through honesty

I am always very precisely implicated in my films, not through narcissism but through honesty in my approach. Agnes Varda

Sans Toit Ni Loi via Books vs. Cigarettes

tonight

The Illusionist by Sylvain Chomet

17 reasons why

A few reasons why it's good to leave the house

• Coffee with Scott Simmon and a preview of National Film Preservation Foundation's upcoming Treasures 5: The West 1898 - 1938
• Vintage t-shirts at After Life
• Vegetable tacos and an Anchor Steam at Pancho Villa with my copy of In Zanesville
• Young muralists working in Clarion Alley
• and Margaret Killgallen at Ratio 3

you are my saturday poem

The Selby: Albert Maysles and Gillian Walker in their home

The Saturday Poem at The Guardian

all art is autobiographical

You exist only in what you do. Frederico Fellini

Photo: Frederico Fellini, Marcello Mastroianni and Sophia Loren
via the ugly earring

and your spirit and your clothes

I'd really like to live beside you, baby

I love your body and your spirit and your clothes

from "First We Take Manhattan" Leonard Cohen

Photo: Annie Hall

you'll never turn the vinegar to jam

Cabaret

just because

Just because they say, "Action," doesn't mean you have to do anything. Al Pacino to Jesse Eisenberg NYT

Painting: Wayne Thiebaud

a small rehearsal

"The home straight of my novel is in sight, but I'm tired, tired, tired and the news is doing nothing to restore my energies

Oh, Best Beloveds, I am tired. I'm almost too tired to talk about the things that are tiring me. Then again – as with bad dentistry, unpleasant personal experiences and unpleasant gentleman callers – there's something minutely empowering about writing down the source of your woes and peering at them in effigy. It can become a small rehearsal for future change." AL Kennedy in The Guardian

Photo: Contempt (via ?)

blow up

this morning

Listening to Orpheus by Franz Liszt in honor of the UE on her birthday.

the goddaughter and I

love Bang Bang.

dodes'ka-den

Japanese writer Yoko Tawada read in San Francisco this week, presented by the Center for the Art of Translation. Something in her reading reminded me of the sunset at the end of Dodes'ka-den (1970), Kurasawa's first color film.

sunday morning and it's raining

Watching Golden Door (Nuovomundo, 2006). My papa and Lidia would like this film.

ofelia

"...in a dark Spanish forest in a very dark time..."

Pan's Labyrinth review in NYT

watching

Friends with Money (above), Lovely & Amazing, and Walking and Talking. Written and directed by Nicole Holofcener.

the lives of others

My beau and I finally rented this last night after THIS MORNING FOG's post. I cannot shake the mood of it.

raising arizona

blue valentine

My favorite imaginary couple.

Short Cuts.

watching

Bishop Desmond Tutu and Richard Branson on Iconoclasts. Stella McCartney and Edward Ruscha up next. And this NOVA on Hugh Everett (thanks Kathleen).