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"People always say, ‘The production companies are all so stupid; they do not even want to read my screenplay.’ My answer is just roll up your sleeves and work where there’s real intensity of life. Don’t work in an office. Work as a bouncer in a sex club. Something like that. Work as a guard in a maximum security prison. Earn the money and then make your film, no matter what."

— Werner Herzog. What a guy. Many other bits of excellent advice, too.

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October 23, 2011
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Criterion, from Facebook: Crime reporter, freelance journalist, pulp novelist, screenwriter, World War II infantryman, filmmaker… Who but Sam Fuller would signal the beginning of a take with a gunshot?

Criterion, from Facebook:

Crime reporter, freelance journalist, pulp novelist, screenwriter, World War II infantryman, filmmaker… Who but Sam Fuller would signal the beginning of a take with a gunshot?
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August 12, 2011
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Arthur Penn, Director of ‘Bonnie and Clyde,’ Dies - Obituary (Obit) - NYTimes.com. He was 88. One of America’s finest.

Arthur Penn, Director of ‘Bonnie and Clyde,’ Dies - Obituary (Obit) - NYTimes.com. He was 88. One of America’s finest.

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September 29, 2010
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"Every time I go to the cinema… I want to feel that the people who made that film think it’s the best movie in the world, that they poured everything into it & they really love it. Whether or not I agree with what they’ve done, I want that effort there; I want that sincerity."

— Christopher Nolan (via American Cinematographer) (via sidkan)

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July 25, 2010
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"I collect all the interesting details I find in life, jokes, funny things I see on TV, on the street, and I put them all in a database. That’s my toolbox. So when I make a new film, I first come up with the idea, and then I start digging in the toolbox to see what I can fill the film with. This is all recycled gear which we give new life…"

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Jean-Pierre Jeunet in an interview with PLANET°.

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July 17, 2010
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Amazon now has a Criterion edition of The Thin Red Line available for pre-order on Blu-ray. No release date yet, nor official word from Criterion, but it’s been rumored for ages and a pre-order page on Amazon can only mean good things.

Amazon now has a Criterion edition of The Thin Red Line available for pre-order on Blu-ray. No release date yet, nor official word from Criterion, but it’s been rumored for ages and a pre-order page on Amazon can only mean good things.

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May 30, 2010
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maazinkamal: The first still from Malick’s Tree of Life featuring Jessica Chastain. Here’s hoping the next couple months are going to go Malickrazy. There’s also a stupendously fascinating article over at PopMatters entitled The Calm Before The Tree of Life that pools in and reflects on all the information (previously known and unknown) on the film so far. - MK

maazinkamal:

The first still from Malick’s Tree of Life featuring Jessica Chastain. Here’s hoping the next couple months are going to go Malickrazy.

There’s also a stupendously fascinating article over at PopMatters entitled The Calm Before The Tree of Life that pools in and reflects on all the information (previously known and unknown) on the film so far.

- MK

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May 27, 2010
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maazinkamal: When making a film, Terrence Malick speaks to his collaborators in poetic images. To Martin Sheen in Badlands (1973), he said: ‘Think of the gun in your hand as a magic wand.’ To the post-production team (editors and sound mixers) on The Thin Red Line (1998), he advised: ‘It’s like moving down a river, and the picture should have the same kind of flow.’ And to Jörg Widmer, his Steadicam operator for The New World (2005), he whispered: ‘You have the quail at the wing when it’s about to fly.’ See: The Cinema Of Terrence Malick

maazinkamal:

When making a film, Terrence Malick speaks to his collaborators in poetic images. To Martin Sheen in Badlands (1973), he said: ‘Think of the gun in your hand as a magic wand.’ To the post-production team (editors and sound mixers) on The Thin Red Line (1998), he advised: ‘It’s like moving down a river, and the picture should have the same kind of flow.’ And to Jörg Widmer, his Steadicam operator for The New World (2005), he whispered: ‘You have the quail at the wing when it’s about to fly.’

See: The Cinema Of Terrence Malick

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April 14, 2010
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theimpossiblecool: Welles.

theimpossiblecool:

Welles.

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April 03, 2010
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theimpossiblecool: Happy 100th, Mr. Kurosawa

theimpossiblecool:

Happy 100th, Mr. Kurosawa

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March 23, 2010
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"That pain, the way my aspirations were dashed, that’s going to find its way in there. So I’m not doing a James L. Brooks—I loved how personal Spanglish was, but I thought that where Sofia Coppola got praised for being personal, he got criticized for being personal in the exact same aching way. But that doesn’t interest me, at least not now, to do my little story about my little situation. The more I hide it, the more revealing I can be."

— Quentin Tarantino: The Inglourious Basterds Interview - Page 1 - News - New York - Village Voice - Tarantino, about how he works within genre to express himself more earnestly than he could by working outside of it. Solid interview.

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February 21, 2010
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"A real director is at his best when he works with material that reflects his own life patterns. At a film festival, after ”Pat Garrett” had become the latest of his films to be emasculated by a studio, he was asked if he would ever make a ”pure Peckinpah” and he replied, ”I did ‘Alfredo Garcia’ and I did it exactly the way I wanted to. Good or bad, like it or not, that was my film."

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Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia :: rogerebert.com :: Great Movies - I’ve seen this film only twice (so far), but I can say without reservation that it’s my favorite Peckinpah film. It is brutal, but not without remorse, and it’s got heart unlike any other film I’ve ever seen. That, in a nutshell, is what Peckinpah is all about.

If you’re a Peckinpah fan, do yourself a favor and buy a copy.

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January 19, 2010

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