Only God Forgives (2013) | Dir. Nicolas Winding Refn

Oksana Akinshina

He loved three things in life:

Evensong, white peacocks

And old maps of America.

He hated it when children cried,

He hated tea with raspberry jam

And women's hysterics.

. . . And I was his wife.

Anna Akhmatova

Hansel and Gretel (2007) | dir. Pil-sung Yim | South Korea

Cinematography by Ji-yong Kim

Félix Vallotton (Swiss 1865-1925) Sunset à Grâce (1912) oil on canvas

Hansel and Gretel  (2007) | dir. Pil-sung Yim | South Korea

Cinematography by Ji-yong Kim

Shim Eun-Kyung &  Chun Jung-Myung

Give more facts 😍❤️

hahah but give me some clues as to what you want to know please :3

- He… he partially learned how to play the saxophone for New York, New York

- He lived in Sicily for about two months to learn his lines for The Godfather

- He auditioned for the role of Sonny in the Godfather, but got the role of young Vito instead

- He learned how to drive to act as a Taxi Driver

- To prepare for his role on Taxi Driver he actually worked as a taxi driver lol

”What matters to me is that the feeling excited by my films should be universal. An artistic image is capable of arousing identical feelings in viewers, while the thoughts that come later may be very different. If you start to search for a meaning during the film you will miss everything that happens. The ideal viewer is someone who watches a film like a traveler watching the country he is passing through: because the effect of an artistic image is an extra-mental type of communication. There are some artists who attach symbolic meaning to their images, but that is not possible for me. Zen poets have a good way of dealing with this: they work to eliminate any possibility of interpretation, an in the process a parallel arises between the real world and what the artist creates in his work.”

---  Andrei Tarkovsky

 from  Against interpretation: an interview with Andrei Tarkovsky / Spring 1981

The Virgin Suicides (1999) | dir. Sofia Coppola | USA

Cinematography by Edward Lachman

Three equally adorable photos of Kenneth Branagh directing his adaptation of Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing,” 1993.

Kingdom of Heaven (2005) | dir. Ridley Scott

Saladin & King Baldwin