Hansel And Gretel (2007) | Dir. Pil-sung Yim | South Korea

The Devil’s Rejects (2005) 

“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)

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

DoP: Douglas Slocombe

Kwaidan (Kaidan) / 1964 / dir. Masaki Kobayashi

Japanese poster

Masaki Kobayashi • Great Director • Senses of Cinema

Great Director profile on Japanese filmmaker Masaki Kobayashi

Masaki Kobayashi’s career coincides with the so-called Golden Age of Japanese cinema in the 1950s and 1960s. Despite the fact that some of his films such as the war trilogy Ningen no jōken (The Human Condition, 1959-1961) and Seppuku (Harakiri, 1962) had won international critical acclaim, the centenary of his birth in February 2016 passed almost unnoticed in the Western media. Kobayashi has been largely forgotten by the average Japanese filmgoer, and outside Japan interest in his work is much lower than it is for the films of his contemporaries, such as Akira Kurosawa...

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

Cinematography by Larry Smith

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

Cinematography by Larry Smith

Every true thinker for himself is so far like a monarch; he is absolute, and recognises nobody above him. His judgments, like the decrees of a monarch, spring from his own sovereign power and proceed directly from himself. He takes as little notice of authority as a monarch does of a command; nothing is valid unless he has himself authorised it. On the other hand, those of vulgar minds, who are swayed by all kinds of current opinions, authorities, and prejudices, are like the people which in silence obey the law and commands.

Arthur Schopenhauer, “Thinking for Oneself”, Parerga and Paralipomena (via philosophybits)