Reads tagged with “film”
Orson Welles Reads Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself”
“All goes onward and outward … and nothing collapses, and to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.”
The Emperor of Time: A Dreamlike Short Film About Motion Picture Pioneer Eadweard Muybridge
A foundational story of modern culture, told from the point of view of an abandoned son and viewed through an antiquated device.
How You Spend Your Life: A Cinematic Sum of the Hours, Days, and Years Spent on Mundane Activities
An awakening anatomy of the average life’s two years of boredom, 6 months of watching commercials, 67 days of heartbreak, and 14 minutes of pure joy.
What Higher Consciousness Really Means, How We Attain It, and What It Does for the Human Spirit
“At such moments, the world reveals itself as quite different: a place of suffering and misguided effort … but also a place of tenderness and longing, beauty, and touching vulnerability. “
Know Your Clouds: A 1966 Animated Morphology of the Skies
A surprisingly poetic educational film about the ten basic cloud types and their distinct shapes, shades, and altitudes.
Werner Herzog Recommends Five Books Every Aspiring Filmmaker Should Read
From Virgil to JFK’s assassination report, an eclectic fomenting of the cinematic imagination.
Sculpting in Time: Legendary Russian Filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky on Why Film Enchants Us and What a Great Director Should Aim to Do
“What a person normally goes to the cinema for is time: time lost or spent or not yet had.”
The Silent Friends: A Beautiful Short Film Celebrating Our Abiding Bond with Trees
A cinematic ode to our oldest living companions.
Ben Hecht on Greatness, the Radiance of Realness, and the Rewards of Keeping in Touch with the Soul of Your Childhood
On the crucial difference between superficial success and true greatness.
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