The actor: Christian Bale The character: Patrick Bateman The film: American Psycho The line: “Look at that subtle off-white coloring. The tasteful thickness of it. Oh, my God. It even has a watermark.” I watched a movie earlier today called Laughter, a 1930 picture by Harry d’Abbadie d’Arras. It’s one of Jonathan Rosenbaum’s one hundred… Read More Top 100 American Movie Quotes of the 21st Century: #49
To see my running list of the hundred greatest movie stars in American film history, click here To start this project, I began with about 750 names which I knew I’d need to pare down to 100. On my first pass, I only eliminated about 300 of those names, which is a sign of how… Read More Better than AFI’s 100 Years…100 Stars: The Near Misses
Dir. Christopher Nolan. Starring Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart I wrote a review of Mamma Mia! a few years ago, and now I’m kicking myself for not saving it for one of my unlikely movie pairings to alongside The Dark Knight. The two of them couldn’t be neater fits: two of the top five grossers of 2008,… Read More The Dark Knight (2008)
Honorable mentions: “Seize the Day,” “The World Will Know” Newsies is an utterly conventional musical. It’s so conventional that it changed the sex of one of the roles; the newspaper reporter, played by Bill Pullman in the film, is played by Kara Lindsay in the stage show so the show can have a song about unlikely… Read More Songs from Musicals: #40, “Santa Fe,” from Newsies
Seeing Things Secondhand 