Kat’s Film and Book Reviews

Congrats to Mom, who got last week’s book quote!  It was indeed from Mystic River by Dennis Lehane.

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Ready for the next one?  Here we go:

Along the road there came a stranger in a land where strangers were rare and suspect.  He walked up to the door of a crumbling farmhouse and hammered.  After a long moment, a light blinked on somewhere in the house and a young woman appeared, drawing a cheap mail-order bathrobe tightly about her.  She opened the door a crack and her sleep-swollen face winced with fear as she stared at the apparition on her doorstep.  He was over six feet tall and dressed entirely in black.  He wore a black suit, black tie, a black hat, and black overcoat, with impractical black dress shoes covered with mud.  His face, barely visible in the darkness, sported a neatly trimmed mustache and goatee.  The flashes of lightning behind him added an eerie effect.

“May I use your phone?” he asked.

After Wednesday’s clue, Annie got last week’s quotation. It was from A Mighty Wind. Take a look:

I think we might have to give Annie a 24-hour handicap or something! She’s pretty awesome at this.

Okay, here’s next week’s quotation. I am trying to stay on a Sunday to Sunday schedule, so even though today’s Tuesday, I’ll give the answer on Sunday.

Wait a minute, wait a minute! You ain’t heard nothin’ yet!

I think this is one of the best book beginnings I’ve ever read.

When Sean Devine and Jimmy Marcus were kids, their fathers worked together at the Coleman Candy plant and carried the stench of warm chocolate back home with them. It became a permanent character of their clothes, the beds they slept in, the vinyl backs of their car seats. Sean’s kitchen smelled like a Fudgsicle, his bathroom like a Coleman Chew-Chew bar. By the time they were eleven, Sean and Jimmy had developed a hatred of sweets so total that they took their coffee black for the rest of their lives and never ate dessert.

It’s a well-known fiction book by a prolific author. It was also made into a movie. Anyone know?

Okay, kids…there were a few of you I kind of expected to get this week’s quotation, but I’ll give you a clue. This is a film that is directed by Christopher Guest. Does that help?

This is Spinal Tap

A Mighty Wind

Best In Show

Waiting for Guffman

For Your Consideration

I’m sorry I’ve been neglecting all of you this week. The good news is that I’ve been working on a well-paying writing assignment, but the bad news is that I haven’t given my blogs the love they deserve. And the Oscar noms got released this week and everything!

So, Annie guessed it. Last week’s quotation was Gary Cooper as Lou Gehrig in 1942’s Pride of the Yankees. Best baseball movie ever. Here’s the clip:

Here’s actual footage of the Iron Horse and his farewell speech. It’s cut a little, but I wonder why they didn’t use his “I’ve got an awful lot to live for” line.

This week’s quotation is going to be fun. I think it might be one of those things where if you know it, you really know it, but if you don’t, you might be lost. We’ll give it a shot. Tell you what, if nobody knows by Wednesday, I’ll give you a clue.

This is not occult science. Our beliefs are fairly commonplace and simple to understand. Humankind is simply materialized color operating on the 49th vibration. You’d make that conclusion walking down the street or going to the store.