Quiescent.

let the statues crumble, you have always been the place

[screen-studies]

Aftersun (2022) dir. Charlotte Wells

[boardchairman-blog]

**Shots of the Movie**

Spotlight (2015)

Director: Tom McCarthy Cinematographer: Masanobu Takayanagi

[cptrs]

[comeanddreamwithme]

IndieWire’s 100 Greatest Films Directed by Women + top 10 

10. Daughters of the Dust (dir. Julie Dash, 1991 / USA) 09. Seven Beauties (dir. Lina Wertmüller, 1975 / Italy) 08. Meshes of the Afternoon (dir. Maya Deren, 1943 / USA) 07. Cléo from 5 to 7 (dir. Agnès Varda, 1962 / France) 06. Lady Bird (dir. Greta Gerwig, 2017 / USA) 05. Daisies (dir. Věra Chytilová, 1966 / Czechoslovakia)  04. A League of Their Own (dir. Penny Marshall, 1992 / USA) 03. The Piano (dir. Jane Campion, 1993 / New Zealand, Australia, & France) 02. Beau Travail (dir. Claire Denis, 1999 / France) 01. Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (dir. Chantal Akerman, 1975 / Belgium & France)

[lemandro-vive-qui]

“Di notte, penso al mio pianoforte nel profondo dell'Oceano. E a volte, penso anche a me, sospesa sopra di esso. Là sotto tutto è così fermo e silenzioso, che mi concilia il sonno. E’ una strana ninnananna, ma è così. Ed è mia. C'è un grande silenzio dove non c'è mai stato suono, c'è un grande silenzio dove suono non può esserci, nella fredda tomba, del profondo mare.” [The piano (Lezioni di Piano) - Jane Campion, 1993] Citando parte del poema “Silence” (1827) di Thomas Hood:

“There is a silence where hath been no sound,   There is a silence where no sound may be,   In the cold grave—under the deep deep sea, Or in the wide desert where no life is found, Which hath been mute, and still must sleep profound;   No voice is hush’d—no life treads silently,   But clouds and cloudy shadows wander free, That never spoke, over the idle ground: But in green ruins, in the desolate walls   Of antique palaces, where Man hath been, Though the dun fox, or wild hyena, calls,   And owls, that flit continually between, Shriek to the echo, and the low winds moan, There the true Silence is, self-conscious and alone.”

[theartofmoviestills]

The Piano | Jane Campion | 1993

[flyartproductions]

You’ve got the beach in Pourville

Beach in Pourville, Claude Monet (1882) / Sweet Life, Frank Ocean

[heresay]

“…your sentimentality softens all the edges, you’re misremembering.”

— Miranda July

[wongkarwives]

when therese in the price of salt said “she thought of people she had seen holding hands in movies, and why shouldn’t she and carol?” and when hideko in the handmaiden asked “is this the companionship they write about in books?" and when héloïse in portrait of a lady on fire asked "do all lovers feel like they’re inventing something?" 

[anancientheart]

ok universe, i’m ready to feel good things. make me feel good things.

[anancientheart]

whenever i post this it works  reblog if u want to feel good things & the universe will bring u something sweet 

[oneinchbarrier]

[barcarole]

Bergman’s shooting script for Persona.

[larmoyante]

“Because the sunset, like survival, exists only on the verge of its own disappearing. To be gorgeous, you must first be seen, but to be seen allows you to be hunted.”

— Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

[madeline-kahn]

Music in Film: Booksmart (2019) dir. Olivia Wilde Music supervision by Bryan Ling

[johnnylists]

10 Captivating Short Stories Everyone Should Read

1. The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell — The story of a big game hunter finding himself stranded on an island and becoming the hunted.

2. The Last Question by Isaac Asimov — A question is posed to a supercomputer that does not get answered until the end days of man.

3. The Last Answer by Isaac Asimov — A man passes away and has a conversation with the Voice in the afterlife.

4. The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman — A collection of journal entries written by a woman whose physician husband has confined her to the upstairs bedroom of the house.

5. The Lottery by Shirley Jackson — The story of one small town’s ritual know only as “the lottery.”

6. Hills Like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway — A couple has a tension-filled conversation at a train station in Spain.

7. All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury — A group of schoolchildren live on Venus where the Sun is visible for only two hours every seven years.

8. Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut — It is the year 2081, and all Americans are equal in every possible way.

9. The Monkey by Stephen King — The story of a cymbal-banging monkey toy that controls the lives around it.

10. We Can Get Them For You Wholesale by Neil Gaiman — A man named Peter searches the phone book for an assassin to kill his unfaithful fiancée.

[pigmenting]

“At first, I saw you everywhere. Now only in certain things, at longer intervals.”

— Louise Glück, from “From the Japanese” in Poems 1962-2012

[liquidlightandrunningtrees]

“The sea doesn’t change as the earth changes; it doesn’t lie. You ask the sea, what can you promise me and it speaks the truth; it says erasure.”

— Louise Gluck, March