#scenesandscreens
Ted K (2021)
Director - Tony Stone, Cinematography - Nathan Corbin
“I am definitely glad to have done what I have.”
Catch the Fair One (2021)
Director - Josef Kubota Wladyka, Cinematography - Ross Giardina
“Nobody is looking, because nobody cares.”
Patlabor: The Movie (1989)
Director - Mamoru Oshii, Cinematography - Mitsunobu Yoshida
Patlabor 2: The Movie (1993)
Director - Mamoru Oshii, Cinematography - Akihiko Takahashi
WXIII: Patlabor the Movie 3 (2002)
Director - Fumihiko Takayama, Cinematography - Hisao Shirai
The Shadow in My Eye (2021)
Director - Ole Bornedal, Cinematography - Lasse Frank Johannessen
The Outfit (2022)
Director - Graham Moore, Cinematography - Dick Pope
“If you don’t aim for perfection, you cannot make anything great. And yet, true perfection is impossible.”
Adventureland (2009)
Director - Greg Mottola, Cinematography - Terry Stacey
“My theory is you can’t just avoid everybody you screw up with. You can trust me on that because I’m a New Yorker.”
Raised by Wolves, Season Two (2022)
Directed by Ernest Dickerson, Sunu Gonera, Alex Gabassi & Lukas Ettlin
Cinematography by Dariusz Wolski, Ross Emery & Erik Messerschmidt
Danger: Diabolik (1968)
Director - Mario Bava, Cinematography - Antonio Rinaldi
“The whole underworld worries me less than a single man, Diabolik.”
Le Havre (2011)
Director - Aki Kaurismäki, Cinematography - Timo Salminen
“The bucket returns to the well until it breaks.”
Benedetta (2021)
Director - Paul Verhoeven, Cinematography - Jeanne Lapoirie
“God speaks in many languages, if your heart is brave enough to open it up.”
A Soldier’s Story (1984)
Director - Norman Jewison, Cinematography - Russell Boyd
“You know the damage one ignorant Negro can do? We were in France in the first war; we’d won decorations. But the white boys had told all them French gals that we had tails. Then they found this ignorant colored soldier, paid him to tie a tail to his ass and run around half-naked, making monkey sounds. Put him on the big round table in the Cafe Napoleon, put a reed in his hand, crown on his head, blanket on his shoulders, and made him eat *bananas* in front of all them Frenchies. Oh, how the white boys danced that night… passed out leaflets with that boy’s picture on it. Called him Moonshine, King of the Monkeys. And when we slit his throat, you know that fool asked us what he had done wrong?”
Brotherhood of the Wolf (2001)
Director - Christophe Gans, Cinematography - Dan Laustsen
“Ghost or not, I’ll split you in two.”
Injustice (2021)
Director - Matt Peters
“I won’t be held back by ideals that don’t protect the innocent.”
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain (2021)
Director - Will Sharpe, Cinematography - Erik Wilson
“I don’t make the world beautiful, Louis. The world is beautiful, and you’ve helped me to see that, too. Just remember - however hard things get, however much you feel like you’re struggling, the world is full of beauty. And it’s up to you to capture it, Louis. To look and to share it with as many people as you can. You are a prism through which that beam of life refracts.”
Nightmare Alley (1947)
Director - Edmund Goulding, Cinematography - Lee Garmes
“Throughout the ages man has sought to look behind the veil that hides him from tomorrow. And through the ages certain men have looked into the polished crystal and seen. Is it some quality of the crystal itself? Or does the gazer merely use it to turn his gaze inward? Who knows? But visions come. Slowly shifting their form. Visions come.”
Lingui, The Sacred Bonds (2021)
Director - Mahamat Saleh Haroun, Cinematography - Mathieu Giombini
“You’re like my sister now, I don’t make sisters pay.”
The Card Counter (2021)
Director - Paul Schrader, Cinematography - Alexander Dynan
“I think you have the wrong impression of me.”
The Justice of Bunny King (2021)
Director - Gaysorn Thavat, Cinematography - Ginny Loane
“Hang in there, Bunny. Things will get better.”
