French Film Aficionado Gifts

His films need to be viewed with a post modernist sense of irony...

Adult Courses. It's so hard keeping the information from different classes separate! I'm talking film history and psychology. I failed a test because I said a "psychopath" is the walkway Norman Bates took home. I also confused geography and aeronautics. I said the "great plains" are located at an Air Force testing base in the California desert. My worst nightmare was confusing the thinks ti learned in driver's education and statistics. But at least I now know it's driving where you must st

"Thanks to the Oscars, we're going to be the hottest finger food this season."

Screenwriters pitch movie to studio boss: 'It's a reinterpretation of Bicycle Thieves, that classic of Italian neo-realism. We're calling it, Dude, Where's My Chopper?'

"I'll do the movie but I want to be highly compensated and highly acclaimed."

Herman Mankiewicz

Victor Hugo

Fabrique en Francais (Made in France).

Honoré de Balzac

"Hey grandpa, tell us more about the time you were in that Steven Spielberg movie."

Jean-Paul Sartre

Men looking at black screen, "I call it film noir"

'The secret to doing a book report is only picking books that have been made in to movies.'

"Let's talk film or let's not talk film - I'm easy."

"I like movies that resemble my life, so I don't feel like I'm wasting time watching a movie."

"Seth, here, is one of the best young creative compromisers in the business."

"...But ASIDE from that, how was your trip to France?"

The Euro-Trash Trashcan

"Bloody hell!"

Kritik's Korner

Waiter, what's this fly doing in my soup? A scene from an Esther Williams movie.

Sign in book shop window: 'Critics agree the book is much better than the movie.'

Getting to Know You

Canadian film production

"We need to make it through at least one movie, so we have something to root for during the Oscars."

Moby Dick

'You don't want weather? Not a problem! How about sports, or maybe a nice movie? We can do that! Just put that thing down and let's talk, OK?'

"You can tell it's a period drama because they're not wearing ozone helmets."

'Action!...Cut!...Right, everything else is CGI'

'How's this new concept? Instead of a gunfight, the hero overpowers the villian with a heartfelt homily on the sanctity of family values.'

Arnold's first day on the job - 'What do you mean...no director!!!...and who is going to tell me what to do?'

"Spoiler alert."

'And I love the part when he finds out that it was his brother all along!'

Movies vs. Films

"I'm sick of watching the same movie every day."