I have a sadness shield that keeps out all the sadness, and it’s big enough for all of us.

Roger Ebert had an interesting story last month about selecting his ten greatest films list. Haven’t seen them all, but I think this might be a good summer project:

• Aguirre, Wrath of God (Herzog)
• Apocalypse Now (Coppola)
• Citizen Kane (Welles)
• La Dolce Vita (Fellini)
• The General (Keaton)
• Raging Bull (Scorsese)
• 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick)
• Tokyo Story (Ozu)
• The Tree of Life (Malick)
• Vertigo (Hitchcock)

It’s your professionalism that I respect.

Kid one watching Little Shop of Horrors with me, Eagan, Minnesota

Colleen and I went to the Walker Art Center’s Cinema series on Friday to catch the last film they were showing in a Lawrence Kasdan retrospective, The Accidental Tourist. Turned out this was also the last show in that theater before they close it down for two months to install new seats and an updated sound system (they already installed a new digital projector).

Even though I’d seen the movie before (and used to own it), I didn’t remember all of it. I guess that’s one benefit of getting older – everything old is new again…

Right before the movie started, we were told that it’s getting harder and harder for them to locate original film copies of older movies. This one was released in 1988, but the Walker couldn’t locate a print and were planning to show a Blu-ray version. Apparently Mr. Kasdan was here earlier in the week and offered to ship a personal 35mm copy from his vault in Los Angeles. So cool!

Here’s a list of some of the other films he wrote and/or directed:

• The Empire Strikes Back
• Return of the Jedi
• Raiders of the Lost Ark
• Body Heat
• The Big Chill
• Silverado
• Grand Canyon
• The Bodyguard

Not a bad résumé, eh?

You can’t win a marathon without putting some bandaids on your nipples.

Mr. Harken, this city needs its news. And you are going to deprive them of that because I have breasts? Exquisite breasts?

Public News Team is taking a break from its pledge drive to kick some ass. No commercials, no mercy.

Oh, Baxter, you are my little gentleman. I’ll take you to foggy London town…

Well, now, guess what, this is happening.

I love scotch. Scotchy, scotch, scotch. Here it goes down, down into my belly…

Oh Ron, there are literally thousands of other men that I should be with instead, but I am 72 percent sure that I love you.

Don’t sell yourself short Judge, you’re a tremendous slouch.

Kid one and kid two before the Hunger Games screening, Regal Cinema, Eagan, Minnesota

Burn in hell, you little green bastard!

Did you get a job here?

You know the three most successful robberies in the history of Vegas?

When I was your age, television was called books.

Suddenly the world seems such a perfect place, suddenly it moves with such a perfect grace, suddenly my life doesn’t seem such a waste…

Nudge nudge. Snap snap. Grin grin, wink wink, say no more?

http://oscar.go.com/nominees

I’m shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!

No one knows what it means, but it’s provocative…

There’s no normal life, Wyatt, it’s just life. Get on with it.

Princeton can use a guy like Joel.

Dorothy and Toto doll for kid two, Christmas 2011, Eagan, Minnesota

http://www.tintin.com/

In Vegas, everybody’s gotta watch everybody else…

So rong, Earthrings!

Jeff, wives don’t nag anymore. They discuss.

Can I refill your eggnog for you? Get you something to eat? Drive you out to the middle of nowhere and leave you for dead?

Uh, try and be nice to people, avoid eating fat, read a good book every now and then, get some walking in, and try and live together in peace and harmony with people of all creeds and nations.

That John Denver’s full of shit, man.

I can’t believe I fell for Muppet Man.

I’ve seen the Exorcist about a 167 times, and it keeps getting funnier every single time I see it!

I’m only a psychopath on weekdays. And today’s Saturday, so…

Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries.

Aha, what’s so special about the cheesemakers?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Driscoll

Hindu, Taoist, Mormon, spill theirs just anywhere, but God loves those who treat their semen with more care.

…the only good varmint poontang is dead varmint poontang…

Look, man, I ain’t fallin’ for no banana in my tailpipe!

There’s a shortage of perfect breasts in this world. It would be a pity to damage yours.

I’m a master of fright, and a demon of light, and I’ll scare you right out of your pants…

There’s no Messiah in here. There’s a mess all right, but no Messiah. Now go away!

No. Try not. Do…or do not. There is no try.

All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?

http://www.nowness.com/day/2011/10/17/1640/spike-jonze-mourir-apres-de-toi

So what’s it like to be married? You haven’t talked much about that.