RIP, Agnès Varda. Here are some quotes from the superb filmmaker. “I had a world. I don’t think I had…
“We survive, in the confusion of a life reborn beyond reason.”
Happy birthday, Pier Paolo Pasolini! Here are some quotes and film stills from the filmmaker. “If you know that I…
“Nothing would disgust me more morally than winning an Oscar.”
Happy birthday, Luis Buñuel! Here are some quotes from the superb filmmaker. “God and Country are an unbeatable team; they…
“Sometimes life has more imagination than we do.”
Happy birthday, François Truffaut! Here are some quotes from Truffaut and stills from his films: “Three films a day, three…
“Making a movie is like casting a spell.”
Happy birthday, Kenneth Anger! Here are some stills from Anger’s extraordinary films:
“I’m hanging on to life for dear life.”
Happy birthday, Derek Jarman! Here are some quotes from the brilliant filmmaker: “But the wind does not stop for my…
On First Reformed
ON FIRST REFORMED (Spoilers) The form perfectly matches the content. And so, with First Reformed, Paul Schrader has done it, just…
The Completed Eyes Wide Shut?
When Stanley Kubrick died on March 7, 1999, there was still a little over four months until Eyes Wide Shut’s…
From Madeleine E.
[INT. Scottie’s Bedroom (NIGHT)] … There is no dead matter. Lifelessness is only a disguise behind which hide unknown forms…
Outside the Tradition
“Nothing in your education or experience can have prepared you for this film: Alejandro Jodorowsky’s The Holy Mountain.” Presumably, nearly…