Kieslowski, quote 1

Kieslowski said the following in an interview:

It comes from a deep-rooted conviction that if there is anything worthwhile doing for the sake of culture, then it is touching on subject matters and situations which link people, and not those that divide people. There are too many things in the world which divide people, such as religion, politics, history, and nationalism. If culture is capable of anything, then it is finding that which unites us all. And there are so many things which unite people. It doesn't matter who you are or who I am, if your tooth aches or mine, it's still the same pain. Feelings are what link people together, because the word 'love' has the same meaning for everybody. Or 'fear', or 'suffering'. We all fear the same way and the same things. And we all love in the same way. That's why I tell about these things, because in all other things I immediately find division.

SK on KK

Stanley Kubrick wrote the foreword to Kieslowski & Piesiewicz, Decalogue: The Ten Commandments, London: Faber & Faber, 1991:
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I am always reluctant to single out some particular feature of the work of a major filmmaker because it tends inevitably to simplify and reduce the work. But in this book of screenplays by Krzysztof Kieslowski and his co-author, Krzysztof Piesiewicz, it should not be out of place to observe that they have the very rare ability to dramatize their ideas rather than just talking about them. By making their points through the dramatic action of the story they gain the added power of allowing the audience to discover what's really going on rather than being told. They do this with such dazzling skill, you never see the ideas coming and don't realize until much later how profoundly they have reached your heart.

Stanley Kubrick January 1991 [1]

ER (1994-2009) R.I.P.

And in the end...as so rightly titled it was, ER waves goodbye after fifteen years, twenty-three emmy's, hundreds of patients, doctors and nurses flying in and out and plently of drama that has been at it's very best.

It all started with a dark room, with the words 'Dr Greene' being spoken by a nurse, and all ended with 'Dr. Greene, you coming?, asked by Dr Carter to Dr Greene's daughter, now pursuing a career in medicine, as Mark Greene was woken up to the drama and traumas of county general hospital back in 1994.

I grew up and throughly enjoyed ER since the beginning, when I was just twelve years old. As I went onto university, I missed a large chunk of seasons, (episodes I'm looking forward to watching in re-runs, as well as the whole 15 seasons again) After graduating and getting back to it, I was throughly impressed to find that the drama hadn't lost any of it original magic.

There are so many things one could say about ER, and I think with the following example of George Clooney return said it best. Free from ego, a gentle and calm entrance, in new scenes away from county general and with his name credit the same as it always was, with no reference to special guest star, the 'Old times' episode of ER, showed that ER always chose realist drama, as opposed to having Dr Ross come rushing through county general doors, ready to save a patient's life, whilst pretending his life hadn't moved anywhere when in fact, him and Carol had now a new life with two kids, working in a organ transplant hospital in Seattle.

Below, I have pasted the second part of Doug and Carol's scenes together, which I feel is one of the best last scenes of ER's final season, as Susan Sarandon's character is asked about her grandson, now braindead, and if he was a generous person, who would donate his organs if he could, is classic ER.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bvvca-HX2Bs&feature=related

ER was a show that inspired other TV shows, many of which are huge hits today. ER is from another time in TV, away from reality TV and grew older within this change.

To end, I would like to quote from a review that Stuart McGurk wrote a few weeks back...

'ER left us with a lot. It showed high-drama can mix with knockabout comedy, that you don't need to understand every sentence to know what's going on, and that TV can be just as visual and kinetic as film.'

R.I.P. ER, you were phenomenal

And in the end...

Taste of cherry

If you look at the four seasons, each season brings fruit. In summer, there's fruit, in autumn, too. Winter brings different fruit and spring, too. No mother can fill her fridge with such a variety of fruit for her children. No mother can do as much for her children as God does for His creatures. You want to refuse all that? You want to give it all up? You want to give up the taste of cherries?
Ta'm e guilass-Abbas Kiarostami

Four days

Bank-words-pens-plans-papers-no sleep-coffee-sugar-cake-delete-holiday weekend

Tony Hart Quote-An Inspiration

"I hope that by example, and by humour, children will start to make pictures for themselves. Show them, don't tell them!" Tony Hart

01.56, up late writing, irregular sleep pattern

One more thought,
leaves enough space for another,
the power and cruelty of the human mind,
has no compassion for any other

...

There's always another way

Poilane

I once met somebody who had brought a loaf of bread from Poilane, 46 Elizabeth Street, London, SW1W 9PA 020-7808-4910

http://www.poilane.fr/index.php?passer=1

The lady offered me a taste but I declined.

It looked incredible, anyone tried bread from there or indeed anything else?

Dream Diary 1-Krzysztof Piesiewicz

March 2009

I was at some sort of event, don't remember any other people there though, it was a large, spaced area. Krzysztof Piesiewicz was there, standing alone.

I wanted to ask him about Purgatory, the third and last in the trilogy, I was anxious, him being one of favourite screenwriters.

I managed to speak to him, he was pleasant, wanted to talk. I told him I liked Hope, Heaven, Hell, he was happy to hear that. I added that I thought these films were moralistic, he wasn't sure about this comment.

I told him, that he's from a good background, from previously being a lawyer to now a screenwriter, brings an incredible advantage to the stories he's written over the years.


"We touched everything. I was defending bandits and heroes and Kieslowski made fantastic documentaries, but he came to realize that they had barriers that didn't meet his artistic needs. You can't intervene with a camera into the intimate world of human beings. It's barbaric to try to enter, but you can with fiction. And I had similar problems in my work as a lawyer. I was not so much interested in what man had done, but why? What happens to a human being? What should we do with him? Why does a human suddenly become an animal?" - Krzysztof Piesiewicz

Andrei Tarkovsky quote 1

“Juxtaposing a person with an environment that is boundless, collating him with a countless number of people passing by close to him and far away, relating a person to the whole world, that is the meaning of cinema.” - Andrei Tarkovsky

1st

Nothing.