{ May 13th }

flickeringmuse:

Character archetype: the Mentor

The best teacher is not the one who knows most but the one who is most capable of reducing knowledge to that simple compound of the obvious and wonderful.

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{ March 22nd }

Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.

(Source: interwar)

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{ March 20th }
film-dot-com: THE 50 BEST OPENING SCENES OF ALL TIME Creating the right opening scene may not always be the most difficult part of making a movie, but it’s invariably the most perverse.  Every film ever made begins with the same sense of endless possibility, the infinite canvas of the universe at its disposal, and then — in a flash — limits it all to just. One. Thing. CLICK HERE TO READ (AND WATCH!) THE LIST

film-dot-com:

THE 50 BEST OPENING SCENES OF ALL TIME

Creating the right opening scene may not always be the most difficult part of making a movie, but it’s invariably the most perverse.  Every film ever made begins with the same sense of endless possibility, the infinite canvas of the universe at its disposal, and then — in a flash — limits it all to just. One. Thing.

CLICK HERE TO READ (AND WATCH!) THE LIST

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{ March 19th }
{ March 2nd }
an·ti·he·ro also an·ti-he·ro
n. pl. an·ti·he·roes also an·ti-he·roes
A main character in a dramatic or narrative work who is characterized by a lack of traditional heroic qualities, such as idealism or courage.

(Source: hxcfairy)

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{ February 8th }

What a wee little part of a person’s life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself. All day long, the mill of his brain is grinding, and his thoughts, not those of other things, are his history. These are his life, and they are not written. Everyday would make a whole book of 80,000 words—365 books a year. Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man—the biography of the man himself cannot be written. MARK TWAIN

(Source: stannisbaratheon)

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{ January 1st }
Les Misérables—The Definitive Review

inothernews:

frangry:

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SPOILER ALERT.  OUT IN THE DARKNESS.  A FUGITIVE RUNNING.  FALLEN FROM GODDDDDDDDD… FALLEN FROM GRACE!  ETC. ETC.  DRINK WITH ME… TO DAYS… GONE BY!!!  AND SO ON AND SO FORTH.  ONNNNNNE… DAAAAAAYYYYY… MORRRRRRRRRE!!!

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{ October 7th }
{ September 30th }

La haine (1995)

dir. Mathieu Kassovitz

that mirror shot, middle-left, still boggles my mind.

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{ September 24th }
criterioncorner: 50%-OFF CRITERION COLLECTION 24-HOUR SALE! you know what to do.  for what it’s worth, my 3 favorite Criterion blu-rays (masterpieces that best take advantage of the HD format): HARAKIRI, THE RED SHOES, and DAYS OF HEAVEN MISHIMA: A LIFE IN FOUR CHAPTERS remains the single greatest dvd ever released by Criterion or anyone else, but unfortunately it remains *only* a dvd, and there’s no telling if / when a blu-ray edition will be made available, so… FML THERE ARE SO MANY THAT I WANT. Ugh.

criterioncorner:

50%-OFF CRITERION COLLECTION 24-HOUR SALE!

you know what to do. 

for what it’s worth, my 3 favorite Criterion blu-rays (masterpieces that best take advantage of the HD format): HARAKIRI, THE RED SHOES, and DAYS OF HEAVEN

MISHIMA: A LIFE IN FOUR CHAPTERS remains the single greatest dvd ever released by Criterion or anyone else, but unfortunately it remains *only* a dvd, and there’s no telling if / when a blu-ray edition will be made available, so…

FML THERE ARE SO MANY THAT I WANT.

Ugh.

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