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In memory of Mani Kaul

cinescape — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 07:17:47 +0000

“When the most important (the most hidden idea) is found (or even sensed),

the film will show how rich people are in their minds and hearts, and not

how rich the film is in its forms and ideas.”

“The relationship between images, between sounds and between images and

sounds alone determines the content ( a world view or if you like the

question) for the film. Keep only necessary images and necessary sounds. The

necessity is on account of their mutual relationship. “

“Do listen to others (I being one of the others for you) but strictly follow

your own impulse. The project of any film is to find oneself in the making

of it and not to merely fashion a cinematic object of high emotional or

intellectual kind that is external to oneself.”

The inner theme

cinescape — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 12:42:21 +0000

“Apart from the story any movie has to tell,there is sometimes,although not always,another motif which imparts the Inner Theme- Hope, Faith , Sorrow,The Absurd, The fragility of Happiness- all the great themes of the Human Condition.

When I am ready to convey this inner story and to express its presence,I depend most often upon music for this.”

-Guilo Pontecorvo

My taste for the mysterious

cinescape — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 08:06:38 +0000

” Realism is neither an enclosure nor a panorama that has just a single surface. A landscape,for example ,has several textures, and the deepest one,that can be revealed only by poetry,is no less real. It is said ,that what I wish to show, behind the epiderm of things and people ,is the unreal.It is called my taste for the mysterious.For me,the mysterious is man,the long irrational lines of his spiritual life,love,salvation.For me,the key to the mystery-which is to say God-is to be found at the centre of the successive layers of reality….Man is not only a social being,he is also divine.”

Federico Fellini

The human face

cinescape — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 07:49:50 +0000

“Our work in films begins with the human face.The approach to the human face is without doubt the hallmark and the distinguishing quality of the film.We should realize that the best means of expression the actor has at his command is his look.The close-up,if objectively composed,perfectly directed and played, is the most forcible means at the disposal of the film director.”

-Ingmar Bergman

Film is like a personal diary

cinescape — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 07:39:34 +0000

“Film is like a persona diary,a notebook or a monologue by someone who tries to justify himself before a camera that is almost an accuser ,like one does before a lawyer or a psychiatrist.”

-Goddard

Moral code

cinescape — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 07:35:15 +0000

” My films have coincided with something that is in the nature of people-the admiration for the individual who has a code and abides by it-who sticks to his own moral code rigorously.I think people like that.They may not know it,but I think that’s what they respond to.”
-John Huston

I have rushed through life

cinescape — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 07:22:09 +0000

” I have understood nothing.Neither about life.Nor myself….Nothing,except perhaps one single thing.That I have rushed through life.That I have glanced neither to right nor left….My attention was always concentrated upon the moment.As if I had been hurrying somewhere.As if I had been anxious not to be late.As if my aim had been to arrive there.As if I had immediately wanted to rush on again further.Fleetingly,as from a train window,I see the images of my childhood,my youthful adventures and the events of my adult life….And suddenly I am struck by the dreadful realization.Everything has slipped through my fingers.I did not know how to grasp hold and cling on.”

-S.M. Eisenstein

Slow conquest to the Divine

cinescape — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 06:08:16 +0000

“I am not a pessimist.I believe there is a slow conquest toward the divine state of man.”

-Fellini

Stifled by words,images,sounds

cinescape — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 07:35:35 +0000

“We are stifled by words, images, sounds-none of which has any reason to exist! One must educate oneself to silence…..Guido, my friend- Silence, Emptiness, Nothingness are so beautiful, so pure! If one cannot have everything, then the only real perfection is nothingness.”
From “8 ½ “
Fellini

Asking questions

cinescape — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 07:28:05 +0000

“Perhaps, after all, asking questions is more important than finding answers”

From “Le Petit Soldat.” Jean Luc Goddard