“If you are truly wild at heart, you'll fight for your dreams.”
Goodbye, Lynch. If only I could figure out how your mind worked! I truly want to create something even remotely as cool as you did before I die.
“If you are truly wild at heart, you'll fight for your dreams.”
Goodbye, Lynch. If only I could figure out how your mind worked! I truly want to create something even remotely as cool as you did before I die.
“I'm interested in seeing films that confront me with new things, with films that make me question myself, with films that help me to reflect on subjects that I hadn't thought about before, films that help me progress and advance. Those are the kinds of films that interest me. For me, personally, I think watching a movie that simply confirms my feelings is a waste of time. That applies not only to movies, but also to books and every form of art.”
— Michael Haneke
This film was banned all over Europe for its extreme portrayal of violence in 1983. Because of the film's controversy, the director Gerald Kargl never directed another film. It's intriguing to note that the filmmaker Gaspar Noé cited this film as an influence on his filmmaking style and claimed to have seen it about 40 times.
Angst is one of the most shocking and unsettling films I've ever seen. Nevertheless, despite the overwhelming sense of anxiety the film instilled in…
Satyajit Ray's masterpiece and supposedly an all-time favorite film of Jean-Luc Godard.
The influence of French films on Satyajit Ray is far more visible here than in his earlier film—the swing set scene is a beautiful homage to Jean Renoir’s A Day in the Country. Satyajit Ray also captured the same magic with the freeze-frame as François Truffaut did on “The 400 blows” ending.
This is my favorite Satyajit Ray film so far. The scenes where Madhabi Mukherjee looks through her opera glass are a sight to behold, and the swing set scene is undoubtedly one of my all-time favorites.