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A Film Noir Quiz

02 Monday Jun 2014

Posted by WS50 in Art, Movies

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Double Indemnity, Film noir, movie quotes, movies

Fred and Barbara. Mixed media. Julie Seyler

Fred and Barbara. Mixed media. Julie Seyler

Every year the Film Forum, located on West Houston Street between the Avenue of the Americas and Varick Street, runs a series focusing on the twisted crime dramas with great hijinks known as “film noir”. Double Indemnity, directed by Billy Wilder, from 1944, starring Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray, is the noiriest of all film noir films. It is a movie that never gets old.

This year’s series, scheduled to run from July 18-August 7, is called “Femme Noirs: Hollywood’s Dangerous Dames”. The Film Forum puts out a calendar that provides a synopsis of each film in the series, and it’s fun to peruse because the programmers highlight a few of the best lines from some of the films.

Since we at WS50 have tried our hand at the pithy one liner, we have utter appreciation for these quotes that capture a scene, a character, the mood of a gray shrouded night in a sentence.

So here’s a quiz. Match the quote with the movie and email your response to loandjule@gmail.com. Drinks at Rolf’s on us for anyone that gets them all right. (Answers will be posted on Friday).

The Quote

1. “I caught the blackjack right behind my ear. A black pool opened at my feet. I dived in.”

2. “Nobody’s all bad, deep down. She comes the closest.”

3. “Give me a kiss or I’ll sock ya.”

4. “If I’d only known where it would end, I’d never have let anything start.”

5. “Whichever way you turn, fate sticks out a foot to trip you.”

6. “If you shoot, baby, you’ll smear us all over the road.”

7. “You’re not too smart, are you? I like that in a man.”

8. “I will not be ignored.

The Movie

1. Fatal Attraction. Adrian Lyne (1987).

2. The Lady from Shanghai. Orson Welles (1948).

3. Dead Reckoning. John Cromwell (1947).

4. Murder, My Sweet. Edward Dmytryk (1944).

5. The Postman Always Rings Twice. Tay Garnett (1946).

6. Detour. Edgar G. Ulmer (1948).

7. Body Heat. Lawrence Kasdan (1981).

8. Out of the Past. Jacques Tourneur (1946).

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I Don’t Want the Discount

29 Thursday Nov 2012

Posted by Lois DeSocio in Confessional, Men

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Bob Smith, movies, senior discount, The Write Side of 50

There’s nothing special about getting the senior discount at the movies.
Snapped by Julie Seyler

BY BOB SMITH

I just turned 58 years old, my wife is 56, and we’re fairly well-preserved, as they say. I have salt-and-pepper hair, lately more salt than pepper, but my face is relatively wrinkle-free and, if I do say so myself, I am reasonably attractive. The same is true of my wife Maria, who has a fantastic tan all summer and whose hair is even more brown than mine.

This past summer we went to the movies with Maria’s sister and her husband, who are both in their early 50s – which means the sunny side of 55. We agreed that the latest mindless mid-summer action flick would be an appropriate diversion for a cloudy day, and set off.

We got to the theater, one of these strip mall, ten-screen multiplexes, and stood patiently in line. When our turn came, I stepped up to the window and spoke through a metal grille in the glass to the worker inside. She appeared to be in her early 20s, dressed in torn jeans and a funky tattered shirt. Her attention appeared to be fairly evenly divided between issuing tickets and responding to whatever messages were popping up on the screen of the smart phone that lay on the counter, directly under her downcast gaze.

“Two adults for ‘Summer Action Movie,'” I said, sliding a twenty into the round, silver depression under the glass.

She looked up for a millisecond from the phone screen (someone was LOL about something, or no doubt would be soon) to grab the $20. As she slid it toward the cash drawer, she glanced at my face, punched a button on the console that caused two tickets to pop out of a slot in the counter, and began to make change. She ripped off the tickets, counted out my change, and slid the pile back through the hole in the glass.

“Enjoy yuh show,” she mumbled without conviction, smiling faintly as her eyes dropped to discover that one of her friends, someplace, was now LMAO.

The entire transaction had taken perhaps five seconds.

We were a bit early for the movie, which didn’t start for 40 minutes, which meant we would have to endure some shopping time in the adjacent strip mall. As we strolled across the parking lot, I remarked that going to the movies in mid-afternoon had its benefits, as I noticed that I had gotten more than the usual change back from my $20 bill.

“Must be an early bird special,” I joked.

“Wait a minute,” my sister-in-law said. “We got charged three dollars more than you.”

“That can’t be,” I said, reaching for her tickets. Sure enough, their tickets showed a price of $10 each, whereas ours were only $8.50. They were identical, I thought, until I saw that sinister two-letter abbreviation following the reduced price: “SR.”

I had gotten the senior discount! Without even asking for it! Without even being asked my age!

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