Posts tagged movies

Film Making : Defined

A film is a petrified fountain of thoughts and feelings.

Complement this beautiful quote on cinema.

The idea is to leave here a little smarter.

Reyeb - A Prophet

We’re in love. We just want to be together. What’s wrong with that?
We record everything through our lifetime.

Peggy Dodd - The Master

The Year in Film

Enjoy this great compilation put together by Google. The Academy Awards are a few days away !

It’s an interesting group of people, your friends are. Like the cast of a Fellini movie.

Isaac Davis - Manhattan

I like the way you die, boy.

Django - Django Unchained

Kubrick: One-point perspective

“Kubrick // One-Point Perspective,” masterfully weaves shots from the director’s oeuvre, pulsing along to a soundtrack of Clint Mansell’s “Lux Aeterna,” a track best known as “the Requiem for a Dream song.” Each shot utilizes the same framing technique: a wide angle with everything in focus, directed at a single point in space in the dead center of the frame.

This video and the 4 others I will be posting in the coming days are astounding explorations of cinema.

Update: Tarantino’s low-angle shots

It was right then that I started thinking about Thomas Jefferson on the Declaration of Independence and the part about our right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. And I remember thinking how did he know to put the pursuit part in there? That maybe happiness is something that we can only pursue and maybe we can actually never have it. No matter what. How did he know that?

Christopher GardnerThe Pursuit of Happyness

I love this place at night, the stars. There’s no right or wrong in them. They’re just there.

Sgt. Elias - Platoon

The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.

Christian - Moulin Rouge


Ernest Hemingway once wrote, “The world is a fine place, and worth fighting for.” I agree with the second part.

William Somerset - Seven

You ever, um, been to a football match just to let your eyes rise and go over — drift across a crowd of people, and then slowly start to fix on one person? And all of a sudden that person isn’t part of the crowd anymore. They’ve become an individual, just like that.

Bill - Following

Moving at the speed of life, we are bound to collide with each other.
We took morphine, diamorphine, cyclizine, codeine, temazepam, nitrazepam, phenobarbitone, sodium amytal, dextropropo xyphene, methadone, nalbuphine, pethidine, pentazocine, buprenorphine, dextromoramide, chlormethiazole. The streets are a wash with drugs you can have for unhappiness and pain, and we took them all. Fuck it, we would of injected vitimin C if only they’d made it illegal.

Mark “Rent-boy” Renton - Trainspotting