Wild Strawberries (1957)
But now he was an over-the-hill actor playing his younger self, and the setting was all wrong…
— Jonathan Rose, “The Literary Churchill”
now
Category: movies
An important discovery
“He’s a very sweet guy…and he’s deeply unhappy.”
elegy
The Mirror (1975)
Stephen, an elbow rested on the jagged granite, leaned his palm against his brow and gazed at the fraying edge of his shiny black coat-sleeve. Pain, that was not yet the pain of love, fretted his heart. Silently, in a dream she had come to him after her death, her wasted body within its loose brown graveclothes giving off an odour of wax and rosewood…
— Joyce, Ulysses
Gatsby? What Gatsby?
“I was in love once — would you believe that?”
Northeastern University Course Catalog, 1978-79
“I, uh, I was in love once — would you believe that? But I possessed neither the courage nor the optimism — perhaps the depth of feeling — that you two have.”
— A Christmas Carol (1984)
Too Close For Comfort
Cuts Both Ways
“Did you ever think of me?”
Solaris (1972)
Do you love the monkey or do you love me?
King Kong (1976)
I Saw The Light
And I said “No thanks baby, tonight there ain’t no help for me”
Casablanca (1942)
Took a sleeping pill and I tried to watch TV
But you know baby, the leading lady
Looked too much like you for the likes of me…
Higher Ground
A Christmas Carol (1984)
Sweet Hitch-Hiker
Detour (1945)
Don’t throw it all away
All That Heaven Allows (1955)
In The Darkest Place
“The Fire Within” (Le feu follet)
Since you put me down
It seems I’ve been very gloomy
You may laugh, but pretty girls look right through me
They don’t sense the faintest glimmering
That is the torch I bear…
Tell Stella I’m sorry
For of all sad words of tongue or pen the saddest are these: “It might have been!”
For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: “It might have been!”
–John Greenleaf Whittier, Maud Muller
Vivaldi – Largo from Concerto For Guitar And Strings in D Major
Sad eyes, you knew there’d come a day when we would have to say goodbye
At the late night, double feature, picture show…
Happenin’ All Over Again
Summertime Girls
I just wanna watch the girls go by
It’s like poetry in motion
Against a hot summer sky
I’m in love at least every minute or two
Until the next time a girl walks by
I think I love her too
Oh I, I can’t help myself
But I just lose my head
Every time you see ’em walkin’ by…
Oz never did give nothing to the Tin Man that he didn’t already have
No More Mr. Nice Guy
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941)
Alain and Lydia (“Le Feu Follet”)
2001 Remix
Edward Hopper in the “Rear Window”
