If you can supply us with the exact quote, please send it along.

There is also a scene in which the band Stillwater is backstage at their concert and you can hear Joni singing River in the background.

Not sure if this has been brought up yet but we watched a movie this weekend called "Camp." The guy says something to this girl about how she couldn't remember anything and she replied, "I can remember every line to every song Joni Mitchell ever wrote."

My reaction to Rolls was that there are large numbers of us!

Also from Florida, this is Jerry's take on it:

Finally got to see Camp last night. It played about 3 days here in Florida. There is a Joni mention. The lead male character tells the girls, who is always listening to Sondheim, that she needs to listen to newer, hip music for girls her age. She replies: "Oh, I love Joni Mitchell. I have all of her albums." Funny scene.

"He's asked to manage and expand a local band searching for their identity, a style, a genre. Jimmy (Wilson Pickett's biggest fan) also makes it his mission. Auditions are held after placing an advertisement in the local paper. 'Have you got soul? If so, the world's hardest working band is looking for you.'

"The queue stretches for miles . . . well at least around the corner on the council estate where they all live. All sorts apply. A thrashing heavy-metal feedback inspired guitarist, a punk, and a young female hippie type who, when asked for her influences answers very liltingly, "Joni Mitchell." She mentions others, but Joni Mitchell is the only one I can recall. Needless to say she doesn't make it.

"If you love music, and humour, then this film comes highly recommended."

Got the exact dialog? Please let us know what it is.

Near the beginning of themovie "Elizabethtown" the main charachter is walking down a hall of famous paintings at the corporate headquarters. On the wall is Joni's painting "Hyde Park". Am I the only one that noticed that????

And then Clive checked in with this:

A few weeks ago I was watching Elizabethtown and there is a scene where the main guy is walking along a corridor to his boss's office. The walls are full of art and I thought momentarily - is that a Joni Mitchell there? I forgot about it and while doing my monthly peruse of Jonimitchell.com/JMDL I came across a design Joni had done for Cameron Crowe for a magazine cover about Elizabethtown - which reminded me of the Joni painting in the film. Did anyone else think this or see it or was I imagining it. In short, was there a Joni on the wall or not?

Taking the lectern is CHLOE, a pale, sickly girl whose skin stretches yellowish and tight over her bones. She wears a head bondage. She clears her throat.

JACK (Voice Over) Ahh, Chloe. Chloe looked the way Joni Mitchell's skeleton would look if you made it smile and walk around a party being extra nice to everyone.

CHLOE Well, I'm still here -- but I don't know for how long. That's as much certainty as anyone can give me. but I've got some good news -- I no longer have any fear of death.

This Joni mention did not appear in the movie, according to Gerard. He reports that in the film, the reference is to "Meryl Streep's skeleton."

Wondering what movie to rent this weekend? Rent Foxes. Then let us know exactly what the dialogue is!

The "Joni-like" character was played by Kirsten Dunst. She was a high school singer/songwriter. She was in a group of friends when one asked if anyone heard her music before. The friend said something like "She could be the next Josie Mitchell." To which Kirsten's character replies, "That's Joni Mitchell."

Rob Fleming, the owner of the used record store in this film, chases a couple of kids who have shoplifted some albums and confronts them outside his shop. The kids throw the records on the ground, Rob picks them up and looks through them, reading aloud the names of the recording artists. Then there is the following dialogue:

ROB: What, are you stealing for other people?

KID: No, those are for us.

ROB: You guys slamming to Joni Mitchell now?

Saw the worst film ever made last night called Hustler White. In one scene, the hustler is picked up by a biker guy. Afterwards, the biker guy says, "It sure ain't like the old days; acid, booze, and grass, needles, guns, and ass." Sorry to see Joni quoted in such an awful movie. Of course, it goes uncredited.

There is also a soundtrack available.

Richard adds:

On the DVD, in the featurette interview with director Lisa Chodolenko, she talks about how listening to "Ladies of the Canyon" and Joni's cover painting inspired her to write the screenplay and that Jane (the Frances McDormand character) is modeled on what little she knew of Joni MItchell combined with Daniel Lanois.

Near the end of the film, as Kevin Kline's character is dying of cancer and he and his ex-wife realize that they are still in love, they slow-dance in the half-finished house he is building to Both Sides Now (the BSN version).

River is played in a prominent scene near the end of the picture.

Just thought I would pass along another incident of Joni's music in 'fiction'. In the film, Love Actually, Emma Thompson's character Karen is given a Joni box-set and has an emotional breakdown while listening to it.

Joniing in late, Evenstar sez:

I'm guessing this may well have been discussed while I was on sabbatical, if so apologies for the repetition.

I saw the DVD of Love, Actually last night which was mostly quite dire apart from the Joni stuff.

Emma Thompson's character is shown being derided by her husband (who is on the brink of an office affair) for still listening to JM and her characters says "I love her, and true love lasts a life time".

Later on in the movie Thompson's character is expecting/hoping to get a necklace she has aleady seen from her husband for Christmas (which he has actually given to his mistress) - the package turns out to be a copy of Both Sides Now.

There is a good moment where her character is going through the emotional impact of this on her alone while listening to the BSN version of BSN, it fits the moment very well and seems to encompass her pain and longing.

Anyways, sorry if this came up already.

And KYNW adds:

Joni is mentioned in the romantic comedy Love Actually by husband and wife Harry (played by Alan Rickman) and Karen (played by Emma Thompson).

While wrapping Christmas presents, River plays in the background sparking this dialogue:

Harry: What is this we're listening to?
Karen: Joni Mitchell.
Harry: I can't believe you still listen to Joni Mitchell.
Karen: I love her. And true love lasts a lifetime. Joni Mitchell is the woman who taught your cold English wife how to feel.
Harry: Did she? Oh, that's good. I must write her sometime and say thanks.

Later in the film, Karen opens a Christmas present from Harry, expecting a gold necklace and finds a CD of Both Sides Now which Harry says is meant "to continue your emotional education." This is followed by a moving scene of Karen in their bedroom listening to Both Sides Nowand crying at the realization that her husband gave the necklace to another woman.

And Victoria chimes in with:

The film Love, Actually features Emma Thompson's marriage to Alan Rickman breaking up to the tune of Joni Mitchell's more recent arrangement of Both Sides Now (2002).

From Norway, Per writes:

Joni plays an important role in one scene in last year's (2003) British film "Love Actually." Wife Emma Thompson can't miss that husband Alan Rickman makes a purchase of a beautiful piece of jewelry at Christmas-time, and that he has it wrapped in a neat flat 5 x 6" box. Unwrapping on Christmas Eve, she gets her wish fulfilled - the new CD by her favourite artist: Joni's new Both Sides Now album. We then see Thompson in solitude, crying bitterly, realising husband intended the most special gift for another someone special. She then returns to the party seemingly composed, but emotions stil in havoc. Joni's singing Both Sides Now in her rusty voice, with the beautiful bass, sax and strings accompaniment augmenting Thompson's great performance in this scene. "You really don't know Love at all - - - -"

I'll have to add that for me, it was a true high to hear this song from the great sound system of the cinema.

Thanks also to Karl-Heinz Schäfer in Hamburg; Les Ross in London; Sue; and Anouk.

I had my TV on in the background while I was on the computer, and I heard The Circle Game being played without vocals! Turns out that this movie called Married to It used Joni's song for the opening credits.

It stars Beau Bridges and Stockard Channing as an aging hippie couple, Robert Sean Leonard and Mary Stuart Masterson as a young couple, plus Ron Silver and an excruciating Cybill Shepard (she CAN'T ACT!). I didn't see the whole movie, but the arrangement of The Circle Game was a nice surprise.

Here's the song:

I was in an all night movie
When I heard the usher say
Here comes the midnight cowboy
Got his gun hired out for pay;
You were walking kind of faded
From the Netherlands Hotel
With your hat tipped off to ladies
Really looking well

Aw Joe, why don't you go back home?
Really hate to see you falling down
Get out of town

Well you came to New York City
With a calendar full of gold
Now they locked it up in the bedroom
And they kicked you out in the cold;
Now you can't afford a little blanket
You can get one from a friend
You can trick one off the corner
You can even keep the change - to spend

Hey Joe, why don't you go back home?
Really hate to see you come falling down
Get out of town

There's a soldier in the depot
He's a fighting nightingale
Wearing western boots and buckskin on
Reading fortunes from the penny scale;
Now today he's got a quarter
For the photograph machine
But tomorrow he'll be lonely lonely
That's the way it's always been

Poor Joe, why don't you go back home?
Really hate to see you falling down
Get out of town

I was in an all night movie
When I heard the usher say
Here comes the midnight cowboy again
Got his gun hired out for pay;
You were walking kind of faded
From the Netherlands Hotel
Hat tipped off to the ladies
Tipped off to gentlemen as well

Well joe, why don't you go back home
Find yourself a girl and settle down
Get out of town
Get out of town
Find yourself a girl, go and settle down
Hey Joe, looking more lost than found
Get out of town

-Joni Mitchell BMI

I tuned in on CBS Sunday Night Movie. At the end a guy was put into a police wagon with George Clooney. When asked his name, he answered that they nicknamed him "Hejira," then explained it was Mohammed's fight from Mecca.

This was a Steven Soderbergh movie, so do you think he's been listening to Joni?

In 1907, Dr. Lily Penleric, a musicologist frustrated by career obstacles, takes refuge with her sister in Appalachia...and discovers a world of folk music sung by the locals that has existed unaltered since it was transported from Europe. In her efforts to record and preserve this music, Lily faces great opposition from many of the locals--including a ruggedly handsome adventurer--who want to preserve the music privately in their own way.

Actors: Aidan Quinn, Janet McTeer, Taj Mahall, Iris Dement, Pat Carroll, Jane Adams, Emmy Rossum, E. Katherine Kerr

Director: Maggie Greenwald

There's a Joni reference in the 1999 film Still Crazy. It's a great movie about a '70s British rock band called Strange Fruit that tries to reunite twenty years after a really bad break up. About half way through the film the band is touring some questionable dives on the Continent trying to get up to speed for a big comeback concert in GB. Just before they go on stage, their band manager says, "It's full and noisy. There are lots of head-bangers and skin heads. It's a rough crowd." Beano, their drummer replies "Maybe we should cut the Joni Mitchell tribute."

In the new film, Tarnation, there is a Joni mention.

The main character's character (who is also the director, it's an auto-biography/documentary -- not sure of the genre -- very edgy and wonderful -- read about it on the website!), said he had always wanted to do a musical of his life... names some people who would play whom, and Joni Mitchell would play Renee, who is his mother and forms a central focus of the film. I'm not giving away anything here!

Miniscule Rolling Stone Review...

One of the strangest films of the year, Waking the Dead is a romance in which the fear of selling out -- a keen agony in baby boomers -- takes on a supernatural, ghostly tinge. Those Old Enough to Remember get struck in the tear ducts immediately by the Joni Mitchell tune "A Case of You," which plays over the titles.

For the movie’s first Joni reference, Meg Ryan’s character, Kathleen Kelly, is alone and reminiscing about her mother while decorating a Christmas tree in the window of her lonely children’s bookstore.

It’s shortly before Christmas, and big, bad Fox Books, owned by Tom Hanks’ character, Joe Fox, is taking away all her business. The otherwise upbeat Kathleen is beginning to feel there is no hope. As snow gently falls outside the shop, she sits beside the Christmas tree and watches people walk by with shopping bags brimming with purchases from Fox Books. Kathleen speaks the opening lines to River and says:

KATHLEEN: It’s such a sad song, and not really about Christmas at all, but I was thinking about it tonight as I was decorating my Christmas tree and unwrapping funky ornaments made of Popsicle sticks, and missing my mother so much I almost couldn’t breathe.

Later on in the movie, Kathleen’s little children’s book store closes because of competition from Fox Books, and Joe Fox attempts to mend their relationship. While strolling through the streets of New York City, Kathleen mentions that she could never date a man who owns a boat. (Unbeknownst to her, Joe owns a boat. What’s more, he’s also aware of the fact that she’s a Joni Mitchell fan, although due to the plot line, Kathleen doesn’t know this.) So, not to be outdone, Joe says:

JOE: I could never be with someone who likes Joni Mitchell. "It’s cloud illusions I recall…" I really don’t know what that means. Is she a pilot? Is she taking flying lessons? It must be a metaphor for something, but I don’t know what it is.