I should’ve killed myself when he put it in me. After the first time…”

July 4 — Yankee Doodle Dandy: “It seems it always happens. Whenever we get too high-hat…”

July 5 — Sea of Love: “Come the wet ass hour, I’m EVERYBODY’S DADDY!”

July 6 — A Night at the Opera: “I saw Mrs. Claypool first. Of course, her mother really saw her first but…”

July 7 — Office Space: “And I said, I don’t care if they lay me off either, because I told, I told Bill…”

July 8 — Rushmore: “Maybe I’m spending too much of my time starting up clubs and putting on plays…”

July 9 — Stranger Than Paradise: “It’s Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, and he’s a wild man, so bug off…”

July 10 — Dr. No: “World domination. The same old dream. Our asylums are full of people…”

July 11 — Mr. & Mrs. Smith: “Your aim’s as bad as your cooking sweetheart… and that’s saying something!”

July 12 — Gosford Park: “Aw, it’s a pity, really. I thought it was a good idea to have someone…”

July 13 — Shrek: “…take drastic steps, kick it to the curb. Don’t mess wit’ me…”

July 14 — Howard the Duck: “No one laughs at a master of Quack Fu!”

July 15 — Flashdance: “When you give up your dream, you die…”

July 16 — She Wore a Yellow Ribbon: “Mr. Cohill, it is a bitter thing, indeed, to learn that an officer…”

July 17 — Waiting for Guffman: “I was shopping for my wife Bonnie. I buy most of her clothes…”

July 18 — Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone: “Now if you two don’t mind, I’m going to bed before…”

July 19 — Salvador: “You let them close down the universities, you let them wipe out…”

July 20 — The Shoes of the Fisherman: “My brothers, if this is the last sound made by the last…”

July 21 — The Last Temptation of Christ: “God loves me. I know he loves me. I want him to stop…”

July 22 — Bedazzled: “[to God] All right, you great git, you’ve asked for it. I’ll cover the world in…”

July 23 — Nuts: “No, I’m sure he believes what he believes. He thinks whores are girls…”

July 24 — Cloverfield: “My name is Robert Hawkins. It’s 6:42 AM on Saturday, May 23rd…”

July 25 — Dementia 13: “It’s nice to see her enjoying herself for a change. The mood around this place…”

July 26 — Bananas: “What do you… define… it’s love! I love you! I… I want you in a way of cherishing…”

July 27 — Pleasantville: “I’ve had, like, ten times as much sex as the rest of these girls…”

July 28 — The Wolf Man: “The way you walked was thorny, through no fault of your own…”

July 29 — Silent Running: “It calls back a time when there were flowers all over the Earth…”

July 30 — The 40 Year Old Virgin: “I dated this girl for a while. She was really a… nasty freak…”

July 31 — The Adventures of Robin Hood: “Now some of you might think that our loyal host intended…”

August 1 — Anchorman: The Legened of Ron Burgundy: “I’m gonna punch you in the ovary…”

August 2 — The Longest Yard: “Whatever your pleasure, I can facilitate. You need weed, you need meth…”

August 3 — Altered States: “What dignifies the Yogic practices is that the belief system itself…”

August 4 — Beautiful Girls: “Supermodels are beautiful girls, Will. A beautiful girl can make you dizzy…”

August 5 — Orange County: “A writer? What do you have to write about? You’re not oppressed…”

August 6 — A Night at the Roxbury: “Are you seeing planes? Is your name Tattoo? Because I swear…”

August 7 — A Face in the Crowd: “Rednecks, crackers, hillbillies, hausfraus, shut-ins, pea-pickers…”

August 8 — Silkwood: “I remember in high school her saying, ‘Now what’d you want to take…”

August 9 — Smiles of a Summer Night: “I can tolerate my wife’s infidelity, but if anyone touches…”

August 10 — The Blue Dahlia: “I take all the drinks I like, any time, any place. I go where I want to…”

August 11 — Marathon Man: “Is it safe?”

August 12 — Rain Man: “It’s a 1949 Buick Roadmaster. Straight 8. Fireball 8. Only 8,985 production….”

August 13 — Life is Beautiful: “How ridiculous. They were just teasing you! There are wood ovens…”

August 14 — Sergeant York: “What we done in France, we had to do. And some as done it…”

August 15–30 Days of Night: “Mr. and Mrs. Sheriff. So sweet. So helpless against what is coming…”

August 16 — Heavenly Creatures: “All the best people have bad chests and bone diseases. It’s all…”

August 17 — Spirited Away: “Welcome the rich man, he’s hard for you to miss. His butt keeps getting…”

August 18 — Straw Dogs: “Ok, you’ve had your fun. I’ll give you one more chance, and if you don’t…”

August 19 — Send Me No Flowers: “I’m not her good friend. I’m her husband…”

August 20 — Go: “You know what wakes me up in the middle of the night covered in a cold sweat…”

August 21 — The Treasure of Sierra Madre: “Aah, gold’s a devilish sort of thing, anyway. You start out…”

August 22 — Jackie Brown: “You know man, I hate be the kind of nigger that do a nigger a favor…”

August 23 — Titanic: “I’m the king of the world…”

August 24 — The Conversation: “I’m not afraid of death, but I am afraid of murder…”

August 25 — Wit: “This is my play’s last scene Here… Heavens appoint my pilgrimage’s last mile…”

August 26 — Death Proof: “Because it was a fifty fifty shot on whether you’d be going left or right…”

August 27 — Gattaca: “For someone who was never meant for this world, I must confess…”

August 28 — Biloxi Blues: “I’ve got to make you men strong. Because tonight, we’re going to march…”

August 29 — Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon: “I’ve already wasted my whole life. I want to tell you…”

August 30–8 1/2: “I thought my ideas were so clear. I wanted to make an honest film…”

August 31 — Stand By Me: “Wish the hell I was your dad. You wouldn’t be goin’ around…”

September 1 — One From The Heart: “You used to have a pretty good build, y’know? You did! Now…”

September 2 — Meet John Doe: “All right. You’re walking along, not a nickel in your jeans, you’re free…”

September 3 — Good Night, and Good Luck: “To those who say people wouldn’t look; they wouldn’t…”

September 4 — Metropolitan: “I’ve always planned to be a failure anyway, that’s why I plan to marry…”

September 5 — Home Alone: “This is extremely important. Will you please tell Santa…”

September 6 — Beavis and Butthead Do America: “This sucks more than anything that’s ever…”

September 7 — The Spy Who Came in from the Cold: “What the hell do you think spies are…”

September 8 — Candy: “Candy… beautiful name, it has the spirit and the sound of the Old Testament…”

September 9 — Cleopatra: “Your tongue is old, but sharp, Cicero. Be careful how you wag it…”

September 10 — The Night of the Iguana: “I thought you were sexless. But you’ve just become a woman…”

September 11 — The Comedians: “I am the Hatian flag, one and indivisible. Papa Doc…”

September 12 — Oh, God!: “The last miracle I did was the 1969 Mets…”

September 13 — The Shining: “Redrum. Redrum. Redrum…”

September 14 — Mad Dog and Glory: “Life is what happens to you while you’re waiting for your ship…”

September 15 — Dirty Dancing: “It’s not on the one, it’s not the mambo. It’s a feeling; a heartbeat…”

September 16 — Kind Hearts and Coronets: “It is so difficult to make a neat job of killing people…”

September 17 — The Russians Are Coming the Russians Are Coming: “Very clever little boy…”

September 18 — Men In Black: “You’ll dress only in attire specially sanctioned by MiB special services…”

September 19 — Don’t Look Now: “This one who’s blind. She’s the one that can see…”

September 20 — In Cold Blood: “It doesn’t make sense. I mean what happened. It had nothing to do…”

September 21 — Waking Life: “The worst mistake that you can make is to think you’re alive when really…”

September 22 — Dancing With Wolves: “I was just thinking that of all the trails in this life…”

September 23 — Bad News Bears: “Now get back to the stands before I shave off half your mustache…”

September 24 — One, Two, Three: “Any world that can produce the Taj Mahal, William Shakespeare, and…”

September 25 — The Iron Giant: “I am not a gun…”

September 26 — Arlington Road: “Never wiser than when we’re children. They say it and it’s true…”

September 27 — Love Streams: “Love is dead. Love is a fantasy little girls have…”

September 28 — Kalifornia: “I’d always wanted to be a writer, but there’s a big difference between…”

September 29 — Solaris: “Earth. Even the word sounded strange to me now… unfamiliar…”

September 30 — The Haunting: “When people believed the earth was flat, the idea of a round world…”

October 1 — Klute: “What’s your bag, Klute? What do you like? Are you a talker…”

October 2 — Mulholland Drive: “Now you will see me one more time, if you do good…”

October 3 — Sorcerer: “Listen Pancho, I’ve been clocking you every second you’ve been in this town…”

October 4 — The Ninth Configuration: “You’re convinced that God is dead because there’s evil…”

October 5 — Ponyo: “Mom! Ponyo came back, and she’s a little girl now…”

October 6 — Grumpy Old Men: “Do me a favor. Put your lip over your head… and swallow…”

October 7 — The Blob: “How do you get people to protect themselves from something…”

October 8 — Synecdoche, New York: “Everything is more complicated than you think…”

October 9 — Hud: “Well, I’ve always thought the law was meant to be interpreted in a lenient manner…”

October 10 — Dazed and Confused: “Man, it’s the same bullshit they tried to pull in my day…”

October 11 — Kansas City Bomber: “What the hell you talking about, use him? We’re all used…”

October 12 — Patton: “Now I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war…”

October 13 — A Scanner Darkly: “Charles Freck, becoming progressively more and more depressed…”

October 14 — Time Bandits: “God isn’t interested in technology. He cares nothing for the microchip…”

October 15 — My Favorite Year: “Catherine, Jews know two things: suffering, and where…”

October 16 — The Karate Kid: “Wax on, wax off. Wax on, wax off…”

October 17 — Night at the Museum: “Oh, haha — look at me, the comedy night guard…”

October 18 — Hoosiers: “You know, in the ten years that I coached, I never met anybody who…”

October 19 — Lolita: “What drives me insane is the twofold nature of this nymphet…”

October 20 — Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?: “I’ve written a letter to Daddy / His address is Heaven…”

October 21 — The Manchurian Candidate: “You couldn’t have stopped them, the army couldn’t…”

October 22 — The Miracle Worker: “Pity for this tyrant? Is there anything she wants she doesn’t get…”

October 23 — Dr. No: “World domination. The same old dream. Our asylums are full…”

October 24 — Ishtar: “[singing] Telling the truth can be dangerous business; / Honest and popular…”

October 25 — Escape from New York: “We did get you out. A lot of people died in the process…”

October 26 — Frankenstein: “Look! It’s moving. It’s alive. It’s alive…”

October 27 — A Nightmare at Elm Street: “One, two, Freddy’s coming for you. / Three, four, better…”

October 28 — The Brides of Dracula: “Say that you forgive me for letting him love me…”

October 29 — I Know What You Did Last Summer: “I know all about accidents, and let me give you…”

October 30 — An Amerian Werewolf in London: “The wolf’s bloodline must be severed…”

October 31 — Halloween (2007): “These eyes will deceive you, they will destroy you. They will take…”

November 1 — Saw IV: “Maybe you will in the next life. You see things aren’t sequential…”

November 2 — Mystic Pizza: “Daddy banging the babysitter is a really old story, Kat…”

November 3 — Duplicity: “I think about you all the time. I think about you even…”

November 4 — The Grifters: “I had ten good years with Cole, and I want them back…”

November 5 — The Sting: “The name’s Lonnegan! Doyle Lonnegan! You’re gonna remember…”

November 6 — Dirty Rotten Scoundrels: “Freddy, as a younger man, I was a sculptor, a painter, and…”

November 7 — The Spanish Prisoner: “We must never forget that we are human, and as humans we…”

November 8 — Body Heat: “My temperature runs a couple of degrees high, around a hundred…”

November 9 — Pieces of April: “I only have one nice April memory. Only one. She was…”

November 10 — Off the Map: “The moment I saw you, Mrs. Grodin, the very first instant…”

November 11 — Maria Full of Grace: “We have them back and we don’t need you…”

November 12 — The Motorcycle Diaries: “What do we leave behind when we cross each frontier…”

November 13 — Primer: “Are you hungry? I haven’t eaten anything since…”

November 14 — Anatomy of a Murder: “Drop the stone, Counselor…”

November 15 — Le grande illusion: “Frontiers are an invention of men…”

November 16 — The Hunt for Red October: “It seems that the initial reports that one of our submarines…”

November 17 — Run Silent Run Deep: “It’s one thing to drill a crew for fighting. But when you duck…”

November 18 — Crimson Tide: “I expect and demand your very best. Anything less…”

November 19 — Ice Station Zebra: “We operate on a first-name basis. My first name is…”

November 20–20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: “The natives over there are cannibals. They eat liars…”

November 21 — The Mouse That Roared: “My idea was sound. Only an idiot could have won this war…”

November 22 — Stick It: “Gymnastics tells you no. All day long. It mocks you…”

November 23 — E.T.: “E.T. phone home.”

November 24 — The Piano: “The voice you hear is not my speaking voice…”

November 25 — Monsoon Wedding: “These are my children, and I will protect them…”

November 26 — The Savages: “Maybe dad didn’t abandon us…”

November 27 — Running on Empty: “Aren’t we supposed to question authority…”

November 28 — Clueless: “So like, right now for example. The Haitians need to come to America…”

November 29 — Lady Sings the Blues: “Ain’t it a shame how some of God’s children have it so easy…”

November 30 — Breaker Morant: “Shoot straight, you bastards…”

December 1 — Blade Runner: “Time to die.”

December 2 — Full Metal Jacket: “What is your major malfunction, numbnuts…”

December 3 — Titanic: “You must do me this honor… promise me you will survive…”

December 4 — Saving Private Ryan: “James, earn this… earn it…”

December 5 — Citizen Kane: “Rosebud.”

December 6 — Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring: “I would have followed you my brother…”

December 7 — The Lion King: “Long live the King.”

December 8 — Léon: “This is from Matilda.”

December 9 — Pulp Fiction: “The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the iniquities…”

December 10 — Jaws: “Smile, you son of a bitch!”

December 11 — Dead Man Walking: “I want the last face you see in this world to be the face of love…”

December 12 — The Sixth Sense: “You failed me.”

December 13 — Unforgiven: “‘Deserve’s’ got nothin’ to do with it.”

December 14 — Next Stop Wonderland: “See, you are sad and happy. You don’t smile but you are…”

December 15 — Arlington Road: “Never wiser than when we’re children. They say it and it’s true…”

December 16 — Mumford: “Sometimes they needed advice, but most of the people just wanted…”

December 17 — Hearts in Atlantis: “Sometimes when you’re young, you have moments of such…”

December 18 — About Schmidt: “All of a sudden you’re taking an interest in what I do? You have an…”

December 19 — Dark Star: “My overtures were brutally rejected. These men do not want a happy ship…”

December 20 — Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan: “How do I feel? Old… worn out.”

December 21 — A Christmas Carol (1938): “It’s me! Your uncle Scrooge! Smile makes a difference…”

December 22 — Scrooge: “It’s all HUMBUG, I tell you, HUMBUG!”

December 23 — Scrooged: “No, you are a hallucination, brought on by alcohol. Russian Vodka….”

December 24 — A Christmas Carol (2009): “If I could have my way, every idiot who goes about with…”

December 25 — It’s a Wonderful LIfe: “Merry Christmas, movie house! Merry Christmas, Emporium!”

December 26 — The Godfather, Part II: “I know it was you, Fredo. You broke my heart…”

December 27 — The Apartment: “Shut up and deal.”

December 28 — Holiday Inn: “[singing] One minute to midnight, one minute to go, one minute to say…”

December 29 — Peter’s Friends: “Why the fuck did you invite me eh? You know, why the fuck any of us…”

December 30 — Forrest Gump: “Happy New Year, Lieutenant Dan!”

December 31 — When Harry Met Sally: “I came here tonight because when you realize you want to spend…”