“Every day I buy a can of pineapple with an expiration date of May 1, because May loves pineapple, and May 1 is my birthday. I tell myself that if May hasn’t come back by the time I’ve bought 30 cans, then our love will expire too.”
Movies
Go see this documentary re: Palestine - "No Other Land"
More on the movie here: https://releasing.dogwoof.com/no-other-land
From Ermanno Olmi's "The Tree of Wooden Clogs" (1978)
“And remember that paradise begins with the love
that we show each other here on earth.”
Four from RaMell Ross's "Hale County This Morning, This Evening"
Holy Motors, 2012
"Life is better…for in life there is love.
Death is good, but there's no love."
Kitty's Monologue from "Topsy-Turvy" (Mike Leigh, 1999) - this made me cry
Final Scene from "Paris, Texas"
From Hal Ashby's "The Last Detail"
Agnes Varda - "Kung-fu Master!" (1988)
Jeanne Moreau
One of the most beautiful sequences I’ve ever seen in a movie is in La Notte where Jeanne Moreau just goes for a walk
Start of the party scene from Oliver Assayas' "Cold Water" (1994)
From "Poor Things" - Yorgos Lanthimos
Inside Llewyn Davis
From "The Graduate" (Mike Nichols, 1967)
From Werner Herzog's "Aguirre, The Wrath of God" (1972)
From "Ugetsu" (1953) directed by Kenji Mizoguchi
"I did not die. I am at your side. Your delusion has come to an end. You are again your true self, in the place where you belong. Your work is waiting."
Glenda Jackson (left) in "Mary, Queen of Scots"
1936 - 2023