Friday, January 13, 2012

John Cassavetes talks about film and cinema




Most people don’t know what they want or feel. And for everyone, myself included, It’s very difficult to say what you mean when what you mean is painful. The most difficult thing in the world is to reveal yourself, to express what you have to… As an artist, I feel that we must try many things – but above all, we must dare to fail. You must have the courage to be bad – to be willing to risk everything to really express it all. –John Cassavetes

Christopher Doyle Masterclass in Cinematography

Thursday, January 12, 2012

Ten Best Italian Films?




1. 'La Strada'
(Federico Fellini, 1954)

2.'The Conformist'
(Bernardo Bertolucci, 1970)

3. 'Ossessione'
(Luchino Visconti, 1943)

4. 'L'Avventura'
(Michelangelo Antonioni, 1960)

5. 'A Fistful of Dollars'

6. 'The Battle of Algiers'

7. 'Dear Diary'
(Nanni Moretti, 1993)

9. "The Consequences of Love'
(Paolo Sorrentino, 2004)

10. 'Pane, amore e fantasia'
(Luigi Comencini, 1953)

Robert Bresson on Film




Make visible what, without you, might never have been seen.

Wernor Herzog on Film




We live in a society that has no adequate images anymore, and if we do not find adequate images and an adequate language for our civilization with which to express them, we will die out like the dinosaurs.

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Ingmar Bergman on film and art




I want very much to tell, to talk about, the wholeness inside every human being. It's a strange thing that every human being has a sort of dignity or wholeness in him, and out of that develops relationships to other human beings, tensions, misunderstandings, tenderness, coming in contact, touching and being touched, the cutting off of a contact and what happens then.