Italian Cinema Gifts

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?'

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

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

Benedict Cumberbatch

"This is the perfect way to watch movies if you love mosquitoes and having a cold, wet butt."

'Believing any filming experience may help launch acting careers, some even stage their appearances before closed circuit cameras.'

Herman Mankiewicz

"We just watched a hypermovie!"

'R2-D2 is not in. Please leave a message after the beep-wheep-zip-booop ...'

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

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

"You should be sniffed, and often, by someone who knows how."

"Would you sit and watch a 12 hour movie?"

Horror movies

"For the last time stupid, you're tin man, you are not by any leap of the imagination, anything like Iron Man!"

"I've seem an awful lot of movies ever since they cut them all down to two minutes."

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

No-Work Orange

Comedy Cafe

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

Stand-up Romcom

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

"I remember when the death of the hero meant the end of the sequels. Now it marks the beginning of the prequels."

"Snow White! It's the dancing, singing woodland creatures wondering if you want to go down the pub."

Godzillla eating people using telephone poles as chopsticks.

"I thought they were cracking down on jaywalking."

"I'm sorry, we're looking for the voice of a spunky animated turnip and your reading is more fruit than vegetable if you understand what I mean."

"Bloody hell!"

'There's nothing on.'

Applause

"Housekeeping?!"

"Gone with the wind with cats" "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn." "Me neither, who cares—let's take a nap."

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

"Hugh fans!"

'Play it again, Sam.'