Obsessed individuals, few things are as entertaining to watch. Their motivation, their endurance, their insanity can be quite hilarious while simultaneously awe-inspiring. Jeff Orlowski’s latest documentary, Chasing Ice, follows nature photographer James Balog and his team as they trek up glaciers, all … Continue reading CHASING ICE
For a director there are commercial rules that it is necessary to obey. In our profession, an artistic failure is nothing; a commercial failure is a sentence. The secret is to make films that please the public and also allow … Continue reading In Their Words — Saturday, December 15, 2012
With a good script, a good director can produce a masterpiece. With the same script, a mediocre director can produce a passable film. But with a bad script even a good director can’t possibly make a good film. For truly … Continue reading In Their Words — December 14, 2012
Unlike all the other art forms, film is able to seize and render the passage of time, to stop it, almost to possess it in infinity. I’d say that film is the sculpting of time. —Andrei Tarkovsky Continue reading In Their Words — December 13, 2012
I don’t think the film has a grammar. I don’t think film has but one form. If a good film results, then that film has created its own grammar. —Yasujirō Ozu Continue reading In Their Words — December 12, 2012
I think that certain people overestimate the power of a director. A film is the result of teamwork. But the director has certain powers. Permit me to tell you a story. When Fury was finished, the producer asked me into … Continue reading In Their Words — December 11, 2012
Just like a painter who does not use colours, but their correlation; blue is blue in itself, but next to green, red or yellow, it is not the same blue anymore: it changes. The aim is for the film to … Continue reading In Their Words — December 10, 2012
It’s the end of the year, and that means that the theaters are loaded up with movies that are all vying for spots on Top Ten Lists and those all important Oscars nominations. Films about important things are seen as important … Continue reading LINCOLN & A ROYAL AFFAIR
They live with anger and hostility and problems. And lack of money, you know, tremendous disappointments in their life. So what they need is a philosophy. What I think everybody needs is a way to say, “Where and how can … Continue reading In Their Words — Sunday, December 9, 2012
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