Secret Sunshine (2007)

I Was Born, But... (1932)

La beau mariage (1982)

Copie conforme (2010)

 COPIE CONFORME / COPIA CONFORME

Sátántangó (1994)

...
2 breaks. Hours swept by. Ain't seen nothing quite like it. Mesmerizing.

Werckmeister Harmonies (2000)

...

Saw Q&A. Learned. Met the man - shook his hand. Asked question about André Bazin like a stupid film student.

Kárhozat (1988)

...

Exactly the sum of its parts.

Notorious (1946)

Marti, dupa craciun (2010) + Down to the Bone (2004)

This was really great.

 

This really wasn't.

Elusive Lucidity

"I want everything that goes together lined up side by side. This is the only way I can work."
-  "The correspondence of Walter Benjamin, 1910-1940", adressed to Gerhard Scholem, dated May 23, 1917.



"I can't relate how often I've been extraordinarily (and defeatedly) reluctant to say anything of length about a given topic because I feel inadequate about my understanding of its contexts--a work of art within the artist's (or school's, or movement's) corpus, or within its historical and material world. 

I'm trying desperately to remedy this and be more productive, and to go out on a limb once and a while without being sloppy about it."
- Zach Campbell, http://elusivelucidity.blogspot.com/2005/07/indeed.html

Vers Mathilde (2005)

The Philadelphia Story (1940)

Harsh words were said.

 

True Love

Confessions of Summer (1979)

"In those days everything made sense to me. Nietzsche, Coltrane, Dostoyevsky and Godard were all part of a grand synthesis I was forging in my mind, and which I gave up as nonsense several years later, realizing that I had mistaken the arbitrary growth of my personal taste for a consistent world-view. Nevertheless, for a long time I tried to make everything connect. I actually believed that my tastes constituted a defendable system which, once traced to a common root, would function for everyone, like atomic theory."

Un mauvais fils (1980)

Fanny (1932)

 

When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960)

Hideko Takamine (1924-2010)