Taste of Cinema
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Andrei Tarkovsky and Robert Bresson share Best Director honors at the 1983 Cannes Film Festival.
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Jim Jarmusch, Nicoletta Braschi, Roberto Bengini, and John Lurie at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival.
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Quentin Tarantino and the cast of Pulp Fiction at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival.
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Edward Yang, Jonathan Chang, and Kelly Lee at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival. Yang received Best Director honors for his film Yi Yi.
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Jean Cocteau, François Truffaut, and Claude Chabrol at the 1959 Cannes Film Festival.
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“I think of the medium as a people-to-people medium, not cameraman-to-people, not direction-to-people, not writers-to-people, but people-to-people… You can only involve an audience with people. You can’t involve them with gimmicks, with sunsets, with hand-held cameras, zoom shots, or anything else. They couldn’t care less about those things. But you give them something to worry about, some person they can worry about, and care about, and you’ve got them, you’ve got them involved.”
Frank Capra (May 18, 1897 – September 3, 1991)
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Burt Lancaster and Claudia Cardinale promote their film The Leopard at the 1963 Cannes Film Festival. The film, directed by Luchino Visconti, won the Palme d’Or that year.
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“Why make a movie about something one understands completely? I make movies about things I do not understand, but wish to.”
Seijun Suzuki (born May 24, 1923)
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Hanna Schygulla and Jeremy Irons at the 1983 Cannes Film Festival. Schygulla received Best Actress honors for her performance in Marco Ferreri’s Storia di Piera.
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For me, making films and not making films are not two different ways of life. Filming should be a part of living, something normal and natural…
Whoever one films is growing older and will die. So one is filming a moment of death at work. Painting is static: The cinema is interesting because it seizes life and the mortal side of life.
Jean Luc-Godard (Cahiers du Cinéma 138, December 1962)
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Akira Kurosawa on Kenji Mizoguchi (May 16, 1898 – August 24, 1956)
“His greatness was that he never gave up trying to heighten the reality of each scene. He never made compromises. He never said that something or other ‘would do.’ Instead, he pulled—or pushed—everyone along with him until they had created the feeling which matched his own inner image. An ordinary director is quite incapable of this. And in this lay his true spirit as a director—for he had the temperament of a true creator. He pushed and bullied and he was often criticized for this but he held out, and he created masterpieces. This attitude toward creation is not at all easy, but a director like him is especially necessary in Japan where this kind of pushing is so resisted. […] In the death of Mizoguchi, Japanese film lost its truest creator.”
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“When somebody who makes movies for a living — either as an actor, writer, producer or director — lives to be a certain age, you have to admire them. It is an act of courage to make a film — a courage for which you are not prepared in the rest of life. It is very hard and very destructive. But we do it because we love it.” - John Carpenter
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Akira Kurosawa on Kenji Mizoguchi (May 16, 1898 – August 24, 1956)
“His greatness was that he never gave up trying to heighten the reality of each scene. He never made compromises. He never said that something or other ‘would do.’ Instead, he pulled—or pushed—everyone along with him until they had created the feeling which matched his own inner image. An ordinary director is quite incapable of this. And in this lay his true spirit as a director—for he had the temperament of a true creator. He pushed and bullied and he was often criticized for this but he held out, and he created masterpieces. This attitude toward creation is not at all easy, but a director like him is especially necessary in Japan where this kind of pushing is so resisted. […] In the death of Mizoguchi, Japanese film lost its truest creator.”
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Even the Gods must shave.
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An actual comment card from a test screening of David Cronenberg’s VIDEODROME.
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Belmondo & Delon.
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Warhol.
photo by Billy Name
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