The Saturday Boy Tumblr: being a selection of random broadcasts from the Ray Banks brainpan.
Warning: may contain salty language and scenes of an adult nature.
— @thesaturdayboy on Twitter.
…Unless you can feel that a hero is as fucked up as you are, that you would make the same mistakes that he would make, you can have no satisfaction when he does commit a heroic act. Because then you can say, “Hell I could have done that too!” And that’s the obligation of the filmmaker, of the theater worker: to give a heightened sense of experience to the people who pay to come to see his work.
- Nicholas Ray
Jean-Pierre Melville, 1970
GODZILLA director Ishiro Honda.
this quote is synonymous with Honda’s legacy… so far as his wikipedia page is concerned, these were the most important words he ever spoke. they’re lovely and sure, they concisely capture the spirit of the films for which he is best remembered, but one of the reasons i’m most pleased with Criterion’s new GODZILLA blu-ray is that the bonus material finally offers a proper glimpse at a man who used world-destroying monsters to become one of Japanese cinema’s great humanists.
(via criterioncorner)
Point Blank (1967)
Saw this at the Prado - it was fucking terrifying.
Jusepe de Ribera, Ixion, 1632
From the Museo del Prado,
Father to the race of centaurs, Ixion tried to usurp Jupiter’s place in Juno’s bed. His punishment was to eternally turn, tied to a wheel, to expiate his crime. In Ribera’s work, a Satyr has just chained him to the wheel and he makes it turn with the help of another Satyr standing behind it. The latter’s terrible face can be glimpsed in the Tartar’s shadow.
Ribera offers us a violent image, with the condemned figure upside down, accentuating the dramatic tension by his use of light, the monumentality of the figures, their forced anatomies and their gestural expressivity.
An excellent entry for awesomepeoplehangingouttogether, too.
Jacques Brel, Lino Ventura and Claude Lelouch on-set, L’aventure, c’est l’aventure (1972)
Tomas Alfredson with John Hurt and Gary Oldman on the set of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.
