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9 favorite Joaquin Phoenix photos | requested by:...

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:46:24 +0200

9 favorite Joaquin Phoenix photos | requested by: adolescenceisabitch

life: Never-published photo | Though Brando was happy to stay...

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:26:52 +0200

Never-published photo | Though Brando was happy to stay in the bungalow, insisting he needed a homelike atmosphere while filming and not some swanky Beverly Hills hotel room, his aunt Betty Lindemeyer wasn’t exactly thrilled with her house guest. LIFE reported he stayed out till all hours and had a particularly insatiable appetite for a very messy fruit: “The Lindemeyers scoured pomegranate stains from walls, furniture, and ceiling for weeks after his departure.” Here, Brando lies with his grandma’s dog on his aunt’s couch, where he crashed while in production.

(read more — Marlon Brando’s Method)

bbook: To old D.H. Lawrence.

Sun, 27 Nov 2011 17:15:39 +0200

bbook:

To old D.H. Lawrence.

Photo

Wed, 19 Oct 2011 13:19:15 +0200

mudwerks: 1959 (by x-ray delta one) Cary Grant ‘North By...

Wed, 19 Oct 2011 13:17:35 +0200

mudwerks:

1959 (by x-ray delta one)

Cary Grant ‘North By Northwest’

suicideblonde: David Bowie arrested for pot possession in...

Wed, 19 Oct 2011 13:16:35 +0200

suicideblonde:

David Bowie arrested for pot possession in upstate New York in March 1976

nexttubestation: Living in The Material World I only saw the...

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 13:53:04 +0200

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nexttubestation:

Living in The Material World

I only saw the first part of Martin Scorsese’s documentary, George Harrison: Living in The Material World, yesterday, in Notting Hill. And I fell in love with it. I was expecting for it to premiere for such a long time, and I’m happy I got to see the first part (because there was a problem with the projector) on the big screen. I never cry in movies, but I actually did cry watching this…right during the first scene.

Okay, I know it is a documentary about a real person, whom I admire, but it deserves to be put up here. I’ve already spoken about how those guys could have only existed in this place, and London takes a great role here. Actually, it was the only time Yoko Ono said something I really, REALLY, understood: “I didn’t want to move to London because I’m a New York person, but it was fun.” Not these exact words, because my brain has its limitations, but basically that. In that case, that’s like me (and she says that line in a NY apartment, which I don’t think I ever will), but in a more astronomical kind of way.

It is a very good approach to a biographic documentary. It never gets boring, it is not 100% linear or chronologic. Not everything were roses, neither was anyone perfect. People were who they were. And I love that. There are also some interesting pictures and footage I’d never seen. And in the middle of all this, there is still privacy for that person who’s no longer here. It also calls for the attention that George was a good musician. And when you think about it, and you start listening to the soundtrack, you have to agree. I was watching the documentary and While My Guitar Gently Weeps started to play, and I went “he didn’t need to do anything else in life to prove he was good, ‘cos that is superb.” The Beatles as four people, and The Beatles as one.

Like Ringo said, in another documentary, The Beatles Anthology (1995), “only four people know what it was like being a Beatle.” It was such a Beatlesque week for me. (can’t disclose the other moments here, ‘cause those I’ll keep to my kids).

- How many Beatles does it take to change a bulb?

- Four.

George Harrison (1943-2001)

filmsaremything: “It seems to me that any sensible person must...

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 13:52:54 +0200

filmsaremything:

“It seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and if it does, then only temporarily.”- Martin Scorsese.

"I always say to Marty, ‘it was better to be your friend than your wife.’ Because Marty loves film..."

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 13:52:22 +0200

“I always say to Marty, ‘it was better to be your friend than your wife.’ Because Marty loves film more than anything.”

- Isabella Rossellini, “Isabella Rossellini: My Wild Life” (via contrappunto)

hautefood: GoodFellas, stills from the “dinner in prison”...

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 13:51:54 +0200

hautefood:

GoodFellas, stills from the “dinner in prison” scene. Directed by Martin Scorsese, 1990.

merci John

Photo

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 13:51:52 +0200

yimmyayo: RD 400

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 13:51:14 +0200

yimmyayo:

RD 400

steelstringsilverscreen: Intro, Mean Streets

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 15:35:10 +0200

steelstringsilverscreen:

Intro, Mean Streets

nonstablished: “The finest of all rock movies” Bob Dylan, Van...

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 15:35:04 +0200

nonstablished:

“The finest of all rock movies”

Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Neil Diamond, Eric Clapton, Paul Butterfield, Rick Danko, Dr. John, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Emmylou Harris, Ronnie Hawkins.

By Martin Scorsese

"The cinema began with a passionate, physical relationship between celluloid and the artists and..."

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 15:33:42 +0200

“The cinema began with a passionate, physical relationship between celluloid and the artists and craftsmen and technicians who handled it, manipulated it, and came to know it the way a lover comes to know every inch of the body of the beloved. No matter where the cinema goes, we cannot afford to lose sight of its beginnings.”

- Martin Scorsese (via bitdepth)

rdtz-2: Martin Scorsese on Story vs. Plot

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 15:33:21 +0200

rdtz-2:

Martin Scorsese on Story vs. Plot

johntexxx: George Harrison: Living in The Material World

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 15:32:50 +0200

johntexxx:

George Harrison: Living in The Material World

derrickfilmdude: From Martin Scorsese’s Gangs of New York.

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 15:32:43 +0200

derrickfilmdude:

From Martin Scorsese’s Gangs of New York.

"You know, machines never have any extra parts. They have the exact number and type of parts they..."

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 15:32:37 +0200

“You know, machines never have any extra parts. They have the exact number and type of parts they need. So I figure if the entire world is a big machine, I have to be here for some reason. And that means you have to be here for some reason, too.”

- ~ Hugo Cabret (Asa Butterfield), The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick and Martin Scorsese’s Hugo (via oijio)

solipsists: The Clash—Jimmy Jazz

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 15:30:59 +0200

solipsists:

The Clash—Jimmy Jazz