my heart is broken after learning about the passing of Ann Blyth 💔When I sent her a signed photo request I didn’t know at the time that I had to send an extra stamped envelope with it but she was kind enough to still sign it for me and send it with her own envelope and stamps
Rivette: I believe.. that the role of the cinema is to destroy myths, to demobilize, to be pessimistic. Its role is to take people out of their cocoons and to plunge them into horror…. I tend to divide films into two sorts: those that are comfortable and those that aren't.. 1/2
There is a culture in film that encourages the very macho attitude of “that’s just how we do things” which is inherently anti-art — we should be striving to improve and reimagine how things are done at every level.
knowing that Godard always returned to this moment, i feel pretty confident in saying that i could spend decades searching through cinema and not find a better scene than this
“I let things happen because I never make a film that people ask me to do… I think cinema should be made by coming from nowhere to becoming a film. This I believe in.”
Happy birthday Agnes Varda! 🎂
Happy 95th Birthday to the incredible Carroll Baker! 🎂 She remains the last surviving member of the main cast of one of my favorite films The Big Country (1958)
✨Robert De Niro's Closet Picks! ✨ The legendary actor and director stopped by for a brief visit to the Criterion Closet, where he shared some of his Italian-cinema favorites and talked about his experience working with Agnès Varda.