#film

Cinema is a mixed form. L'Avventura has characters, it has social context, and these things are not trivial. Its plot is the disappearance of a disappearance. Possibly the most frightening plot imaginable. Forgetting the dead, whom all of history tells us we must remember. But what makes movies themselves, rather than novels or plays, is something else. What is it if not the film medium itself? The purity of the visual, which lies in the silence of the stilled image. The freeze frame. The deeply, deeply silent image. Like death. The image in itself in its silent purity reaches--it reaches!--for the purity of death. ↗

— Frank Lentricchia

#frank-lentricchia #michelangeo-antonioni #the-sadness-of-antonioni #death

I think the other misconceptions when the film came out, he was very upset that it was so widely released and so widely seen. And neither one of us - well, I think I had hopes it would be, 'cause I really did think it was something special. ↗

— Terry Zwigoff

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I never enjoyed working in a film. ↗

— Marlene Dietrich

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By the first week of shooting, you know exactly where your film is heading based on the psychology of your director. ↗

— Jodie Foster

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I am the luckiest filmmaker I know. ↗

— Jodie Foster

#filmmaker #i #i am #know #luckiest

I prefer film to the stage. I always like the rehearsal better than I like performing. ↗