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SIFF Cinema Egyptian Staff | Friday, November 19, 2021
With the release of Kenneth Branagh's Belfast, SIFF Cinema Egyptian staff share their favorite coming of age flicks.
When you’re at the Egyptian next, check out the display of their picks, always centered around upcoming programming and changed out every two to four weeks.
Alamein: “Boy?”
Boy: “Boy!”
Alamein: “Alright, I'm your dad.”
- Picked by Kalen
Marie II: “There, you see? We do exist after all.”
Marie I, Marie II: “We are, we are, we are, we are, we are…”
- Picked by Lily
Kaspar: “It feels strong in my heart... The music feels strong in my heart... I feel so unexpectedly old…”
- Picked by Amanda
Frances: “I’m so embarrassed. I’m not a real person yet.”
- Picked by Katie
Angela: “What you see is what you get. It ain't cheap, it ain't free, but it's undeniably me.”
- Picked by Shayna
Cat Stevens banjo!
- Picked by Erin
Sookie: “What kind of a name is 'Igby'?”
Igby: “It's the kind of a name that someone named Sookie is in no position to question.”
- Picked by Josh
“I tried to tell him that our lives are going to change because of this, he just told me not to bother talking, because he was going to dub the video with the soundtrack from 'Eraserhead.'”
- Picked by Betty
Kevin: “Who is you, man?”
Black: “Who, me?”
Kevin: “Yeah, you. Them fronts? That car? Who is you, Chiron?”
Black: “I’m me, man. Ain’t trying to be nothing else.”
Kevin: “So you hard now?”
- Picked by Kolby
“I saved Latin. What did you ever do?”
- Picked by Tristen
Stevo: “You see, life is like that. We change, that's all. You see, the guy I am now is not the guy I was then. If the guy I was then met the guy I am now, he'd beat the shit out of me. Those are the facts.”
- Picked by Marisa
“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
- Picked by Ivan
“Yeah, it’s very Kafkaesque.”
“…'Cause it’s written by Franz Kafka.”
“Right.”
- Picked by Milo
Oliver: “Ask me how deep the ocean is.”
Jordana: “Why?”
Oliver: "Because I know the answer.”
- Picked by Maggie
