One more. Amazing how Black Narcissus was shot entirely at Pinewood Studios.
Sister Ruth on one of her daily duties.
I find myself strangely attracted to Sister Ruth. The crazier the better.
Two for the Road (1967)
Happy Birthday monsieur Truffaut! You would have been 80 today.
“(Roberto) Rossellini says you shouldn’t write scripts, that only swine write scripts. The conflict in the film simply emerges from the facts. A character from a given country at a given time confronted with a character from a different country — it’s the natural conflict between them. You start from that. There’s no need to invent anything.”
— François Truffaut
“You hang up first.”
The Double Life of Veronique, 1991
Ingmar Bergman admiring one of three original Bruces from Jaws on the Universal backlot, 1975.
“Among today’s directors I’m of course impressed by Steven Spielberg and Scorsese, and Coppola, even if he seems to have ceased making films, and Steven Soderbergh — they all have something to say, they’re passionate, they have an idealistic attitude to the filmmaking process.” — Bergman, 2002
Photo: John Bryson
Jean-Pierre Jeunet described his experience in Hollywood (Alien Resurrection, 1997) as “a fight between heart and money”.
Happy Birthday Jules and Jim!
You premiered 50 years ago today.
“Anything indirect is stronger, in many cases at least, because you leave it or you hand it over to the imagination of your audience. And I’ve always been trusting my audience to have imagination. Otherwise they should stay out of the cinema.”
— Douglas Sirk
The Driver (1978) dir: Walter Hill
Heartbeats (2010)
French title: Les Amours imaginaires
…Unless you can feel that a hero is as fucked up as you are, that you would make the same mistakes that he would make, you can have no satisfaction when he does commit a heroic act. Because then you can say, “Hell I could have done that too!” And that’s the obligation of the filmmaker, of the theater worker: to give a heightened sense of experience to the people who pay to come to see his work.
— Nicholas Ray
Fake. We can only dream.
I have a hunch Criterion will eventually release La Notte with the existing L’eclisse and L’Avventura as a box set.
