Silent Melody
August 6, 2017We love without words.
We love without words.
Criteria - have two films that made me feel like I’m waking from a dream / make me feel like I can dream again. No films that make me feel like I wished I never saw it.
Filmmakers
Stanley Kubrick
Akira Kurosawa
Satoshi Kon
Richard Linklater
Alfred Hitchcock
Wong Kar Wai
Chris Marker
Martin Scorsese
Hayao Miyazaki
Mamoru Oshii
Shane Carruth
Sofia Coppola
Tsai Ming-Liang
David Lynch
David Cronenburg
Coen Brothers
Kieslowski
Favorite Films (no particular order)
Once Upon A Time in the West
Timbuktu
Blade Runner
Chungking Express
La Jetee
Perfect Blue
Millenium Actress
Ghost in the Shell
Princess Mononoke
Nausicaa
Before Sunrise, Sunset, Midnight
2001: A Space Odyssey
Lost in Translation
Rebels of the Neon God
Sunrise: A Tale of Two Humans
Moonlight
In the Mood for Love
Vertigo
The Terminator
The Matrix
Cloud Atlas
5 Centimeters Per Second
Her
After the Wedding
Rashomon
Seven Samurai
Elevator to the Gallows
Taxi Driver
Black Girl
Mulholland Drive
Blue Velvet
Broken Flowers
Do the Right Thing
Touki Bouki
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
No Country for Old Men
Excalibur
Blood Simple
Romeo + Juliet
City of God
Y tu Mama Tambien
Blue
Red
Dazed and Confused
Waking Life
Tape
Psycho
I read those words not knowing where the journey would take me.
But like any great read, the clues where all there - between the lines.
To him, both death and desolation stemmed from his unfortunate wake.
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At that moment, he knew all his future thoughts revolved around the cessation of his past.
- presently
All I really need is to know that you believe.
He always came back, like an abused mutt, hoping this time he wouldn’t be kicked.
What we had to provide for each other,
we thought we could offer ourselves.
Maybe that’s why here together
Forever here with you
- O2
When happiness comes in the form of dreams, you awake with a taste of sorrow.
Job to Jonah to Tim to Paul or Saul?
So many people talking, but so few listening.