The Function Of The Image, As Gogol Said, Is To Express Life Itself, Not Ideas Or Arguments About Life.

Hansel and Gretel (2007) | dir. Pil-sung Yim | South Korea

Shim Eun-Kyung & Jin Ji-Hee

Hong Kong Advertisement of Kwaidan, 1966.

Three equally adorable photos of Kenneth Branagh directing his adaptation of Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing,” 1993.

Hansel and Gretel (2007) | dir. Pil-sung Yim | South Korea

This is the secret of the stars, I tell myself. In the end, we are alone. No matter how close you seem, no one else can touch you.

Beth Revis, Across the Universe (via books-n-quotes)

The Empress of China (2014–2015)

Non-Review Review: Only God Forgives

Hell is a karaoke bar…

Only God Forgives is a journey into hell. It’s an unpleasant, uncomfortable, terrifying, surreal, macabre, haunting, eerie and beautiful exploration of brutality and violence. Nicolas Winding Refn’s latest film isn’t just bereft of sympathetic characters, it doesn’t even feature any characters who lend themselves to empathy or recognisability. Ryan Gosling’s Julian is so introverted and withdrawn that it’s often difficult to determine the difference between reality and his surreal dream sequences.

Then again, given Refn suggests the man is living in his own private hell, perhaps there’s not too much difference any way...

Alfredo Müller (1869-1939) - La fuga (Series of the Arlecchinate) - 1918-1920