Barbed Wire Kisses

“Angela” by Jarvis Cocker- Cosmic Synchronicity?

“Is the weight of time crushing the life out of Western cinema? Is it running out of steam, intimidated by its history and long filmography? Have spontaneity and energy deserted it to move towards other climates? One thing is certain: its centre is in permanent movement.” –Gilles Jacob

“Assembled by Jacob Perlin, a film programmer at BAMcinématek and founder of the Film Desk, a small distribution company, this fascinating anthology of Godard’s travels in America, spanning 1968 to 1980, consists of three short documentaries, a slide show, and an appearance on The Dick Cavett Show. This unearthed collection of Godardiana shows the filmmaker as a patient interviewee partial to gnomic answers, an anxious fund-raiser, and a wearer of too-snug swimming trunks.”

“Film-making is bloody hard work, but it should be. Pain leads to passion. I don’t see that affordable technology is advancing film-making, as a craft. Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for putting the means of production in the hands of the people, but, first, you’ve got to have a great idea. Just because you can afford [to make a film], doesn’t mean you can. The internet is full of porno or ego. Machines are great, people are crap. I never thought I’d hear myself say this, but art was better when things were more expensive.” —Don Letts

You have the idea for a film, you shoot a second one, and the public gets a third.–Roger Leenhardt