It opens with an image of two dead black men, lynched, with an American flag flapping in the breeze. A quote from Martin Luther King appears. It’s clear from the start, Lee Daniels’ The Butler is a political movie, but Jean-Luc Godard … Continue reading LEE DANIELS’ THE BUTLER
Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater. —Roman Polanski Continue reading In Their Words — August 18, 2013
Whenever I hear people dismiss movies as “fantasy” and make a hard distinction between film and life, I think to myself that it’s just a way of avoiding the power of cinema. Of course it’s not life—it’s the invocation of … Continue reading In Their Words — August 16, 2013
Movies are not scripts—movies are films; they’re not books, they’re not the theater. It’s a completely different discipline, it exists on its own. I would say that the beauty of it is it’s not the theater, it’s not done over … Continue reading In Their Words — Thursday, August 15, 2013
Originality now is rare in the cinema and it isn’t worth striving for because most work that does this is egocentric and pretentious. What is most enjoyable about the cinema is simply working with a language that is classical in … Continue reading In Their Words — Wednesday, August 14, 2013
The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder. —Alfred Hitchcock Continue reading In Their Words — Tuesday, August 13, 2013
I grew up believing that people make things move, like the word “movie”. The world, like a moving picture, was moving forward. I wanted to advance, too, as rapidly as my quick mind and fast legs would carry me. I … Continue reading In Their Words — Monday, August 12, 2013
I would like in my films to be able to render perceptible to an audience a feeling of a man’s soul and also the presence of something superior to man which can be called God. —Robert Bresson Continue reading In Their Words — Sunday, August 11, 2013
I have always been trusting my audience to have imagination. Otherwise they should stay out of the cinema. You have to leave something open. The moment you start preaching in a film, the moment you want to teach your audience, … Continue reading In Their Words — Saturday, August 10, 2013
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