The Devil’s Rejects (2005) 

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)

Brother / Брат (1997) | dir. Aleksey Balabanov

Konstantin Khabenskiy

The Virgin Suicides (1999) | dir. Sofia Coppola | USA

Cinematography by Edward Lachman

Kingdom of Heaven (2005) | dir. Ridley Scott

Cinematography by John Mathieson

Branagh’s manic Hamlet

Wim Wenders at the Venice Film Festival in 1982. Photos by Raymond Depardon.

Look for the unimaginable inside the ordinary. Go to places you would not ordinarily go alone - riverbanks. Deep woods. The part of the ocean shore where peoples’ gazes disappear. Wade in all waters. Let your imagination change what you know.

Lidia Yuknavitch, from her preface of “The Chronology of Water,” c. 2011 (via violentwavesofemotion)

Of Freaks and Men (1998) | dir. Alexei Balabanov

When evil triumphs, humour turns black. Glimpses of turn-of-the-century porn has an uncomfortable, humiliating look to it. Balabanov massages human nature's ugly heart. The film is so original and startling, it appears playful, when really it concerns an abuse of power that feeds off trust and decency, perverting both.

The film is shot as a pastiche of silent cinema, without Chaplin's famous fast motion. In old St Petersburg the bourgeoisie live innocent and privileged lives, while in the basement of an abandoned building tight-lipped Johan (Sergei Makovetsky), with his smirking, sinister sidekick (Victor Sukhorukov), organises nude spanking sessions

which are photographed and sold to sado-masochistic postcard collectors, when not purloined by their naughty maids.

There are moments in this deliciously subversive film when you suspect Alexei Balabanov is being satirical and those scenes of pornographers taking over the grand houses, only to corrupt them with their nasty habits, refer to organised crime's stranglehold on the Russian economy, not to mention the state of the nation.

Bad Guy - Billie Eilish

From The Method (Метод) TV Series

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