tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35782932011-04-21T19:52:03.513-07:00In spite of ourselvesThings I'm continually pulling from ohers thoughts and teachings...Elrichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17020588716561078468noreply@blogger.comBlogger131100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3578293.post-1127122600798206482005-09-19T02:36:00.000-07:002005-09-19T02:36:40.803-07:00Elrichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17020588716561078468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3578293.post-1123777047566503612005-08-11T09:15:00.000-07:002005-08-11T09:17:27.570-07:00".. So, you have to be daring to do things like this, because the world is not easily accepting of filmmaking. There will always be some sort of an obstacle, and the worst of all obstacles is the spirit of bureaucracy. You have to find your way to battle bureaucracy. You have to outsmart it, to outgut it, to outnumber it, to outfilm them -- that's what you have to do." -- Werner HerzogElrichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17020588716561078468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3578293.post-1123105474231867182005-08-03T14:42:00.000-07:002005-08-03T14:44:34.233-07:00Something in all men profoundly rejoices in seeing a car burn.-Jean BaudrillardElrichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17020588716561078468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3578293.post-1123105329517458922005-08-03T14:41:00.000-07:002005-08-03T14:42:09.523-07:00A list by Baudrillard:"Unreality no longer resides in the dream or fantasy, or in the beyond, but in the real's hallucinatory resemblance to itself" fashion -- more beautiful than beautifulsimulation -- more true than the truepornography -- more sex than sexseduction -- more false than the falseobscenity -- more visible than the visibleterrorism -- more violent than the violentobesity -- more fatElrichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17020588716561078468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3578293.post-1116949127045074032005-05-24T08:36:00.000-07:002005-05-24T08:38:47.050-07:00"To me style is just the outside of content, and content the inside of style, like the outside and the inside of the human body. Both go together, they can't be separated." - Jean-Luc Godard"Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen." - Robert Bresson“It’s not where you lift it from, it’s where you lift it to” – Jarmush recalling Godard.“Stare. It is the way to educate Elrichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17020588716561078468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3578293.post-1116624547500964342005-05-20T14:23:00.000-07:002005-05-20T14:30:45.046-07:00Elrichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17020588716561078468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3578293.post-1116624019766527442005-05-20T14:16:00.000-07:002005-05-20T14:20:19.766-07:00Qualia : are most simply defined as the properties of sensory experiences by virtue of which there is something it is like to have them. These properties are, by definition, epistemically unknowable in the absence of direct experience of them; as a result, they are also incommunicable.OrThere is an ancient Sufi parable about coffee which nicely expresses the concept: "He who tastes, knows; he whoElrichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17020588716561078468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3578293.post-1100584974709058832004-11-15T22:02:00.000-08:002004-11-15T22:02:54.710-08:00The phrase “pillow shot,” which has become one of the standard bywords in Ozu criticism, comes from Noël Burch's To the Distant Observer: Form and Meaning in Japanese Cinema (University of California Press, Berkeley, 1979) in which he argues that Ozu's transitions (for example, the shots of clotheslines and telephone poles that fill the gaps between scenes in Tokyo Story [1953]) “never contributeElrichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17020588716561078468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3578293.post-1098847815607422182004-10-26T20:29:00.000-07:002004-10-26T20:30:15.606-07:00‘If you don’t go when you want to go, when you go, you’ll find you’re gone,’ - New Zealand Motor bike legend, Burt Munro Elrichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17020588716561078468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3578293.post-1083169492056209882004-04-28T09:24:00.000-07:002004-04-28T09:29:01.030-07:00“If your parents begin to like your work it’s getting bad and if the cops are around something good must be happening. What you need is life, your work has to be alive. Drink, write, and fuck. " - BUKOWSKIElrichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17020588716561078468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3578293.post-1064944750145646542003-09-30T10:59:00.000-07:002003-09-30T10:59:10.280-07:00"Make visible what, without you , might perhaps never have been seen" - Robert Bresson "Have no fear of perfection - you'll never acheive it." - Salvador Dali "I dont think you should FEEL about a movie.You should feel about woman.You can't kiss a movie." - Jean-luc Godard "Tradgedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is Elrichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17020588716561078468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3578293.post-855759052002-12-05T20:36:00.000-08:002005-08-11T09:33:22.266-07:00Top 100 films .( each director only credited once)1. Sherlock Jnr. ( Keaton)2. Greed (Stroheim)3. City Lights (Chaplin)4. Sunrise (Murnau)5. Night of the hunter ( Laughton)6. Pickpocket (Bresson)7. La Maman et la putain (mother and the whore) (Eustache)8. Werkmeister harmonies ( Tarr)9. The Swimmer (Perry)10. Last year at marienbad (Resnais)11. Eyes without a face ( Franju)12. Stolen Kisses (Elrichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17020588716561078468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3578293.post-846833142002-11-17T17:28:00.000-08:002002-11-17T17:28:35.756-08:00This is the home for the ideas of Elric Kane. Film maker.One persons view into this wonderous ride.Elrichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17020588716561078468noreply@blogger.com