Open letter to John Cassavetes

Your films are about love, about trust and mistrust, about isolation, joy, sadness, ecstasy and stupidity. They’re about restlessness, drunkenness, resilience and lust, about humor, stubbornness, miscommunication and fear. But mostly they’re about love and they take one to a far deeper place than any study of “narrative form.” Yeah, you are a great filmmaker, one of my favorites. But what your films illuminate most poignantly is that celluloid is one thing and the beauty, strangeness and complexity of human experience is another.

John Cassavetes, my hat is off to you. I’m holding it over my heart.

- Jim Jarmusch

 

o resto da carta aqui

"L'homme moderne cherche le repos intérieur parce qu'il est assourdi par l'extérieur et il croit trouver ce repos dans le silence intérieur ... tout sera plongé dans le silence intérieur... L'avenir apparaît à l'homme moderne... vide."

 

- Henri Maldiney

"Tiredness and waiting, even despair are the attitudes of the body. No one has gone further in this direction than Antonioni. His method: the interior through behavior, no longer experience, but “what remains of past experiences”, “what comes afterwards, when everything has been said”, such a method necessarily proceeds via the attitudes and postures of the body."

 

- Gilles Deleuze

ça c'est beau

Isto pede por um Cassavetes.

"Mais l'art justement ne nous laisse pas tranquilles."

- Henri Maldiney

tão bonito que até arrepia.

saudades do Fellini

for the love of cinema

posso desaparecer durante muito tempo, mas quando volto vale mesmo a pena
(vejam isto, é absolutamente fantástico)

A beleza de um filme não está nas imagens belas (postais!), mas no inexprimível que estas libertam.

- Robert Bresson

Dance of the Criterion collection

bicho da cidade

Quer durmas ainda nos lençóis da manhã,

Pesada, obscura, constipada, ou te pavoneies

Por entre os véus da tarde ornados de oiro fino,

Eu amo-te, ó capital infame!

Charles Baudelaire O Spleen de Paris

parfois j'ai l'impression d'être complétement envahi par la pellicule et on ne sais pas a quel moment elle se va arrêter