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Q: Of course, it’s not a competition, but is it fair to say, Judi, that you know more Shakespeare than Ken? Ken: Yes! Judi: No, no! Ken: Of course you do! What do you mean? Judi: Only because of age, if I do. Ken: It’s because of deep cleverness, it’s as simple as that.

- Kenneth Branagh and Judi Dench on The Graham Norton Show promoting the new Shakespeare movie All is True - Jan 25 2019

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

Cinematography by Larry Smith

Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002), Park Chan-Wook

Betty Blue (1986) dir. Jean-Jacques Beineix

Bong Joon-ho

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

Cinematography by Larry Smith

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

Cinematography by Larry Smith

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

Cinematography by Larry Smith

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

Cinematography by Larry Smith

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

Cinematography by Larry Smith

MIDSOMMAR (2019), dir. Ari Aster

Oksana Akinshina

The Method

Метод // Method (2015)

Dennis Stock  /American,  1928 – 2010

James Dean, New York City,  1955

https://www.life.com/people/james-dean-in-the-rain-the-most-iconic-photo-of-hollywoods-most-enigmatic-star/

Clue (1985) dir. Jonathan Lynn

WITHNAIL AND I (1987) dir. Bruce Robinson

©  Daidō Moriyama  From the book “Another Country in New York" (1974.)

Daido Moriyama: Shinjuku, Limited Edition (Second Printing) [SIGNED]

© Vincent Borrelli, Bookseller.

From the cycle: The Dreaming

© Yasuhiro Ogawa

“The city knows you better than any living person because it has seen you when you are alone.”

— Colson Whitehead, The Colossus of New York

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

Cinematography by Larry Smith

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

Cinematography by Larry Smith

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

Cinematography by Larry Smith

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 Ryan Gosling’s Julian is so introverted and withdrawn that it’s often difficult to determine the difference between reality and his surreal dream sequences.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...

Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) | dir. Steven Spielberg | USA

DoP: Douglas Slocombe

Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) | dir. Steven Spielberg | USA

DoP: Douglas Slocombe