Coen Brothers
I've been married to Frances McDormand since 1984.
Joel Coen
Iconic character I created in several cop movies. I don't play by the rules, and I carry a .44 magnum. "Do you feel lucky, punk?"
Dirty Harry
A thug for the mob defies his bosses and testifies against them in a corruption case. My conscience tells me to do so after I realize they hindered my boxing career.
"I coulda been a contender!"
On the Waterfront (1951)
"Who told you to buy a brownstone on my block, in my neighborhood, on my side of the street? Yo, what you wanna live in a Black neighborhood for, anyway? Man, motherf--k gentrification."
BUGGIN OUT (Giancarlo Esposito) in Do The Right Thing (1989)
The first movie to show a toilet
Psycho (1960)
One of our earliest films is a comedy about a couple who try to enlarge their family by stealing a baby.
Raising Arizona (1987)
I starred in and directed this Western that won Best Picture in 1993.
Unforgiven
The first female-directed film to win the Oscar: During the Iraq War, a Sergeant recently assigned to an army bomb squad is put at odds with his squad mates due to his maverick way of handling his work.
The Hurt Locker (2008)
"Open the pod bay doors, please, HAL."
DAVE BOWMAN (Keir Dullea) in 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Tom Hanks (who won his first Best Actor Oscar) and Antonio Banderas star as gay lovers, was the first major studio (big-budget) film to confront the AIDS issue from a societal, medical, and political point of view.
Philadelphia (1993)
John Tuturo, Albert Finney, Italian mobsters, 1930s, lots of bullets and shoot-out scenes
Miller's Crossing (1990)
I directed Tom Hanks in this movie about an airline pilot.
Sully (2016)
A boxing movie that plays upon white trash stereotypes, directed by Clint Eastwood. A determined woman works with a hardened boxing trainer to become a professional.
Million Dollar Baby (2004)
"And I guess that was your accomplice in the wood chipper."
MARGE GUNDERSON (Frances McDormand) in Fargo (1996)
Many of the major studios (Buena Vista Home Entertainment for Disney titles, Fox and Warner Bros.) stopped creating or were phasing out VHS versions of their films, and major retail stores stopped selling VHS versions or releases. Circuit City and Best Buy retailers announced they would stop selling bulky VHS tapes in their stores. What year?
2003
Probably their best film at the height of their career, relaunched Josh Brolin's career, set in Texas, a slow moving chase movie
No Country For Old Men (2007)
One of the best prison movies of all time, I play a convict who breaks out and makes history.
Escape From Alcatraz (1979)
William Wallace says, "They may take our lives, but they'll never take our FREEDOM." It's a movie about Scottish independence.
Braveheart (1996)
"As you wish."
THE GRANDFATHER/NARRATOR (Peter Falk) in The Princess Bride (1987)
This surprise hit comedy was the fastest R-rated youth comedy to reach the $200 million mark (it took 30 days). Bucking the trend of big-name stars ensuring success, it featured a trio of unknowns on a drunken weekend.
The Hangover (2009)
(2 pts.) Place these movies in order of when they were released: Fargo, A Serious Man, Blood Simple, O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Blood Simple (1984)
Fargo (1996)
O Brother Where Art Thou? (2000)
A Serious Man (2009)
2 pts.:
I made a big political statement and mocked Barack Obama in the 2012 presidential election by pointing to an empty chair and saying, "So, I've got Barack Obama right here next to me..."
Where was he when he said that?
Republican National Convention in Tampa
2 pts: A naive hustler travels from Texas to New York City to seek personal fortune, finding a new friend in the process. The only Rated X film to win the Oscar
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
2 pts: "There's a lotta things about me you don't know anything about, Dottie. Things you wouldn't understand. Things you couldn't understand. Things you shouldn't understand."
PEE-WEE HERMAN (Paul Reubens) in Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985)
2 pts. Movie studios opened their vaults for television rentals and sales. RKO Radio Pictures was the first to sell its film library of 740 films for $15.2 million to the conglomerate C&C Super Corporation, which then distributed the films to TV stations for broadcast. RKO's King Kong (1933) was first televised in the US in 1956, and other classics of the pre-1948 period were now viewable on TV, such as Orson Welles' Citizen Kane (1941) and The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), as well as the Astaire/Rogers dance-musical films. What year?
1955