I try to dig deep into the well of my subconscious. At a certain moment in that process, the lid is opened and very different ideas and visions are liberated. With those I can start making a film. But maybe it’s better that you don’t open that lid completely, because if you release your subconscious it becomes really hard to live a social or family life. Hayao Miyazaki

I try to dig deep into the well of my subconscious. At a certain moment in that process, the lid is opened and very different ideas and visions are liberated. With those I can start making a film. But maybe it’s better that you don’t open that lid completely, because if you release your subconscious it becomes really hard to live a social or family life.

Hayao Miyazaki

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Finally got around to making my Criterion Top 10.

Most people would say any Faulkner is unfilmable and they would probably be right but this actually looks like it could be pretty good.

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We did it, everybody!
Whitney was canceled! (via hulu)

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The plot of the Jim Carrey movie Liar Liar comes from this episode of the Twilight Zone, “The Whole Truth,” which originally aired in 1961.

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Very illuminating interview with Secret of Kells director Tomm Moore.

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pickledelephant:

Lars von Trier with the cast and crew during the filming of Antichrist (2009)

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fuckyeahdirectors:

Roman Polanski at the first New York Film Festival, 1963

Looking extra-creepy

fuckyeahdirectors:

Roman Polanski at the first New York Film Festival, 1963

Looking extra-creepy

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The critical work of revealing the auteur’s presence implied a corollary: that the films themselves contain and communicate values of demonstrable social importance. Moreover, by revealing the latent meanings of a work, film criticism itself could help communicate these values and thereby establish its worth as an enterprise. Toward this end, a major code discerned withing the films was the ideal of ‘humanism.’ The films of Kurosawa and his peers - Rossellini, De Sica, Ray, Bergman - were praised for revealing the dignity of human life and a concern with human welfare.
Stephen Prince, The Warrior’s Camera: The Cinema of Akira Kurosawa, pg 10

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film-dot-com:

SUMMER BLOCKBUSTERS RE-IMAGINED AS INDIES

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Fast & Furious one is perfect

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