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"Writing to me is like dreaming, shooting is like living and editing is like murder."

Derek Cianfrance

 

Life changing event

Mandatory for so many reasons I can't even begin to list them. If you are still alive you must watch this.

Melville on women, love and... the meaning of life

"Devenir immortel et puis mourir."

"You show pictures to people who already agree with you"

"You show pictures to people who already agree with you. (...) But we should go further and use cinema as a language. (...) At that time it looked like there would be a new language of cinema and people were redefining it and now that's upon us again"

heart.breaking.

Blue Valentine 

Oh Miranda!*

*or 'Outer Space', starring Mary Pickford.

Strolling around Paris with Agnès Varda

Cléo de 5 à 7

'nature nature I am your bride. take me'

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Orlando - You see I'm about to lose everything.

Shelmerdine - You can come with me.

O - Where you going?

S - Back to America when the wind changes to the southwest.

O - America. I've been abroad, but east...

S - Then you know as good as I how good it is to travel, like a free-spirit, unfeathered by position or possession.

O - Unfeathered... Are you an adventurer by profession?

S - My profession, you can call it that, is the pursuit of liberty, like the bright shade of some imortal dream which walks when temper sleeps.

O - The wave of life stalks dreams.

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The promise of a future love letter to Mr. Malick

There's a before and there's an after The Tree of Life. I repeat and I insist: there still is everything to be done with the moving image. Everything.

On tragedies

This

Lost in La Mancha

vs this

Burden of Dreams

On risk

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That's the thrill of filmaking to me. The thrill of failure, potential failure. This may not work, yah, but if it does work it's gonna be terrific!

*

William Friedkin

in A Decade Under The Influence

Obrigatório

A obrigatoriedade de uma vida-cinema*

Este filme é tão bonito que dói. A mim dói-me no sítio onde peso constantemente a distância que vai da minha vida à ficção e na certeza estúpida e teimosa de que o amor tem de ser maior do que o amor dos filmes e da poesia, de que tudo tem um sentido ulterior e de que todos os momentos têm de ser grandes.

Three Times, de Hsiao-hsien Hou

*ou Como a ficção me estragou para a vida.

E quem diz a performance diz tudo o resto

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A performance não é a transmissão do saber ou do respirar do artista ao espectador. É antes essa terceira coisa de que nenhum deles é proprietário, da qual nenhum deles possui o sentido, essa terceira coisa que se mantém entre os dois, retirando ao idêntico toda e qualquer possibilidade de transmissão, afastando qualquer identidade entre causa e efeito.

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O Espectador Emancipado
(aqui completo),

Jacques Rancière

'All I am is what I'm going after.'

A pensar em duetos-duelos desde que ontem vi pela primeira vez isto





e hoje isto





e em como há qualquer coisa que se aniquila.

Beautiful artwork*

*adding up to already very high expectations.

F.U.C.K.*

*

You've got to wonder if Adrien Brody still had a chip on his shoulder, at least until he won an Academy Award for Roman Polanski's "The Pianist." As rumored, "The Thin Red Line" DVD and its various components tell us that in the screenplay, Brody's Fife -- a scared and cowardly proxy for James Jones -- was supposed to be the lead character in the film and it's certainly written that way in script form. But Malick became more enamored with Jim Caviezel and would write more scenes into the picture -- like the Guadalcanal opening that shows Witt AWOL -- so Brody got the short end of the straw.

*

'The Thin Red Line' DVD: First Look 

At Mickey Rourke & 8 Other Outtakes

From Terrence Malick's War Film 

@ The Playlist

*or Endure, man, endure!

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"I believe that when you’re young you should go to all the places you’re uncomfortable in and prove yourself, because someday you’re going to have to prove yourself."

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John Cassavetes

Auditions, an insight*

*ou Al Pacino, James Caan e Martin Sheen fazem audições para o papel de Michael n'O Padrinho.

Pedro Costa

The Pedro Costa retrospective currently underway at the Tate Modern (through October 4) occasions two pieces in the new issue of Sight & Sound and an announcement from Criterion: a box set including Costa's Fontainhas Trilogy - Ossos, In Vanda's Room and Colossal Youth - as well as the shorts Tarrafal and The Rabbit Hunters will be released in early 2010.

"I now believe that his career arc is one of the most fascinating in modern cinema," writes the Guardian's Peter Bradshaw.

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