cinelights

“What makes cinema so attractive, so fascinating is that it’s not just a one plus one process. It’s a chemistry between sounds, words, ideas & image.” - Wong Kar-Wai

[avagardner]

Awful things happen in every apartment house. Rosemary’s Baby (1968).

[piratejet0]

Empty rooms in Lolita (1997)

[hirxeth]

“Personally speaking I can’t wait to watch life tear you apart.”

Stoker (2013) dir. Chan-wook Park

[davidcronenburgers]

“John wasn’t exactly the boogeyman. He’s the one you sent to kill the fucking boogeyman.”

John Wick (2014) dir. Chad Stahelski, David Leitch DP: Jonathan Sela

[sineme-tagrafe]

The Matrix (1999) [Requested by: anonymous]

Director(s): The Wachowskis

Director of Photography: Bill Pope

Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1

[thefilmstage]

A set of Korean posters for Xavier Dolan’s Mommy.

Listen to the soundtrack, read our review, and more.

[bluemavor]

I’m a soldier, man. I like guns.

[ozu-teapot]

The Skin I Live In - Pedro Almodóvar - 2011

Elena Anaya

[jellymonstergirl-deactivated201]

[cinelights-blog]

Sleepaway Camp (Robert Hiltzik)

[andreii-tarkovsky]

Marriage Italian Style (1964)

Dir. Vittorio De Sica

[a-bittersweet-life]

René Cément’s Plein Soleil,  Jean-Luc Godard’s Pierrot le Fou, Sergio Leone’s Once Upon a Time in the West, Seijun Suzuki’s Branded to Kill, Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, Ingmar Bergman’s Persona, François Truffaut’s Jules et Jim, Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai, Martin Scorsese’s Raging Bull and Taxi Driver by Tony Stella.

[forthehungryboy]

[cinelights-blog]

“Actually, she did go to California that evening. But it was the other one. We were in different Californias… with a 15-hour time difference between us. It must be 11:00 a.m. in California, USA. I wonder if she’ll remember our 8 p.m. date here.”

Chungking Express (1994) dir. Wong Kar-wai

[meta-frame]

Lola, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1981

[britishfilminstitute]

A short history of black US indie cinema

These films and figures have striven to create diverse stories of black self-determination and provide correctives to the frequently conservative, paternalistic and repressive representation of African-Americans that has historically existed in American cinema. Read more

[filmcat]

Sonatine (1993) Dir. Takeshi Kitano

[filmgalerie]

Rear Window, 1954

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock

[filmgalerie]

8½, 1963

Directed by Federico Fellini