Mar 03
“The Beatles are British I suppose,” said Bob Dylan in the first of his two post-accident interviews, “but you can’t say they’ve carried on with their poetic legacy, whereas the Incredible String Band who wrote this ‘October Song…’ that was quite good.”
Steve Turner, Beat Instrumental, March 1971
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Dec 26
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“Remember the early days of the cinema, when directors were afraid to cut up the visual movement on the screen, and how Griffith’s introduction of the close-up was misunderstood and by many labelled an unnatural and consequently an inadmissible method. Audiences in those days even cried:
“Where are their legs!”.
—Pudovkin
Dec 20
“Be as ignorant of what you are going to catch as is a fisherman of what is at the end of his fishing rod.”
—Bresson
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