Traditionalist Cinema Buff Gifts

Theater Owner Who Refused To Convert To Digital Projection.

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?'

Herman Mankiewicz

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

Comedy Cafe

Meet Me Outside St. Louis

Marilyn Monroe - Spot the Difference

"The following film has been formatted to fir the screen of the newer and more expensive television set."

Steve McQueen

"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."

'I have a feeling we are not in Kansas anymore.'

Jimmy Cagney.

Of all the gin joints, in all the towns, in all the world, in all the solar systems, in all the galaxies, in all the universe, she walks into mine.

"Citizen Kane first draft... Citizen Kane By Orson Welles & Herman J. Mankiewicz Int. Kane's bedroom Kane's old voice Call a freaking ambulance! Rosebud..."

"How was prom?"

"How can anyone remember Cheech and not remember Chong?"

Basic training w/ GI Joe, Rambo, Bruce Lee, etc.

David Niven caricature

Queen Kong

"Darling, do you ever worry that we're becoming some sort of Merchant-Ivory production?"

Stan Laural & Oliver Hardy.

"Maybe I needed a brain also! I left my heart in San Francisco!"

Jack Nicholson

"I'm just gonna reach in my back pocket real slow-like and turn off my ringer."

Of all the gin joints in the world, you are here.

Fred Astaire

Rita Hayworth caricature

'Is that all you can do Just sitting there watching your old movies'

"He's a real throwback. He does all his own publicity stunts."

John Cleese.

Notorious gangsters, Bunny and Clyde.

Ask Sadie! I just read an article where Daisy Ridley said J.J. Abrams wrote drafts for Episode VIII and Episode IX. And then Rian Johnson THREW THAT OUT and went a whole different direction. This makes me lose all faith in Star Wars. Am I overreacting? **Actual reader question. Excellent question. This reminds me of the time I saw Gone with the Wind on opening day. I was the invited guest of an elderly veteran of the Civil War. He couldn't stop yammering about how seceding from the union didn't

'Business was slow, slower than a fat tortoise with a limp. The phone hadn't rung for so long I thought it must be out of order. The new competition was good, very good. Who was this 'Google' guy?'

"Oh well, I'm off the see the orthopedist."