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Young filmmaker sends Martin Scorsese a note asking him for some viewing recommendations, and he responded with this list.
[via Reddit Movies]
Now I really need to see “Tokyo Story.”
I guess they mean The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1i259cZJu1qdnmayo1_1280.jpg)
Young filmmaker sends Martin Scorsese a note asking him for some viewing recommendations, and he responded with this list.
Now I really need to see “Tokyo Story.”
I guess they mean The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser.
(via bbook)
Source: reddit.com
In the end we had pieces of the puzzle, but no matter how we put them together, gaps remained. Oddly shaped emptiness mapped by what surrounded them, like countries we couldn’t name. What lingered after them was not life, but the most trivial list of mundane facts. A clock ticking on the wall, a room dim at noon, the outrageousness of a human being thinking only of herself.
Source: bbook
How did you decide on the film’s aesthetic?
It’s interesting because I just started shooting with Brit to try and find the aesthetic, but I knew I wanted it to be like a documentary. I wanted it to feel more naturalistic, a poetic realism. There’s a sensual aspect to filmmaking you can find, and it opens up a different part of your mind besides just the eyes and the ears, so I look for that a lot.How did you come up with the film’s concept?
I was making all this video art, and I made a piece where I interviewed myself and then I also made a piece where I put an earth up in the sky, very simple. I’m big into the tech, I like touching and playing and editing and shooting, so I was experimenting and I composted another earth in the sky that looked authentic and real, and I was like, alright this is interesting. And Brit and I were talking about the emotional side, which is the confrontation of the self. I wanted people to leave the theatre and look up and be like, Is there another earth up there?
Source: Blackbook
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2. Film school is for fools.
Live and learn how to make films. I didn’t go to film school. I just watched movies in the cinemas. And probably my greater education was actually making films, so that’s all I would ever say: watch movies, get a camera, make a movie. And if you do it enough times, eventually you start learning how films are made.
3. Auteurism is out. Fil-teurism is in.
Being an auteur is what we all dreamed of being, as far [back] as the films of the late ‘50s and ‘60s, when the idea of the auteur filmmaker arrived on the planet. And people kept using that term, and they do with my movies because I suppose they are very individual and they give me all the credit, so they say I’m an auteur. And I say no, the reality is I’m a ‘fil-teur.’ I know what I’m trying to make but I have a lot of people who are around me who are my friends and don’t take orders and don’t listen to me, but who have individual ideas. And when they come up with a good idea, if it’s one that fits what I’m trying to do, I use it. So the end film is a collaboration of a lot of people, and I’m the filter who decides what goes in and what stays out.
4. Put your ideas in a drawer. Take them out as needed.
I do have a drawer in my desk with all the ideas that I have and that I scribbled out. I put them in there and some day I use them. At the beginning of a new film, I often go in that drawer and look at everything I’ve done and see if there are some ideas that might apply to what I’m doing. But things grow, so I just start with a sketch and then refine it. And you do it with other people’s ideas coming in. That’s the fun part.
The Terry Gilliam School for Film: 10 Lessons for Directors Today](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwhmecDQcm1qzspj4o1_r1_1280.jpg)
2. Film school is for fools.
Live and learn how to make films. I didn’t go to film school. I just watched movies in the cinemas. And probably my greater education was actually making films, so that’s all I would ever say: watch movies, get a camera, make a movie. And if you do it enough times, eventually you start learning how films are made.
3. Auteurism is out. Fil-teurism is in.
Being an auteur is what we all dreamed of being, as far [back] as the films of the late ‘50s and ‘60s, when the idea of the auteur filmmaker arrived on the planet. And people kept using that term, and they do with my movies because I suppose they are very individual and they give me all the credit, so they say I’m an auteur. And I say no, the reality is I’m a ‘fil-teur.’ I know what I’m trying to make but I have a lot of people who are around me who are my friends and don’t take orders and don’t listen to me, but who have individual ideas. And when they come up with a good idea, if it’s one that fits what I’m trying to do, I use it. So the end film is a collaboration of a lot of people, and I’m the filter who decides what goes in and what stays out.
4. Put your ideas in a drawer. Take them out as needed.
I do have a drawer in my desk with all the ideas that I have and that I scribbled out. I put them in there and some day I use them. At the beginning of a new film, I often go in that drawer and look at everything I’ve done and see if there are some ideas that might apply to what I’m doing. But things grow, so I just start with a sketch and then refine it. And you do it with other people’s ideas coming in. That’s the fun part.
The Terry Gilliam School for Film: 10 Lessons for Directors Today
Source: filmmakermagazine.com
I also like Stanley Kubrick. I think right now he’s about the coolest, I guess. The Shining really grew on me. I never miss it when it’s on cable. His best film for me, though, is Lolita. I’m absolutely captivated by it. Also, I like him because he likes Eraserhead. He said at one time that it was his favorite film.
Source: bbook
