2 or 3 Things I Know About Film

Dedicated to the art of cinema.

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Hello :-)

It’s been a while. Is anyone out there? 

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Bernard Herrmann June 29, 1911 – December 24, 1975

“As far as I'm concerned, you should write music... because part of the thing of being alive and being an artist is in the pursuit of beauty. And music is a beautiful art, if not the greatest of all the arts... It's the kind of beauty that lives in time and space... There's no one performance of a piece that can ever reveal the whole piece... It goes on and on and on. Each performance reveals something new about it again.”

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Martin Scorsese Born: November 17, 1942 "Movies touch our hearts and awaken our vision, and change the way we see things. They take us to other places, they open doors and minds. Movies are the memories of our life time, we need to keep them alive."

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Poster art for George A. Romero's Day of the Dead (1985) Artwork by Nathan Thomas Milliner

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Poster art for Madhouse (1974)

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Maestro Herrmann

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Beetlejuice poster by Steve Marchal

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Poster art for Inherent Vice (2014) Dir. Paul Thomas Anderson

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Fargo style studies :)

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"Aw heck."

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Gordon Willis, A.S.C. May 28, 1931 - May 19, 2014

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Sir David Lean March 25, 1908 - April 16, 1991

“Film is a dramatised reality and it is the director’s job to make it appear real.”

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Sir Michael Caine's 81st. Long live Caine.

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10 Inspirational Women In Film Kathryn Bigelow (Director) Chantal Akerman (Director), Sara Driver (Writer/Director), Maya Deren (Director) Reed Morano (Cinematographer) Agnes Varda (Director), Lynne Ramsay (Director), Catherine Breillat (Director) Shirley Walker (Composer), Wendy Carlos (Composer)

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Alain Resnais June 3, 1922 - March 1, 2014 "I've read articles calling me a filmmaker of memory. I’ve always refused that label by saying, ‘No, I want to make films that describe the imaginary.’ ” — Alain Resnais, 2009

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2 or 3 Things I Know About Film turned 3 today!

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“It was Harold who acted out and gave me the inspiration for the character of Clark Griswold. I was really copying Harold’s impression of Clark. He was a truly funny and highly intelligent man with great honesty and a great appreciation for the best kind of comedy.” --Chevy Chase "Deeply saddened to hear of the passing of my brilliant, gifted, funny friend, co-writer/performer and teacher Harold Ramis. May he now get the answers he was always seeking,” --Dan Aykroyd “Harold Ramis and I together did the ‘National Lampoon Show’ off Broadway, ‘Meatballs,’ ‘Stripes,’ ‘Caddyshack,’ ‘Ghostbusters’ and ‘Groundhog Day.’ He earned his keep on this planet. God bless him.” --Bill Murray

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Harold Ramis November 21, 1944 - February 24, 2014 "I always thought he was a very talented writer who always had a very perceptive and intelligent point of view about the material. He managed to get the people to speak in a realistic way but still found something funny in their voices."  --Ivan Reitman on Harold Ramis in 1999