rustbelt lassitude

Meghe Dhaka Tara / The Cloud-Capped Star (Ritwik Ghatak, 1960)

As I said on twitter, I think filmmaking in 1950/60s India and Japan cared way more about women then 1960/70s Europe did, yet the latter gets credit for being the radical and political era. 

A selection from a poem by Abbas Kiarostami included in the 2002 collection Walking with the Wind. It also perfectly describes the weather in the midbest lately. 

I wrote a lot about Rohmer again! This review is a little less personal than the one I posted yesterday so if that turned you off then you can read this! 

hey, I wrote about Kicking and Screaming and a little bit on my own life right now. please read. :+) 

"All of my films are based on the thought, that the better part of life is inscrutable, full of misunderstandings and ruled by chance. The characters live in contradiction between this extradition and the more or less constant try to rebel against it. Also Marseille is about this conflict which is insolvable in the end." - Angela Schanelec 

Reminder: the opening of Hou Hsiao-Hsien's Millennium Mambo is still the best. It's like the saddest, most beautiful and perfect thing I've ever seen and I honestly wish it would never end.