Now, normally I am very shy, but Patrick seemed like the kind of guy you could just walk up to at a football game even though you were three years younger and not popular.

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sonicdreams:

I remember that speech very well.

ffrenchtoast:

Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)

“I want him to witness the extent of my mercy by witnessing your deformed body.”

straawbeeryy:

“There are two scenes in Spirited Away that could be considered symbolic for the film. One is the first scene in the back of the car, where she is really a vulnerable little girl, and the other is the final scene, where she’s full of life and has faced the whole world. Those are two portraits of Chihiro which show the development of her character.” (Hayao Miyazaki)

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joshtierney:

One of my favourite pieces by Roger Ebert is his “Great Movies” appreciation of Spirited Away (read it in full here). At the end of the piece he details an encounter he had with Hayao Miyazaki himself, where Miyazaki defines one of the key differences between the work of Studio Ghibli and mainstream American animation. I can see his words relating to comics as well, and these words are well-worth reading for any creative and parent.

Here is the excerpt from Ebert’s piece:

I was so fortunate to meet Miyazaki at the 2002 Toronto film festival. I told him I love the “gratuitous motion” in his films; instead of every movement being dictated by the story, sometimes people will just sit for a moment, or sigh, or gaze at a running stream, or do something extra, not to advance the story but only to give the sense of time and place and who they are.

“We have a word for that in Japanese,” he said. “It’s called ‘ma.’ Emptiness. It’s there intentionally.” He clapped his hands three or four times. “The time in between my clapping is ‘ma.’ If you just have non-stop action with no breathing space at all, it’s just busyness.”

I think that helps explain why Miyazaki’s films are more absorbing than the frantic action in a lot of American animation. “The people who make the movies are scared of silence” he said, “so they want to paper and plaster it over,” he said. “They’re worried that the audience will get bored. But just because it’s 80 percent intense all the time doesn’t mean the kids are going to bless you with their concentration. What really matters is the underlying emotions—that you never let go of those.

“What my friends and I have been trying to do since the 1970’s is to try and quiet things down a little bit; don’t just bombard them with noise and distraction. And to follow the path of children’s emotions and feelings as we make a film. If you stay true to joy and astonishment and empathy you don’t have to have violence and you don’t have to have action. They’ll follow you. This is our principle.”

He said he has been amused to see a lot of animation in live-action superhero movies. “In a way, live action is becoming part of that whole soup called animation. Animation has become a word that encompasses so much, and my animation is just a little tiny dot over in the corner. It’s plenty for me.”

It’s plenty for me, too.

brucesterling:

The most impressive diva of Italian silent film, Pina Menichelli.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pina_Menichelli

I’ve always been impressed by Pina’s complete contempt for her great talent, fame and wealth. After becoming a world-famous, severely otherworldly femme-fatale of the silver screen, she married, left the film business, burned every photo and document she could get her hands on, and never said a word about cinema for the next sixty years of her long life.

Trainspotting (1996)

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cataclysmmagazine:

Scenery - The Great Gatsby (2013)

Christopher Nolan you little genius shit - Inception / The Dark Knight

↳ “A lot of it is being done in commercials and music videos. I’ve never done them, but I think that those are forms in which cross-cutting and parallel action are absolutely standard and accepted as a mainstream language. Film-makers like myself enjoy the fruits of that experimentation and absorption by the mainstream. I think people’s capacity to absorb a fractured mise-en-scene is extraordinary now compared to forty years ago”

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The Mummy (1999) / The Mummy Returns (2001)

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izzythewitch:

I’ve never seen a visual representation of anxiety before, and I love this. 

infinite list of favorite movies → but i’m a cheerleader (1999)

↳ 1, 2, 3, 4, you’re the one that I adore, 5, 6, 7, 8, don’t run from me ‘cause this is fate