Independent Film Enthusiast Gifts

'D'you have anything that's not in 3D, a sequel or bloody kids?'

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."

"For the best picture not having won anything thereby being eliminated from this category..."

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?'

"We just watched a hypermovie!"

Herman Mankiewicz

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

King Kong uses fly spray against the pesky planes on top of the Empire State Building

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

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.'

Leslie Caron.

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

Comedy Cafe

'This should be perfect. The main characters fall in love during a series of explosions.'

Working in the Hazard Zone!

Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka

"An actor, you say? Guess you caught the acting-like-a-waiter bug."

"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."

"Bloody hell!"

Getting to Know You

"Boy, this blooper reel from 'Manchester by the Sea' is a crack-up."

"And the letterbox version, how does that make you feel."

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

Kritik's Korner

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

Steve McQueen

Canadian film production

Jarvis Cocker

Moby Dick

'Hey, Charlie, have we got good news for you!'

"I want you to know that emotion overrode reason."

'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?'