Nuri Bilge Ceylan (via heidisaman)
La Jalousie, Philippe Garrel (2013)
La Jalousie, Philippe Garrel (2013)
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2011)
Jauja (2014) Directed by Lisandro Alonso
Asghar Farhadi on the set of About Elly (2009).
Darbareye Elly (2009)
Darbareye Elly (2009)
One of the few things I can really say I love is cinema. I’ve lived a long time for cinema. I lived with it, I still like it a lot, I like doing the work. Now I think it goes a little bit beyond cinema. I was much more of a cinephile 20 years ago; I was much more a believer in all then powers — natural, supernatural [Laughs] — of films. Now cinema, for me, has become… I always say, if I’m just doing a film, I think I wouldn’t bother. There’s something else for me.
35 Shots of Rum, 2008. (Claire Denis)
35 Shots of Rum, 2008. (Claire Denis)
Watch the first official trailer for Jem Cohen’s documentary Counting, which premiered last February at the Berlin Film Festival and will open in New York on July 31st.
The project is made of fifteen distinct but interconnected chapters, shot in locations from New York, to Moscow, St. Petersburg, Istanbul, Porto and a city intended to remain unknown: together, they build to a reckoning at the intersection of city symphony, diary, and essay film. Snapshots of places both popular and unknown and of people, striking observations of everyday life, a tender gauging of reality, snippets of voiceovers in passing.
“I don’t want to do what others did before or replace them. There’s no replacement for Chaplin. Ozu is great. They did it. Let’s do something else. Now it’s a matter of rebalancing things.”
Two great filmmakers, Pedro Costa and Thom Andersen, met and talked for five days of the Courtisane Festival in Ghent. Read Ruben Demasure’s report at Notebook.
Horse Money dir. Pedro Costa
