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April 4, 2023 - Birthday, Film, Quotes, Reading, Writing

Andrei Tarkovsky on Art, Life, Writing, Cinema, and More

  Happy birthday, Andrei Tarkovsky! Here are some quotes from the filmmaker:   “Art is born out of an ill-designed…

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April 4, 2022January 15, 2023 - Birthday, Film, Quotes, Reading, Writing

Andrei Tarkovsky on Art, Life, Writing, Cinema, and More

  Happy birthday, Andrei Tarkovsky! Here are some quotes from the filmmaker:   “Art is born out of an ill-designed…

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April 4, 2019 - Film, Quotes

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…

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March 29, 2019April 4, 2019 - Film, Quotes

“You have to invent life.”

RIP, Agnès Varda. Here are some quotes from the superb filmmaker. “I had a world. I don’t think I had…

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May 5, 2011 - Uncategorized

In Buenos Aires with Apichatpong Weerasethakul.

Seeing that A D recently mentioned seeing Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (see my first…

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March 12, 2011August 1, 2019 - Books, Film, Reading, Uncategorized, Writing

His Light Materials: Puig, Film, and “Gruesome Tangos”

I hope some of you are reading and digging Manuel Puig’s Betrayed by Rita Hayworth. In my first post, I…

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November 12, 2009November 12, 2009 - Uncategorized

Invisible cinema: 7 p., cuis., s. de b.

7 p., cuis., s. de b. … a saisir Agnès Varda directed this short in 1984. Sept pieces, cuisine, salle de…

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