my favorite movies of 2002:

(1) About Schmidt

(2) Spellbound

favorite of 2002:

About Schmidt

(Jack Nicholson, Kathy Bates, Hope Davis, Dermot Mulroney, June Squibb. Directed by Alexander Payne.)

Once I am dead and everyone who knew me dies too, it will be as though I never existed. … I know we’re all pretty small in the big scheme of things, and I suppose the most you can hope for is to make some kind of difference. But what kind of difference have I made? What in the world is better because of me?

When Jack Nicholson won the Golden Globe for best actor in a drama, he said in his acceptance speech: “Well, I don’t know whether to be happy or ashamed, because I thought we made a comedy! … Dermot Mulroney, his haircut alone shoulda let you know it was a comedy!”

(How to stream About Schmidt.)

2nd favorite of 2002:

Spellbound

(Documentary. Directed by Jeffrey Blitz.)

A documentary about spelling? Doesn’t that sound boring? Well how about this: it’s really a movie about America.

Corollary.

Corollary. May I have a definition please?

A proposition that follows upon one just demonstrated, and that requires no additional proof. …

Um, does it have to do with, like, a Corolla?

What’s a Corolla?

Uh, I don’t know, like the car?

Stream it on Kanopy or one of these other sites.

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