Saturday, July 30, 2011

Friday, July 29, 2011

Wim Wenders, Filmmaking



"As soon as you start making your film you really have to fight, eh? ... and to even hurt. And even if I do have renown of being gentle, I know that I hurt a lot of people shooting the American films. So, directors are ... well, they're very close to the mafia. I mean they kill people as well. Samuel Fuller, for instance ... killed 2 or 3 stuntmen during the shooting of his films."

~ Wim Wenders, Filmmaking

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYaCzMmjryw

Sidney Lumet, Filmmaker



"For whatever reason, producers and studio executives sit in the back row. I'm convinced it's because they hate movies and want to be as far away from the screen as possible."

~ Sidney Lumet, Filmmaker

Thursday, July 28, 2011

David Lynch, Filmmaker



"All my movies are about strange worlds that you can't go into unless you build them and film them. That's what's so important about film to me. I just like going into strange worlds."

~ David Lynch, Filmmaker

Alexander Olch, Filmmaker



"What I’d learned through documentary was that if you can stay away from the lights and the actors and the sets, if you could find a way to tell the story with just the camera, then you can do it inexpensively."

~ Alexander Olch, Filmmaker

http://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/a-conversation-with-alexander-olch/

Jean-Luc Godard, Filmmaker



"The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Unlike painting and literature, the cinema both gives to life and takes from it, and I try to render this concept in my films. Literature and painting both exist as art from the very start; the cinema doesn’t."

Jean-Luc Godard

Quoted in Richard Roud, Godard, introduction (1970).

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Tarsem Singh, Filmmaker



“I told my father I wanted to study film and he said there was no way he was gonna let me do that. I made my way to Los Angeles, and made a film that won a scholarship to the Art Center College of Design. My father thought I was headed for Harvard. I called him and said, ‘I want to study film,’ and he said, ‘You don’t exist anymore’.”

Tarsem Singh, Filmmaker

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0802248/bio#quotes

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Dinner for Threshers - Grant Wood 1934 - de Young Museum

Monday, July 18, 2011

Dog Day Afternoon

Al Pacino gives one of the all-time great performances in this Sidney Lumet directed 1975 film.


Sunday, July 10, 2011

James Broughton - Filmmaker, Writer, Poet



"The secret name of cinema is transformation"

Cinema is “both a mirror and ever-expanding eye. It creates what it sees and destroys what it does not see...[it] is a lie which makes us see the truth"

~ James Broughton - Filmmaker, Writer, Poet

Sunday, July 03, 2011

Boy and Dog in a Johnypump - Jean-Michel Basquiat



“Boy and Dog in a Johnnypump is a monumental work dating from 1982, when Basquiat reached the zenith of his talent. As is usual in Basquiat, the composition is simple, but the whole painting is a neo-expressionist ‘tour-de-force’ in which the usually pleasant scene of a boy playing with his dog is painted with the rabid energy of a primitive work of Art.”

Text by G. Fernández, http://www.theartwolf.com

Saturday, July 02, 2011

Zenith Cobra-Matic (1950)



Zenith Cobra-Matic (1950)

Amazingly Enough, I Don't Give A Shit



Amazingly Enough, I Don't Give A Shit

Cosmonaut Valentina-Tereshkova - first woman in space



Valentina-Tereshkova

"The first woman in space was cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, who launched in June 1963 on the former Soviet Union’s Vostok 6 mission."

http://acelebrationofwomen.org/?p=4792