December 2009
41 posts
“Baby It’s Cold Outside” - Leon...
“Punch-Drunk Love” is a film, but it is also something else: It creates for...”
– Karina Longworth - Salon.com
J.D. Salinger: Holden Caulfield is unactable
From Letters of Note:
Ever since its release in 1951, a steady stream of eager producers, directors, screenwriters and actors have unsuccessfully attempted to bring J. D. Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye to the big screen, all falling at the first hurdle when confronted with Salinger’s resolute refusal to sell the rights to his novel. The letter below, written in 1957 in response to an...
Free Movies Online: Great Classics, Indies, Film... →
Several early David Lynch short films were recently added to the collection.
“Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinion is starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don’t see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often, it’s not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it’s always there - fathers and sons, mothers and daughters,...
David Lynch On Refusing To Direct Return Of The... →
WatchJames Cameron’s vision for Avatar. Making Of is an interesting site that provides a glimpse into the process of making a film by the insiders themselves.
“Harry, you’re going to have to try and find a way of not expressing every...”
– Meg Ryan, When Harry Met Sally
The movie that mattered to me →
brieflynoted:
I’m obsessed with finding the connection between the film’s that influence filmmakers and their films. Lately, I’ve been checking out the filmographies of Truffaut, Bergman and Goddard to name a few and in watching their work I’m experiencing film in a whole new way. It may sound silly, but with the old stuff I feel like I’m solving some sort of cinematic mystery the moment I make...
