WATCH >> In Praise of Chairs
“That’s a great chair.”
GO TO >> Scorsese Collects
In celebration of director Martin Scorsese’s enduring commitment to the preservation of international film culture, MoMA presents 34 works from the Scorsese Poster Collection.
HELP >> Finish Orson Welles’ Last Film
After years spent working in Europe, Orson returned to Hollywood intent on making a film about filmmaking, but managed to hit an obstacle at every turn and, although he finished shooting it, he did not finish editing and the film was never released.
READ >> Woody Allen On His Movies & Hollywood’s Perilous Path
“We were not intellectuals, by any means. I was thrown out of school and none of us were intellectuals. We were sports fans. It was a big talk when the next film by Truffaut, Fellini or De Sica was coming out. This is what we waited to see.”
WATCH >> What is neorealism?
“The only great problem of cinema seems to be more and more, with each film, when and why to start a shot and when and why to end it.” – Jean-Luc Godard
LISTEN >> a rare interview with Stanley Kubrick (1966)
“Persuasive really isn’t the right word. I trend to believe if you’re right- people realize it.”
READ >> The Soderbergh Variations: 2001, Recut
“Just as the strength of Kubrick’s film was its ability to provoke unresolvable debate, Soderbergh’s achievement is to inspire new questions and identify new points of emphasis without providing a single new answer. Largely for this reason, the connections he draws are occasionally literal, but never banal.”
READ >> Robert Bresson: Hidden in Plain Sight
“Michel steals because it is the only act that makes him feel alive in a world becoming dead—not only dead to pleasure and unprogrammed emotions but, as later Bresson would make ever more explicit, organically dead. Theft reconnects Michel to the flow of life around him, from which he otherwise feels desperately isolated, and which he perceives as pathetically limited in its possibilities.”
WATCH >> Akira Kurosawa – Composing Movement
“When you’re judging a shot, what’s the first thing you look for? Is it balance, leading lines, golden ratio, color, light, shapes? I think these are all essential and they’re all apart of good images, but there’s one thing that I always notice first- movement.”
LISTEN >> Interview with John Cassavetes & Gena Rowlands
“The question is what point do you reveal what’s going to happen? My system is to never reveal it. My system is to create as much confusion as I possibly can, so the actors have the full knowledge that they’re on their own.” – john cassavetes