Little Known Flix: "Bukowski-Born Into This"

Recommendation by Fat Jack

Movie unseen
Currently available on DVD and video

Rated R
Directed by: John Dullaghan
Starring: Charles Bukowski, Bono, and many more.

Rotten Tomatoes: 82% Fresh (45 votes)
Netflix: 3.9 stars out of 5 (6,327 votes)
IMDb: 7.9 stars out of 10 (237 votes)

This documentary film which took seven years of filming by the director, delves into the life of underground literary genius, Charles Bukowski. Loved and hated for his gritty, bitting, street-edgy poetry and prose Bukowski was a tortured soul. This film includes interviews and offers footage of his controversial public readings. Bukowski’s work is not for the faint of heart and one can only guess what the documentary will be like. Fan-boy flick or deep-diving documentary of one of America’s great writers, we will just have see.

If we post polls, will they come?

Yeah, Baby!  Smokin'!  Cowabunga!  Geronimo!

We're up and running on this quote thing and Larry and I were talking about the possibility of posting some polls on YOUR (the reader's) thoughts on what the best quotes out there are.  So here's the question...

Would you take a quick poll once and a while about your favorite quotes and then have the results posted back here when the polls time frame was finished?

Let us know your thoughts... as well as your favorite quotes!


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Entertain Us

Local newspaper journalist and movie critic, MC over at Entertain Me, has done an outstanding job previewing many of the movies coming out this summer. MC offers great synopsis of the movies, among other things. If you love movies, then you need to bookmark his blog.

(NOTE: Being nothing more than a hack-of-a-movie-critic, it brings me much joy to have scooped Master Movie Critic MC on the upcoming flick, “Little Miss Sunshine.” Poor MC. Out-scooped by old Fat Jack.)

Mini-Review: "The Squid and the Whale"

Review by Fat Jack

4.5 stars out of 5

Rated R
Directed by: Naoh Baumbach
Starring: Jeff Daniels, Laura Linney, Jesse Eisenberg, and Owen Kline.

Rotten Tomatoes: 95% fresh
Netflix: 3.4 stars out of 5
IMDb: 8 stars out of 10


In "The Squid and the Whale," Bernard and Joan, two Ph.D’s devoid of the marital or parental common sense that God gave a turnip, are getting a filing for divorce. Teenager Walt and pre-teen Frank are not dealing with it well and neither parent is ready to help the boys through it. Anger, pain, confusion and sexuality have gone awry and everyone’s lives come unraveled in a lightweight and funny way. Not a dark or disturbing comedy. (I do like my dark comedies but this is not one of them.) See the trailer. "The Squid and the Whale" was nominated for an Oscar among other awards.

Bernard Berkman: Joan, let me ask you something. All that work I did at the end of our marriage, making dinners, cleaning up, being more attentive. It never was going to make a difference, was it? You were leaving no matter what... .

Joan Berkman: You never made a dinner.

Bernard Berkman: I made burgers that time you had pneumonia.

Coming Soon: "Little Miss Sunshine"

In Theatres July 28, 2006
Rated R
Directed by: Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris
Starring: Greg Kinnear, Steve Carell, Toni Collette, Paul Dano, with Abigail Breslin & Alan Arkin

The Hoover Family, believing their 7-year-old daughter has what it takes to be a queen, set off in a VW van across country for the Little Miss Sunshine beauty pageant. Is it okay for me to call it a beauty pageant anymore? This deeply fractured family of six, including the cynical grandfather and uncle are bizarrely dysfunctional.

I love quirky little movies and I have seen the trailer to “Little Miss Sunshine” on the Apple Movie Trailer site and I think this will be a great comedy that one will not want to miss. I’m adding it to my Netflix queue now.

Olive: Why were you unhappy?
Frank: I fell in love with someone... [interrupted by Grandpa blowing his nose]
Frank: ...who didn't love me back.
Olive: Who?
Frank: One of my grad students. I was very much in love with him.
Olive: 'Him'? You fell in love with a boy?
Frank: Very much so.
Olive: That's silly.
Grandpa: [under his breath] That's another word for it... .

You Can't Handle the Truth ... About Movie Quotes

A year ago, my friends and I were excited to discover that the American Film Institute (AFI) released it’s list of Top 100 Movie Quotes. We downloaded the pdf and were quick to discover that we had not seen many of the movies. What really disturbed us was that many of the quotes listed, were not, in our humble opinion, quotes that are part of the country’s consciousness, our national lexicon.

We cried “foul, foul” and set off on our own journey to find, list and categorize what we believe to be the real Greatest Movie Quotes of All Time.

The first problem is that AFI picked movies that are not known by the mass populous. If local movie lovers, cinemaphiles, have not seen the movie, nor heard the quote, then the movie shouldn’t be on the list. In fact, just because it is a classic does not necessary grant it automatic placement on the movie quote list. A person may not have seen “Gone with the Wind,” but everyone has head the quote: “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.” But how many have seen the movies “Grand Hotel,” “Now Voyager,” or “Little Caesar?” How many of us would recognize a quote from these movies. We would not.

Here at INCONCEIVABLE, we are, with your help, composing our own list of movie quotes. We invite you to submit your favorite movie quotes to us. If it is a most “Excellent” quote then it forever be added to the List of Greatest Movie Quotes of All Time.

Send us your poor, huddled movie quotes, yearning to be free.