The Bird With the Crystal Plumage (1970)
Dario Argento
May 18, 2013
Love this guy.
May 14, 2013
00370018 on Flickr.
May 11, 2013
Happy Mother’s Day, Mom!
May 10, 2013
May 8, 2013
"The Rain People could be an awful picture. It’s very experimental. It doesn’t protect itself at all. It’s not even sensational. No sex. Very sincere. And I don’t even know how terrific it is. But it really tries. And I’m tired. I don’t want to have to make success. You know, if it means I’ve got to work on $6,000 films in San Francisco, then I guess that’s what I have to do."
From a 1969 interview with Francis Ford Coppola
May 7, 2013
"That’s the beautiful thing about a lot of the new, experimental American directors, they’d rather do interesting things and make provocative observations than try to outflank John Ford on his way to the Great American Movie. So all you can really say, I guess, is here’s what Coppola’s up to. It is a traditional American pastime and a noble one — exploring the country through the eyes of a dissatisfied searcher. And what the search discovers is no more (and no less) than a crossroads in Oklahoma, a parade in Pennsylvania, long nights on the road, a hero who got banged on the head, and a highway patrolman who is, even so, a human being. And these places and people fit together, they love or hate each other, all because of the accident of being alive at the same time and place."
Excerpt from Roger Ebert’s review of The Rain People
