Surmise-en-scene

shihlun: Michelangelo Antonioni in China, 1972.

Thu, 23 May 2013 08:19:51 -0400

shihlun:

Michelangelo Antonioni in China, 1972.

Haruki Murakami and his cat Kafka

Thu, 23 May 2013 00:18:53 -0400

Haruki Murakami and his cat Kafka

The passion of Glenn Gould listening to his own performance of...

Mon, 20 May 2013 09:39:44 -0400

The passion of Glenn Gould listening to his own performance of the Goldberg Variations (1955). Photo by Gordon Parks for LIFE.

Fritz Lang, smoker, wearer of eye-patch and occasionally monocle...

Sat, 18 May 2013 10:01:10 -0400

Fritz Lang, smoker, wearer of eye-patch and occasionally monocle (!)

From Andrew Harvey’s review of The Songlines No writer...

Wed, 15 May 2013 22:14:31 -0400

From Andrew Harvey’s review of The Songlines

No writer has meant as much to my generation. From Mr. Chatwin, we learned to dare to be obsessive, irregular, learned, exotic; learned to burn our school ties and Wellingtons and despise Little Englanderism; learned to mock and avoid a literary establishment that loves to reward poems to goldfish and novels about the tepid lusts of women librarians. From Mr. Chatwin, we learned that most undemocratic, un-Anglo-Saxon of lessons - never to repeat ourselves; each of his books has been a different delight, a different feast of style and form. For us, he has stood for what contemporary England and its nannies of left and right seem dedicated to stifling; inner wildness; the true dandy’s fierce and exacting elegance; the old Elizabethan sense that the world and its wonders are the writer’s province. In Margaret Thatcher’s ropy aviary of provincial jays, squabbling finches and ”worthy” sparrows, Bruce Chatwin has been our bird of paradise, solitary and unpredictable in his apparitions, grand and electric in his markings.

Quentin Tarantino and Uma Thurman on the sets of Kill Bill:...

Tue, 14 May 2013 11:00:44 -0400

Quentin Tarantino and Uma Thurman on the sets of Kill Bill: Vol.2 (2004)

“I sit with my editor at every stage of the cutting. I feel...

Mon, 13 May 2013 11:14:00 -0400

“I sit with my editor at every stage of the cutting. I feel editing to be one of the most vital and exciting aspects of filmmaking. Although my films are largely cut in the camera, there is still a lot of room left for refinements, especially in scenes of dialogue involving cutting back and forth between actors. Often a scene like this would be cut and re-cut several times until a final, satisfactory form has been achieved. Even after twenty-five years of filmmaking, I can truthfully say that I learn something new about the nature of cinema every time I cut a film with my editor.” — Satyajit Ray

"My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends— It..."

Mon, 13 May 2013 11:05:55 -0400

“My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends—
It gives a lovely light.”

- First Fig, Edna St. Vincent Millay

Bob Dylan plays table tennis with The Band’s Levon Helm.

Fri, 10 May 2013 05:56:30 -0400

Bob Dylan plays table tennis with The Band’s Levon Helm.

The great Egon Schiele, photgraph and self-portrait.

Thu, 09 May 2013 23:30:13 -0400

The great Egon Schiele, photgraph and self-portrait.

Woody Allen and Diane Keaton on the sets of Manhattan (1979)

Tue, 07 May 2013 23:59:48 -0400

Woody Allen and Diane Keaton on the sets of Manhattan (1979)

"I strove with none, for none was worth my strife. Nature I love and, next to Nature, Art: I warmed..."

Mon, 06 May 2013 12:00:08 -0400

“I strove with none, for none was worth my strife.
Nature I love and, next to Nature, Art:
I warmed both hands before the fire of life;
It sinks, and I am ready to depart.”

- “On His Seventy-fifth Birthday”, Walter Savage Landor

“This is Amos Tversky, with whom I did the early work on...

Sat, 04 May 2013 07:45:00 -0400

"This is Amos Tversky, with whom I did the early work on judgment and decision-making. I show this picture in part because I like it, in part because I like very much the next one."

“This is Amos Tversky, with whom I did the early work on judgment and decision-making. I show this picture in part because I like it, in part because I like very much the next one.

That’s what Amos Tversky looked like when the work was being done. I have always thought that this pairing of the very distinguished person, and the person who is doing the work tells you something about when good science is being done, and about who is doing good science. It’s people like that who are having a lot of fun, who are doing good science.”

- Daniel Kahneman

Economist John Maynard Keynes dances with wife, acclaimed...

Sat, 04 May 2013 07:24:00 -0400

Economist John Maynard Keynes dances with wife, acclaimed Russian ballerina Lydia Lopokova

Jeanne Moreau and François Truffaut on the set of Jules et Jim...

Sat, 04 May 2013 01:16:18 -0400

Jeanne Moreau and François Truffaut on the set of Jules et Jim (1962).

Maxim Gorky (right) on Anton Chekhov (left), if only this were...

Fri, 03 May 2013 00:23:00 -0400

Maxim Gorky (right) on Anton Chekhov (left), if only this were true of all of us: “It seems to me that in the presence of [Chekhov], everyone felt an unconscious desire to be simpler, more truthful, more himself”

Dimple Kapadia on the sets of Muzaffar Ali’s unfinished...

Wed, 01 May 2013 02:24:00 -0400

Dimple Kapadia on the sets of Muzaffar Ali’s unfinished film on Kashmir, Zooni.

So much love. Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini with twin...

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 10:53:48 -0400

So much love. Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini with twin daughters Isabella and Isotta Ingrid, and son Robertino.

"may i feel said he (i’ll squeal said she just once said he) it’s fun said she (may i..."

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 07:31:11 -0400

“

may i feel said he
(i’ll squeal said she
just once said he)
it’s fun said she

(may i touch said he
how much said she
a lot said he)
why not said she

(let’s go said he
not too far said she
what’s too far said he
where you are said she)

may i stay said he
(which way said she
like this said he
if you kiss said she

may i move said he
is it love said she)
if you’re willing said he
(but you’re killing said she

but it’s life said he
but your wife said she
now said he)
ow said she

(tiptop said he
don’t stop said she
oh no said he)
go slow said she

(cccome? said he
ummm said she)
you’re divine! said he
(you are Mine said she)

”

- E.E. Cummings

All in the eyes. Michaelangelo Antonioni looks at Monica Vitti.

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 10:03:23 -0400

All in the eyes. Michaelangelo Antonioni looks at Monica Vitti.