Posts tagged film

Café Lumière (2003)
Train porn & a contemplative slice of life. Not to mention perfect lighting.
Café Lumière (2003)

Train porn & a contemplative slice of life. Not to mention perfect lighting.

Terry Gilliam’s film from 1968 - The Christmas Card

How Celluloid Film is Made


Werner Herzog to play the villain opposite Tom Cruise in “One Shot”

Mister Lonely (2007)

perfection.

Mister Lonely (2007)

perfection.


“If you want to do a film, steal a camera, steal raw stock, sneak into a lab and do it!”

Werner Herzog

“If you want to do a film, steal a camera, steal raw stock, sneak into a lab and do it!”

Werner Herzog


“If you ask me to play myself, I will not know what to do. I do not know who or what I am.”

The late great Peter Sellers, born 86 years ago today.

“If you ask me to play myself, I will not know what to do. I do not know who or what I am.”

The late great Peter Sellers, born 86 years ago today.

My films are intended as polemical statements against the American ‘barrel down’ cinema and its dis-empowerment of the spectator. They are an appeal for a cinema of insistent questions instead of false (because too quick) answers, for clarifying distance in place of violating closeness, for provocation and dialogue instead of consumption and consensus.
Michael Haneke