paracommunications

Young Ellie: [to a young Carl] You don’t talk much.

[pause]

Young Ellie: I like you!

(Author’s Note: The following is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to persons living or dead is purely coincidental. Especially you Jenny Beckman. Bitch.)

McKenzie: Hey, maybe you should write a book.

Tom: What?

McKenzie: Well, you know, Henry Miller said the best way to get over a woman is to turn her into literature.

Cristina: What’s in Oviedo?

Juan Antonio: I go to see a sculpture, that is very inspiring to me. A very beautiful sculpture. You will love it.

Vicky: 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.

“Whatever works” (2009) is a comedy by Woody Allen with comedian Larry David in the leading role.

Boris Yellnikoff: That’s why I can’t say enough times, whatever love you can get and give, whatever happiness you can filch or provide, every temporary measure of grace, whatever works.

The Wicker Man (1973) is not so much a horror film as a thriller with an appealing subtext critical of religion.

Sergeant Howie: What religion can they possibly be learning jumping over bonfires?
Lord Summerisle: Parthenogenesis.
Sergeant Howie: What?
Lord Summerisle: Literally, as Miss Rose would doubtless say in her assiduous way, reproduction without sexual union.
Sergeant Howie: Oh, what is all this? I mean, you’ve got fake biology, fake religion… Sir, have these children never heard of Jesus?
Lord Summerisle: Himself the son of a virgin, impregnated, I believe, by a ghost…

Alicia: This is a very strange love affair.
Devlin: Why?
Alicia: Maybe the fact that you don’t love me.

Kleinmann: He does quality circumcisions. I’ve seen his work.

Antoine: Y’a un grand proverbe ch’timi qui dit “Quand y’a un étranger qui vient vivre dans ch’nord, il braie deux fois: quand il arrive, et quand il repart”.

Bienvenue chez les Ch’tis, 2008.

‘Intolerable cruelty‘ is a romantic comedy a bit a la Cary Grant, or rather it tries to but is not quite there.

I usually add a quote from the film, but the best scene in this film has no dialogue: Miles and Wrigley bump into Wheezy Joe in Miles’ house (now occupied by Marylin). They themselves hired the hitman to kill Marylin, but are now trying to stop the assassination. However, Marylin had managed to beat Wheezy Joe and is paying more to turn the contract on Miles. Wheezy Joe pulls a gun and his asthma inhaler, and in the confusion sprays Miles with the inhaler and shoots the gun in his mouth.

Far from a top film, but that scene is hilarious.