November 2011
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Nov 30th
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Nov 10th
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“We moved to Los Angeles because we made the decision: we have to move to the...”
– Werner Herzog (via soul-surfer)
Nov 9th
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Nov 7th
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August 2011
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A Hollywood cliche that oddly still abounds:
Aug 9th
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June 2011
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“I want the audience with me in wild fantasies.”
– Herzog here. 
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May 2011
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May 20th
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April 2011
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“I have a very simple definition of an artist. The artist is someone who pays...”
– James Benning
Apr 6th
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March 2011
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February 2011
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Feb 17th
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January 2011
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“We have to be very clever about those things. You have to remember that...”
– Francis Ford Coppola on making a living as a filmmaker.  [via kottke.org]
Jan 29th
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Jan 28th
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Jan 22nd
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“I think they (poetic films) have a very wide social significance, and precisely...”
– Ian Hugo (1898-1985), during a symposium on “poetic film” conducted over radio station WFUV-FM, New York and transcribed in FILM CULTURE No.14, 1957. (via indicativemood)
Jan 20th
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“I’m able to tell you only one thing. What we are trying to do is more and more...”
– Bela Tarr
Jan 19th
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December 2010
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10 películas favoritas (1972), Andrei Tarkovski →
En abril de 1972, Leonid Kozlov pidió a Andrei Tarkovski que compilara una lista de sus diez películas favoritas. Andrei, tomando muy en serio dicha petición, comenzó anotando una lista con los nombres de sus directores predilectos: Buñuel, Mizoguchi, Bergman, Bresson, Kurosawa, Antonioni, Vigo, Dreyer; para luego hacer una lista de películas cuidadosamente numerada. Diario de un cura rural (Le...
Dec 12th
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Dec 10th
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Roswell  [Bill Brown, 1994]
Dec 10th
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“If I abandon this project I would be a man without dreams and I don’t want...”
– Werner Herzog while making Fitzcarraldo (1982) from Burden of Dreams (Les Blank, 1982)
Dec 7th
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November 2010
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Gently Down the Stream  [Su Friedrich, 1981]
Nov 30th
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Winter’s Bone  [Debra Granik, 2010] The story of how she …   and she …  … are the same. 
Nov 29th
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“In real life, there’s no stories. Everything is unending, confusing. Nothing...”
– Ken Jacobs 
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“I am interested in the projected image. From this end of the image-making...”
– Luis Recorder.  2004.
Nov 20th
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Godard Says Honorary Oscar Meant ‘Nothing’ to Him →
NZZ on Sunday: Monsieur Godard, next Saturday, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences will award you an Honorary Oscar for lifetime achievement. What does this mean to you? Jean-Luc Godard: Nothing. If the Academy likes to do it, let them do it. But I think it’s strange. I asked myself: Which of my films have they seen? Do they actually know my films? The award is called The Governor’s...
Nov 16th
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“If we regard works that have no sound tracks as ‘silent films,’ then...”
– Paul Sharits from Words Per Page.  
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Glorified misogyny? Pull My Daisy   (Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie, 1959) 
Nov 5th
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Nov 5th
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October 2010
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