[tsaifilms]

The Old Dark House (1932) Directed by James Whale

[365filmsbyauroranocte]

Ran (Akira Kurosawa, 1985)

[madeofcelluloid]

‘万引き家族’ (Shoplifters),  Hirokazu Kore-eda (2018)

Sometimes it’s better to choose your own family.

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[luthienne]

…this was not the hymn of promise / but the body’s bright wailing against its limits. / A bird caught in a cathedral—the way it tries / to escape by throwing itself, again and again, against the stained glass.

Danusha Laméris, from “Bonfire Opera” (via luthienne)

[lmxmhr]

The Lobster (2015) dir. Yorgos Lanthimos

[antigonick]

What are we without this? Whirling in the dark universe, alone, afraid, unable to influence fate—

Louise Glück, excerpt of “The Empty Glass”, from The Seven Ages (via antigonick)

[shaijie]

DETAIL | 细节

A Brighter Summer Day / 牯岭街少年杀人事件 | 1991 dir. Edward Yang

[lifeinpoetry]

every morning i give grief a new language— a sister tongue.

Ojo Taiye, from “Is This Still What I Want?” All of Us are Birds and Some of Us Have Broken Wings (via lifeinpoetry)

[sesiondemadrugada]

Opening Night (John Cassavetes, 1977).

[antigonick]

I kept being alive when I should have been burning: I was Joan, I was Lazarus.

Louise Glück, excerpt of “Saint-Joan”, in The Seven Ages (via antigonick)

[cinemabreak]

In the Mood for Love (2000)

Directed by Wong Kar-wai Cinematography by Christopher Doyle, Pung-Leung Kwan, Ping Bin Lee

“You notice things if you pay attention.”

[lmxmhr]

Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019) dir. Céline Sciamma

[furtho]

Marcello Geppetti’s photograph of Anita Ekberg defending herself against Paparazzi with a bow and arrow, 1960 (via here)

[julydogs]

Kohayagawa-ke no aki / The End of Summer (1961) Yasujirō Ozu

[luthienne]

The violet is introverted and its introspection is of the deepest sort. They says it hides because it’s modest. That’s not it. It hides to be able to find its own secret.

Clarice Lispector, from The Stream of Life (via luthienne)

[folie-atwo]

墮落天使 Fallen Angels (1995, Wong Kar-wai)

[tsaifilms]

Love Streams (1984) Directed by John Cassavetes