Boys’ Night Out (1962)
The three married men, George (Tony Randall), Doug (Howard Duff), and Howie (Howard Morris), and divorcé Fred (James Garner, who younger audiences will know from The Notebook), are friends who commute to work in New York City on the same train. Seeing Fred’s philandering boss, Mr. Bingham (Larry Keating), with his mistress sets the men to fantasizing about sharing the expense of an apartment in the city as a love nest. As a gag, they give Fred the task of finding an unrealistically inexpensive apartment and a 25 year old blonde “companion” to go with it. Fred finds the apartment and accidently finds a young blonde sociology student, Cathy (Kim Novak) to become their “companion”. Cathy takes the jobs, but has different intentions than the men and Fred finds himself falling in love. Problems and hilarity ensue in this squeaky clean sex comedy.
Howard McIllenny: Look at me. I’m an accountant with a secret life.
Cathy: When it comes to sex, men can’t help lying and women can’t keep from telling the truth. I don’t know which is worse.
Dr. Prokosch: Can you look like ‘yes’ and act like ‘no’? Can you entice them, lure them, then postpone, evade, delay? It needs a special kind of experience and skill. This a nice girl hasn’t learned.
Cathy: No? This is what a nice girl has learned best.
Slattery: How bad is he hooked?
Fred Williams: About as bad as you can get. When he remembers the score, he knows he’s on the loser’s end. But when he remembers the girl, he forgets the score.
Soylent Green 1973
A sci-fi cautionary tale, Soylent Green is the story of the world in 2022, after the earth has been depleted of its resources and impoverished humans are forced to find alternate forms of food. One such substance is soylent green, a wafer like substance supposedly made from plankton. The story follows detective Robert Thorn (Charlton Heston) and his partner Sol Roth (Edward G. Robinson) and the investigation of a wealthy man on board of directors at the Soylent Corporation. As they investigate the murder, they begin to unravel a horrible secret about soylent green and exactly what it is the masses are consuming.
Thorn: I know, Sol, you’ve told me a hundred times before. People were better, the world was better…
Sol:Ah, people were always lousy… But there was a world, once.
[Thorn chuckles]
Sol: I was there, I can prove it! When I was a kid, you could buy meat anywhere! Eggs they had, real butter! Not this… crap!
Thorn: [Det. Thorn takes a cigarette from one of the girls at the party and smokes it] You know if I had the money I would smoke two… three of these every day.
Announcer: …is brought to you by Soylent red and Soylent yellow, high energy vegetable concentrates, and new, delicious, Soylent green. The miracle food of high-energy plankton gathered from the oceans of the world.
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Penelope (2006)
A twist on the tradional fairie tale, Penelope is a story of a young heiress cursed with the face of a pig. Locked away from prying eyes, Penelope’s only hope lies in the hope that “one of her own” will fall in love and marry her for who she is. As Penelope ventures into the outside world to get away from her well-intentioned prison, will she find the love of her life? Or will the outside world be just as cruel as as her mother always predicted? Find out in this beautiful and vivid love story of acceptance of others and of self.
Annie: So what are you hiding from the law or is it just a bad nose job?
Penelope: Mhm, bad nose job.
Jessica Wilhern: What? I’m being her mother! That’s what mothers do with daughters; they talk about how to look prettier.
Max: Y’know you inspired me, doing what you did, going off on your own like that.
Penelope: I like myself the way I am!
Penelope: I felt the rush of a thousand heartbreaks.
Penelope: [telling her class her story] And we lived happily ever after - well, happily ever after so far at least.
Child #1: I don’t get it. What does it mean?
Penelope: Well, you tell me what you think it means.
Child #2: Rich people stink!
Child #3: It’s always the mothers fault.
Child #4: It’s not the power of the curse - it’s the power you give the curse.
Sons of the Desert (1933)
The classic duo of Laurel and Hardy are in another fine mess, in this comedy directed by William A. Seiter. Stan and Oliver join a fraternal lodge and have to go to a convention in Chicago. However, they wives will not allow it, and the boys come up with a clever scheme to allow them to travel away from their wives. On doctor’s orders (who is actually a vet) they pretend to go on ship to Honolulu and secretly go to the convention. Things fall through though when the wives first see a newsreel of the convention featuring their husbands and later when their supposed ship sinks. The pair has to either come clean or try to keep up their lie in this hilarious timeless comedy. The childlike personas and feeling of real comradery, as portrayed in this film, are what made Laurel and Hardy the comedy legends they are to this day.
Oliver: Now isn’t this nice?
Stan: It sure is. We’re just like two peas in a pot.
Oliver: Not pot, pod. Paaaahhh-duh.
Oliver: Well, here’s another nice mess you’ve gotten me into.
Oliver: Now why did you hire a veterinarian?
Stan: I didn’t think his religion would make any difference.
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Away We Go (2009)
When pregnant unmarried couple, Burt and Verona (John Krasinksi and Maya Rudolph), learn that the only family they live near (Catherine O’Hara and Jeff Daniels) are leaving them for Switzerland for two years, they decide it’s time to find a new place to live. Directed by Sam Mendes and written by the incredible Dave Eggars and Videla Vida, we follow their adventure (or misadventure) through Phoenix, Tucson, Madison Wisconsin, Montreal and Miami. Fierce chemistry and witty, unpretentious life-like banter make this film funny, heartwarming, happy and sad all at the exact same time. As they go, they experience different families and the ups and downs of each. In the process of finding family, they end up finding themselves in this story of love and longing for home.
*the film was also shot using green filmaking
Verona: I can’t believe you told your mother about my tilted uterus!
Burt: I didn’t know your tilted uterus was a secret.
Verona: Yes, my tilted uterus is a secret!
Burt: Your tilted uterus is a secret. Your fucking uterus is a fucking secret!
LN: [to Roderick] They bought us a stroller.
Burt: What’s wrong with a stroller?
LN: I LOVE my babies. Why would I want to PUSH them away from me?
Everything Is Illuminated (2005)
After his grandfather dies, a young Jewish American man with an obsession with collecting, played by Elijah Wood, journeys to the Ukraine in search of his family’s past. His tour guides consist of an old “blind” anti-semitic driver, his “seeing-eye bitch” named Sammy Davis Jr. Jr. and his hip-hop, western loving grandson interpreter, Alex. Directed by Leiv Shreiber, we follow the young man as he travels a village no one has heard of to find what happened during the war and to collect things along the way. It is a beautiful and moving tale about family and the human experience.
Alex: Many girls want to be carnal with me… because I’m such a premium dancer!
Alex: I have reflected many times upon our rigid search. It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us, on the inside, looking out. Like you say, inside out. Jonathan, in this way, I will always be along the side of your life. And you will always be along the side of mine.
Alex: You make sex often with American girl?
Jonathan: Not really.
Alex: What is mean by “not really?”
Jonathan: I’m not a priest, but I’m not John Holmes either.
Alex: I have heard of this John Holmes. He has premium penis.
Jonathan: Yes, he did.
Alex: Everyne in Ukraine has penis like that.
Jonathan: Even the women?
Alex:You make joke, yes?
Jonathan: Yes.
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Harvey (1950)
Mild-mannered (and slightly alcoholic) Elwood P. Dowd has a new friend. A 6’3 invisible rabbit, that only he can see. Elwood comes from an eccentric and rich family, and after ruining his sister’s party with talk of his furry imaginary friend, his sister decides to have him committed. Things go awry and it is only Elwood’s genuine positivity and Harvey’s mischievousness that saves the day. Directed by Henry Koster and starring the incomparable James Stewart as Elwood, the film it is a whimsical tale of a man, his friend and the consequences for a man who hasn’t lost his childlike fantasy.
Elwood P. Dowd: Well, I’ve wrestled with reality for 35 years, Doctor, and I’m happy to state I finally won out over it.
Elwood P. Dowd: I always have a wonderful time, wherever I am, whomever I’m with.
Elwood P. Dowd: Years ago my mother used to say to me, she’d say, “In this world, Elwood, you must be” - she always called me Elwood - “In this world, Elwood, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant.” Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant. You may quote me.
Wilson: Who’s Harvey?
Miss Kelly: A white rabbit, six feet tall.
Wilson: Six feet?
Elwood P. Dowd: Six feet three and a half inches. Now let’s stick to the facts.
Fight Club (1999)
The first rule of fight club is- you do not talk about fight club. So we’ll make this brief: David Fincher directs this story of a bored man unhappy with his life until he meets his polar opposite on an airplane and his life is changed forever. They form an underground fight club to unleash their fury over daily life, which quickly transforms into a terrorist guerilla organization. The Narrator is played be a restrained Ed Norton, Brad Pitt plays the wild Tyler Durden and Helena Bonham Carter plays the only female role as the twisted Marla Singer. It is a must see for any film fan- after all, how much can you know about yourself if you’ve never been in a fight?
Narrator:If you wake up at a different time, in a different place, could you wake up as a different person?
Tyler Durden: Where’d you go, psycho boy?
Narrator: I felt like destroying something beautiful.
Narrator:When people think you’re dying, they really, really listen to you, instead of just…
Marla Singer: - instead of just waiting for their turn to speak?
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A Hard Day’s Night (1964)
Released during the height of Beatlemania, A Hard Day’s Night, follows the hectic lives of the four boys from liverpool. Unlike the numerous rock movies to follow, the Fab Four’s first attempt is almost as innocent as it is irreverent. Directed by Richard Lester, the film as an air of whimsy and nonsense and makes frequent use of the surprise of jump cuts. The Beatles each have a hand in making the movie special, with ad-libbed lines fantastic music and chemistry most film makers would kill for makes it an unique and utterly funny piece of art. It is a manifestation of the dream of every teenage girl in 1964, a chance to spend the day with John, Paul, George and Ringo.
Repoter: How did you find America?
John: Turned left at Greenland.
Reporter:Has success changed your life?
George: Yes.
Reporter: Are you a mod or a rocker?
Ringo: Um, no. I’m a mocker.
Reporter:Do you think these haircuts have come to stay?
Ringo:Well, this one has. You know, it’s stuck on good and proper now.
Reporter: What would you call that hairstyle you’re wearing?
George: Arthur.
Reporter: Do you often see your father?
Paul: No, actually, we’re just good friends.
George: Sorry we hurt your field mister.
National Lampoon’s Animal House (1978)
One of the greatest comedies of all time, Animal House is the tale a wild college fraternity, facing expulsion for their many antics and low gpas. Directed by John Landis and costing only $2.7 million to shoot in 28 days at the University of Oregon, the film has produced many memorable scenes, including the legendary toga party. Though the film features actors who were to later hit it big (like Kevin Bacon and Karen Allen), John Belushi steals the show as the immoral Bluto. Belushi was the only one of the SNL actors originally wanted for the film to say yes. The film’s reception was astronomic, surprising almost everyone, including Landis. It is the epitome of college humor and a timeless American classic.
Bluto: Christ. Seven years of college down the drain. Might as well join the fucking Peace Corps.
D-day: We have an old saying in Delta House: don’t get mad, get even
Doug Neidermeyer: And most recently of all, a “Roman Toga Party” was held from which we have received more than two dozen reports of individual acts of perversion SO profound and disgusting that decorum prohibits listing them here.
