Movies with interfering in-laws and kids are often presented as comic, the ridicule bringing welcome relief to beleaguered married folks suffering offscreen at the hands of relatives.
Because we all need to believe in movies, sometimes.
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Pleasefindthis
I think this is why Ellis took so many moving pictures of us. Because he knew that people come in and out of your life, and a picture fixes them in the moment they reach out to you.
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Zu Vincent
You float like a feather, " sings Radiohead, "In a beautiful world." I've listened several times to the Radiohead songs, because it was nice of Raymond to say he heard a bit of them in what I sang. I'm not sure I hear it myself,...
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Nicholson Baker
People don't really want original stories. they want different versions of the same story. this is called meta-narrative.
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Chester Elijah Branch
[Talking pictures are] like putting lip rouge on the Venus de Milo.
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Mary Pickford
More Quotes By Jeanine Basinger
Movies with interfering in-laws and kids are often presented as comic, the ridicule bringing welcome relief to beleaguered married folks suffering offscreen at the hands of relatives.
Joanne Woodward’s Mrs. Bridge is one of the best performances ever given on film of a middle-aged woman.
Another superb movie about a mature marriage grounded in a fundamental lack of communication is Dodsworth, based on the Sinclair Lewis novel.
Excellent films do exist on the subject, however, and one is a pure marriage movie in which Newman and Woodward make it work. Mr. and Mrs. Bridge exists to tell moviegoers that the marriage of their parents–especially if they were those tragic dogsbodies, Midwesterners–were fogbound....
When it came to portraying couples who never directly connected, the Newmans were the Olympic gold champions
