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“Manuscripts don’t burn.” (P.323) “The man who called himself the master worked feverishly at his novel and the book cast its spell over the unknown woman” (p.157) ‘Think of what it’s like being in my position. Punch a man on the nose, kick an old man down-stairs, shoot somebody or any old thing like that,…
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We’re all pretty bizarre. Some of us are just better at hiding it, Synopsis and Recommendation Directed by John Hughes in 1985, “The Breakfast Club” is a quintessential 1980s coming-of-age film that follows five high school students who are forced to spend their Saturday in detention. This experience allows each of these distinctly different individuals…
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“Mother, he’s leaving. He’ll be away for two years. I can’t live without him. I’ll die.” Synopsis and Recommendation Directed by Jacques Demy and featuring music composed by Michel Legrand, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg follows the story of Geneviève and Guy, a couple in a relationship, set in Paris from 1957 to 1963. The film…
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What if there is no tomorrow? There wasn’t one today! – Phil Connors Synopsis and Recommendation Directed by Harold Ramis and starring Bill Murray and Andie MacDowell, Groundhog Day follows a pessimistic and sardonic weatherman named Phil who goes with his cameraman and producer to Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, for the Groundhog Festival for the fourth year…
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Get out of here! Go back to Rome. You’re young and the world is yours. I’m old. I don’t want to hear you talk anymore. I want to hear others talking about you. Don’t come back. Don’t think about us. Don’t look back. Don’t write. Don’t give in to nostalgia. Forget us all. If you…
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As Gregor Sansa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. Was he an animal, that music could move him so? He felt as if the way to the unknown nourishment he longed for was coming to light. Synopsis and Recommendation Written by Franz Kafka in…
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“Have yourself a merry little Christmas.” – Esther Smith Meeting him across the lawn for the first time would be so ordinary. I don’t want to be just introduced to him. I want it to be something strange and romantic and something I’ll always remember. – Esther Smith Gosh, Miss Esther, I hope I’m not…