Showing posts with label film. Show all posts
Showing posts with label film. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 29, 2013

"Beauty Of Film Is That It Conjures Up Death"

"The beauty of film is that it conjures up notions of finality, of death:  the movie ends, and it's over.  You're sitting there in the dark, there's light and you're alive as long as the movie's on and then all of a sudden . . ."(Toback claps his hands=movie's over, screen goes dark/black)

-Filmmaker James Toback

From his documentary "Seduced and Abandoned" along with Alec Baldwin

Thursday, January 17, 2013

Life Passes Fast - Synedoche, New York Death Quotes (Movie)

The 2008 movie Synedoche, New York with Philip Seymour Hoffman and directed by Charlie Kaufman had numerous death scenes and quotes.  Among them:

Life passes fast.

None of us has much time.

And on a handwritten note on a door:  Death in Family.  God Relieve our Grief