And he sailed off through night and day
and in and out of weeks
and almost over a year
to where the wild things are.
Posts tagged with “heroes”
Posted 1 year ago
Harun Farocki - one of my biggest film theory/video art heroes - gave a spectacular lecture at the Berlinale today.
Favourite quote: “it’s easy to make fun of doors in cinema. With windows it’s a little bit more difficult.”
Posted 1 year ago
Andrei Tarkovsky on the set of Stalker via Ow.ly - image uploaded by @Criterion (Criterion Collection)
Posted 1 year ago
I have just returned home from watching one of the greatest sports films I have ever seen, and that film is called Senna.
I left the cinema one hour ago and I’m still reeling - my heart is racing, my eyes are full of tears.
This is a majestic piece of work, and frankly I can’t tell you if I’m so full of emotion because of the quality of the film-making (an incredible exercise in editing and narrative construction) or its extraordinary subject matter. It’s probably the perfect symbiosis of both.
Posted 2 years ago
They say that I have no hits and that I’m difficult to work with and they say that like it’s a bad thing.
Tom Waits, Rock’n’Roll Hall of Fame induction speech
Posted 2 years ago
Songs are really just interesting things to do with air.
Tom Waits, Rock’n’Roll Hall of Fame induction speech
Posted 2 years ago
Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life - Trailer HD
Terrence Malick is the saffron of cinema: a pinch of his work is more precious and rare than pure gold; a pinch of it turns everything into its colour.
I can’t wait for The Tree of Life.
Posted 2 years ago
Not that (much like winning an Oscar) being inducted into the Rock’n’Roll Hall of Fame is actually any kind of real indicator of a musician’s worth and importance, but hey, happy Tom Waits Wednesday, Hall of Fame edition
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[bai'ra:-nik] 1. Characteristic of, or after the manner of Byron or his poetry. 2. quasi-n. pl. [after Philippics.] Declamatory utterances or invectives in the style of Byron. 3. Byronic hero: prominent literary character type of the Romantic period, whose characteristics include: extraordinary intelligence and perception; high level of education and intellectual prowess; arrogance; cunning and manipulation; emotional conflictedness; moodiness; self-criticism and introspection; self-destructive behaviour; aesthetic sophistication; dark mysterious beauty; powers of attraction; seductiveness and sexual perversion; world-weariness; distaste for social institutions and norms; disrespect of social ranks; being an outcast, an outlaw, or an exile.
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