Of course, all films are surrealist. They are because they are making something that looks like a real world but isn’t. Seventy years ago there were men like D.W. Griffith and seventy years later—now—there are not many men like Martin … Continue reading Born On This Day — September 30
The great innovators have always been fearless . . . I have fallen off haystacks, out of trees, over cliffs. I have been nearly drowned, shot and hanged. I have been in countless car crashes without getting a scratch. I … Continue reading In Their Words — Saturday, April 27, 2013
The study of cinema is the study of directors, or more accurately, the study of auteurs. Single visions brought to life via a committee. Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles, John Ford, all of these names immediately pop into our minds when we think of … Continue reading The Archers
I make films for myself. What I express I hope most people will understand. For the rest, well, that’s their problem. —Michael Powell Continue reading In Their Words — Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Our business was not realism but surrealism. We were storytellers, fantasists. This is why we could never get on with the documentary film movement. Documentary films started with poetry and finished as prose. We storytellers started with naturalism and finished … Continue reading In Their Words — Saturday, January 26, 2013
I’ve always been a very serious-minded person, but people don’t know it, really, they’re always puzzled by my films, that there’s usually something going on in the film besides what you’re looking at, which is of course, the contact with the … Continue reading In Their Words — Sunday, November 18, 2012
Since H.G. Wells, Arthur Clarke, and Ray Bradbury, they have all tried to think up frightening machines but it’s very difficult to achieve. I don’t think there is anything more frightening than a camera, a camera which is filming and … Continue reading In Their Words — Wednesday, October 31, 2012
I live cinema. I chose the cinema when I was very young, sixteen years old, and from this time on, my memories almost coincide with the history of cinema. I am not a film director with a personal style, I … Continue reading In Their Words — Sunday, October 14, 2012
…how many times have I told you that a film is not words … it is thoughts, and feelings, surprises, suspense, accident. —Emeric Pressburger Continue reading In Their Words — Thursday, October 4, 2012
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