Movie Moments - Derek Jarman, Marianne Faithful, 1979

At the age of thirty-seven she realised she'd never
Ride through Paris in a sports car with the warm wind in her hair.
So she let the phone keep ringing and she sat there softly singing
Little nursery rhymes she'd memorised in her daddy's easy chair.

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Movie Moments - Talking Heads, 1980

We feel that even when all possible scientific questions have been answered,
the problems of life remain completely untouched.
Of course there are then no questions left,
and this itself is the answer.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Krzysztof Kieślowski - Talking Heads (Gadające głowy), 1980

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Movie Moments - Ten Minutes Older, 1978

Explanation separates us from astonishment,
which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible

Eugene Ionesco

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Favorite Monsters - The Cat with Hands

This is why poetic images are imaginings in a distinctive sense:
not mere fancies and illusions but imaginings that are visible
inclusions of the alien in the sight of the familiar.

Martin Heidegger, Poetry, Language, Thought




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Movie Moments - Solaris, 1972

Mankind does not move forward synchronously, 
it stops and starts and goes off in different directions.
And only when scientific discoveries occur in the
course of technological development is there a
corresponding leap in man's moral development. 

Andrei Tarkovsky





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Movie Moments - Landscape in the Mist, 1988

Don't worry. I will tell you our story.
In the beginning there was chaos ...

Landscape in the Mist a journey towards a mythical origin as two siblings, Voula and Alexander, attempt to find their unknown and essentially nonexistent biological father who, their mother evasively (and conveniently) explains, lives in Germany. Guided by daydreamed, unanswered missives to their eternally silent father, the children’s odyssey is an existential quest for ancestral identity and community. (source)

Theo Angelopoulos, one of the great European film-makers, died this week, aged 76, after a road accident. He'll be terribly missed!

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Movie Moments - Jean Painlevé

Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll.
Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain.
Man marks the earth with ruin,
but his control stops with the shore.

Lord Byron


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Movie Moments - Lotte Reiniger

Happy Holidays!

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Jean Painlevé - Liquid Crystals

Jean Painlevé, Liquid Crystals, 1978

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Raúl Ruiz

Raúl Ruiz, a Chilean director who presented a labyrinthine, cryptic picture of individual psychology and social relations in “Mysteries of Lisbon” and more than 100 other films, died on Friday in Paris.
He was 70.

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Filmstill from: The Three Crowns of A Sailor, 1982

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Movie Moments - Joris Ivens, Rain, 1929

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Movie Moments - La double vie de Veronique, 1991

How to fall in love with a puppetier ....

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Movie Moments - Sans Soleil, 1983

Repair the Web of Time

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Movie Moments - Henri-Georges Clouzot, Inferno, 2009

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Movie Moments - Un homme qui dort, 1974

Indifference has not made you any different

 

R.I.P. Werner Schroeter

Director Werner Schroeter dies at 65

Auteur was key figure in New German Cinema, died of cancer

CANNES -- Werner Schroeter, one of the key figures in the New German Cinema movement of the 1970s, died yesterday, shortly after his 65th birthday, after a battle with cancer.

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