The Method

Only God Forgives (2013) | dir. Nicolas Winding Refn

Cinematography by Larry Smith

Day Dreams.

Un Chien Andalou, Meshes of the Afternoon

“I understood the necessity of beauty, of an atmosphere of silence, of a void even in which the imagination might blossom.”

— Meena Alexander, from “Fault Lines,” originally published c. 1993 (via violentwavesofemotion)

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

Cinematography by Ji-yong Kim

toska [tohs-kah]

(noun) An untranslatable, Russian word – Vladimir Nabokov describes it best: “No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At its deepest and most painful, it is a sensation of great spiritual anguish, often without any specific cause. At less morbid levels it is a dull ache of the soul, a longing with nothing to long for, a sick pining, a vague restlessness, mental throes, yearning. In particular cases it may be the desire for somebody or something specific, nostalgia, love-sickness. At the lowest level it grades into ennui, boredom.” (via wordsnquotes)

“What is that American promise? It’s a promise that says each of us has the freedom to make of our own lives what we will, but that we also have obligations to treat each other with dignity and respect,” Barack Obama said at the Democratic National Convention in 2008. And that section of the speech opens Andrew Dominik‘s seething “Killing Them Softly,” as he cuts the audio between white noise and the silent black title screen, signifying the blind emptiness of Obama’s statement and the thematic current he’ll be taking for the film. We are not a changed nation. We are not a nation of equals...

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

Shim Eun-Kyung & Jin Ji-Hee

There is no answer. It’s okay. But even if it wasn’t okay, what am I supposed to do?

Raymond Carver, Cathedral (via quotespile)

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

Shim Eun-Kyung,  Jin Ji-Hee & Eun Won-Jae

Brat (Brother) | 1997 | dir. Aleksei Balabanov | Russia

Writer: Aleksey Balabanov Cinematography by Sergey Astakhov