Try to enter the narrow way...

Abba Matoes said that three old men went to Abba Paphnutius, who was called Cephalus, to ask a word from him. The old man said to them, 'What do you want me to say to you? A spiritual word, or a bodily word?' They said, 'A spiritual word.' The old man said to them, 'Go, and choose trials rather than stillness, shame rather than glory, and to give rather than to receive.' - Abba Matoes

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Friday, March 06, 2009

As Good as it Gets - You're a wonderful man!!

"Sell crazy some place else, we're all stocked up here." LOL! I love this.

Posted by Terry Nelson at 3:08 PM

9 comments:

Thom Curnutte said...

One of my top 5 favorite movies ever.

3:45 PM
Terry Nelson said...

Mine too.

4:02 PM
michael r. said...

In my top 500, lol.

5:26 PM
Terry Nelson said...

Michael - which ones are in your top 5? I love comedy of course.

6:23 PM
michael r. said...

Not sure I can pick just 5, but here are 11 of my favorite films:

All About Eve 1950-Jos. Mankiewicz
Diary of a Country Priest 1950-Robt. Bresson
The Exterminating Angel 1967-Luis Bunuel
The Ghost & Mrs. Muir 1947-Jos. Mankiewicz
Beauty and the Beast 1946-Jean Cocteau
Picnic at Hanging Rock 1975-Peter Weir
Ran 1985-Akira Kurosawa
Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1948-John Houston
Vertigo 1958-Hitchcock
The Virgin Spring 1959-Bergman
The Wizard of Oz 1939-Victor Fleming

Pure escapist fare!

9:03 AM
Terry Nelson said...

Michael those are good films - I have only seen a couple however.

My 11 favorites - that simply come to mind:

Breakfast at Tiffany's
Death In Venice
Brother Sun Sister Moon
The Nun's Story
The Birdcage
Auntie Mame
All About Eve
Annie Hall
Moonstruck
Babette's Feast
As Good As It Gets
Longtime Companion

Not the greatest films I suppose.

11:43 AM
michael r. said...

Annie Hall & Breakfast at Tiffany's just miss my short list. Death in Venice, Moonstruck & Babette's Feast are way up there for me too. Brother Sun Sister Moon would be at the very top of my list except it is spoiled for me by a couple saccharine scenes. I love most of the Donovan's score! Just re-watched my taped copy of Longtime Companion a couple of months ago, after not seeing it since it first came out, and I promptly deleted it. I guess it wouldn't make my top 500 or so...lol

4:16 PM
Terry Nelson said...

Michael - Longtime Companion is not a great film, and it is pretty much early propaganda - but I know so many people who went through that, it reminds me of that reality. I also watch it when I get all holier than thou about gay people and the lifestyle. They are people... persons with souls.

6:53 PM
Thom Curnutte said...

Babette's Feast is amazing.

11:04 AM

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