I always say a film should have a personality. And like a person, if he or she is very popular, I would feel very suspicious. Maybe my good film is not your good film. It’s very subjective. But if I … Continue reading Born On This Day — July 16, 1970
Some people will ruin a movie for you if they enthuse too much. —Jim Rash Continue reading Born On This Day — July 15, 1970
I loved the cinema always, and I loved to go watch movies. But what I saw there was just stupid lies and fake stories. I never saw life and I never saw anything about the people I knew. I never … Continue reading Born On This Day — July 21, 1955
Various people began calling our films “direct cinema,” others called it cinema verité, but nobody really knew what to call them. Some even called it “fly-on-the-wall” but this wasn’t right, at least I never wanted to be a fly on … Continue reading Born On This Day — July 15, 1925
Niko (Tom Schilling) is your typical aimless 20-year-old adrift in his own life. In a way, Niko is like every other 20-something, afraid to step forward for fear of failure but also plagued by the uncertainty of which step to … Continue reading A COFFEE IN BERLIN
In 2014, the nations of Earth decided that they could no longer ignore the issue of global warming. Their solution was to use airplanes to disperse a chemical into the atmosphere in hopes of bringing the temperature down. They inadvertently … Continue reading SNOWPIERCER
I never considered myself anything more than as a craftsman, a hell of a skilled craftsman, if I may so myself, but nothing more. I create things that are meant to be useful, films or theatrical productions. I’ve never felt … Continue reading Born On This Day — July 14, 1918
Making a big Hollywood film that really affects people is as hard as making a small movie on a credit card. —Cameron Crowe Continue reading Born On This Day — July 13, 1957
Every film, because its primary function is to move, i.e. to take place in time, is a theorem. It is a series of images which, from one end to the other, have an inexorable logic (or even better, a dialectic) … Continue reading Born On This Day — July 13, 1923
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