"Life is better…for in life there is love.
Death is good, but there's no love."
Holy Motors, 2012
Movies
Kitty's Monologue from "Topsy-Turvy" (Mike Leigh, 1999) - this made me cry
Final Scene from "Paris, Texas"
From Hal Ashby's "The Last Detail"
Agnes Varda - "Kung-fu Master!" (1988)
Jeanne Moreau
One of the most beautiful sequences I’ve ever seen in a movie is in La Notte where Jeanne Moreau just goes for a walk
Start of the party scene from Oliver Assayas' "Cold Water" (1994)
From "Poor Things" - Yorgos Lanthimos
Inside Llewyn Davis
From "The Graduate" (Mike Nichols, 1967)
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
Opera Scene from Suzanne Lindon's "Seize Printemps" (Spring Blossom) - 2022
"If I Wanted" - Mare Winningham & Jennifer Jason Leigh - From the movie, "Georgia"
Synecdoche, New York
Ellen Burstyn on "The Last Picture Show" (1971)
“One of my favourite moments was the first time we read the script together,” says Burstyn. “We didn’t know each other, we didn’t really have a sense of how good the film was. As we were reading and seeing each other and getting to connect with each other, the story and the characters came alive. When we turned the last page, there was a moment of silence. Everybody just sat there, stunned, realising what we were in for, what we were part of.” Full article here.
Three from "Moonlight" (Barry Jenkins, 2016)
From "Petit Maman" (2021), directed by Celine Sciamma
“Is that the music of the future?
Let me listen.”
