January 2011
50 posts
“There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment. This...”
– Robert Frank
Good read cont. George Orwell, "Why I Write"....
For fifteen years or more, I was carrying out a literary exercise of a quite different kind: this was the making up of a continuous ‘story’ about myself, a sort of diary existing only in the mind.
For minutes at a time this kind of thing would be running through my head: ‘He pushed the door open and entered the room. A yellow beam of sunlight, filtering through the muslin curtains, slanted on to...
“I had the lonely child’s habit of making up stories and holding...”
– George Orwell, “Why I Write”
Watch“You and Me” by Penny and the Quarters. The gorgeous song in Blue Valentine.
Fox Shoots Hunter
http://gawker.com/5733414/fox-shoots-hunter
This has nothing to do with movies. But, it made me so happy today. It’s True Grit for the fox. As MS said, “ i hope he sounded like george clooney!”
“When you cast actors, you try to find the quality you couldn’t beat out of them...”
– Read more on Fincher’s Girl With A Dragon Tattoo interview. Thought it was a good read, raw and intelligent answers.
“This “why so dark?” question comes up a lot, both inside and outside of my head,...”
– The Book Bench: George Saunders’s Wild Ride : The New Yorker
“It’s very rewarding to work with someone who is clear on telling a story. There...”
– editor Dylan Tichenor (Magnolia, The Royal Tenenbaums, Brokeback Mountain,The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Whip It, There Will Be Blood, The Town and more).
