Resourceful essays on cinema for cinéastes and art enthusiasts
If I was doing a movie that was really bad, I always realized that I had to play my role as good as possible when the camera was on me. The fact that the movie was total shit did not bother me. For example, let's say that there's a hand that is used to playing… Continue reading In Klaus Kinski’s Words… “Great Actor As A Violinist”
A film director has to convince a great number of people to follow him and work with him. I often say, although I am certainly not a militarist, that if you compare the production unit to an army, the script is the battle flag and the director is the commander in the front line. From… Continue reading Film Director As A Military Commander: The Case of Lieutenant Herzog
The original title of the film Wings of Desire is Der Himmel über Berlin (Sky Over Berlin); the English title beautifully captures the main antinomy present in the film – the one between spirituality and celestial purity and the carnal, eroticism and sensuality. In Marion’s character, the sensuality and existentalist wondering about being-in-the-world (Heidegger) are… Continue reading Wings of Desire (Wim Wenders, 1987) “Celestial Purity and Carnality”
