“A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.” Orson Welles (1915–1985) F for Fake (1973) The Trial (1962) Touch of Evil (1958) Mr. Arkadin (1955) The Lady from Shanghai (1947) The Stranger (1946) Citizen Kane (1941)
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“A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.”

Orson Welles (1915–1985)

F for Fake (1973)

The Trial (1962)

Touch of Evil (1958)

Mr. Arkadin (1955)

The Lady from Shanghai (1947)

The Stranger (1946)

Citizen Kane (1941)

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You can find the finest films of Ken Loach here 

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I remember being young in the 1960s… we had a great sense of the future, a great big hope. This is what is missing in the youth today. This being able to dream and to change the world. Bernardo Bertolucci The Dreamers (2003) Little Buddha (1993) The Sheltering Sky (1990) The Last Emperor (1987) 1900 (1976) Last Tango in Paris (1972) The Conformist (1970)
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I remember being young in the 1960s… we had a great sense of the future, a great big hope. This is what is missing in the youth today. This being able to dream and to change the world.

Bernardo Bertolucci

The Dreamers (2003)

Little Buddha (1993)

The Sheltering Sky (1990)

The Last Emperor (1987)

1900 (1976)

Last Tango in Paris (1972)

The Conformist (1970)

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A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what’s behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later-Stanley Kubrick Eyes Wide Shut (1999) Full Metal Jacket  (1987) The Shining (1980) Barry Lyndon (1975) A Clockwork Orange (1971) 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) Lolita (1962)
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A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what’s behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later
-Stanley Kubrick

Eyes Wide Shut (1999)

Full Metal Jacket  (1987)

The Shining (1980)

Barry Lyndon (1975)

A Clockwork Orange (1971)

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

Lolita (1962)

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“I have this new theory about films. It’s almost like astrology, where if we started on a Tuesday the film will be different than if we started on a Wednesday. Not because of the planets. It’s that sometimes you start with the wrong balance and the whole thing gets messed up” Gus Van Sant Milk (2008) Paranoid Park (2007) Last Days (2005)  Elephant  (2003) Good Will Hunting ( 1997) My Own Private Idaho (1991)
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“I have this new theory about films. It’s almost like astrology, where if we started on a Tuesday the film will be different than if we started on a Wednesday. Not because of the planets. It’s that sometimes you start with the wrong balance and the whole thing gets messed up”

Gus Van Sant

Milk (2008)

Paranoid Park (2007)

Last Days (2005) 

Elephant  (2003)

Good Will Hunting ( 1997)

My Own Private Idaho (1991)


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Aleksandr Sokurov: Even God Was Overcome by Laziness Faust (2011) Alexandra (2007) Father and Son (2003) Russian Ark  (2002) Mother and Son (1997) Madame Bovary (1990)
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Aleksandr Sokurov: Even God Was Overcome by Laziness

Faust (2011)

Alexandra (2007)

Father and Son (2003)

Russian Ark  (2002)

Mother and Son (1997)

Madame Bovary (1990)

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Francois Ozon

“When we make a film, we are like children playing a game. I say to the actors, ‘OK, you will be the doctor, you be the nurse … and I am - I am the headmaster. I am the chef d’orchestre”

I have seen four films from Ozon that I love. Time to Leave is one of my top favorite films.

Time to Leave (2005)

Swimming Pool (2003)

8 Women (2002)

Criminal Lovers (1999)

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strangewood: “A director only makes one film in his life. Then he breaks it into pieces and makes it again.” Jean Renoir, born 117 years ago today.
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“A director only makes one film in his life. Then he breaks it into pieces and makes it again.”

Jean Renoir, born 117 years ago today.

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The method of art as the model for the social ideal at all times (classless- ness as the highest “forward” and the deepest “back”). The synthesis of the logical formula and the prelogical form, i.e. the highest point of the prog- ress of consciousness—the reflection of contemporary (for each moment) stage of the social development, and prelogic, reflecting always and in all cases the same—pre-class stage. —sergei eisenstein’s notebooks, December 5, 19362
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The method of art as the model for the social ideal at all times (classless- ness as the highest “forward” and the deepest “back”). The synthesis of the logical formula and the prelogical form, i.e. the highest point of the prog- ress of consciousness—the reflection of contemporary (for each moment) stage of the social development, and prelogic, reflecting always and in all cases the same—pre-class stage.

—sergei eisenstein’s notebooks, December 5, 19362

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Andrey Tarkovsky Andrey Tarkovsky was born in Zavrozhie on the Volga in 1932. In 1960 he graduated from the Soviet State Film School with his first film The Steamroller and the Violin. He made five more films in Russia: Ivan’s Childhood, 1962, Andrey Rublyov, 1966, Solaris, 1972, Mirror, 1978 and Stalker, 1979. In 1983 he made Nostalgia in Italy and his last film, The Sacrifice, was made in Sweden in 1986. He died in Paris on 29 December 1986. This week I am all going to watch Tarkovsky: The Sacrifice Nostalghia Stalker  The Mirror  Solaris  Andrei Rublev  Ivan’s Childhood 
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Andrey Tarkovsky

Andrey Tarkovsky was born in Zavrozhie on the Volga in 1932. In 1960 he graduated from the Soviet State Film School with his first film The Steamroller and the Violin.

He made five more films in Russia: Ivan’s Childhood, 1962, Andrey Rublyov, 1966, Solaris, 1972, Mirror, 1978 and Stalker, 1979. In 1983 he made Nostalgia in Italy and his last film, The Sacrifice, was made in Sweden in 1986.

He died in Paris on 29 December 1986.

This week I am all going to watch Tarkovsky:

The Sacrifice

Nostalghia

Stalker 

The Mirror 

Solaris 

Andrei Rublev 

Ivan’s Childhood 

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Well, you have to keep your faith in the fact that there are a lot of intelligent people who are actively looking for something interesting, people who have been disappointed so many times. Richard Linklater
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Well, you have to keep your faith in the fact that there are a lot of intelligent people who are actively looking for something interesting, people who have been disappointed so many times.

Richard Linklater

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amy-blue:   “When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, ‘no, I went to films.’ - Quentin Tarantino
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“When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, ‘no, I went to films.’ - Quentin Tarantino


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directingfilm: Truffaut didn’t have a happy youth. Left to himself, he is not loved. But his youth was saved by cinema. “My life was the screen” he said. At 16 he founds a film club, and sees thousands of films.  He steals to repay the debts of his film club. He’s sent to a correction facility, then prison. He joins the army then deserts. So it’s prison again. ~ From the documentary Two in the Wave. 
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Truffaut didn’t have a happy youth. Left to himself, he is not loved. But his youth was saved by cinema. “My life was the screen” he said. At 16 he founds a film club, and sees thousands of films.  He steals to repay the debts of his film club. He’s sent to a correction facility, then prison. He joins the army then deserts. So it’s prison again.

~ From the documentary Two in the Wave. 

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“There are too many things in the world which divide people, such as religion, politics, history, and nationalism. If culture is capable of anything, then it is finding that which unites us all. And there are so many things which unite people. It doesn’t matter who you are or who I am, if your tooth aches or mine, it’s still the same pain. Feelings are what link people together, because the word “love” has the same meaning for everybody. Or “fear”, or “suffering”. We all fear the same way and the same things. And we all love in the same way. That’s why I tell about these things, because in all other things I immediately find division.” —Krzysztof Kieslowski
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“There are too many things in the world which divide people, such as religion, politics, history, and nationalism. If culture is capable of anything, then it is finding that which unites us all. And there are so many things which unite people. It doesn’t matter who you are or who I am, if your tooth aches or mine, it’s still the same pain. Feelings are what link people together, because the word “love” has the same meaning for everybody. Or “fear”, or “suffering”. We all fear the same way and the same things. And we all love in the same way. That’s why I tell about these things, because in all other things I immediately find division.”

—Krzysztof Kieslowski

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Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls. Ingmar Bergman
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Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.

Ingmar Bergman

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