Photography | Filmmaking
See more posts like this on Tumblr
#film #cinema
Film still from The Man With the Rubber Head (1901) by Georges Méliès
"I have become tired of cinema. The so-called entertainment value of films in recent years, the mechanisms of the market, and the constant pandering to popular taste, all disgust me. I don’t feel the need to keep making films or, to put it more bluntly, to make the kinds of films that expect the patronage of cinema audiences anymore. I keep asking myself: what is cinema? Why make films? Who am I doing this for? Who is the mass audience? Are they the people who watch Spielberg movies? Frankly speaking, I am not interested in this at all… I can’t make films for the system. Cinema as an object of consumption limits my creativity. I feel disorientated by the speed imposed on us. For me, slowness is a technique, an instrument helping me to find a path through this disorientation."
Tsai Ming-liang
Born October 27, 1957
Bell & Howell Filmo № 75 16mm film camera was intended for amateur use. Marketed as a ladies’ camera. - 1928 (photo by John Kratz)
Here’s a year in film 2012 supercut, for your consideration
Good year for film? Bad year for film? Pretty year for film? One of those things, for sure.
This is really amazingly well done.
Wonderful.
Love this.
On October 28 of last year, Sam Fleischner was riding the A train out to Rockaway. With him were an autistic child actor, a lighting guy, sound guy — an entire film crew in fact, all under his direction. To hear the name of the film, Stand Clear of the Closing Doors, is to understand that the location was an appropriate one; it’s the story of a 13-year-old autistic boy played by Jesus Sanchez who gets lost on the subway for 10 days. When it’s not taking place on the A train, Stand Clear unfolds in the Rockaways, where the boy’s mother is on a frantic mission to find him. The real-life story on which the movie is based (documented in a New York Times article in 2009) takes place in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. But Fleischner saw parallels between the subway and the ocean, and he wanted the family in his film to live nearby. It was four days before Fleischner’s film was scheduled to wrap, and he needed all the time in the subway he could get. But Hurricane Sandy had other plans.
THIS IS IMPORTANT.
wow.. the fucking story line. speechless.
It’s such an important time for this film to come out.
It’s so easy for the film idustry to show people we fought against in the past as real people. But it’s something new to put a face a name and a story to the people that so many of us see as the enemy.
Notices to the audiences like these periodically appeared upon the nickelodeon screens of early films, 1900s (From This Fabulous Century: 1900-1910, scanned by weirdvintage)
Finally saw Hugo last night. I think it’s now my favorite film. Amazing.
The Hollywood Reporter: A fabulous and passionate love letter to the cinema and its preservation framed by the strenuous adventures of two orphans in 1930s Paris.
Stanley Kubrick exhibit. “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.” #lacma #kubrick #theshining #film
When we ride kaleidoscopes. 🎠 Santa Monica, CA. (at Santa Monica, California)
https://www.instagram.com/p/B7f8h1Mp-4O/?igshid=4yc4r0tj5av4
