On directing > My films never follow the current trend | Jean-Pierre Melville, 1917-1973
Jean-Pierre Melville in Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard, 1960) “My love for cinema began with the talkies, around 1929 or '30. The...
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On directing > I make movies that make no sense | Seijun Suzuki, 1997
Seijun Suzuki, Los Angeles, 1997~ during a retrospective on his work at the Nuart Theater Seijun Suzuki (1923 – 2017),...
On directing > Secret | Maya Deren, 1940s
Maya Deren and Aleksander Hammid, 1940 “When an artist is asked to speak about form, you expect something different than...
Alphabetarion # Sublime | Ado Kyrou, 1957
Steven Alexander "Learn to go see the 'worst' films.They are sometimes sublime." Ado Kyrou, Surrealism in the Cinema, 1957
On directing > Every shot should have a purpose | Chantal Akerman, 1950 -2015
Chantal Akerman - Je Tu Il Elle (I, You, He, She),1974 "I was not interested by cinema when I was...
On directing > There are no rules in filmmaking. Only sins | Frank Capra, 1897-1991
George Hoyningen-Huene, Frank Capra, 1934 "Film is a disease. When it infects your bloodstream, it takes over as the number...
On directing > Very Simple Slogans for the Kino-Eye technique | Dziga Vertov, 1926
Still from Man with a Movie Camera (1929) “I am an eye. A mechanical eye. I am the machine that...
Only a thinking person can be a full person | Věra Chytilová, 1929-2014
Věra Chytilová, 1950s “If there’s something you don’t like, don’t keep to the rules–break them. I’m an enemy of stupidity...
What is a film? | Testament of Orpheus / Jean Cocteau, 1960
Le testament d'Orphée / Jean Cocteau, 1960 Jean Cocteau, María Casares, François Périer
Seven Final Movie Scenes | Charlie Chaplin / François Truffaut / Billy Wilder / Federico Fellini / Carol Reed / Michael Curtiz / Andrei Tarkovsky
1) City Lights - Charlie Chaplin, 1931 2) The 400 Blows - François Truffaut, 1959 3) Sunset Blvd - Billy Wilder, 1950 4) La...