“Come now, even God sometimes screws up his timing.”
Category: Cinema
My Philosophy of Life
“Let the apples lie, they’re tired and want to sleep.” – Kaspar Hauser.
The Only Son
“Life’s tragedy begins with the bond between parent and child.”
A Divine Weekend
“Quick, a miracle you swindler.”
“What, for assholes like you?”
Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant
“If you understand someone, there is no need for pity.”
“I think people are made to need each other. But they haven’t learned to live together.”
Petra speaks about the need of honesty in relationships as she applies makeup to her face. And oh how she loves to tell a good lie!
All about Eve, those latent lesbian undertones brought to the surface.
When Eros leaves, we feel frantic, desperate. We fall to our knees, bent in prostration. We want to conceive her, conjure her from the remnants of our lovemaking. But she is lost to us. We become bitter.
Essential Directors
Andrei Tarkovsky
Ingmar Bergman
Robert Bresson
Jean-Luc Godard
Federico Fellini
Akira Kurosawa
Alfred Hitchcock
Michelangelo Antonioni
Luis Buñuel
Roberto Rossellini
Orson Welles
Satyajit Ray
Yasujiro Ozu
Stanley Kubrick
Claire Denis
Agnes Varda
David Lynch
Abbas Kiarostami
Martin Scorsese
Quentin Tarantino
Francis Ford Coppola
Jean Renoir
John Ford
Howard Hawks
Carl Th. Dreyer
Charlie Chaplin
Buster Keaton
Fritz Lang
Billy Wilder
Vittorio De Sica
Francois Truffaut
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Sergei Eisenstein
Powell and Pressburger
Hayao Miyazaki
Kenji Mizoguchi
Béla Tarr
Edward Yang
Victor Erice
Wong Kar Wai
Max Ophuls
Luchino Visconti
Ousmane Sembène
Sergio Leone
Stephen Spielberg
John Cassavetes
Robert Altman
Werner Herzog
Lucrecia Martel
Terrence Malick
Céline Sciamma
Chantal Akerman
Eric Rohmer
Jean-Pierre Melville
Wim Wenders
Coen Brothers
Spike Lee
Hou Hsiao-hsien
Nicolas Roeg
Louis Malle
Jean-Pierre Melville
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Paul Thomas Anderson
Pedro Almodóvar
John Huston
David Cronenberg
Otto Preminger
Elia Kazan
The Crowd
“We do not know how big the crowd is, and what opposition it is…until we get out of step with it.”
Truth
“The cinema is truth 24 times a second, and every cut is a lie.”
– Godard
Satantango
The paradox of freedom: “Feel free to turn your back on your bright futures.”
Bella Tarr: “I despise stories, as they mislead people into believing that something has happened. In fact, nothing really happens as we flee from one condition to another … All that remains is time. This is probably the only thing that’s still genuine — time itself; the years, days, hours, minutes and seconds.”
The Serval
“Here, all expression, even the most violent, is a desire for oblivion.”
The Hack 