“When I’m in a bad mood, I come here. Mostly people just pass through, like a Murnau film. Murnau films are always about the passage: from city to country, day to night. There’s all that here: on the right, trains, the country. On the left the city.”
Film
From Chantal Akerman's "Je, tu, il, elle" (1974)
From "To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar" - 1995
From Jacques Rozier's "The Castaways of Turtle Island" - 1976
Four from "Near Orouët" (Du côté d'Orouët) - Jacques Rozier, 1971
From Chungking Express
“Every day I buy a can of pineapple with an expiration date of May 1, because May loves pineapple, and May 1 is my birthday. I tell myself that if May hasn’t come back by the time I’ve bought 30 cans, then our love will expire too.”
Go see this documentary re: Palestine - "No Other Land"
More on the movie here: https://releasing.dogwoof.com/no-other-land
From Ermanno Olmi's "The Tree of Wooden Clogs" (1978)
“And remember that paradise begins with the love
that we show each other here on earth.”
From "Blow-Up", Michelangelo Antonioni, 1966
Final Scene from "Paris, Texas"
From Hal Ashby's "The Last Detail"
Agnes Varda - "Kung-fu Master!" (1988)
Start of the party scene from Oliver Assayas' "Cold Water" (1994)
From Werner Herzog's "Aguirre, The Wrath of God" (1972)
From "Ugetsu" (1953) directed by Kenji Mizoguchi
"I did not die. I am at your side. Your delusion has come to an end. You are again your true self, in the place where you belong. Your work is waiting."
Glenda Jackson (left) in "Mary, Queen of Scots"
1936 - 2023
