The personal blog of Robert Hardy:
Filmmaker, Musician, Writer
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
“I like to make films because I like to go into another world. I like to get lost in another world. And film to me is a magical medium that makes you dream…allows you to dream in the dark. It’s just a fantastic thing, to get lost inside the world of film.”
Happy 66th Birthday to Mr David Lynch!
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“Do whatever the fuck you want, even if it’s wrong, and then tell about it with honesty. That is filmmaking to me…Success is fucking up on your own terms.” - Guillermo del Toro
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Masterpieces are born of the artist’s struggle to express his ethical ideals. Indeed, his concepts and his sensibilities are informed by those ideals. If he loves life, has an overwhelming need to know it, change it, try to make it better—in short, if he aims to cooperate in enhancing the value of life, then there is no danger in the fact that the picture of reality will have passed through a filter of his subjective concepts, through his states of mind. For his work will always be a spiritual endeavor which aspires to make man more perfect: an image of the world that captivates us by its harmony of feeling and thought, its nobility and restraint.
~ Director Andrei Tarkovksy (via directingfilm)
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“You’re walking along,” he begins slowly, “and you look over and see some incredible violet and deep purple going to black. The light is hitting it a certain way. It’s very, very beautiful. And then you step a little closer.” He pauses, dangling the words in suspense. “And it’s a dead woman with her stomach ripped open. Now that beautiful thing has turned to absolute horror. It’s a whole ’nother ball game. But it still drew you in at first and you saw a beauty there. So as soon as something is named… as soon as a certain thing is known about a shape or a colour or whatever… it changes it.”
Normally, Lynch does not believe in explaining himself. In 34 years of being recognised as one of the most original and influential figures in film, he has revealed little. Actors are required to surrender to the obscurity of his vision without having their questions answered. His interviews are often as impenetrable as his work, clouded with riddle-like abstractions that teeter between insight and inanity. In an 11,646-word treatise on the director’s oeuvre by the late novelist David Foster Wallace, who spent time on the set of Lynch’s 1997 neo-noir film Lost Highway, the most we learned about the man behind the films was that he pees hard and often.
David Lynch by Cian Traynor
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“You’re walking along,” he begins slowly, “and you look over and see some incredible violet and deep purple going to black. The light is hitting it a certain way. It’s very, very beautiful. And then you step a little closer.” He pauses, dangling the words in suspense. “And it’s a dead woman with her stomach ripped open. Now that beautiful thing has turned to absolute horror. It’s a whole ’nother ball game. But it still drew you in at first and you saw a beauty there. So as soon as something is named… as soon as a certain thing is known about a shape or a colour or whatever… it changes it.”
Normally, Lynch does not believe in explaining himself. In 34 years of being recognised as one of the most original and influential figures in film, he has revealed little. Actors are required to surrender to the obscurity of his vision without having their questions answered. His interviews are often as impenetrable as his work, clouded with riddle-like abstractions that teeter between insight and inanity. In an 11,646-word treatise on the director’s oeuvre by the late novelist David Foster Wallace, who spent time on the set of Lynch’s 1997 neo-noir film Lost Highway, the most we learned about the man behind the films was that he pees hard and often.
David Lynch by Cian Traynor
[Image: Adam Bordow]
Woody Allen
I generally hate animated GIF’s with a passion, but I couldn’t resist a reblog when I saw this, my favorite Woody Allen line of all time.
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
Jean Cocteau (via philms)
Day 10: My Favorite Director
This one is very, very tough indeed. There are just so many fantastic directors out there. There’s David Lynch, and Stanley Kubrick, and Terry Gilliam, and Orson Welles, and Andrei Tarkovsky, and Quentin Tarantino, and Terrence Malick, and the Coen Brothers, and Alfred Hitchcock, and Woody Allen, and and so on, and so on. But there’s one director who has absolutely floored me beyond belief with two of his films, and that director is Paul Thomas Anderson. Firstly, Magnolia is the most underrated film from the past 20 years. It’s undoubtedly the most thrilling and beautifully done film ever made in the intersecting narrative genre. This I can say without any doubt in my mind. But the film that absolutely floored me and changed my expectations of what a film should be was There Will Be Blood. In my opinion, this film will go down as one of the greatest films of the 21st Century, unless something crazy happens (like Hollywood starts producing movies that aren’t total shit). Much of why I love this film is Daniel Day Lewis. His infallibly masterful performance in the role of Daniel Plainview is rivaled only by his performance as Bill “the Butcher” Cutting in Gangs of New York, and that is no short accomplishment. However, the film itself is a transcendent exercise in the art of filmic tension, which is why I love it so. Never, in all my days, have I seen a film build to such a climax. Never. It truly is masterful in every way, shape, and form. There are few other directors in contemporary cinema with as stunning a filmography and as promising a future as Paul Thomas Anderson, and for that reason he is my favorite director. Along with all those other ones…
We are the sum total of our choices. Events unfold so unpredictably, so unfairly… human happiness does not seem to have been included in the design of creation. It is only we, with our capacity to love that gives meaning to the indifferent universe. And yet, most human beings seem to have the ability to keep trying, and even to find joy from simple things like their family, their work and from the hope that future generations might understand more.
Woody Allen, Crimes and Misdemeanors (via larosapurpuradelcairo)
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A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what’s behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.
~ Stanley Kubrick
