R.I.P Donna Summer

David Bowie: “One day in Berlin … Eno came running in and said, ‘I have heard the sound of the future.’ … he puts on ‘I Feel Love’, by Donna Summer … He said, ‘This is it, look no further. This single is going to change the sound of club music for the next fifteen years.’ Which was more or less right.”

3 things about Michael Tolkin’s THE NEW AGE

The New Age [1994]

1. She begins deleting all the files.
“The bank doesn’t need 100,000 brochures because the bank doesn’t exist anymore. The bank doesn’t exist anymore because too many of its big real estate loans went bad. Its great big real estate loans went bad because it made loans to shopping centers that can’t find enough tenants. The shopping centers can’t find enough tenants because there are too many shopping centers. Too many shopping centers because a lot of greedy fucks got loans from corrupt banks.”
She prepares to leave the office.
“Where are you going?” her assistant asks.
“I’m going shopping.”
2. Adam West sidles up to the salesgirl and says, “How are your morals today?”
3. He asks for marriage advice from his dad, who tells him, “You have two options. Leave her, or ride it out,” and then walks away.

3 things about Ridley Scott’s ALIEN

Alien [1979]

1. Strengthening its grip, the tail coils itself more tightly around the neck.
2. Harry Dean Stanton looks up. Washes his face.
3. “I can’t see a damn thing.”
“Quit griping.”
“I like griping.”

3 things about Steven Soderbergh’s HAYWIRE

Haywire [2011]

1. He stands at the edge of the hangar; as he talks, she warily circles him. In the background a tumbleweed scuds past. The perfect detail.
2. They slam into the couch, which tips onto its back, and roll across the floor. The perfect cut.
3. He turns around, noticing her, and says, “Shit.” The perfect ending.

3 things about Paul Thomas Anderson’s PUNCH-DRUNK LOVE

Punch-Drunk Love [2002]

1. First she calls him Jack, then switches to Barry.
2. “I can redeem the pudding in six to eight weeks. If you could just give me that length of time.”
3. He walks down the long jetway, gradually slowing down, stepping into the light.

3 things about Bryan Forbes’ THE STEPFORD WIVES

The Stepford Wives [1975]

1. Watermelon, 5 cents a pound.
2. Paula Prentiss in a blue overall shorts. So wrong they’re right.
3. He sidles into the kitchen, watches her. She turns around and notices him. He says, “I like to watch women doing little domestic chores.”

3 things about Orson Welles` TOUCH OF EVIL

Touch of Evil (1958)

1. As she exits through the door, he licks his lips.
2. “He was some kind of man. What does it matter what you say about somebody?”
3. I want to see a movie just about Mercedes McCambridge`s character. The way she moves around the room, coldly sizing up the situation, then saying, “Not yet.”