Dialogue - playing cat and mouse

Before we start:

1. Make a list of 3 best/most memorable film conversations. Don't put down what critics say, this list should be very personal.
2. Make a list of 3 writers/directors who make "talkie movies" - films in which characters talk rather than act or dialogue is particularly memorable.


THE GRADUATE (1967) - "Mrs. Robinson, if you don't mind my saying so, this conversation is getting a little strange."



Directed by Mike Nichols, screenplay by Buck Henry
Script link: The Graduate


HANNAH AND HER SISTERS (1986)

e.e. cummings

somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond
any experience,your eyes have their silence:
in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,
or which i cannot touch because they are too near

your slightest look will easily unclose me
though i have closed myself as fingers,
you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens
(touching skilfully,mysteriously)her first rose

or if your wish be to close me, i and
my life will shut very beautifully ,suddenly,
as when the heart of this flower imagines
the snow carefully everywhere descending;
nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals
the power of your intense fragility:whose texture
compels me with the color of its countries,
rendering death and forever with each breathing

(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens;only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
nobody,not even the rain,has such small hands

Written/directed by Woody Allen
Script link: Hannah and her sisters