"I would like to be remembered as a filmmaker who enjoyed life, including pain. This is such a terrible world, but I keep the idea that every day should be interesting. What happens in my days – working, meeting people, listening – convinces me that it’s worth being alive.”

–Agnès Varda, in the last interview of her life

I chose this profession because I feel this is how I can fulfill my service as a human being—communicating the human condition.

Mary Alice

the holdovers (2023)

Clockwatchers (1997) dir. Jill Sprecher

Aftersun (2022) | dir. Charlotte Wells

The short film, I Walk With Ghosts, based on a poem written by me. It’s been around the world and is finally out and available to everyone!

Andrei Tarkovsky would be 91 today.

Extremely correct quotes

Alain Delon and Monica Vitti in L'eclisse, 1962

Your vigilance as an artist is an amorous vigilance, a vigilance of desire.

—Roland Barthes to Michelangelo Antonioni, 1979

"Now, I am become death, destroyer of worlds."

Oppenheimer (2023) dir. Christopher Nolan

In my case, a theater near you is comically literal. My apartment in New York is directly above a movie theater that is currently playing my movie, and so every time I leave my apartment to do anything, I walk by the movie theater and I see people coming out or heading in, and I play a little game with myself: which of these people are going to see Past Lives and which of them are going to see, I don’t know… Transformers? Which of these people are my neighbors? Which of them live in my building? How many times have I unwittingly shared an elevator in the past few weeks with someone who has just seen my movie? Every person I see in my building and on my street has been suddenly full of possibility and intrigue — I feel an odd intimacy with them, because I know that it’s possible that sometime recently or sometime soon, they might go downstairs to our movie theater — the theater near us — and visit some of the places I’ve been. They might know me for an hour or so, and, through a kind of osmosis, I might know them. The thought that there are people all around the globe — or at least in many parts of it — who are having a similar experience is almost too much for me to take. It’s surreal and mortifying and enlivening. -Celine Song

moonstruck dir. norman jewison

"It`s true that if you leave you lose things, but you also gain things, too" -Past Lives (2023) Dir. Celine Song

Andrei Tarkovsky 🎥