Harold Ross

Ever Last (2012)

Actors: Philippe Bernardin (actor), Bud Stafford (actor), Angeline-Rose Troy (costume designer), Angeline-Rose Troy (producer), Angeline-Rose Troy (actress), Alexander Boruff (actor), Chris Dimoulas (actor), Chris Dimoulas (actor), Chris Dimoulas (director), Chris Dimoulas (editor), Chris Dimoulas (writer), Isaac Leggett (composer), Michael Lieder (actor), Isaac Leggett (actor), Brian Beavers (actor),

Plot: Kimberly Alves, an assistant bank manager, meets Wolf Sutcliff, an overweight immortal man, when he robs the bank she works at. Kimberly realizes, that after being alive for thousands of years, Wolf feels as though he has nothing to live for and she takes it upon herself to help him find reason and purpose for his life.

Keywords: love, superhero, underdog
Genres: Drama,

Quotes:

Wolf Sutcliff: I'm a superhero asshole.

Kimberly Alves: You ever think of saving people again?::Wolf Sutcliff: No. Can't save everybody.::Kimberly Alves: You should.

Joe Gould's Secret (2000)

Actors: Stanley Tucci (producer), Bill Timoney (miscellaneous crew), Susan Sarandon (actress), Aida Turturro (actress), Stanley Tucci (director), Tim Monich (miscellaneous crew), Patricia Clarkson (actress), Ian Holm (actor), Allan Corduner (actor), Alice Drummond (actress), Stanley Tucci (actor), Hope Davis (actress), Steve Martin (actor), Celia Weston (actress), David Wohl (actor),

Plot: Around 1940, New Yorker staff writer Joe Mitchell meets Joe Gould, a Greenwich Village character who cadges meals, drinks, and contributions to the Joe Gould Fund and who is writing a voluminous Oral History of the World, a record of 20,000 conversations he's overheard. Mitchell is fascinated with this Harvard grad and writes a 1942 piece about him, "Professor Seagull," bringing Gould some celebrity and an invitation to join the Greenwich Village Ravens, a poetry club he's often crashed. Gould's touchy, querulous personality and his frequent dropping in on Mitchell for hours of chat lead to a breakup, but the two Joes stay in touch until Gould's death and Mitchell's unveiling of the secret.

Keywords: 1940s, ambisinister, american-indian, anger, anonymity, art, art-gallery, artist, aspirin, bar
Genres: Drama,

Quotes:

Joe Gould: [from his book] The insane person is a victim of self-deception. Yet in a measure, we all have this virtue. One is his own imaginary creation of himself. If we could see ourselves for what we really are life would be insupportable. Hence, I would judge the sanest man to be him who most firmly realizes the tragic isolation of humanity, and pursues his essential purpose calmly.

Joe Gould: In the winter, I'm a Buddhist; in the summer, I'm a nudist!

Joe Gould: Only the artist is free, Joe. Because he is single of purpose. He knows what he wants and wants only that. But this, frightens people, I don't know.

[first lines]::Joe Mitchell: In my home town, I never felt at home. In New York, New York City, in Greenwich Village, down among the cranks, and the misfits, and the one runners, and the has-beens, and the might-have-beens, and the would-bes, and the never-wills, and the God-knows-whats, I have always felt at home.

Joe Mitchell: You know that fellow who was in here the other day? The small, disheveled looking...::Harold Ross: That was you, Joe.

Joe Gould: So I supposed you're puzzled about me, Mr. Mitchell. If so the feeling's mutual. I've been puzzled about me, and have been since childhood. Did you ever have a painful operation or disease?

Joe Gould: When I am hungry I don't have any self respect!

Joe Gould: [looking at a sculpture] Is she your type?::Joe Mitchell: Parts of her.

Joe Gould: Edward Nagel called be a barbarian, because I didn't see a picture as a picture. It didn't mean anything to me. All I saw was the expression of the man who painted it. And Gaston LeChez agreed with me, saying art is essentially a means of self-expression, putting E. Nagel in his place.::Joe Mitchell: Well, that must have made you feel good.::Joe Gould: No, actually it made me feel bad. Because although our thoughts were the same, Gaston's and mine, his meant something, because he was who he was. Mine meant nothing, because because I was who I am.

Joe Gould: Take care of those composition books, Joe. The Oral History is my rope, my scaffold, my bed, my board, my wife, my floozy, my wound and the salt on it. My whiskey, my aspirin, my rock, and my salvation.

Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994)

Actors: Roc LaFortune (actor), Arthur Holden (actor), Stephen Baldwin (actor), Richard Jutras (actor), Mark Camacho (actor), Robert Higden (actor), Gregory Hlady (actor), James Bradford (actor), Matthew Broderick (actor), Nick Cassavetes (actor), Jon Favreau (actor), Peter Gallagher (actor), Gabriel Gascon (actor), Keith Carradine (actor), James Le Gros (actor),

Plot: Dorothy Parker remembers the heyday of the Algonquin Round Table, a circle of friends whose barbed wit, like hers, was fueled by alcohol and flirted with despair.

Keywords: 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, adultery, alcohol, algonquin-round-table, based-on-literary, character-name-in-title, dog
Genres: Biography, Drama,
Taglines: At the center of the circle is a woman ahead of her time. New York in the 1920's. The only place to be was the Algonquin, and the only person to know was Dorothy Parker. A woman ahead of her time. A movie that can't be missed.

Quotes:

Dorothy Parker: I may have him mounted.::Robert Benchley: One would assume.

Dorothy Parker: The sun's gone dim, the moon's turned black; for I loved him and he didn't love back.

Dorothy Parker: I'd kiss you, but I'm not sure it'd come out right.

Robert Benchley: You'd have to wear out a pretty large hole in your pocket to lose me, Mrs. Parker.

Dorothy Parker: I never liked a man I didn't meet.

Dorothy Parker: I write doodads because it's a doodad kind of town.

Dorothy Parker: Razors pain you, rivers are damp, acids stain you, drugs cause cramp. Guns aren't lawful, nooses give, gas smells awful; you might as well live.

Dorothy Parker: Time doth flit; oh shit.

Dorothy Parker: You don't want to turn into the town drunk, Eddie. Not in Manhattan.

[after being chewed out for missing a magazine deadline]::Dorothy Parker: Someone else was using the pencil.