“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.”
Movies
From Chantal Akerman's "Je, tu, il, elle" (1974)
The karate bows in "Boogie Nights" & "One Battle After Another"
"Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend," from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
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.”
Four from RaMell Ross's "Hale County This Morning, This Evening"
Holy Motors, 2012
"Life is better…for in life there is love.
Death is good, but there's no love."
Kitty's Monologue from "Topsy-Turvy" (Mike Leigh, 1999)
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)
