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Week End - Jean-Luc Godard
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![A story I’ve thought of many times, as related by Pedro Costa-
One day, Mizoguchi was asked who his favorite filmmaker was. “Ozu,” he answered without hesitation. And the journalist asked him why. “Because what he does is much more difficult than what I do.”
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Akira Kurosawa on Kenji Mizoguchi (May 16, 1898 – August 24, 1956)
“His greatness was that he never gave up trying to heighten the reality of each scene. He never made compromises. He never said that something or other ‘would do.’ Instead, he pulled—or pushed—everyone along with him until they had created the feeling which matched his own inner image. An ordinary director is quite incapable of this. And in this lay his true spirit as a director—for he had the temperament of a true creator. He pushed and bullied and he was often criticized for this but he held out, and he created masterpieces. This attitude toward creation is not at all easy, but a director like him is especially necessary in Japan where this kind of pushing is so resisted. […] In the death of Mizoguchi, Japanese film lost its truest creator.”](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m43mupeD6w1qf7r5lo1_1280.jpg)
A story I’ve thought of many times, as related by Pedro Costa-
One day, Mizoguchi was asked who his favorite filmmaker was. “Ozu,” he answered without hesitation. And the journalist asked him why. “Because what he does is much more difficult than what I do.”
Akira Kurosawa on Kenji Mizoguchi (May 16, 1898 – August 24, 1956)
“His greatness was that he never gave up trying to heighten the reality of each scene. He never made compromises. He never said that something or other ‘would do.’ Instead, he pulled—or pushed—everyone along with him until they had created the feeling which matched his own inner image. An ordinary director is quite incapable of this. And in this lay his true spirit as a director—for he had the temperament of a true creator. He pushed and bullied and he was often criticized for this but he held out, and he created masterpieces. This attitude toward creation is not at all easy, but a director like him is especially necessary in Japan where this kind of pushing is so resisted. […] In the death of Mizoguchi, Japanese film lost its truest creator.”
Week End - Jean-Luc Godard
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RIP Maurice Sendak
As you may have already heard, the world is a lot worse off this morning. Maurice Sendak, the one-of-a-kind author of Where the Wild Things Are and In the Night Kitchen, has died at age 83.
One of his last of countless great contributions was the unforgettable interview he gave to Stephen Colbert earlier this year. Hilarious and genuine, it was Sendak at his zero-bullshit purest.
If anybody needs me, I’ll be watching it in my private boat in and out of weeks and almost over year.
It’s also important to admit on occasion, to the righteousness of your fury. The justness of your cause in the face of those who would do you wrong, and who would rob you of your youth, and who would ignore what’s good and beautiful in you. And I know this is all corny platitude stuff, but I know people. Who got sent to places, and it sucked for them. I can’t even say how bad it was.
—John Darnielle (introducing ”the best death metal band in Denton”)
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I’ve been making a list of the things they don’t teach you at school. They don’t teach you how to love somebody. They don’t teach you how to be famous. They don’t teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don’t teach you how to walk away from someone you don’t love any longer. They don’t teach you how to know what’s going on in someone else’s mind. They don’t teach you what to say to someone who’s dying. They don’t teach you anything worth knowing.
—Neil Gaiman (via claraengelmusic)
So much of what we know about the cinema we know because of this man. Thank you Amos Vogel.
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