Drunken Angel (Akira Kurosawa, 1948)

“At night, my dreams rhyme, and all day I have an aftertaste of insomnia.”

— Vladimir Nabokov, from Letters to Vera (Penguin Classics, 2014)

Jamaica, Jodi Cobb.

Never try to convey your idea to the audience – it is a thankless and senseless task. Show them life and they’ll find within themselves the means to assess and appreciate it.

— Andrei Tarkovsky, Sculpting in Time: Reflections on the Cinema, page 152

Ashes of Time (1994) dir.Wong Kar Wai

“I loved you in silence, without hope, jealous and afraid.”

— Alexander Pushkin, from The Bronze Horseman: Poems; “King of Hearts,”

Silence Has No Wings (1966) とべない沈黙 Directed by Kazuo Kuroki.

Wild Strawberries (1957) - by Ingmar Bergman

Mirror (1974) - by Andrei Tarkovsky

To Night, Percy Bysshe Shelley 

 "Death will come when thou art dead, Soon, too soon— Sleep will come when thou art fled; Of neither would I ask the boon I ask of thee, belovèd Night— Swift be thine approaching flight, Come soon, soon!“ 

Uncle Yanco dir. Agnes Varda