i fed it to the page: 2021

Monday, November 22, 2021

DUNE

Jamis: The mystery of life isn’t a problem to solve…but a reality to experience. A process that cannot be understood by stopping it. We must move with the flow of the process. We must join it. We must flow with it. [Ghostly voice: Let go.]

Based on Dune by Frank Herbert / Directed by Denis Villeneuve / Screenplay by Jon Spaihts, Denis Villeneuve, Eric Roth

Produced by Mary Parent, Denis Villeneuve, Cale Boyter, Joe Caracciolo Jr.

Starring Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac

Cinematography Greig Fraser

Edited by Joe Walker

Music by Hans Zimmer

Production companies Legendary Pictures

Monday, August 23, 2021

What the Thunder Said

I sat upon the shore

Fishing, with the arid plain behind me

Shall I at least set my lands in order?

London Bridge is falling down falling down falling down

Poi s’ascose nel foco che gli affina

Quando fiam uti chelidon—O swallow swallow

Le Prince d’Aquitaine à la tour abolie

These fragments I have shored against my ruins

Why then Ile fit you. Hieronymo’s mad againe.

Datta. Dayadhvam. Damyata.

Shantih shantih shantih

T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land

Monday, May 31, 2021

Tree

Trees and their indifferent majesty [...] teaches us how [insignificant we are] and at the same time how deserving of life we can be, when we can honor this beauty that owes us nothing.

- Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of a Hedgehog

Sunday, April 4, 2021

The Queen’s Gambit

Created by Scott Frank, Allan Scott / Based on "The Queen's Gambit" by Walter Tevis / Written & Directed by Scott Frank / Starring Anya Taylor-Joy

"Her mind moves upon silence." - W.B. Yeats

“Chess isn't always competitive. Chess can also be beautiful. It was the board I noticed first. It's an entire world of just 64 squares. I feel safe in it. I can control it. I can dominate it. And it's predictable, so if I get hurt, I only have myself to blame." - Beth Harmon

Friday, February 26, 2021

Nomadland

Directed, Written, Edited, and Produced by Chloé Zhao / Starring Frances McDormand / Cinematography by Joshua James Richards / Based on Jessica Bruder’s 2017 non-fiction book “Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century."

But thy eternal summer shall not fade,

Shakespeare - Sonnet 18

"The naturalistic approach meant Zhao’s script evolved with the workers they cast. Producers would arrive on location in advance of the shoot to record iPhone videos with possible characters, then send them to Zhao so she could work on her revisions.
'I tried to focus on the human experience and things that I feel go beyond political statements to be more universal — the loss of a loved one, searching for home.' - Chloé Zhao"
(source: IndieWire)

Monday, January 25, 2021

The Sound of Metal

"The world does keep moving and it can be a damn cruel place, But for me those moments of stillness, that place, that’s the Kingdom of God. And that place will never abandon you." - Joe

Directed by Darius Marder / Music by Abraham Marder, Composer-Sound Designer Nicolas Becker / Story by Darius Marder, Derek Cianfrance / Starring Riz Ahmed, Olivia Cooke, Paul Raci, Lauren Ridloff, Mathieu Amalric / Produced by Bert Hamelinck, Sacha Ben Harroche, Bill Benz Kathy Benz / Screenplay by Darius Marder, Abraham Marder / Cinematography Daniël Bouquet / Edited by Mikkel E.G. Nielsen / Production company Caviar Ward Four

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