Today marks the final day of the Moving Image Institute (see my previous coverage here and here), and though I’ve been taking copious notes, I’ve been too busy actually participating to do much writing. I hope to get caught up posting takeaways by the end of this week. In the meantime, I’m going to throw out three random quotes from my notes from the past four days. Take a look at the list of speakers here, and see if you can guess who said what.
1) “There are certain people who only exist to show up on websites in order to tell you what an idiot you are.”
2) “I don’t see it as a queer movie, other than that a sodomite made it.”
3) “I’m a great Dumbo enthusiast. I think it’s the greatest animated film I’ve ever seen. I like elephants.”
I’m assuming I’m going to get all 3 wrong, so this is more like my wish list of hoping who said what:
1) Andrew Sarris
2) Arthur Penn
3) Ed Halter
We better get the real answers at some point.
Yes, you did get all three wrong. But one of your answers is the correct answer to a different question…
Dang it!
Well, don’t leave me hanging for too long…
I won’t. I’ll give it a day to see if anyone else has any guesses, and then I’ll reveal all.
I know Sarris has to be one of them, but I think he’s #3. Because I want to picture him having a cutesy side.
And I feel like Stu would say the first one.
As for #2, I don’t feel I’m familiar enough with all the speakers to give that one a shot.
Ding and ENNNH. Andrew Sarris is responsible for quote #3. Stu VanAirsdale is not quoted above.
What about Tony Scott for #1, then? He said something similar during his Brooklyn College visit recently.
Nope! The honorable A.O. Scott said none of the above.
Boy, I don’t even remember who said #1, other than sort of everybody.