My Favorite Movies

Kikuchiyo: "What do you think of farmers? You think they're saints? Hah! They're foxy beasts! They say, "We've got no rice, we've no wheat. We've got nothing!" But they have! They have everything! Dig under the floors! Or search the barns! You'll find plenty! Beans, salt, rice, sake! Look in the valleys, they've got hidden warehouses! They pose as saints but are full of lies! If they smell a battle, they hunt the defeated! They're nothing but stingy, greedy, blubbering, foxy, and mean! God damn it all! But then who made them such beasts? You did! You samurai did it! You burn their villages! Destroy their farms! Steal their food! Force them to labour! Take their women! And kill them if they resist! So what should farmers do?"

Cheyenne: "You know, Jill, you remind me of my mother. She was the biggest whore in Alameda and the finest woman that ever lived. Whoever my father was, for an hour or for a month - he must have been a happy man."

One of the most influential, radical mind-bending science-fiction films ever made, La jetée is one of the most daring and uncompromising films in cinema history. Chris Marker has been challenging moviegoers, philosophers, and himself for years with his complex queries about time, memory, and the rapid advancement of life on this planet. This filmâ??a tale of time travel told in still imagesâ??is still one of the most influential and deeply philosophical films ever made.

Cop 223: We split up on April Fool's Day. So I decided to let the joke run for a month. Every day I buy a can of pineapple with a sell-by date of May 1. May loves pineapple, and May 1 is my birthday. If May hasn't changed her mind by the time I've bought thirty cans, then our love will also expire. "If my memory of her has an expiration date, let it be 10000 years."

This film is a cinematic archetype that has served as a template for many a film since. Brimming with action while incisively examining the nature of truth and human weakness, Rashomon is perhaps the finest film ever to investigate the philosophy of justice. Kurosawa reveals the complexities of human nature as four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife, suggesting the nature of truth is something less than absolute.