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...
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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...
On directing > Don’t hurry | Ed Wood, 1924-1978
Edward D. Wood, Jr. 1924-1978 . “You're the ruler of the universe. Try to show a little taste!” “One is...
On directing > Film / Tales | Eric Rohmer, 1974
Éric Rohmer, Six Moral Tales (trans. Sabine d'Estrée) . “You can't think of nothing.” "I don't think that my...
The Ideal Viewer | Andrei Tarkovsky, 1981
Nina Leen, 1945 What matters to me is that the feeling excited by my films should be universal. An artistic...
On directing > Pasolini taught me a lot | Bernardo Bertolucci (1941-2018)
Bernardo Bertolucci and Pier Paolo Pasolini near Rome during the filming of Pasolini’s first film ‘Accattone’, 1961 . "I found...