“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
Credo quia absurdum
There’s always a bit of that faith, a Tertullian logic that explains much of the popularity of conspiracy theories like Q-Anon. It’s so unbelievable, so unsuited to fit the facts, that it must be true.
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.”
Turin Horse
Can tedium become a revelation?
Death
“If I refuse to believe it to the bitter end, then I’ll never die.”
-Excerpt from Army of Shadows.
PTO
– Hey, Dray! We’re headed to the islands for the holidays. All exclusive resort. Talking infinity pool, all you can eat buffet, a swim up bar, live band, private yacht, pristine views, the sun and ocean breeze. It’ll be lit.
– Oh, man, that sounds amazing!
– You should come! Got an extra suite just for you.
– I wish I could, but I’m just so busy with this whole NBA season thing.
– Oh dang. Are you sure?
– Let me see what I can do.
The Hack 