“I loved you in silence, without hope, jealous and afraid.”
— Alexander Pushkin, from The Bronze Horseman: Poems; “King of Hearts,”
Jean-Luc Godard in Room 666 (1982) dir. Wim Wenders
Dead Reckoning (John Cromwell, 1947)
Edwige Fenech in Anna: the Pleasure, the Torment (1973)
“TALKING HEADS” (GADAJACE GLOWY): a short documentary, directed by Krzysztof Kieslowski in 1980, turns a simple idea into a masterpiece: ordinary people of different age and background in Poland were asked 3 simple questions. Their spontaneous responses reveal the way they see life…
Part 1: “WHO ARE YOU?”: A difficult question with a simple answer…
“I will walk by myself and cure myself in the sunshine and the wind.”
— Charles Reznikoff, from, “Autobiography: New York,” The Poems of Charles Reznikoff, ed. Seamus Cooney (Black Sparrow Press, 2005)
Louise Glück
“The sea – it is as incomprehensible as existence – it is incomprehensible as death – as eternal as longing.”
— Edvard Munch, circa 1930.