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Shadow of a Doubt (1943)

1. "If you read as much as you`re supposed to, you`d know that the library closes at 9."
2. Profile. Monologue. He turns his head to the camera and asks a question--to Charlie, to us.
3. He snaps off the stem of the flower, puts the flower in his buttonhole.

Just watched DAREDEVIL. God, did it ever suck. The most corporate, soulless movie I've seen in a long time.

A Separation [2011]

1. "The court doesn't care about those things."
2. She phones for advice. Is it sacrilegious to clean the old man?
3. Rather than hit his wife, he slaps himself violently again and again.

Away From Her [2006]

1. She places the pot in the freezer. She realizes she's done something odd, but she doesn't realize why it's odd.
2. "I think people are too demanding. People want to be in love every single day. What a liability."
3. They dance together by the Christmas tree. "Harvest Moon" by Neil Young on the soundtrack.

When Worlds Collide [1951]

1. At a fancy supper club, he lights his cigarette by setting some money on fire. He looks over at a startled matron and says, "I've always wanted to do that!"
2. For a moment he thinks that Drake has left him to die. He calmly looks off in the distance at the helicopter. Slowly the helicopter circles back around to pick him up.
3. The surface of the planet Zyra looks like a Chuck Jones painting.

Looking back at 2011, I've compiled some stats with the help of my Moleskine diary.

190: number of movies I watched
41: mystery green statistic
46: number of times we ordered from Art of Pizza
$1336: approximate total cost of these pizzas

Movie-viewing is down from the previous year, while Art of Pizza-consumption is up. Hmm.

Double Take [2009]

1. A plane crashes into the Empire State Building. Everyone looks up.
2. Folgers is mountain-grown.
3. The two elderly Hitchcock look-alikes, arms linked, walk slowly away.

Sigh. Got a cold. That Xmas cold that's being regifted all the way around my office. Then again, better now than in two weeks ...

Clue [1985]

1. Cleverest touch: the parquet floor in the hall has squares, like the spaces on the game board.
2. Eileen Brennan's feather hat/eyeglasses combo. She sits there on the sofa, her hand to her jaw, wheezing, while everyone else watches her. Was her drink poisoned?
3. "Flames. Flames on the side of my face."