“Scudder was fielding now, looking reckless and graceful. He was close to them, and stamped one foot, as though summoning something. That was the final vision, and whether of a devil or a comrade Maurice had no idea.”
‘His whole life he had known things but not known them … He had throbbed when Anne said, “Has she bright brown eyes?” He had known in a way it was better not to have leaned out of his bedroom window again and again into the night and call “Come!”’
Maurice getting stuck on a bush and pricking himself with a thorn in a deleted scene
‘He murmured something about Eternity in an hour: Maurice did not understand, but the voice soothed him.’
When a man-to-man sherry catches u off-guard.
When you realise that no matter how really grown up you think you are, you're still seen as a boy by all the adults around you. And, on second thought, you kind of asked for it...
Caravaggio (1986) // dir. Derek Jarman
This is one of those films I can watch time and time again and never get tired. It's absurdly beautiful.
Once I used it in class to show a bunch of very clever and keen 11th graders what the Catholic baroque was all about and they were fascinated.
A Room with a View (1985) dir. James Ivory
One thing I loved about this film was the brother/sister thing. No one seems to understand Lucy as much as Freddy.
A Room with a View (1985) dir. James Ivory
‘I used to bathe there too, until I was found out’ *
A Room with a View (1985) dir. James Ivory
Immaculate Conception (1992) dir. Jamil Dehlavi
I don’t know of another quite like it!!! (Even though all Dehlavi’s films are pretty astonishing.*) I wonder if Immaculate Conception could even be made today…
Maurice (1987)
‘All that must be tomorrow.’
Maurice (1987)
I can practically hear the soundtrack to this set…
“He’s effeminate and therefore we think he’s weak, but that man sits in pubs and clubs and houses and hotels telling all the world about his homosexuality out loud, all day long. It doesn’t bother him who’s listening, priests or housewives or landlords or anyone. He tells the truth and doesn’t care. No one else does that, Jeremy. No one. Certainly not us. In this whole land, there is Norman and Norman alone. To be blunt, he amazes me. I think he’s one of the strongest men in the world.”
A Very English Scandal, Part 1 (2018)
Norman Scott, Mrs Tish, Princess Margaret and steak tartare…
I'll pass the steak tartare, thank you...!
Maurice (1987) dir. James Ivory
Caravaggio (1986) Dir. Derek Jarman
