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Quentin Tarantino dancing on the set of Pulp Fiction

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One of my all time faves

Who are we making jealous?

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Jean Valjean isn't as hard-hearted sob he'd like to think

VALJEAN: ARGH! I AM A HARDENED CRIMINAL! I HATE THE WORLD! THE WORLD THAT ALWAYS HATED ME! TAKE AN EYE FOR AN EYE! TURN YOU'RE HEART INTO STONE!

FANTINE: I'm a sick prostitute with a daughter. You've met me once, briefly.

VALJEAN: What a poor innocent soul who I harshly mistreated! I will carry you to hospital, pay for your medical care and promise to protect your daughter after your eventual death!

COSETTE: I am the young girl you only chose to protect through obligation.

VALJEAN: Let me sing a brand new song for you about how much you've changed my life and taught me how to love in the last half hour, you special sparkly child!

MARIUS: I am the rebellious and fool-hearty young man who has only met your daughter once and now I have fallen madly in love with her. You've never actually spoken to me.

VALJEAN: You're like the son I might have known if God had granted me a son! I shall wade through neck deep crap for you and your miraculous love! NECK! DEEP! CRAP!

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“Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I’m lucky enough to be in the position where I don’t make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.” —Quentin Tarantino

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FAVORITE MOVIES » Hercules (1997)

↳If there’s a prize for rotten judgment, I guess I’ve already won that.

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What film is this?

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I usually can't handle horror films.  This is a brilliant and hilarious film and I am very impressed

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“The world is indeed full of peril and in it there are many dark places. But still there is much that is fair. And though in all lands, love is now mingled with grief, it still grows, perhaps, the greater.”

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I so need to see this film.

Nina Dobrev in The Perks of Being a Wallflower

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David Bowie on Jareth in Labyrinth

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I was discussing The Others with some friends a few days ago.  Great film.

31 days of Halloween ( Horror | Mystery | Thriller Movies )

12/31 - The Others (2001)

I think sometimes the world of the dead…gets mixed up with the world of the living.

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- with photos from the following movies (so far; more to come):

SUMMERTIME (1955) - Katharine Hepburn, Rossano Brazzi

DESIGN FOR LIVING (1933) - Gary Cooper, Frederic March, Miriam Hopkins

CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF (1958) - Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman

DIAL M FOR MURDER (1954) - Grace Kelly, Ray Milland

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Romeo & Juliette

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I just watched The Dreamers

What an amazing and beautiful film.

I now intend to watch every film paid homage to in the film:

Bande à part Isabelle, Theo, and Matthew race through the Louvre, attempting to break the record depicted in Bande à part of 9 minutes, 43 seconds.

Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne Isabelle quotes a famous line from this film, telling Matthew “There is no such thing as love, only proofs of love”.

Shock Corridor Film Matthew watches at the Cinémathèque Française at the beginning of the movie.

Pierrot le fou Music from the film appears

The 400 Blows The main title music by Jean Constantin appears; Jean-Pierre Léaud, who plays the protagonist Antoine Doinel in The 400 Blows, appears as himself.

Persona Matthew has a picture of Liv Ullman and Bibi Andersson from Persona in his apartment

La Chinoise A poster of the film hangs on a wall in the twins’ apartment.

Blow-Up A picture of David Hemmings in the role of the photographer hangs on the wall of the twins’ apartment.

Blonde Venus Isabelle reenacts scene in sexy white painting clothes.

Freaks After Isabelle, Theo, and Matthew run through the Louvre, Isabelle and Theo signify their acceptance of Matthew by chanting, “We accept him, one of us,” in a reflection of the wedding reception in Freaks.

L’Age d’Or Matthew sucks the toe of Isabelle, imitating Lya Lys in Luis Buñuel’s controversial film.

Follow the Fleet The music from Fred Astaire’s song “Let’s Face the Music and Dance” plays when Matthew visits Theo’s room

Scarface Theo reenacts the death of the character Tony Camonte played by Paul Muni, challenging Isabelle to name the film.

Queen Christina Isabelle reenacts the scene in which Greta Garbo’s character Queen Christina “memorizes the room,” in Matthew’s bedroom, the first night he sleeps over.

Top Hat Isabelle challenges Matthew to name a scene in which a tap dancer wakes a woman in the apartment below, then Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers are seen.

À bout de souffle Isabelle imitates Jean Seberg’s Patricia the first night Matthew stays with her and Theo. Isabelle claims her first words in English were “New York Herald Tribune”, a conscious reference to the French New Wave film “Breathless”, in which the heroine Patricia yells the same thing. The reference is accompanied by a segment of said film. Matthew imitates Jean-Paul Belmondo’s character by rubbing his lips with his thumb in front of the mirror (something which Jean-Paul does to imitate Humphrey Bogart).

Sunset Boulevard Isabelle puts on sunglasses and a head wrap giving an emotionless gaze, imitating Gloria Swanson’s Norma Desmond character in the scene where William Holden’s Joe Gillis character has entered the run-down mansion and is made to read a script that Desmond has been writing for her planned comeback.

Mouchette After Isabelle realizes her mother has seen her sleeping naked with her brother she tries to kill the three of them with natural gas. When she closes her eyes images of the suicide of Mouchette from Robert Bresson’s film appear.

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I am fully convinced that Fifty Shades of Grey was written by the guidance counselor from 10 Things I Hate About You.