In Another Country: Isabelle Huppert on finding the language of emotion in Hong Sang-soo’s A Traveler’s Needs • Journal • A Letterboxd Magazine
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In Another Country: Isabelle Huppert on finding the language of emotion in Hong Sang-soo’s A Traveler’s Needs • Journal • A Letterboxd Magazine
My frustration with Brody boils down to the reasons I see movies in the first place. I didn’t watch many growing up; I always preferred the dense solitude of a book. But the big screen in a black box is an experience of total immersion that feels special and rare in our focus-starved age. I’m becoming worse at escaping into novels, but in a cushion... See more
Jasmine Sun • spy mania!
I think there's this weird thing at work now with the way people relate to, specifically, mainstream cinema. When they watch those movies, they like to be on the receiving end . . . and the sound is so loud, and the images are so powerful, they want to be totally passive. But then, a few months later, the salve film is on DVD, and they can watch it
... See moreJonathan Rosenbaum • Goodbye Cinema, Hello Cinephilia: Film Culture in Transition
In his ideal world, everyone knew all the films he knew, and they communicated only by using lines from films. With each line came implications and shades of mood and meaning, all perfectly communicated from one person to another. In his ideal world, he would hardly have to talk, he would only have to quote.
Antoine Wilson • Panorama City
Academia stifles cinema, encircling it like a liana vine wraps round a tree, smothering and draining away all life. Construct films, don’t deconstruct them. Create poetry, don’t destroy it. Whenever I encounter film theorists, I lower my head and charge.
Paul Cronin • Werner Herzog – A Guide for the Perplexed: Conversations with Paul Cronin
He knew very early on that I really love stillness, that I like to let the scene happen and walk away from a camera.