Their Own Desire, 1929 (dir. E. Mason Hopper)
Movies touch our hearts and awaken our vision, and change the way we see things. They take us to other places, they open doors and minds. Movies are the memories of our life time, we need to keep them alive. - Martin Scorsese
Martin Scorsese’s filmography.
Hiroshi Sugimoto - Theaters (1978-93)
Artist’s statement:
“I’m a habitual self-interlocutor. Around the time I started photographing at the Natural History Museum, one evening I had a near-hallucinatory vision. The question-and-answer session that led to this vision went something like this:
Suppose you shoot a whole movie in a single frame?
And the answer: You get a shining screen.
Immediately I sprang to action, experimenting toward realizing this vision. Dressed up as a tourist, I walked into a cheap cinema in the East Village with a large-format camera. As soon as the movie started, I fixed the shutter at a wide-open aperture, and two hours later when the movie finished, I clicked the shutter closed.
That evening, I developed the film, and the vision exploded behind my eyes.”
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(This is what I want to tatoo on my upper shoulder in memory of my most beloved cat, Harold May 5 1993 ~ December 10 2012. PS THIS is my favourite movie of all time:D)
Rashomon (1950)
Watch it for free on hulu.
Trailer from the 1920 silent film, Within Our Gates, directed by Oscar Micheaux. The film portrays the hardships blacks faced in Jim Crow America. The subject matter was so controversial at the time, that the film was severely edited. Most prints were destroyed, and the film was considered lost for 70 years until a lone print was discovered in a Spanish archive. Within Our Gates is believed to be the earliest surviving film directed by an African-American filmmaker. The full version of the film is available online.
Reiner Riedler’s shots of original filmrolls from The Deutsche Kinemathek,
Maria Felix handling bidness
María Félix in Doña Bárbara (1943), Dir. Fernando de Fuentes.
Dolores del Río in two films, El niño y la niebla (1953, Dir. Roberto Gavaldón) and María Candelaria (1943, Dir. Emilio Fernández). Cinematography by Gabriel Figueroa.
Hertha Thiele, Dorothea Wieck, Mädchen in Uniform, Leontine Sagan, Carl Froelich, 1931
