On directing > Intuition / Sense / Absurdity | David Lynch, 1946-2025
David Lynch on set of The Elephant Man (1980) "Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death,...
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On directing > The glance | Victor Erice
Victor Erice, Dream of Light / El sol del membrillo, 1992, documentary “There is already fiction in the glance” "Everyone has...
On directing > The best director is the one you don’t see | Billy Wilder, 1906-2002
Billy Wilder and his favorite leading man, Jack Lemmon, on set of The Apartment, 1960’s "You have to have a...
On directing > Lysis | Gregory J. Markopoulos
Lysis (Gregory J. Markopoulos, 1948) ὁ χῶρος ἀνακαλύπτεται ἐκεῖ ποὺ ἡ ἁγνότητα τῆς εἰκόνας ὑπερβαίνει τὴν εἰκόνα. ~ πόσα τὰ...
On directing > Space / Film / Science / People | Michelangelo Antonioni
Cinematographer Gianni Di Venanzo and director Michelangelo Antonioni during filming of Le amiche, 1955 Empty space “Often to understand, we...
On directing > | Nicholas Ray, 1911-79
Dennis Stock, Nicholas Ray and James Dean on the set of Rebel Without a Cause, 1955 "The imagination is a...
On directing > Filmmakers | Jacques Rivette, 1928-2016
Paris Belongs to Us, dir. Jacques Rivette, 1961 ''Many filmmakers pretend that they never see anything, which has always seemed...
On directing > Suspense / Fear / Drama | Alfred Hitchcock, 1899-1980
Anthony Perkins, Psycho (1960) dir. Alfred Hitchcock Suspense “There is a distinct difference between "suspense" and "surprise," and yet many...
On directing > The enemy of Art | Orson Welles, 1915-1985
Irving Penn, Orson Welles, Portrait with Symbols, 1945 "The enemy of art is the absence of limitations." “A writer needs...
On The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari (1922) | Blaise Cendrars
The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari (1922) Blaise Cendrars ....