Happy birthday, Andrei Tarkovsky! Here are some quotes from the filmmaker: “Art is born out of an ill-designed…
Art is born out of an ill-designed world.”
Happy birthday, Andrei Tarkovsky! Here are some quotes from the filmmaker. “The allotted function of art is not, as is…
Feature Friday: “Love Letter” (1995)
I’ll never understand why Shunji Iwai’s films never caught on in the States. He’s been immensely popular in Japan since…
Feature Friday: “Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors” (1964)
It took me a while to catch up with this one, but when I did, I saw it projected at…
“Andrei Tarkovsky’s Poetic Cinema” by Matt Turner
As an artist limited by his circumstance in the warring, emaciated USSR throughout the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s, Andrei Tarkovsky…
A D & Jeremy Talk about Movies: The Tree of Life
[By now it was late. The three stars were dimpling the sky. The baby raccoon was crying for its milk…
“Fat, too, fool, hey?” – The Mind in Morning (Snow in film)
Having just reread William Gass’s “The Pedersen Kid” yesterday morning, I decided to do a study of associations–what my brain…
Eight is Enough
NOTE: This was written in the infancy of my knowledge about cinema. Surely, eight is not enough. John Ford, Carl…
Brevity, Part 3: Long Takes Continued (well, they’re long)
While writing my previous post, I grew aware that I wasn’t mentioning any women filmmakers. So I’d like to add…