“Let the apples lie, they’re tired and want to sleep.” – Kaspar Hauser.
Category: Culture
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?”
Why We Pray
Why pray, if the world does not run according to the rules of magic? Why pray when our words have no power to change the impersonal laws that govern our lives? We pray, sending up our love, enveloping those we pray for with our unwavering love. Though the world does not abide by magic, there is magic in the power, the giving of love.
The Tears Unseen
One evening, long ago, or so I imagine, I met a man while walking along the street. He had a tear-shaped tattoo under his right eye. The man explained the tear was a symbol of death, for the man he murdered. Was the man guilty, I asked? Or innocent? The man shook his head. I can not say.
I thanked him and we departed. Later that same night, I saw another man appear from the shadows of a street lamp. When our eyes met, I turned and fled. Upon this man’s face, I swear, I saw no tears, no tattoos. Imagine! The countless murders the man must have committed beyond our capacity to grasp.
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.
The Bed
“That primal scene of birth, romantic enterprise, and extinction.”
Pride
Pride is a form of self-deception. It makes you believe you are more important than you really are.
Pride reveals a lack of self-respect.
This Isn’t Going to End Well
“Help me out here. Am I the asshole?”
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 Hack 