“Cinema is a matter of what’s in the frame and what’s out.“
Martin Scorsese
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, Share, and The King of Comedy are currently available to rent from multiple sources.
“When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, ‘no, I went to films.’“
Quentin Tarantino
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The Farewell on Kanopy and Prime Video
Jackie Brown and Once Upon a Time in… Hollywood are currently available to rent from multiple sources.
“He thought that in the beauty of the world were hid a secret. He thought that the world’s heart beat at some terrible cost and that the world’s pain and its beauty moved in a relationship of diverging equity and that in this headlong deficit the blood of multitudes might ultimately be exacted for the vision of a single flower.”
Cormac McCarthy (quote was circulated in U.K. Press Kit from New Wave Films regarding An Elephant Sitting Still)
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Ash is Purest White on Amazon Prime
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An Elephant Sitting Still on Kanopy and Criterion Channel
“Nostalgia is a powerful feeling — it can drown out anything.”
Terrence Malick
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L’Avventura on Kanopy
The New World and Synecdoche, New York are currently available to rent from multiple sources.
“The beauty of the horror genre is that you can smuggle in these harder stories, and the genre comes with certain demands, but mostly you need to find the catharsis in whatever story you’re telling. What may be seen as a deterrent for audiences in one genre suddenly becomes a virtue in another genre.”
Ari Aster
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Crawl is available on Amazon Prime and Hulu
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“You feel touched by a movie in a good or bad way or you have a strong reaction to something that’s totally artificial, to an imitation of life. But that imitation of life that you see on the screen can affect you almost as if it was real.”
Gaspar Noe
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“Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery – celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: “It’s not where you take things from – it’s where you take them to.”
Jim Jarmusch
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“Human beings are born with the instinct to express themselves through movement. Even before he could communicate with words, primitive man was dancing to the beat of his own heart.”
Bob Fosse
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The Souvenir and Lenny on Amazon Prime
Ma and Cabaret are currently available to rent from multiple sources.
“It took me a long time to make that leap to being a grown-up and responsible adult because I carried on being a child actor into my late twenties. It’s OK to be precocious when you’re young, but when you’re a man of about 27 or 28 and playing a 17-year-old in a TV show, it kind of prolongs your childhood.”
Dexter Fletcher
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The Perfection on Netflix
Brightburn and Rocketman are currently available to rent from multiple sources.
“I think making a great action movie is one of the hardest cinematic endeavors. By definition, smart characters avoid action. Smart people don’t go down dark alleys, but if you’re making an action movie and you want to have an action sequence, somehow you have to get that character into that dangerous situation.”
Doug Liman
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