I Shall Be Dumped Where The Weed Decays, And The Rest Is Rust And Stardust.

Withnail & I (1987) 

"I have of late, but wherefore I know not, lost all my mirth. And indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory. This most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appeareth nothing to me but a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculties! How like an angel in apprehension. How like a God! The beauty of the world! The paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? Man delights not me, no, nor woman neither. Nor woman neither."

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

Cinematography by Edward Lachman

Lost, Lost, Lost   (1976)  / dir. Jonas Mekas 

Name That Film?

Killing Them Softly (2012) | Dir. Andrew Dominik

“We shot on film and were always running out because we’d do these long shots of the girls lying around their rooms. It wasn’t until they got really bored that those little details would start to come out, so I’d shoot these long shots of them lying around the room and the producers would yell about how we didn’t have enough film stock.” - Sofia Coppola on the 20th Anniversary of The Virgin Suicides

THE VIRGIN SUICIDES (1999)  dir. SOFIA COPPOLA

Killing Them Softly - Cannes  2012

“ It seems to me that the purpose of art is to prepare the human soul for the perception of good. The soul opens up under the influence of an artistic image, and it is for this reason that we say it helps us to communicate—but it is communication in the highest sense of the word. I could not imagine a work of art that would prompt a person to do something bad…Perhaps you have noticed that the more pointless people’s tears during a film, the more profound the reason for these tears. I am not talking about sentimentality, but about how art can reach to the depths of the human soul and leave man defenseless against good.”

--- Andrei Tarkovsky

from Against interpretation: an interview with Andrei Tarkovsky / Spring 1981

Hansel and Gretel (2007) | dir. Pil-sung Yim | South Korea

Cinematography by Ji-yong Kim

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

Cinematography by Larry Smith