Consider what it must have been like for an ant building a hill on the island of Guadalcanal in 1942. You, and a thousand of your closest friends, are going about the business of collecting food and constructing tunnels when … Continue reading GODZILLA
A girl wakes up in an apartment littered with sticky notes. On each note, a direction: Water the Plants, Open the Window, Feed the Hamster, etc. A guy wakes up handcuffed in an apartment with two strange women. Their paths … Continue reading AMOUR & TURBULENCES
I started out as a “program picture” director, and program pictures are strictly entertainment. Therefore, the scripts I received from the studio weren’t artistic to begin with. So there was no hope of making an artistic film from the script. … Continue reading Born On This Day — May 24, 1923
Fading Gigolo begins in a truly unexpected fashion: a pimp and his ho discussing business while packing up a used bookstore. The pimp, Murray (Woody Allen), offhandedly mentions that his dermatologist, Dr. Parker (Sharon Stone), and her friend, Selima (Sofía Vergara), are … Continue reading FADING GIGOLO
Work is life for me, it is the only point of life—and with it there is almost religious belief that service is everything. —Laurence Olivier Continue reading Born On This Day — May 22, 1907
It’s a Wonderful Life sums up my philosophy of filmmaking. First, to exalt the worth of the individual. Second, to champion man—plead his causes, protest any degradation of his dignity, spirit, or divinity. And third, to dramatize the viability of … Continue reading Born On This Day — May 18, 1897
There are moments that I’ve had some real brilliance, you know. But I think they are moments. And sometimes, in a career, moments are enough. I never felt I played the great part. I never felt that I directed the … Continue reading Born On This Day — May 17, 1936
I have not yet made a film that pleases me. —Kenji Mizoguchi Continue reading Born On This Day — May 16, 1898
Since 1994, Pierre Dulaine, the subject of the 2013 documentary Dancing in Jaffa, has run the program Dancing Classrooms, which teaches fifth graders the fundamentals of ballroom dance. The program teaches more than just footwork; it teaches the students elegance, manners, good … Continue reading DANCING IN JAFFA
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