Raul Ruiz, director of Mysteries of Lisbon and Night Across the Street, from the second volume in his Poetics of Cinema: “What we have seen is something new, something the art of memory could not have foreseen: images striving for their independence. They aim to make themselves noticeable, to have greater worth than that of […]
Steven Spielberg in an interview about making Lincoln: “I require fear in order to run towards something. Fear never makes me run away from anything but the more scared I am, the more frightened I am I have to run into what’s scaring me to try to figure out what it is because it has […]
Here, again, is Andrew Welch with his second turn as a Filmwell guest contributor. Andrew Welch lives in Denton, TX, and has written for Books & Culture, Relevant, and Art House Dallas. You can follow him at his blog, Adventures in Cinema, and on Twitter. • Let me tell you about Charles. Charles was a stout man with […]
Wim Wenders at Naked Punch: There are films made to exist as box office results first, or as reviews first, or as expression of the author first. My films are meant to come to life in people’s heads. They are incomplete before, actually they are meant to be incomplete. I see them like open systems […]
Filmwell welcomes Andrew Welch as a new guest contributor. Andrew Welch lives in Denton, TX, and has written for Books & Culture, Relevant, and Art House Dallas. You can follow him at his blog, Adventures in Cinema, and on Twitter. • There’s a moment in Michelangelo Antonioni’s Blow-Up where the movie’s main character, Thomas (David Hemmings), strolls into […]
“It is better to study a few films closely than to see many films and think on them occasionally.” “Praise not a work for how much you agree with its religion or its politics — for propaganda is not art, and persuasion is not the stuff of great cinema.”
Simon West (Laura Croft: Tomb Raider), quoted at flicksandbits.com: I wanted to direct [The Expendables 2] because I know how much people love these characters, and now they’re going to get to see more of them in even higher adrenaline situations, plus I loved the first film, The Expendables. I think audiences connect with this […]
19. We have a Hulk. 18. When our two part interview with the director of Munyurangabo inspired a mad rush of demand for more from Lee Isaac Chung, we delivered big time. 17. We are not interested in any scandals involving R-Patz. And on a related note, we have no desire to revisit the movie K-Pax. 16. We […]
Speaking, in an interview about Once Upon a Time in Anatolia*, about the influence of the works of Chekov, and other literature, on his films: I believe that literature has had more impressions on my filmmaking than cinema. But I don’t feel like making adaptations. They have very different natures. But I always draw benefits […]