“Play Time is French director Jacques Tati’s fourth major film. Tati wanted the film to be in color but look like it was filmed in black and white.”.

“In Tati’s world, machines are confounding; yet, they are ever-present.
Tati has seen how this technology has opened up the world by granting more possibilities to all, and to reflect that, he has constructed office buildings with walls made entirely of glass and corridors that appear to go on forever.

He knows it’s a double-edged sword, however: while the glass opens things up, it also pushes us farther apart. Of course, living in Tati’s world isn’t all bad.
Regardless of how much our creations fail us, humans don’t buckle under, we endure.”.
(Jamie S. Rich)

Above: Jacques Tati (sitting on the left) as Monsieur Hulot in the offices sequence.

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“The story tells of a single woman who buys in a supermarket a man labeled “sweet”. The attitude of the man seems strange and, after having unsuccessfully courted him, she discovers that he has expired. Returned to the store as defective product, the man will be recycled in the third world.”.

Strane storie (Strange stories; Sandro Baldoni, 1994). With Ivano Marescotti and Silvia Cohen.

Above: Ivano Marescotti as the sweet man on sale.

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- “What are you doing on the outside?” - “I was a DJ.” - “What?”

Down by Law (Jim Jarmusch, 1986). With Tom Waits, John Lurie, Roberto Benigni.
“The story of three different men in a Louisiana prison and their eventual journey.”.

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Signs. A short film about communication. By Patrick Hughes.

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“I don’t speak with economists never it’s a waste of time I will do an exception for you because you seem a bad economist.”.

Concursante (The Contestant, 2007). A movie by Rodrigo Cortes.
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Leon: “Will you smile?” Ninotchka: “Why?” Leon: “Well, just smile.” Ninotchka: “At what?” Leon: “At anything. At the whole ridiculous spectacle of life. At people being so serious, taking themselves pompously, exaggerating their own importance. If you can’t think of anything else to laugh at, you can laugh at you and me.” (From Wikiquote)

I love this woman.
Ninotchka (by Ernst Lubitsch, 1939).

Bender: “I tried helping them. I tried not helping them but in the end I couldn’t do them any good. Do you think what I did was wrong?”

God: “Right and wrong are just words. What matters is what you do.
Being God isn’t easy, if you do too much, people get dependent.
And if you do nothing, they lose hope.
You have to use a light touch, like a safecracker or a pickpocket.
When you do things right, people won’t be sure you’ve done anything at all.”

Godfellas: the transcript at the Internet Movie Script Database.
From Futurama, episode 52: Godfellas, written by Ken Keeler (2002).

“Great film. Perfect length. False people.”.

High Maintenance. A short film about our future. Directed byPhillip Van.
Above: Nicolette Krebitz, screenshot, detail.
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“When you fall asleep you’re unaware of sleeping until your awake. During last missing hours a whole other world comes alive. Welcome to the nightshift.”.

Cashback (the short)* and Cashback, the movie*.
“I think that the film tells us that what we spend our lives looking for is often right in front of us.
And if we take the time to see things calmly, we find in us what we want or we find ways to obtain it.”.
(Sean Ellis)

Above: screenshot from the teaser trailer. Model: Irene Bagach.

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Harp: “You know less than nothing.
If you even knew that you knew nothing, at least that would be something, but you don’t.”.
Utah: “Yes, sir.”.

(Point Break, 1991)

Point Break: the script. From The Internet Movie Script Database.