i needed a funny film to freshen me up and it was Rosalind Russell 's AUNTIE MAME ... she was mad af what a great actress

absolutely positively true

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i wonder WHY writers invent depressing stories about sick people like MADAME BOVARY or NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND or IVAN ILICH ? filmmakers also done stuff like TAXI DRIVER or the films of Antonioni like THE NIGHT or RED DESERT ? it's unpleasant and sickening and dangerous art.

in a DOUGLAS SIRK melodrama things make sense even if you cry your eyes out. it's not an absurd existential meaningless story. it doesn't pretend to be real. you may think the outside is fake but the feeling is true.

"People accept violence only if the characters are false" said veteran director Michael Cimino. is that why people accept violence in Tarantino 's movies ? because his characters are false and cartoonish ?

"Montgomery Clift always looked as though he had an angel walking along side him". Alfred Hitchcock.

JANE WYMAN >> BARBARA STANWYEK

amen.

Sydney Pollack said that when he turned into acting (after Tootsie) it was a chance for him to learn and spy on other directors.

Isabella Rossellini doing a nun in the new Ralph Fiennes film this doubles the excitement

The seamlessness and invisibility of his style, the uniformity and compactness of his shit, makes HOWARD HAWKS so unique.

WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY It's the most pretentious and arrogant thing that's ever happened to cinema. If you believe you have to philosophies about life, then write a book.

Preston Sturges and Sam Fuller went to war, wrote novels, plays or journalism, then became screenwriters and eventually became writers/directors. Unlike people like Paul Thomas Anderson or Tarantino who became writers/directors overnight.

first views of JULY - the hero (2017) - the woman on the beach (1947) - i walk alone (1948) - the sixth sense (1999) - written on the wind (1956) - all that heaven allows (1954)

Everyone should watch their favorite movie at least once a year.

Pauline Kael once said that watching movies on TV can be as good as watching them in a theatre

smart people always talk about acting

A good commercial or a good music video should be considered good cinema. It has sound, editing, and atmosphere. If it had to be classified, it would be experimental. youtu.be/-p4C3WMRLEs?si…

August first viewings : - into the storm (2014) - the sin of nora moran (1933) - flesh (1932) - the second woman (1950) - satan's school for girls (1973)